Heroes deliver printed words

Everyone talks and writes about our “unsung heroes” — health-care workers, police, firemen, all who serve and protect us during the COVID-19 crisis. I have a daughter who is an ICU nurse in Saskatoon, and a son who keeps telecommunications infrastructure functioning in rural Saskatchewan.

Those whom we depend on should be celebrated and supported.

In Saskatoon we are served by two heroes who truly are “unsung.” Every morning, six days a week between 2 and 4 a.m., a copy of the Saskatoon Starphoenix is carefully and quietly deposited in our mailbox. Often, it is accompanied by or stuffed with numerous flyers.

Before “self-isolation,” we didn’t realize how we treasure that delivery, how we depend on it being there to start our day.

The digital world gives us an amazing amount of information, but it cannot give us the touch of the world around us.

The newspaper does this ... even the flyers. Thank you, Starphoenix carrier.

Five days a week, a smiling face brings us more outside contact. The mail carrier who brings us personal contact keeps us in touch with the world around us. We are delighted to see him across the street and hope that he stops at our mailbox. He, too, is the outside world to us. We greatly value him and his service, and we applaud him and all the postal workers who labour to bring the mail — even the bills. Thank you, Canada Post, and especially our mailman.

Art & Angeline Battiste, Saskatoon