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Don’t blame your mailperson (today’s PC version of, “mailman”) that you’re paying 49 cents for a stamp, or that the U.S. Postal Service wants to eliminate Saturday deliveries of letters. Mail is still in your mailbox six day days a week and still arrives one day of the weekend.

Today is nationally recognized as Thank A Mailman Day, so let’s take a moment to thank the mail carrier who is responsible for getting us our bills and junk mail without trampling through the flower bed too often.

Thank A Mailman Day is always recognized on February 4th.

Joking aside, the mail “person” of today faces difficulties they didn’t have a decade ago. Management tries to force them out before full retirement, they are given longer routes, timed by computers that don’t actually walk the route, and new hires to the USPS are part-timers who will likely never be hired as full-timers to replace those who leave.

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

Give your mail carrier a smile today. Say, “Thank You”, or find some other way to let then know that you appreciate the work they do.

USPS FACTS:

The US Postal Service has no official creed. The often quoted “motto” (highlighted above) is inscribed on the James Farley Post Office in New York City.

In 1775, the Second Continental Congress established the Constitutional Post–the first organized mail service in America.

As the nation’s first Postmaster General, Benjamin Franklin established many of the conventions we are accustomed to today.

Postage stamps were invented in 1847.

On April 3, 1860 the famous Pony Express officially took off.

In 1863, free city delivery started and in 1896, free rural delivery began.

In 1963, the Zip Code began.