The man who walked less but carried more mail than any other Middletown letter carrier in the last 21 years received notice this week that his retirement from the post office has been officially approved. For almost one quarter of a century, Albert J. Hester had been the mailman for this city’s downtown area. In that time he delivered to the compact sector about 1,000,000 pounds of mail. That rough estimate is made when Hester multiplies his daily load of 150 pounds times his five days of work each week times 50 weeks a year times 21 years of service, and then drops in a few pounds for his years of letter carrying before he took the downtown beat. Although Al admits there is less area to cover in the downtown sector he points out that stairs are more plentiful...

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