If you’re in the life stage of grand-parenting, you may remember as a child the excitement that surrounded the daily visit from the postman.
This writer will never forget how one mailman stepped up to the plate back in 1961, as my grandmother frantically flagged him down. As a five-year-old, I had a creative talent for getting into a pickle. I decided to stick a crayon up my nose. (If you’ve raised a few children, you can relate to this story!)
My grandmother was frantic, likely wondering where that errant crayon had gone. Once the mailman realized the situation, he dropped his heavy mail sack, asked my grandmother which nostril contained the errant crayon, and then he wisely plugged up the open nostril, thereby using my panicked breathing to push the crayon back out.
Even with all our high-tech wizardry, most of us still remember the excitement of seeing the mailman coming around the corner. There’s just something truly compelling about opening your mail.
Today we have a wide variety of means for sharing messages with others and we all know email has now become a time-honored, bread-and-butter method for communicating back and forth.
Yet, the U.S. Postal Service has kept up with the times and massive changes have been underway for several years, as the U.S.P.S. enters the digital age. We still have paper letters, birthday cards and other ‘hard-copy’ missives going back and forth all the time. But now high-tech digital technology offers new options for sending and receiving packages.
Did you know you can order postage online? Did you know Stamps.com has a plethora of solutions for merchants today? Some would say we now have the best of both worlds. We still have flesh-and-blood mail deliveries, but we also have all of the convenience of online postal solutions. And there’s still Mr. Postman making his rounds in your neck of the woods. That’s handy just in case you run into one of those awkward moments when a child sticks a crayon up her nose!