The Postal Service has been played on NTS shows including The Guardian Radio Hour, with A Tattered Line Of String first played on 18 January 2014.

The Postal Service was an American indie electropop band which formed in Seattle, Washington in 2001. The group consisted of Ben Gibbard (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Jimmy Tamborello (production, programming, synthesizers) and Jenny Lewis (vocals, guitar). The band released one album "Give Up" in 2003 and were active until 2005. The band reunited in 2013 for a reunion tour before permanently disbanding that August.

The band started life as a side project for singer Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For…