Postmaster Brooke Bailey works with a small team at Tyler Elementary School that’s responsible for managing mail.
“You go to the mailbox and collect the mail and take it back to the classroom,” said the 9-year-old.
A five-member team is tasked with retrieving, sorting, stamping and delivering mail through an in-school post office known as "Wee Deliver."
“They're used to emails and phones and we really wanted to make sure kids learned the craft of letter writing and it's also a great way to utilize reading and writing skills,” said reading specialist Stephanie Richards.
“I write letters to bring happiness to people and cause they're not inside the same class and I can communicate with them,” said Kylie Carlyle.
Whether it’s a letter of encouragement to a friend or a thank you note to a teacher, the student-run post office delivers the correspondence with a smile.
“They're like hello mailman! Like all excited,” said Leonardo Lecca.
“Sometimes people are feeling down and other people can write the letters to make them feel better,” Bailey said.
“It feels like somebody's actually thinking about you and wanting to talk to you,” said Lecca.
The post office program will soon allow parents to write letters to their children for distribution at school.