On this date, March 11, 1789, the United States Post Office
was established. Benjamin Franklin was
on the payroll for a while at the beginning.
And 200 years later I hopped on the payroll and lingered for 33 years,
then I hopped off, handing my torch to someone else to carry it on.
I think linger is generally the word thought of when the
public thinks of a postal employee.
There are also other words such
as hanging out, loitering, and more
descriptive words. Seriously, those are
words used by the general public who has never worked at the Postal Service and
don't know anybody who has.
When I started my job at the Atlanta Post Office I was to unload trucks and railway cars
twelve hours a day, 6 or 7 days a week, and forget being off on holidays. Only the postal employees who met the public
got off.
Now, some Republicans want to sell the Postal Service to
private enterprise who is eager to turn it into a profit making
enterprise. I wonder if those same
people ever thought of selling another public service, the Armed Forces? Wait!
I just remembered, it appears
they have outsourced some of the gun
shooting to Blackwater.
You get most of your mail within a day or two. You would be surprised just how efficient the
Postal Service is, considering the billions of pieces of mail they handle
hourly, around the clock.
Hug a Postal employee today!
Happy 224th Birthday Postal!
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