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Back at the end of World War II, Post Office customers were called patrons, a first-class letter cost three cents and the local postal fleet consisted of two 1930s Ford vans. This was when the author of these memoirs started work as a mailman in his region of the United States. If anyone is qualified to compare email with snail mail, then he surely is. The many amusing stories make this chronicle of the trials and tribulations of a mailman'...

In this, the prequel to Snail Mail Versus Email, France Bozeman recounts his boyhood in rural Georgia with much charm and humor, recalling a bygone day when food came from the garden and chores were the main source of entertainment. From the idyllic, halcyon days of childhood to the hardships of the Depression years and a wartime spent in the Army, it's all here, evocatively captured for posterity, the record of one man's youth and of a way o...

Inefficient delivery systems, corrupt officials, disastrous modernization plans and letter carriers who are frightened of their supervisors. Perhaps it would be better to ask what's not wrong with the Post Office! France A. Bozeman, now retired, was a member of the city carriers for sixty-two years, and a member of the National Rural Letter Carriers Association for more than thirty-three years. Here he explains some of the problems he exper...