{"id":29744,"date":"2020-12-03T11:11:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T16:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=29744"},"modified":"2020-12-03T11:12:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T16:12:10","slug":"young-author-pens-tribute-to-postal-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2020\/12\/03\/young-author-pens-tribute-to-postal-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Young author pens tribute to postal workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

USPS News Link<\/a> – 12\/03\/20 – The South Dakota girl whose appreciation for the Postal Service captured headlines at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>has written a children\u2019s book about the experience.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em>Sincerely, Emerson: A Girl, Her Letter and the Helpers All Around Us<\/em><\/a>\u201d<\/em>\u00a0will be published Dec. 8 by HarperCollins.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of crazy,\u201d said the author, Emerson Weber. \u201cThis all started out with me just wanting to thank my mail carrier.\u201d<\/p>\n

In April, Emerson, 11, who lives in Sioux Falls,\u00a0wrote a note of thanks<\/em><\/a>\u00a0to her letter carrier, Doug Scott, for collecting and delivering the letters she writes to her friends and family. Touched by the gesture, Scott shared the note with a supervisor, who then included it in a local USPS newsletter.<\/p>\n

Before long, Emerson began receiving replies from postal workers across the nation. The story soon found its way to social media, where Emerson caught the attention of her idol, Taylor Swift, and others \u2014 including a HarperCollins editor who signed the young writer to a deal and put her book on the fast track for publication during the holiday season.<\/p>\n

In addition to Emerson\u2019s words, \u201cSincerely, Emerson\u201d features colorful illustrations by Jaclyn Sinquett, including pictures of Scott.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looks like me. Too much gray hair, though,\u201d he said with a chuckle.<\/p>\n

Scott, who works at Southwest Annex, said he\u2019s not used to being in the limelight, but he\u2019s glad to be an important part of Emerson\u2019s life and to help showcase USPS.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is good for the Post Office to get some good press. People can see what we do every day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

While Emerson appreciates the opportunity, she also wants to keep the attention on her inspiration: the Postal Service.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is really meaningful that this story is going to get out,\u201d she said. \u201cIt really brings attention to postal workers. We really need them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Share your feedback at\u00a0<\/em>uspslink@usps.gov<\/em><\/a>. Your comments could be included in the \u201cMailbag\u201d column.<\/em><\/p>\n

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USPS News Link – 12\/03\/20 – The South Dakota girl whose appreciation for the Postal Service captured headlines at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic\u00a0has written a children\u2019s book about the experience. \u201cSincerely, Emerson: A Girl, Her Letter and the Helpers All Around Us\u201d\u00a0will be published Dec. 8 by HarperCollins. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of crazy,\u201d said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29748,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29744\/revisions\/29748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}