caller said some P.O. mail deliverers wear miner's hat with light

[ensho]

because they are deliverying two routes a day and run into darkness.

they have to double up because of carriers being laid off.

miner's lamp hat!


!!!! ????

are we still in america

(caller was on c-span's Wash. Journal)

[madokie]

1. We are but not sure about the caller

[ensho]

2. he was a laid off carrier

sounded real

[tbyg52]

3. For a year or two,

our mail often arrived after dark. Our mail carrier was definitely overworked. They seem to have corrected that now - it might have just been a function of how fast our area was growing.