Yet another story of a selfless Postal Worker rescuing one of their customers, and more reasons why Republican attacks on USPS and Postal Workers need to stop now.
Last week was a report about a postal worker who rescued an elderly man who'd fallen.
HOPE HULL, Ala. -- An injured Alabama man scooted around the floor of his home, drank rainwater from a bucket and prodded ice from his freezer with a stick to survive for 10 days until his mail carrier found him.
Tommy Hope, 66, broke his arm and injured his leg and hip when he fell inside his Hope Hull home July 4, WSFA-TV reported.
Cissy Cartwright, who has delivered mail in the area for more than 20 years, decided to look in on Hope after noticing he hadn't checked his mail in several days.
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And another heard a man crying for help after he'd fallen in his back yard.
SCHUYLER, Neb. (AP) -- An 85-year-old Nebraska man credits a mail carrier with saving his life on a recent hot day after he fell in the yard. {snip}
But after mowing the back yard on July 17, Skarda fell over while trying to pick weeds because of the pain of a recent rib injury. Skarda says he didn't have the strength to get up and with his neighbors all at work, he didn't think he would survive.
Fortunately 24-year-old Aaron Muller heard Skarda's cries for help from across the street while delivering mail.
Muller helped Skarda up and even returned at the end of his route to make sure he was OK.
http://www.nbcneb.com/...
Now comes one who not only saved a boy from a summer of boredom, but may have inspired him to much bigger things than he'd previously imagined.
A Utah postal carrier says he recently had a "life-changing" encounter during a delivery route when he met a 12-year-old boy who was reading grocery store advertisements because he said he didn't have any real books to read.
"I was putting mail in the individual boxes for the apartment residents last Thursday when I heard this kid reading through a grocery ad reading things like 'Bananas, 66 cents,' that kind of thing," mailman Ron Lynch, who lives in Sandy, told ABC News. "He later came up and asked if I had any newspapers or junk mail or anything he could read."
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"He said he couldn't afford the bus to the library, so he just walked off, and I thought wait, I got to do something to help this kid out," Lynch said. "So I came over and talked to his mom, who mostly spoke Spanish, but Mathew helped translate. She gave me permission to use a photo of him, which I posted to Facebook along with a plea asking for book donations to his address."
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Flores told ABC News he's received "packages upon packages from all over the world" and now has over 500 books at his home.
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"Books take you places you've never been before," he said, "and I didn't want him to be in a grocery store. I wanted him to be in other worlds."
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Just think of all the boy's friends and family members who will also enjoy reading those books and being in other worlds.