No plans for second album

In a December 2008 interview with Rolling Stone , Gibbard laughed off suggestions that The Postal Service’s long overdue follow-up to their 2003 hit Give Up would be an indie version of the Guns N’ Roses album Chinese Democracy , which took 15 years to produce and release. Gibbard said that both he and Tamborello simply do not see it as a priority in light of their main projects, Death Cab for Cutie and Dntel, respectively. He said, “The anticipation of the second record has been a far bigger deal for everybody except the two of us… I don’t know about it being the indie-rock Chinese Democracy , but now that Chinese Democracy has come out, I guess it just becomes the second Postal Service record that will never come out. There never really was a plan to do a second album. We work from time to time together but we have other things that take up all of our time.”