Ziggy by Tom Wilson & Tom II for July 08, 2023

My dad was a letter carrier and in the summer he wore shorts. He did have better shoes however.

Here’s a thought. Couldn’t Ziggy have turned the mailbox some 90 degrees so that the post man wouldn’t need to walk on the wet grass in the rain to post the letter, but could have stood on the sidewalk?

What is that man in uniform pushing into what?

No matter how far you push the envelope, it will always be stationery.

I was a letter carrier before all of this mounted delivery. I had to walk my whole route in D. C. I actually enjoyed my job as a carrier but not the dogs chasing me. Everything has changed and not for better!

Yep they just rasied the price of stamps.

Now if they could just deliver it to the right house

Postal workers do nothing by chance… everything is “deliver it”.

Not so much. My postal service was suspended three days last rainy season when the area around our group of rural-delivery-style mailboxes was flooded.

That motto went out years ago.

Appreciate your mailman. I carried a 14 mile (15 miles when delivering circulars) foot route the 20 years before I retired. My route was within walking distance of the post office, and I had no vehicle. I delivered some 200 to 350 plus pounds of mail, not counting parcels over 2 pounds that were delivered by another carrier, using relay boxes. That was to well over 500 houses daily in every kind of weather. And that was after standing for hours putting it all in delivery order.

Three cheers for our mail carriers! They are the best and work so hard. Our regular, Jimmy, has been off for a while and we miss him, such a nice guy, but we’ve had good people meanwhile.

Good pun, good encouragement of our valiant postal deliverers.

That’s Tom & Tom pushing the envelope…