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.
