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Return to Sender

August 25, 2020 By Carol

In my 33 year experience as a letter carrier, postal management would generally find purpose in fixing things that weren’t broken. The resultant  chaos would throw workers off balance and erode productivity. Every new boss would try to “reinvent the wheel.”  Occasionally, a new manager would work with the employees, but that was a rarity. […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: 1st Continental Congress, Benjamin Franklin, connect the colionies, Covid-19 pandemic, david Sirota, letter carrier, letter sorting machines, Louis DeJoy, mail sorting equipment, Mitch McConnell, national heritage, polygraph machine, Postmaster General, Return to Sender, The Goodfellas Scheme to Destroy the Post Office, Trump, undelivered perishables, USPS, wrecking ball

Save our postal service

May 20, 2020 By Carol

Randall Beach: Save our postal service A U.S. Postal worker makes a delivery with gloves and a mask in Philadelphia, Thursday, April 2, 2020. The U.S. Postal Service is keeping post offices open but ensuring customers stay at least 6 feet (2 meters) apart. The agency said it is following guidance from public health experts. […]

Filed Under: Guest Author, Letter Writing in the News, News clipping, Post Office News Tagged With: "Faith Matters", A National Treasure, Ben Margot, Carol Christmas, coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19, Dustin Sanfranek, essential workers, Jennifer Kaylin, Judy Doran, Ketchikan Daily News, letter carrier, Matt Rourke, New Haven Register, postal workers, Postmaster General Megan Brennan, Randall Beach, Rev. Allie Perry, thank you notes, the write way, USPS, Van Galligan, voting by mail, Wing Yu

The Write Way makes the news

October 3, 2019 By Carol

Randall Beach: A passionate letter writer spreads the word By Randall Beach   Sep. 28, 2019   (Reprinted courtesy of The New Haven Register) When Carol Christmas was a letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service, she noticed she was delivering fewer and fewer real letters. She also noted that on those rare occasions when she did […]

Filed Under: Guest Author, Letter Writing in the News, News clipping, Special Occasions, Stationery, The Write Way Tagged With: 2016 election, Arnold Gold, Catholic school, civility, connections, courtesy, cursive writing, handwritten message, Hearst Connecticut Media, Jackie Kennedy, letter carrier, letter writing, life skill, passionate letter writer spreads the word, paying attention, penmanship, personal and intimate, Randall Beach, real mail, SCORE, shoebox of letters, slow down, social secretary, thank you notes, The New Haven Register, the write way, too busy to write, U.S.Postal Service, Winston Churchill, written just for you

Rethinking Snail Mail

April 9, 2015 By Carol

April 9, 2015   My friend Adam expressed that he did not like the term “snail mail”. His comment gave me pause. Of course, the word: snail is meant derogatorily, indicating that slow (at a snail’s pace) is negative. Let’s look further…   Last month, I was invited to speak to 19 first graders about […]

Filed Under: Main Tagged With: All Systems at Work, Amazon, at a snails pace, first graders, Frog and Toad are Friends, letter carrier, mystery, pen pal, penpalling, Slow, snail mail, The Letter, USPS, Wikipedia, YouTube video

Sy’s Birthday Cake

June 9, 2014 By Carol

June 9,2014 Sy is, you guessed it, a letter carrier! Her birthday was about a week ago.  Her friends surprised her with this phenomenal cake. Aside from how it “delivers,’ Sy said it was delish as well.  Inside that postal truck was a yellow cake.  Yum, yum! Check out the different views…

Filed Under: Juicy Gossip Tagged With: Happy Birthday Big Sy!, letter carrier, postal vehicle, Sy's cake

Merry Christmas!!!

December 25, 2013 By Carol

December 25, 2013

Filed Under: Holiday Tagged With: letter carrier, mail delivery, Merry Christmas, Santa mask

Sgt. Laguna: “letters made us feel…loved.”

November 11, 2011 By Carol

Veterans’ Day November11, 2011 Approximately 22% of the workforce in the USPS are veterans.  It was an easy task to ask a veteran how valuable letters are to a soldier away from home. Letter Carrier, Leslie Laguna is a veteran from the 1991 Desert Storm campaign.  Sergeant Laguna was deployed to Saudi Arabia as an […]

Filed Under: Letters to Soldiers Tagged With: administrative specialist, appreciated, Brewery Street Post Office, classrooms of children, Desert Storm, Leslie Laguna, letter carrier, letters to soldiers, loved, medical company, New Haven CT, Operation PAL, Saudi Arabia, Stamps for the Wounded, USPS, veterans, Veterans' Day

Post Office as Political Football

October 4, 2011 By Carol

October 4, 2011 As a letter carrier,  my job will be directly effected by how Congress and the President respond to Postmaster General Donahoe’s requests. Donahoe is asking for Saturday delivery to be eliminated.  He also wants to close thousands of post offices nationwide, break union contracts and layoff 120,000 workers!!! All he really needs […]

Filed Under: Main Tagged With: A History of Letter Carriers, Carriers in a Common Cause, eliminate Saturday delivery, Issa-Ross bill, letter carrier, NALC, passionate letter writer, Postmaster General Donahoe, promote letters, USPS

Father’s Day- A Tribute to Fred!

June 19, 2011 By Carol

June 19, 2011 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ My approach to family has always been eclectic and based more on heart than on similar features. “Dad” to me was a fellow I called Fred.  The father of my dearest friend, my connection with Fred was as an auxiliary family member.  Since we had no long history to undo, his […]

Filed Under: Holiday Tagged With: 1939, Be your own hero, eclectic, family, Father's Day, Fred, gratitude, grief journal, hotdog, letter carrier, letters, long distance friendship, phone calls, Rita Hayward

Hurray for Earth Day!

April 21, 2011 By Carol

April 22, 2011 “Earth Day is the first completely international and universal holiday that the world has ever known.” -Margaret Mead This is our opportunity to take stock of how our lives impact the Earth, and what we can do about that “footprint.”  The guidelines are easy if you remember and apply the 4 R’s of […]

Filed Under: Holiday Tagged With: footprint, fountain pens, hackers, Haila Harvey, Isabella catalog, Jeannine Stein, junk mail, Kitty Burns Florey, letter carrier, Margaret Mead, Page-A-Day calendar, paper, Paper Because, pencils, postal service, ReBound Creating Handmade Books, recycle, reduce, refuse, renew, stamps, Stamps for the Wounded, sustainable living, The Envelope Mill

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