Community Helpers: At the Post Office

Teaches young readers about the education, tasks, tools, and role in society of mail carriers.

Explains the job requirements and responsibilities of the men and women who choose to be mail carriers.

Describes some of the things that letter carriers do to make sure people in the community get their mail.

Simple text and photographs present mail carriers, their role in the community, and their many tasks as they work for the Post Office collecting and sorting mail, and delivering letters, packages, and magazines.

All the villagers are frightened when the giant postman comes thumping down the street to deliver the mail, but everything changes when Billy takes a letter of his own to the postman's house.