Little girl writes a thank you note to her letter carrier and it goes viral.

Emerson, my 11 year old, is on a bit of a wild ride with the @USPS and our local mail carrier, Doug.

Oh I love that!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think I am gonna cry. What a wonderful story.

And brings back memories of my many years writing letters to pen pals. I did it well into adulthood.

I loved reading that. ❤️

Although I finally had to stop reading them (there are SO many!), the letters responding to the original story were just as touching.

What a lovely story, including the love and appreciation it evoked on a medium that all too often brings out the worst in people!

A key lesson it highlights is from Emerson's dad early on in the chain of beautiful give and take,

"I’m not sharing this because I’m a proud dad.

I’m sharing it because it is relatively easy, if we take the time, to give others the one thing they need to be well - human connection."

And all the more in this time of an enforced plague of disconnection even for the dying.

(Made me extra glad I had already written a thank you letter to my own postman, along with a twenty$. I have always loved the post offices in my area - the human touch they add especially now amid the rush and bustle of time-pressured Amazon drop-offs.)

One postal worker down the road has established a personal tradition of daily posting at his counter a long list of interesting things that happened on that particular day.

And I never forget an incident happening mere weeks after moving here. An envelope from a recently lost Israeli friend arrived, addressed without a street address and with my last name coming out as SAKSN (the writer had transliterated it from Hebrew!). To think it was delivered to me despite all the missing instructions, and so soon after our move!

Apologies for the lengthy response, but it seems merited especially in the shadow of a disreputable president doing his utmost right now to put this great service out of business.