Another resident, Kathleen White, bought some stamps at the postal truck.

The 27-mile system of letter-filled canisters shooting through eight-inch cast-iron pipes was shut down when postal trucks made it obsolete.

"Some parts arrived on the postal truck," he explained.

For example, a postal truck delivering these letters may run a few minutes late or a mail sorter may pause in his work.

The protest ensnared furious commuters, blood plasma deliveries, postal trucks, wilting vegetables and flammable chemicals.

On Dec. 24., a postal truck damaged the bridge's next line of defense, a railroad-crossing-style arm that swings across the roadway.

When she was back in her room, with the postal truck gone and the staff beginning to arrive, she sat by the window and studied her discovery.

The scenes are sometimes elegant, sometimes haunting: a graveyard, a schoolroom, a postal truck parked near a row of mailboxes.

He gave up his Assembly seat in 1990 after his son was killed by a postal truck.

The postal truck was full of parcels for the Christmas season.