[This is a language peeve that I have. Feel free to skip.]
Here in America, entities composed of more than one person take a singular form of the verb (e.g. “the government is gridlocked”)
Across the pond, they use plural. If you’re American and you use the plural—e.g. The Postal Service have released a new song called “A Tattered Line of String”—you sound pretentious. If you’re British and you use the plural you sound British, which is fine.
That’s all.