A sign invites the public to sign their names on a pink mailbox at the San Rafael post office in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. (Jeremy Portje — Special to the Marin Independent Journal)
(October 6, 2014) Pink is the wardrobe color of choice this month at the post office in San Rafael, where letter carriers are celebrating Breast Cancer Awareness Month by donning pink polo shirts and encouraging Marin residents to get annual mammograms.
Postal workers Monday gathered at the city’s main post office at 40 Bellam Blvd. to show off their festive shirts and sign a pink-painted mail collection box in memory of those affected by breast cancer. Surrounded by pink balloons and ribbons, employees talked about friends and family members diagnosed with the breast tissue disease.
Employee Carol Maggio, a 36-year veteran letter carrier, helped coordinate the event because she has a personal connection. After watching three of her Marin-raised aunts die from breast cancer, Maggio was diagnosed with the disease in 2007.
San Rafael postal workers don pink shirts for Breast Cancer Awareness Month