This letter is in response to Gene Kinnunen’s scathing remarks about our U.S. Postal Service (Letters, Dec. 15, “Postal Service: They call these long holiday lines a ‘service’?”). I am going to give Gene the benefit of the doubt and believe that perhaps he was having an off day and decided to take it out on the post office. Yes, the Postal Service is a service, and look what they give. With all the anthanx scares happening, these people are mighty brave to go to work each day so that the public can receive their Christmas cards, correspondence from loved ones and, yes, even bills. They do all this with thousands of pieces of mail everyday, while most people hesitate before they put their hands into their mailboxes for just a few pieces of mail.
As to the report of the worker who closed her window promptly at 11 a.m. to go eat lunch, I ask, What, she’s doesn’t deserve her break? It may very well be that with such a busy lobby, if she did not take her break at her appointed time, she may not have been able to take it at all. Or perhaps she had errands to run on her lunch break, just as Mr. Kinnunen did.
I would hope that we could have a little more tolerance in this holiday season. Because let’s face it, this is a bit different season then it was last year. I think we all have a little more to be grateful for, and to rejoice in. Such as our freedom to be able to go to an institution that works rain or shine, sleet or mail, to get us what everyone loves to receive – mail.
Everett
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