Former postal workers

Forget Vonzell Solomon! Did you know these famous people were former postal workers?

Benjamin Franklin, the country’s first postmaster general, Abe Lincoln, Harry Truman, Walt Disney, Bing Crosby and Sherman Hemsley, “George Jefferson.’’

So says Miles Blumhardt in a sidebar to a recent Coloradoan.com column where he writes about taking a tour of the U.S. Postal Service’s Denver Processing and Distribution Center.

To read his entire column, click here.