Dallas Proud

A Message from the District Manager…

We just completed an outstanding Peak Season and the Postal Service has each and every one of you to thank for that.  In this month’s edition of Dallas Proud, you’ll see pictures of Dallas District employees hard at work delivering holiday cheer for our customers.  December’s mild weather helped us to collect, process and distribute the mail safely—but our employees did have a couple of days of bitter cold temperatures where they bundled up and kept the mail moving. 

For your information, nationally, the Postal Service delivered 808 million packages this Peak Season.  That’s 15% over SPLY (703 Million).  On Monday, December 19, we delivered 34,046,347 packages—more packages than any other day during Peak Season, averaging 1.5 million packages delivered every hour.  That’s an outstanding accomplishment of which you should be Dallas Proud.  In order for the Postal Service to compete for business, we must continue to perform at the highest levels.  I’m proud to say the Dallas District did just that during Peak Season.

This past Monday was a national holiday to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Known as a civil rights activist, he was also a great orator. His most popular speech “I Have a Dream” is known universally, but the following quote, which was not part of that famous speech, is one that I would like us all to focus on: “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”

Dr. King’s message is clear. Every job is important and every action has an impact—that was clearly demonstrated during Peak Season.  All employees should remember we work for the Postal Service brand, but within that brand, your name is your brand for the job you do. Do your job with dignity and precision.  Be Dallas Proud of what you do and those you serve.