I compliment postmen and postwomen on their work. As a young boy I remember the friendliness of and the welcome the postman received in houses. That is still the case in rural Ireland and in our towns. It was never needed more than during the past two winters and the cold spells when the postman or postwoman might have been the only individual to regularly check on elderly and isolated people. In many cases, they raised the alarm when they discovered some amiss or even worse.

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