ALAN writes:

One day in 2000, I found a note in my mailbox. It was not a letter and had no stamp on it. It was a neatly-typed note from the man who delivered mail to homes in my neighborhood, and he intended it for all of them. He wrote:

Dear Friends, 

I have enjoyed being your mailman for the last few years, and have made a lot of friends on this route, but my legs have started to hurt all of the time from all of the walking over the last 36 years. Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2000, will be my last day on the route.  I will be retiring as of that date. I don’t mind leaving the job, but it’s hard leaving all of the nice people.  If you see me out anywhere in the future, please say hello. I hope you get a new mailman who takes his job seriously. Goodbye.

Your friend and mailman,

Larry 

Larry was a Vietnam Veteran. He died in 2015 at age 69.

I have saved his note because it is a remnant from Old America. It reflects the sense of life, work ethic, and loyalty to customers that postal workers once displayed throughout their daily routes.

From a recent news clip — dozens of similar stories are available  — about the Postal Service of today:

A mail carrier faces charges after she allegedly stole items from the mail over the course of nearly two years.

Investigators said Marlene Cruz, 40, of Rochester, who worked as a full-time mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service, routinely opened envelopes and parcels between January 2022 and November 2023 — removing items including ticket stubs, documents, cash, lottery tickets and gift cards on dozens of occasions.

Cruz’s arrest, at the end of her shift Nov. 2, followed a series of “mail integrity tests” that began in May. Investigators placed greeting cards containing cash and gift cards in the mail she was to deliver. While executing a search warrant last Thursday, they recovered a gift card from her personal duffle bag and detained her.

It was announced recently that 600 people were arrested for stealing mail or robbing mail carriers.

With mail theft and postal carrier robberies up, law enforcement officials have made more than 600 arrests since May in a crackdown launched to address crime that includes carriers being accosted at gunpoint for their antiquated universal keys, the Postal Service announced Wednesday.

Criminals are both stealing mail and targeting carriers’ so-called “arrow keys” to get access to mailboxes.

“We will continue to turn up the pressure and put potential perpetrators on notice: If you’re attacking postal employees, if you steal the mail or commit other postal crimes, postal inspectors will bring you to justice,” Chief Postal Inspector Gary Barksdale told reporters on Wednesday.

What was not and will not be disclosed is a breakdown of that number by race, age, and sex; the extent of insider involvement in those crimes; and to what extent “non-discrimination” laws and policies permitted any such thieves or robbers to be hired in the first place.  The mass communications/propaganda industry will not even acknowledge that American taxpayers have a right to demand that such information be disclosed.

Since the Postal Service is a public institution, one would expect that all citizens and postal workers who do not practice mail theft or robbery would demand that that information be disclosed. They would have demanded it in Old America, the place where I was born and grew up, but they don’t demand it in today’s Occupied America — which proves, among other things, that residents of Occupied America are quiescent, gullible, and obedient to a degree that residents in Old America could not have imagined.

When the main Post Office in downtown St. Louis opened in the 1930s, there was enough mail volume to justify placing 48 service windows in its attractive, marble-lined, block-long lobby. Enormous amounts of mail were brought into St. Louis every day by dozens of trains arriving at Union Station, across the street from the new Post Office building.

At his blog “St. Louis Patina”, Chris Naffziger posted these two photographs showing that lobby, and wrote:

They sure knew how to make lobbies back in the 1930’s. The lobby of the main post office downtown is amazing….  No detail was overlooked, as evidenced by the design of the letter writing desk[s].  Small details, like the brass pen and paper holders, are missing from today’s post offices….       

One person wrote about the Post Office lobby:

My late father was a letter carrier from 1935 until 1978….   [During late-night trips to the downtown Office,] we were always amazed by the lobby of the Post Office — it was like walking into a combination of the Fox [Theater] and the New Cathedral.  We were always quiet, feeling the PRESENCE and MAJESTY of The Mail……  

In 1937, the Post Office published a 37-page booklet to commemorate the opening of that building.  It occupied the area of three city blocks on the western edge of downtown.  The booklet includes photographs in which 180 white men and seven white women are pictured. They were the people who ran the building and kept the mail moving. The women were: One foreman, one secretary, one cashier, one telephone switchboard operator, and three bookkeepers. It is likely that janitorial staff included blacks, but that staff is not pictured.

There are 23 photographs that show employees in offices and other work areas — all of them white men and women. They were not an “inclusive” group. The photographs do not show any diversity, multiculturalism, feminists, giggling teenagers, blue jeans, ball caps, or tattoos. There were also no screens.

I walked through that lobby just the other day to drop a letter into the slot. I can no longer use the blue mailboxes in public places because those boxes are targeted by those thieves and robbers, a fact that “authorities” have been exceedingly slow to do anything about.

Most of those 48 service windows provide no service today. There are fewer customers in that building because customers are reluctant to go downtown. They risk being assaulted, robbed, shot, or having their car stolen — not by the kind of people pictured in that 1937 booklet.

It would be extremely politically incorrect to ask, and therefore I will ask, how many white men or women, in the St. Louis area or nationwide, were arrested and charged with mail theft or robbery in any four-year period in the 1930s, ‘40s, or ‘50s? And how does that compare with the tremendous increase in mail theft and robbery over the past four years?

I know people who remember when mailmen — yes, that’s right: mailmen, not “mail carriers”—delivered mail to homes twice a day.

I can remember walking into a post office on Meramec Street in the Dutchtown neighborhood of south St. Louis many times in the 1960s and ‘70s and being given competent service by employees, nearly all of them white men; and seeing mail delivered to homes by mailmen who did not take advantage of their job to listen to filth like rap “music” while on the job in postal vehicles, as many mail carriers do today.

To repeat: the residents of Occupied America are quiescent, gullible, and obedient to a degree that residents in Old America could not have imagined.

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