This a feel-good story about an opportunity to create a postal worker gift for a stranger on Etsy. Spreading Christmas cheer this Holiday season.

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Recently I got an order from a customer named Corrine. She left a note saying “I am a postal worker. I want to know if it will cover my ears and stay in place if I move my head around.”

I let Corrine know, yes the Claire Bun Beanie will stay in place, but this got me thinking.

She is a postal worker, postal workers are basically the unofficial team member for every small business owner. Without them, small businesses, like mine, would be nonexistent.

I wanted to send her a gift as a thank you for her hard work. They deliver mail when it’s cold, snowy, rainy, all the things, and I am extremely grateful.

I wanted to share with all of you what I did for Corrine, in case you want to spoil your local postal worker too.

First thing I did was, of course, crochet Corrine’s Claire Bun Beanie. She got a gray/black beanie. I used Hobby Lobby’s I Love This Yarn in the color Gray and Black.

If you haven’t seen my Claire Bun Beanie you can find the Free Crochet Pattern here!

After crocheting her beanie, I sewed in all my ends and added a wooden “A Crafty Concept Tag”. I got my tags from All This Wood on Etsy.

I think these tags add a nice finishing touch to beanies, and I have gotten a lot of positive feedback since I started selling them in 2017!

After adding her tag, I wanted to handwrite her a “thank you” note.

In her note, I wrote

Thank you so much for your order, Corrine. I hope you love your new Claire Bun Beanie, and I hope it keeps you warm while you’re delivering packages this holiday season.

Postal workers like you, mean the world to small business owners like me, and I am so thankful for your service as a postal worker. I included a free gift for you, just to say thank you, and to hopefully keep you extra warm this holiday season.

– Ashley

I decided to make Corrine a red ear warmer using my Sentro 40 Needle Knitting Machine.

These ear warmers are super thick (they are double thick!) and really warm and squishy! Now Corrine will have 2 options for keeping her head warm while delivering mail.

For this knit headband I cranked 90 rows on the knitting machine, then cinched both ends and tied it in the middle.

I added her ear warmer to her package along with her special “thank you” note and sent it out in the mail.

I hope she loves it, and it arrives to her safely and keeps her warm.

Something that I wish that I could have done in this package, but I wasn’t able to because I don’t have a printer, was make a custom postal worker themed “thank you” card.

I thought it would be fun to make them anyway and share them with you so you can gift them to your postal worker.

Click here to sign up to The Crafty Newsletter and receive a free sheet of postal worker thank you cards.

I hope you love them and they help you spoil your postal worker this Holiday season. They really do so much for us. If you make a postal worker gift for your mail carrier I’d love to see it! Feel free to tag me on Instagram @ACraftyConcept if you post any pics.

Happy Crocheting
❤️ Ashley