Mail Carrier Appreciation Day

I’ve been making a lot of zines lately, a folded piece of paper that is cut in the central portion to allow the “pages” to wrap into an eight-page booklet. Postcrossing is very good about reminding us about events that have to do with mail (for instance, February is International Letter Writing Month, which I’m following more or less), and I saw a notice about February 4th being Mail Carrier Appreciation Day. All these calendared days seem a bit arbitrary but never mind.

I quickly folded a zine up and made a little narrative about a letter on a journey, flying through the air, and thanking our new mail guy. (Mail carriers are under a tremendous amount of stress at the moment, which is easy to spot but they always seem to have a smile and a kind word, at least here.) This note was inserted into our mailbox today.