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Anthony Mack, 54: letter carrier.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-DEC-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Anthony Mack, 54: letter carrier.(The Working Life: STORIES FROM THE 9 TO 5)

Article Excerpt
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To be honest with you, I never believed in my wildest dreams that I'd b e a letter carrier. I served in the U.S. Army; later, I had a job with the city doing street maintenance. But when I needed a good-paying job with benefits, I applied to the postal service and was hired. I fell in love with it, and now I'm the local union president. My first day on the job was March 13, 1980.

Even before the hurricane, Galveston was a unique place to be a letter carrier because the Island is filled with half streets: M 1/2, N 1/2, and such. Alley and rear addresses complicate the simplest deliveries. Sometimes the people in the front of a house have a mailbox in a different location from people who live in the back of the house. Thankfully, I deliver mail in the neighborhood where I grew up, in the central part of the Island--I still live...

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