February 4th is Thank Your Mailperson Day! What can you do to thank the person who delivers your mail?
Please be aware that postal carriers must follow particular gift rules! Please read this article for a nice overview.
The basic idea is:
- Don’t give your postal carrier cash!
- Whatever you give them, if it’s a gift card or something similar, keep at $20 or under.
Now go forth and love the heck out of these folks who slog through the weather on a daily basis to get us our mail. Post some ideas here if you’ve got some good ones. Or tell us what you did for this day. I haven’t decided yet, but I’m getting away from the computer right this second to go figure it out! (I have two postal carriers, one at home, one at my office! I know the one at my office has a weakness for chocolate covered cherries.)
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Okay, here is something weird… I forgot to tell my husband to get something at the store while he was out and I was sitting here in my office whining about how we might not get the stuff to the mailcarrier today, that we might have to do it tomorrow because of our schedule.
And at that moment, a man walked in carrying a bunch of packages of homemade cookies! I think they are for valentine’s day… three homemade heart-shaped cookies per package, iced and decorated. Really adorable! For a dollar!
So, I bought one for each mail carrier and one of my office mates bought a package for her mail carrier too. It’s postal appreciation madness here today!
Every ’season’ I give my mail carrier a ‘gift’. It’s usually a gift card. But on Valentine’s Day and Easter I give him a box of ‘good’ chocolates. My mail carrier is important to me and I never take him for granted. I get a lot of (big) mail (see mail art) – he rings my doorbell and hands my mail to me or leaves it in the corner on my porch if it doesn’t fit. He never smashes it in my tiny condo mailbox.