As Americans across the country celebrate Public Service Recognition Week, hey listen we're sure somebody is celebrating it, a new website is allowing private citizens to say "thanks" in a quick and easy digital way.

WeLovePublicService.org is a new web venture started by our friends at GovLoop along with Code for America, a user-generated site where citizens of all stripes can say thank you to those who (mostly) thanklessly toil away in the public sector. Users can submit their name and location along with a 100 character long message of thanks to all the teachers, first responders, mail carriers, and IRS auditors who help comprise the public work force. A quick search of messages doesn't reveal any entries from "Scott W. in Madison" or "Chris C. in Trenton," but we're sure they are in there somewhere!

The site is actually a nice balance to what has seemed to be a time of massive criticism of anyone involved in public service. That is not to say that public employees should be immune to criticism, but as the characterization of them has seemed to veer into cartoonish villainizing in some quarters maybe it is a little refreshing to see messages of thanks and gratitude to the public sector.

Of course that is until the week is over...at that point everyone can feel free to call your mail man a "union thug" through a bullhorn when he tries to drop off the new copy of Mini-Trucking Monthly.