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Customers Petition to Keep Letter Carrier
The sweeping changes in routes happening across the country not only effect letter carriers, it effects the customers. Many customers who have had the same letter carrier for years will now see a new face delivering their mail.
Some customers aren't taking it very well. In an article from the LancasterOnline, some customers are petitioning to keep their mail man. The following is an excerpt from the article.
"The business people in Lititz have their own clock.
His name is Barry.
Every day, at the same time, Barry Lavender, a mustachioed dynamo, strides into their shop or deli or place of business with a cheerful greeting and their mail.
"He's right as rain," said Kim Berry, owner of the Curiosity Shoppe on East Main Street.
"He hearkens back to a time when people took the time to get to know other people and to do their job to make a difference," said Matt Shaub, a Lititz resident who sees Lavender on his daily routine. "You don't find people like that anymore."
So when they learned Lavender, "their" mailman, was going to be moved from his longtime route, they staged a petition drive, collecting more than 50 signatures and pleading to keep him there.
It didn't work."
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July 4, 2009
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