Lack of mail!

    
      In the last ten years the mail volume has gotten less and less. The total routes in Corning have gone from seventeen routes to eleven in the last twelve years. Almost every customer got at least a piece of mail every day, from a piece of advertisement to a love letter or birthday card. Now a days some customers are lucky to get a piece of mail a week let alone daily. The funny part is what some of us carriers were talking about the other day and this has happened to most of us. We would walk past a house or two that normally would get mail and after getting down a few houses a customer would come out , yell down to us and say... "HEY!! DID I GET ANY MAIL???" The customer would sometimes call us back just to ask us that question.  I have even made the mistake of delivering to the wrong house because, I usually go to that house daily. I would realize what I did when I got to the next house, then have to go back and sometimes stop the customer before they take it.

My home town!

     The wife and I got to get out of town for a few hours to visit some friends. I forget sometimes how isolated things still are in the country. I do miss being in the country just not the isolation, being only a half block from work and a half mile from stores has its perks. The pictures are of our drive back from the country to the "big city".