Rep. Darrell Issa had a few things right in his recent piece on the U.S. Postal Service — Congress should act now, it bears “a considerable share of the blame” for the Postal Service’s challenges, and the USPS is too important to fail. Beyond that, let’s just say that the amount of misinformation circulating about the USPS is striking, given that few institutions touch more Americans than it does in delivering mail to 150 million homes and businesses six days a week.

Letter carriers get to know our communities and customers, occasionally saving elderly residents who are ill, finding lost children, putting out fires and more. We also conduct the nation’s largest single-day food drive, replenishing food pantries everywhere.