CARRYING THE MAIL!....(Don't blame the mailman!)...(2 Tim. 4:1-8)

The USPS delivers to every home and business in the United States. Every American has access to postal services and pays the same postage regardless of where they live or work.  I guess you could say that it is a business that is without respect of persons.  Mail carriers process and deliver more than 213 billion pieces of mail — letters, cards, ads, bills, payments and packages — every year.  The USPS is the second-largest employer in the United States, employing nearly 700,000 career employees (or 1 per 10,000 people worldwide).  The Postal service moves the mail using planes, trains, trucks, cars, boats, ferries, helicopters, bicycles, hovercrafts, subways and even mules--(Whatever it takes to deliver the MAIL to it's rightful owner!).  When fuel costs increase one penny, the cost to move mail increases by $8 million!  Each mailman delivers an average of nearly 2,900 pieces of mail a day to more than 500 addresses.  The Post offices (nationwide) issue nearly 900,000 money orders per day. 
It is said that "Neither snow nor rain nor heat, nor gloom of night, stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds".   These words, inscribed at the top of the James A. Farley building in New York City, are considered to be the motto of the Postal Service. In fact, it isn't a motto at all. The phrase is the translation of an ancient Greek work of Herodotus describing the Persian system of mounted carriers, c. 500 B.C.
For the third year straight, the Postal Service is viewed by the American public as the most trusted federal government organization.  The Postal Service's intranet — the largest in the world — connects more than 28,000 locations to critical business systems 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We store more than 2 petabytes of data online — equivalent to more than 4,000 years of songs on an MP3 player with no repeats.  I said that to say this; "CARRYING THE MAIL" IS THE BIGGEST OF BUSINESSES!!!
So, one could say that their's is a difficult job in many ways....Heat & Cold doesn't stop them, sometimes they get dog-bit, they spend hours everyday in the sorting room SORTING THINGS OUT, they have to look out for people not paying attention and running them over on the highway, etc. etc. etc.  There are some benefits though!  Their's is a benefit job!  The one's preferred for hire are those who have served in the military....those trained in warfare, who can follow orders well.

What I do every Sunday is no different....It is my job to CARRY THE MAIL!!!  If the church is COLD I'm there; if the HEAT is turned up I'm there!  When the recipient opens his mailbox and finds that (according to God's word) things aren't looking too good, I AM THE ONE BLAMED FOR DELIVERING THAT MAIL....but DON'T BLAME THE MAILMAN!!!  HE'S JUST DOING WHAT HE IS CALLED TO DO!!!  A mailman will never let his BREAKDOWNS get in your way of recieving mail! (He somehow works around his own trouble to do his job!)

*SOME BIBLE MAIL CARRIERS:  (Nathan to David, John Baptist to Herod, Jonah to Ninevah, Uriah carried his own mail!)  2 Samuel 11:14-15- And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.  And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die. 

(1)-THE MAILMAN HAS GOT YOUR NUMBER!-(God gets his notices to you thru preaching)
The admission test given to potential carriers has to do with identifying both what you are delivering and who needs it placed in their box!-(General delivery by me, Specific delivery by Holy Ghost!)

(2)-THE MAILMAN DELIVERS, YOU MUST SORT IT OUT!  (Justifiable mail, Junk Mail, Joyful mail)

(3)-THE MAILMAN CANT JUST STOP AT YOUR BOX...HE MUST MOVE ON!  (500 others on avg!)

(4)-THE BOX MUST BE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD!  (I'm not gonna cross over!)

(5)-THE POSTAGE MUST BE PAID FOR DELIVERY OF YOUR LETTER!  (Repent!)

(6)-THE BOX MUST BE CHECKED REGULARLY!  
A lack of activity can indicate many things:  (Identity theft, wasp build nests!, everyone knows your not at home!)