The swift completion of appointed rounds sometimes involves more than just the day’s work. Sometimes there’s not only the extra effort that it takes to complete the appointed task, but also the extra tasks you decide to take on.
For local letter carriers in the Henderson area and beyond, one of those extra tasks has been for years to collect food for local organizations. Last year this effort was cancelled due to covid, and it is cancelled this year as well.
But maybe it isn’t. It depends on you.
As a well-known and loved local carrier, Rob Barker, writes to WIZS, “For many years around this time the Letter Carriers throughout the country have held their annual Letter Carriers Food Drive where carriers collect food throughout their day and then it is distributed among several local organizations.”
Despite the official effort being cancelled this year, Barker wrote, “We know however that these organizations still need help.”
He is asking if you will take it upon yourself to get in touch with these organizations and possibly donate food and/or some money to them.
Listed in the letter are: United Way; ACTS; The Salvation Army; ARC; Hope House.
“We greatly appreciate your help in the past and look forward to it again in years to come,” Barker wrote.
As you complete your appointed rounds, please consider a food or monetary donation to one of these organizations — for the good it will do for the recipients, for the good it will do you, and for the good will on behalf of the ones who are deterred neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night.