Molly Dalton (center) smiles with fellow employees of the United States Postal Service this summer in Los Angeles during filming for the federal agency’s
holiday commercial, which is currently airing on network TV nationally.
The name of the commercial featuring Dalton is called the USPS Holiday Ride. The short, 30-second commercial shows the journey a Christmas gift goes on while entrusted to the U.S. Postal Service. Dalton, who plays a postal clerk in the advertisement, said her journey to the small screen began this summer when the USPS Communication Center sent an email to every postal employee saying the agency was getting ready to do its holiday commercial, and anyone interested could send in a video clip.
“I said, ‘Oh, I want to be in it!’ I just walked outside the post office, did a 10-second clip, sent it in and didn’t think much about it,” Dalton said. “About three months later I got a call saying they wanted me to be in the commercial.”
The very next day Dalton received another email saying she would have to be in Los Angeles, California for five days beginning August 26 — which was only 10 days away from when she received the correspondence. She admitted to being a little bit nervous because her branch had some clerks going on vacation during that time.