Gone Postal

Did you hear about the Postman who was caught dumping his mail into the trash?  Somewhere in New York state, a Postman dumped, by his own count, 15 loads of mail.  One news source reported: ”The motive, according to federal agents, was that Paskett could not be bothered. He allegedly thought it was a nuisance in the cold and snowy weather to complete the deliveries.”

Wow.

Here is a man who is charged and entrusted with a duty to deliver other people’s possessions...some of them perhaps quite valuable, and he could not be bothered to complete the delivery.  Perhaps an important bill was destroyed.  Perhaps someone’s check did not arrive in a timely matter.  A vital correspondence may have been missed that could have mended or resulted in a broken relationship. 

He admitted to the dumping, and even showed investigators some of the places where he dumped the mail.  Thankfully, a small amount of the mail was recovered, yet, amazingly, the man is still employed by the USPS as a sorter, while the case is investigated.  I thought they arrested people for things like that!

There once was a day when hard work and solid effort were part of our culture.  We believed, as a people, that sweat on your brow and pushing through difficulty was a virtue.  We believed that work was a blessing from God to form your character and make you a channel for blessing others.  We called that the “Protestant work ethic.” 

There once was a day when being a government worker was a sacred trust.  We also believed that when you handle other people’s property, you ought to handle it as well as or better than anything you owned of yourself.

There once was a day when people who stole and destroyed other people’s property were properly tried and punished by our justice system.

Sadly, all of these “old timey” traditional values that were part of what made our culture strong have long been thrown out the window.  Young people today are taught to snicker at patriotism, and that hard work and working your way up the ladder is degrading.  Government workers are surrounded by numerous protections now that empower them to these kinds of misadventures, making it difficult, if not impossible to fire them.  This is not to say that there aren’t solid workers for the government or the USPS.  But the values that made this nation great, cast aside by the liberal establishment, has created an environment where these kinds of behaviors are not rarities, but happen nearly every day.  The young people we have coming of age in our culture know nothing of sacred duty, of integrity and honor, because our schools no longer teach such things. They can’t.  They have removed the God who is the judge of such things as the foundation for such “Outdated” enculturated ideas.

The best thing for America’s future is to teach kids that there is a God, and that he holds us responsible for how we treat our neighbors.  He holds us responsible for how we handle our neighbor’s goods.  He will catch and execute justice on us if we remain uncaught by the human justice system.