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The Postal Service timeline (EN)

2025
Enjoy the Silence live recording released

On 7 February 2025, The Postal Service released a live recording of their cover of “Enjoy the Silence” from the 2023-2024 reunion tour, on the benefit charity compilation Good Music to Lift Los Angeles. The compilation was available for 24 hours only, and benefited various Los Angeles area charities in…
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Second album condition

On a 2025 episode of the Bandsplain podcast, Ben Gibbard stated (perhaps in jest) that he would make a second Postal Service album if English rock band The La’s themselves ever released a second album.

2024
Gibbard reflects on second album

In August 2024, ahead of the band’s UK and European leg of the tour, Gibbard reflected on whether there could be a second The Postal Service album, noting: “I think the main reason that a second Postal Service record has never come to fruition – and will never come to…
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2023
Reunion co-headlining tour

In late summer 2023, The Postal Service reunited again for a co-headlining anniversary tour with Death Cab for Cutie . The Postal Service performed Give Up in its entirety, while Death Cab for Cutie performed Transatlanticism in its entirety, in celebration of the 20th anniversaries of both albums. The tour…
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2020
Live album released

On December 4, 2020, The Postal Service released the live album Everything Will Change via Sub Pop Records, featuring the complete live recordings from the documentary/concert film of the same name that was released in 2014, remastered and available in audio format for the first time. Live tracks “Natural Anthem”…
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Social media tease and vote announcement

On October 6, 2020, The Postal Service created new social media accounts for the band and teased an announcement for the following day, sparking speculation about new music. The announcement was a mock video conference featuring Gibbard, Tamborello, and Lewis along with several musicians and celebrities urging people in the…
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2019
Lewis toured with Death Cab

Jenny Lewis toured with Death Cab for Cutie in the summer of 2019, in support of their On the Line and Thank You for Today albums, respectively. On select dates, Gibbard invited Lewis to join DCFC for their set’s encore, and DCFC played “Nothing Better”, with Gibbard and Lewis recreating…
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2018
Remix of Summer Years

Jimmy Tamborello produced a remix of Death Cab for Cutie’s 2018 song “Summer Years”.

2014
Everything Will Change released

As an end punctuation mark to their career, The Postal Service released the feature-length documentary concert film Everything Will Change on October 7, 2014, filmed during their two performances at the Greek Theater in Berkeley, CA, July 26–27, 2013. Directed by Justin Mitchell, the film intersperses backstage tapes and interviews…
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2013
Last performance announced

On August 3, 2013, Ben Gibbard announced on Twitter that the Lollapalooza after-show would be the last Postal Service performance ever, and that the band would formally disband permanently after the show, finally quashing rumors of a highly anticipated second album. The band played their last live show at the…
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