The Jolly Postbot: Using Apps Script to notify teachers of letters sent home

Allan and Janet Ahlberg’s ‘The Jolly Postman’ is one of the most captivating books I can remember from my first years in primary school. It tells the tale of a bicycling postman who goes about a village delivering letters to fairy tale characters. With each turn of the page there is an actual envelope containing and actual letter! I felt like I was intercepting the mail of witches and giants!

I aspired to be a postman, convinced it was the most glamorous job in the world, but I did not think of the…