When you think about differnt careers, do you ever imagine what it would be like to be a mail carrier? I didn't, unitl I met a man who comes to our house times a week. His name is Al and he been our mail carrier for the past years.
If you think that going from to house slipping letters into mailboxes like an easy job, let me Al's work. Our family calls him "the Amazing Al." He under difficult conditions. The houses in our are a mile or more from another, and the temperatures are often . We live in a hot, dry, desert area of southern Arizona.
Al an established route from house to in our community, delivering and collecting . On a typical workday, he begins at in the morning at the Yavapai County Post Office, miles away. He arranges all the in the order in which he'll it. Then he makes sure that he plenty of stamps and other materials for who need them.
Because the distances between in our area are so great, Al his truck on the route. To the route would take several days. He has a few minutes to stop for a at our house. In the hottest of the year, my mother always a tall glass of cool lemonade for him. My sister and I give him cookies we have baked. I like to to h im about his job. He me that he enjoys his work. He it even dwhen it means delivering on blistering hot days or in the of blinding windstorms.
In addition to and collecting mail, Al gives out -of-address cards and other forms, and questions about mail service. He also stamps and money orders. He even money for parcels and certified letters that his send.
Al participates in community for elderly or ill persons in our , too. Even if there's no mail to or deliver, he knocks on doors to on these people, to make sure all right. If they need anything, Al notify someone who can help them. month, he knocked on the door of our . When she didn't answer the door, Al around to the back yard where he her sitting on the ground. She had off a ladder while clearing debris from the and broken her ankle. Al acted as a as she hopped indoors. He also sure that she got the help she .
When Al is finished with his , he returns to the post office. He the mail he has gathered and the money he has collected from stamps or accepting parcels to mail. long workday is over.