The Inverness, Florida Post Office recently held a surprise Rural Carrier Associate (RCA) Appreciation Day. Postmaster Kim Chandler suggested to the regular carriers that she wanted to recognize the RCAs in our office because of their hard work and dedication to do whatever it takes to get the routes covered every day.
When emergencies arise, this often times means that RCAs are moved to routes that they are totally unfamiliar with and yet, they willingly work together to get all the routes cased and delivered.
In our office of 18 rural routes, we have 11 RCAs who cover all the routes. The regular carriers all pitched in to provide red and blue goody bags for each RCA filled with cookies, crackers, juice, candy, a blueberry muffin and a little gift - all tied up with red, white and blue ribbon. Each RCA received their own personalized "Thank You - We Appreciate You" card signed by all the regular carriers.
At a short meeting on Saturday April 12th, the regulars were able to express to the subs how thankful we are for them covering us on our usual days off, our vacation and sick days - and even those early morning wakeup calls at the last minute. We told them we appreciate their willingness to cover a route that they’re not familiar with, even if they do so begrudgingly - we remember, cause we were subs once too. The regulars also appreciate their subs for putting up with the our little “quirks” and the way we like our cases — how we keep our calendars - how we like our boxholders cased (or not) — we know we’re quirky and we appreciate them for putting up with us too.
A group picture was taken and we have it hanging on our wall as a reminder… THE INVERNESS POST OFFICE LOVES AND APPRECIATES OUR RCAs and all they do!
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