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To better showcase its new line of apparel, the U.S. Postal Service will open a showroom in the Garment District, with hopes of getting the "product in premier department and specialty stores." The collection will be called "Rain Heat & Snow," you will somehow be able to plug your iPod into your jacket, and it's "all-weather, all-season" appropriate—excluding Saturdays. [The Cut]