Special Delivery Repays Helpful Postal Workers

Two years ago, when mail handler James Orr was injured, his fellow postal workers helped his family out while he was laid up recovering from a fall.

His wife, Beth Orr, repaid the favor last week with a special delivery of her own.

She took several plates of food to the main postal distribution center at Trent and Cincinnati.

Employees there were in the middle of the Christmas rush and were working 12-hour shifts.

“It gets hard on them working overtime and not seeing their families,” Orr said.

Orr said she rounded up food donations from local supermarkets and obtained help from volunteers from the East Central COPS station to fix up the trays.

Included in the food deliveries were 21 pounds of lunch meat, 18 pounds of Polish sausage, three gallons of sauerkraut, 18 dozen sandwich rolls and other items.

She delivered the food to the workers last Thursday and Friday, and it boosted morale in the busy mail center, she said.

“They were all laughing and joking,” she said.

In 1994, James Orr was nearly killed when he fell from a tree while he was pruning it, Beth Orr said. He suffered multiple fractures and spent more than two months recovering.

During that time, postal workers helped the family with donations, she said.

In another charity effort, Orr said she and other volunteers from the East Central Community Center delivered toys to 30 families in the neighborhood. The toys were donated through the Toys for Tots campaign.

, DataTimes