Dear Abby: Postal workers rise to challenge of delivering kids’ postcards

Postal workers rise to challenge of delivering kids’ postcards

Not wanting to hurt their feelings, she found a half-inch space on one side and in tiny print wrote our names and address.

Dear Thankful: I’m pleased to pass along your message to the caring postal workers who ensured that you receive the postcards.

When I started writing this reply, I thought I’d quote the postal workers’ official motto: “Neither rain nor hail nor sleet nor snow,” etc.

The familiar sentence “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds” is actually just the inscription found on the General Post Office in New York City at Eighth Avenue and 33rd Street.

The sentence is a translation from the fifth-century B.C. Greek historian Herodotus discussing the Greek expedition against the Persians, who had a system of mounted postal couriers, and he was describing the fidelity with which their work was done.

Several months ago I spoke to a doctor friend about some medical issues my wife was experiencing.