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Non-Road Boards => Off-Topic => Topic started by: cpzilliacus on September 02, 2013, 01:34:19 PM

Title: Letter carrier, 72, among growing number in U.S. working well past 65
Post by: cpzilliacus on September 02, 2013, 01:34:19 PM
Washington Post: The longer route: Letter carrier, 72, among growing number in U.S. working well past 65 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/the-longer-route-letter-carrier-72-among-growing-number-in-us-working-well-past-65/2013/08/29/ce9a9bf8-0f45-11e3-85b6-d27422650fd5_story.html)

QuoteHe's on County Road 1680 moving like a blacktailed jack rabbit under the big-bowl Oklahoma sky, a tiny dot in his Ford Ranger out on the edge of the world when the flying red stinger ants show up.

QuoteOther on-the-job nuisances include hail, mud, diamondback rattlers, wild boars, coyotes, bobcats, porcupines and skunks. Jim Ed Bull keeps on driving.

QuoteFifty, 55, 60 mph. Turning up a driveway, he reaches out the window and, snap, the mailbox opens. Bull is a letter carrier with the longest postal route in the United States, 187.6 miles across some of the loneliest territory in the country. He's 72 and part of the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. labor force – those who work past their 65th birthdays./quote]