We carry it for you. That is the letter carrier’s work. Since this nation’s birth, we have carried the mail for you—your endowment, yours just for having the good luck to be born American or having the heart to become one. We carry it. And then we head home to our families and brace ourselves. We pray for strength and then get up and do it all again. To the last mile. Every letter, every parcel, every day. Every day a miracle.
