Letter to the editor: Postal workers are important part of community

The U.S. Postal Service deserves our compliments for efficiency, faithfulness and loyalty in delivering mail six days a week through cold and heat. The move of the mail-processing work to Fargo will save less than $12,000 annually. That means for $12,000 a year, we could keep our workers operating here. How great if some wealthy good Samaritan could lend a helping hand?

Yes, computerization has drained many businesses. What is far worse are the piggyback cheapskates having their advertisements inserted into mail order catalogs and advertisements that pay a reduced rate. They use our names and addresses without permission. Isn’t that illegal? What about our privacy? Most are good at removing our names from mailing lists. Some are not, and simply say “Once the name is sold, we have no control over it.”

Also, nonprofits should pay their fair share. If it’s worth sending, they should purchase that first-class stamp.

I take and stuff the postage-paid envelopes I get with other junk mail to make them as heavy as possible and mail them. Perhaps the junk-mail senders will get the message.

When I was a child on the farm, mail carriers delivered mail, checked on people and delivered sunshine, as they do today in this greedy, ungrateful society. My brother best expressed it when he said, in spite of tough times and hardships, “We have seen the best of the best.” Thank you postal workers, this community needs more people like you.

Lenora Hughes

Jamestown

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