Dear Reader, Today begins Universal Letter Writing Week. Let’s celebrate letters together for a few days. My friend Randall Beach wrote the following piece which my holiday greeting inspired. It was such fun to find my letter and his other mailbox contents being discussed in Randall’s weekly Substack post. What a great kickoff for our […]
Making News
Randall Beach writes: Sending out your thoughts during this pandemic June 23, 2020 Updated: June 24, 2020 11:34 a.m. Carol Christmas of Hamden, who has a card-writing service, offers advice on writing condolence cards in this time of many deaths from COVID-19. Photo: Peter Hvizdak / Hearst Connecticut Media Carol Christmas sat on her front porch in […]
Save our postal service
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. […]
The Write Way makes the news
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 […]