Sesame Street - I Am A Letter (1970)

Remember letters, kids? I used to spend my summers writing to faraway pen-pals. Still friends with some of them all these years later. From 1970, a sweet and quirky ode to the post office, “I Am A Letter“, which tells the tale of the journey of a letter through the US Postal Service. And a very detailed journey it is! Some of the lines and the ways they’re forced to rhyme just kill me. But, hey, “This is information that’s important to know“! Lots of thanks to our own First Class Male, @Sesame Maniac, for helping me finally knock this request off my To-Do List. Classic earworm. TECH NOTES: Not perfect, the video’s a tad choppy, for lack of a better term. Difficult to convert the episode when it comes from certain streaming networks (don’t want to tick them off by naming them), so we’ll just have to cross our fingers when it comes to any future clips from these eps. PLAYLIST: Shameless Amazon Plugs! Pets Forever Postage Stamps (Book of 20) Dragons Forever Postage Stamps (Sheet of 16) Sesame Street Forever Postage Stamps (Sheet of 16) (First) LYRICS Who do you think I am? The answer’s not hard I’m a letter in an envelope, a package or card How do I come to you and how do I go? Come on and follow along, let’s see if you know We’re waiting in the mailbox, night and day We’re waiting for the mail truck to take us away (Humming and scatting as the mailman empties the mailbox) Now we’re in the mail truck and we’re on our way To the post office, all night and all day The post office, the post office, the post office! Out of the mailbag, we’re ready to ride Onto a moving belt, we slip and we slide And then they seperate us, the big from the small Along the moving belt we go, and down we fall Who do you think I am? The answer’s not hard I’m a letter in an envelope, a package or card The post office, the post office, the post office! Riding up the belt then we’re on the move Up and over and down we go, oh into the groove And now we get to postmark, one at a time Which tells the place we started from and at what time The post office, the post office, the post office! And, what do ya think happens when we get our mark? Yeah, they line us up together and then they start To read our addresses, the places we will go This is information that’s important to know The post office, the post office, the post office! They put us into piles, up above and below With letters that have to go ... the same place we go They put us into mailbags, full and strong Now, we’re ready to take a trip, short or long Day and night, the mail rides on jet-powered planes All across America, through wind, snow, or rain (Do-do-dee-do ...) We go to any post offices across the land Where the mailman takes us and sorts us by hand They pack us into leather bags, just so The mailman delivers us, let’s see where we go The mailman, the mailman, the mailman! We come to your house, the answer’s not hard I’m a letter in an envelope, a package or card The mailman, the mailman, the mailman! Now you know just who I am, now you know me better You’ve seen where I go, now say my name I’m a letter! Twitter: Instagram: Web: YouTube: Facebook: