Have you ever thanked your mail carrier for bringing you all those postcards to your doorstep, day after day, rain or shine? Now is your opportunity: February 4th is Thank a Mailman Day! :)
Leave your mail carrier a note, a treat, or just open the door and say thank you if you’re around… I’m sure they’ll appreciate the gesture!
And if you’re planning to do something special, do share — we’d love to hear about it!
If you’ve been paying attention to postal news (or our Twitter feed), you’ve probably heard of the recently uncovered case of a Philadelphia’s postal hoarder. Over the years, this postman managed to collect over 20 000 pieces of mail in his garage, including “love letters, checks and gift cards, as well as hundreds of packages” that are now being delivered, some with a delay of over 10 years!
To this evil postal worker, we’d like to dedicate a very appropriate song by the Presidents of the United States of America, titled “Some Postman”:
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Do you know your mail carrier? How old are they? We bet not as old as Ted Ingram. Ted is 90 years old but he still delivers newspapers in Dorset, United Kingdom.
Ted has his job since since 1942 (imagine that!) and has delivered over 500,000 newspapers! That’s nearly 7 decades – we wonder how many people can claim to have hold any job so long!
The guinness book of records is now considering him as the oldest paperboy, but Ted says “I hope I can carry on the round when I’m 100, I have no plans to give it up”.
