Shipping Value is Always in Season

After all the positive buzz generated by the Priority Mail Flat Rate Box "snowman" she created last winter (below, at left), Bar Mills, ME, Postmaster Peggy Brisco says, "Now that hot weather has arrived, I had to bring in a partner and give her a new outfit. I call her 'Petunia the Boxy Lady.' Let the summer begin!"         





Nashua's Bob Ratoff Earns Time Off After 47 Years

Nashua, NH, Letter Carrier Bob Ratoff retired recently after working for 47 years with the Postal Service.

In his retirement speech, he told co-workers to “Take pride in your job and in the Postal Service so at the end of the day you can go home with your head held high.”

Ratoff will be missed by his co-workers and by the customers he served on his route for the last 25 years. 

Ratoff is a military veteran of World War II and the Korean War. He served in the U.S. Army for 20 years prior to joining the old U.S. Post Office Department in 1963.