The Postal Service Keeps Christmas Going

I'm glad to hear the Postal Service's Letters to Santa program will continue, albeit with closer oversight, even after a registered sex offender slipped into the volunteer pool. The lesson of situations like this shouldn't be that something bad happened. Rather, it should be that controls are good enough that the person got caught. And it's nice that a program that provides not just a basic and necessary service, but that serves a bit of an emotional need, will get to continue. I don't know that the Letters to Santa program should be the Postal Service's core mission, but it's a nice thing to do. And precisely because the agency is struggling, this is a decent way to build goodwill for what may be difficult political fights over issues like going to five-day deliver ahead.