Earlier this month the Post revealed that the majority of mail sent from the District is bastardized with a postmark reading “SOUTHERN MD.” or “SUBURBAN MD.,” a practice imposed soon after a 2001 anthrax attack in a D.C. postal facility. District officials and voting rights activists were none-too-pleased — after all, if they take our postmark, what’s next? Our women and children?

Today, the Post Office relented. Under pressure from D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton — who issued a strongly worded statement upon hearing of postmark-gate — D.C. Postmaster Yverne P. Moore announced earlier today that a new procecsing system was being put in place to ensure that D.C. mail gets the right postmark, not that Maryland abomination.

And not a second too late, we might add. DCist’s plan to torch a post office in protest was feeling like it might be a little over the top. Put away the cans of gasoline and ski masks, guys. We’ll save them for some other time.