“I really thought I was going to retire from postcard protests, but somehow it’s even worse in 2025 than in 2017.” Let’s Go Postal co-founder Emma Shannon says as she writes on a cheeky postcard to her congressman. “Everyone sees that Washington is crazier this time around; the grownups have left the room.” Emma grew up in Westport and is a mom to one very chatty 4 year old (due with her second in November) and splits her time between Brooklyn and Weston.
In the midst of the Epstein drama, and the Supreme Court giving President Trump a green light to fire the leaders of independent agencies, arrest and detain citizens for being bilingual, and whatever ruling they’ll make by the time this is posted, Emma and her co-founder, Isadora Hudson (former Westporter and mom of two) encourage disheartened citizens to stay in the fight, and keep resisting through Let’s Go Postal.
Let’s Go Postal co-founders Emma Shannon and Isadora Hudson have known each other since kindergarten at KHS, made it through those awkward bat-mitzvah years at Bedford, and are proud Staples alums (Class of ‘02).
They started their successful postcard protest party company after being inspired by the 2017 Women’s March. They wanted to do more than walk, they wanted to facilitate a daily protest. Their marchers? The United States Postal Service. Their target? Their elected officials. Their ammo? The written words of men and women across the country, on postcards. Let’s Go Postal was their solution; a one-stop-shop for a postcard protest party. Their kits include attention (not pussy) grabbing postcards, stamps, pens, and a corkscrew (to help the drinks and ink flow). To make it even easier their site provides geo-targeted addresses for representatives from the federal to the most local.
“We wanted to keep the momentum going in a real, tangible way,” commented Emma, “so we decided to go old school. The mailmen and women always deliver.” In 2020, with the election of Biden, the pandemic somewhat under control, and both new moms, the co-founders and BFFs felt they could press pause on their postcard protests.
And then Trump was re-elected and Republicans took back control of Congress. “It was the nightmare scenario. But marching doesn’t work on Washington.” Emma explains, “Phone lines get busy, emails can be ignored. But with a postcard, the power is in the postmark. When they see my ZIP code, they know it’s their constituent writing. And I can write every single day, and they can see the mail piling up.”