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<blockquote data-quote="rod" data-source="post: 3774533" data-attributes="member: 5382"><p>My first day of delivering a large rural area they pointed to a truck, said go deliver it. It had about 45 rural route stops in it. Areas I had never been in in my life. Eleven or 12 hours later and 250+ miles I had delivered about 2/3rds of it. Next day they sent me out with about 60 stops. No cell phones back then and most mailboxes didn't even have a name on them. The E911 rural numbering system hadn't been invented yet. About all you could do was barrow some farmers 6 party phone for a few minutes and try to get ahold of people for directions. LOTS of back tracking back then. Small rural post masters and mail carriers were your best friends. You soon learned that when someone told you to go see Old Farmer Joe--he knows everyone----he didn't know his A from a hole in the ground. After about 3 months things had more or less fell in place. It helped when the days finally got longer in the spring.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rod, post: 3774533, member: 5382"] My first day of delivering a large rural area they pointed to a truck, said go deliver it. It had about 45 rural route stops in it. Areas I had never been in in my life. Eleven or 12 hours later and 250+ miles I had delivered about 2/3rds of it. Next day they sent me out with about 60 stops. No cell phones back then and most mailboxes didn't even have a name on them. The E911 rural numbering system hadn't been invented yet. About all you could do was barrow some farmers 6 party phone for a few minutes and try to get ahold of people for directions. LOTS of back tracking back then. Small rural post masters and mail carriers were your best friends. You soon learned that when someone told you to go see Old Farmer Joe--he knows everyone----he didn't know his A from a hole in the ground. After about 3 months things had more or less fell in place. It helped when the days finally got longer in the spring. [/QUOTE]
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