Neither rain nor snow nor gloom of night shall stay the antibiotics from their appointed delivery
Via the Wall Street Journal's comes this news: In case of an anthrax-related terrorist attack, doses of antibiotics might be coming your way via your neighborhood letter carrier. It sounds weird until you realize that postal workers cover the entire community six days a week.
Letter carriers "are constantly helping out as just part of their job, and this is taking it one step further,” a union representative is quoted as saying. That's not just blowing smoke. Carriers frequently check on older residents on their routes, for example. And I can point to one example in my own life. The morning after my daughter was born, my mother-in-law accidentally left the oven on in our house when she left for the hospital. Our letter carrier heard the smoke alarm going off and, finding no one home, roused our next-door neighbor, who tracked me down at the hospital so I could come home and make sure the house wasn't on fire.
