Celebrating the People Who Keep Mail Moving
There’s nothing like a championship victory parade to bring people together. And even if you watched or were there for the Knicks and their fans celebrating in New York City last week, you may have missed the reaction of the crowd to a postal worker simply doing their job.
As a couple million people lined the streets in Manhattan to celebrate the team’s NBA title, video captured a USPS carrier making deliveries by the parade route after police allowed him to pass through a secure area.
The crowd clapped and cheered. Social media lit up. And the story got picked up by some TV stations, which is how I found out about it.
It wasn’t that surprising to me that no matter what’s happening around them, postal workers show up and get their work done. It’s the kind of commitment that National Postal Workers Day, observed annually on July 1, was created to recognize.