You likely recognize the first words of the USPS Postal worker’s creed. Today is the first mail delivery that we have had in three days. We have had a three-day winter storm with a good 2.5″ of precipitation mostly as rain. Nonetheless, we have had sleet and iced roads and trees whose limbs have broken under the weight of the ice.
Under the less-than-able leadership of Postmaster General DeJoy, the USPS hasn’t really lived up to its creed. What else is new, right? The two public mailboxes closest to home have been unattended since our last general election – vandalized by MAGATs, I posit. The USPS has done nothing to repair or replace them. Thank you, Postmaster General. I have little doubt that if some RWNJ, radical fringe, Trumpite bombed our post office just a few miles away, DeJoy’s USPS would do nothing to repair it. Alas, perhaps the creed should be edited.
In fairness to the USPS, Wikipedia properly observes, “This slogan is not a formal commitment, and in fact the USPS routinely delays mail during bad weather.” I wouldn’t have it any other way, postal workers are entitled to basic occupational safety measures, after all.