A Postal Service employee and his wife have created a work of art memorializing the COVID-19 pandemic that will become part of the organization’s historical collection.
In March 2020, to boost the morale of his colleagues, Kevin Devaney, a distribution operations supervisor at the Boston Processing and Distribution Center, began displaying letters from customers expressing their gratitude to USPS for its essential service.
“The public recognized the challenges of the crisis. I was amazed by the outpouring of appreciation the public had for the Postal Service,” he said.
Devaney shared the sentiments he was seeing at work with his wife, Joy, and the couple was inspired to create a collage of the letters.
The piece, which they named “STAMP,” is currently displayed in the Boston P&DC’s lobby.
With the help of Rich Picardi, a processing support specialist, Devaney contacted Chief Processing and Distribution Officer Isaac Cronkhite, who arranged for “STAMP” to be added to the historical collection at USPS headquarters in Washington, DC.
“This collage is the result of combining the creativity of this one-of-a-kind leader with the incredibly thoughtful citizens from our Boston community — and it’s truly awe-inspiring,” said Cronkhite.
