Walter H. Brown won't be wearing out three pairs of shoes a year any more. After 30 years as letter carrier on the Meadowlawn route, Brown has retired to repair work, lawn-tending and fishing preparations at his home at 16 Baltimore St. He never wanted to be a postman as a young man, and he "doubts very much" whether he would want to spend the 30 years over again in the same work. But Brown admits that there’s nothing dull about a mailman's life. "There's something new every day," he says. Brown remembers the day that many Middletown postmen laid aside their slogan that "neither rain nor snow, nor heat nor gloom of darkness stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." There was a sleet storm in the city one day many years ago. The streets were icy. Brown confides, "and a great number of the carriers turned in..."

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