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<blockquote data-quote="rod" data-source="post: 892697" data-attributes="member: 5382"><p>I would go for miles pounding the dirt roads on my route seeing only rusty beatup mailboxes with nothing on them. Eveything just came addressed "Joe Blow RR 3 or even Joe Blow with just a town name on it and you had to figure out even what route he was on. The road signs had so many bullet holes in them they couldn't be read. I spent alot of time at first opening mailboxes to see if there was mail in them so I could see who lived there. If you stopped to ask if someone knew where someone lived they would always say--"go see old so and so---he knows everyone". It never failed that everyone he knew had been dead for 20 years and now he didn't even know who lived on either side of him. Now days, around here at least, all the roads are blacktopped and everyone has a nice reflectorized E-911 address sign by their driveway. A route that used to take 3 months to learn now could be mastered in about 3 days. But------ along with all the new tech stuff came MORE stops. The driver who delivers my old area now is handling a bigger area with about twice the stops I used to do --- in a package car that should be assigned to the local mall and industrial park. I know my old P-500 would fit in the back of it. He doesn't have to worry about going into driveways---the damn thing barely fits on a city street.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rod, post: 892697, member: 5382"] I would go for miles pounding the dirt roads on my route seeing only rusty beatup mailboxes with nothing on them. Eveything just came addressed "Joe Blow RR 3 or even Joe Blow with just a town name on it and you had to figure out even what route he was on. The road signs had so many bullet holes in them they couldn't be read. I spent alot of time at first opening mailboxes to see if there was mail in them so I could see who lived there. If you stopped to ask if someone knew where someone lived they would always say--"go see old so and so---he knows everyone". It never failed that everyone he knew had been dead for 20 years and now he didn't even know who lived on either side of him. Now days, around here at least, all the roads are blacktopped and everyone has a nice reflectorized E-911 address sign by their driveway. A route that used to take 3 months to learn now could be mastered in about 3 days. But------ along with all the new tech stuff came MORE stops. The driver who delivers my old area now is handling a bigger area with about twice the stops I used to do --- in a package car that should be assigned to the local mall and industrial park. I know my old P-500 would fit in the back of it. He doesn't have to worry about going into driveways---the damn thing barely fits on a city street. [/QUOTE]
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