I'm a postal worker. In the coronavirus pandemic, I am my customers' link to the world.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Bruce Maiman Contributor,Yahoo News

The other day a perfect stranger came up to me and said, “Thanks for your service. You guys are doing a great job.”

I’m not in the military. I deliver the mail in Loomis, Calif.

While Washington debates the fate of the Postal Service and the fiscal hit it’s taken from the coronavirus pandemic, a remarkable shift has occurred in how people view the mail and their mail carrier in the COVID-19 era.

-snip-

“The fact that it’s consistent, that it comes every day, is comforting,” Zack Sanchez, a customer, told me. “Our day has really slowed down. With our 5- and 7-year-old we were involved in four sports and it was nonstop between that and school. Now we have home school and no sports. Getting the mail is one of the major activities of the day.”

A retiree who affixed a sign on her mailbox that reads “Thank you!,” Deb Koss thinks we should get hazard pay.

“I see postal workers as our frontline to keeping everyone else well,” she told me. “You guys bring me my medicine.”

https://news.yahoo.com/im-a-postal-worker-in-the-coronavirus-pandemic-i-am-my-customers-link-to-the-world-120035813.html

[guillaumeb]

1. And the GOP is doing their worst to eliminate the USPS. eom

[kimbutgar]

2. Wow Loomis is kind of a right wing area of California

I used to live in Auburn and remember that about that area.

That said thank you brother for being out there everyday making for some the most important thing for them is looking forward to their mail!

[c-rational]

3. Yeah for the USPS - I just set up an account yesterday and placed my first order (Bought first

class postage-Earth Day Stamps and pre-stamped Priority Mail Envelopes) just trying to do my part to help them out. We need to save our Postal Service and allow them to do banking as they use to. Also rewrite the rules which force them to pay for the workers health care 75 years out. No other business or corporation is required to do so. Another reThug plan to raid and pillage a government treasure.

[crickets]

4. K&R for visibility.