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Be thankful for the Postal Service

Regarding the letter about improving mail delivery: I sympathize with the writer regarding poor delivery, but I have another side to offer: We have a daughter living in the Mideast and she also lived there years ago when she was in the Peace Corps. If you mail a letter, or worse a package, there, the odds are maybe 30 percent that it will make it. A package will be opened and valuables removed if it is forwarded at all.

We are thankful for our USPS, imperfect as it is — as we all are.

This story was originally published December 28, 2017 at 2:46 PM with the headline "Be thankful for the Postal Service."

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