<!--quoteo(post=346718:date=Jan 28 2009, 04&#58;38 PM:name=55ChevyLady)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (55ChevyLady &#064; Jan 28 2009, 04&#58;38 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&amp;pid=346718">&lt;strong&gt;QUOTE BELOW&lt;/strong&gt;</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->the P.O. has declined in recent years.  My mother was a rural mail carrier for almost 20 years, retired in 1983.  Things were a lot different back then.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br /><br />Andrea, my father was a mailman; after he retired from the Air Force.