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offices, or mail carriers, who deliver the mail.
In Rappahannock County, the task of delivering the mail once it has been processed and sorted falls to mail carrier, Karen Adams.
Adams works about one day a week and when needed at the Washington Post Office as a substitute for Bobby Brown.
“It was one of those things I always wanted to do,” said Adams.
An early start
Adams gets an early start at the post office where she spends a few hours arranging the mail in delivery sequence and taking care of other details. Recently, automated equipment has reduced the time needed to sort the mail, allowing mail carriers more time to spend actually delivering the mail.
Most rural carriers use their own automobiles. In this case Adams uses her white jeep. Her Jeep is a right hand drive, (which by the way is just as easy to drive as a left hand). When she uses it to run errands her dog, Max (short for Maxwell Smart) goes for a ride, he sits on the side where the driver usually sits, so it actually looks like he is driving! It’s fun to watch people do the double take.
The duties of some city carriers may be very specialized; some deliver only parcel post while others collect mail from street boxes and receiving boxes in office buildings. In Adams case she provides a wider range of postal ser
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