A collaborative youth mural series unveiled recently at Philadelphia City Hall includes a colorful tribute to USPS employees.
The mural depicts a narrow shop-lined street with an LLV at the end and the message, “In snow, rain or delay, the Postal Service finds their way.”
The series focuses on the people who keep the city running and was a project of Mural Arts Philadelphia’s Career Connected Learning summer program.
At the start of the project, Paul Smith, a USPS communications specialist, spoke to the young artists, who ranged in age from 14 to 18, on the Postal Service’s history.
One student told Smith, “I never had a bad interaction with anyone in the Postal Service. They do their job!”
“We’re focusing on the Philly aspect of it but it’s so much larger than that,” said Tim Haigh, a Mural Arts teaching artist. “The Postal Service is like the connective tissue for the fabric of society.”
