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 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."