Unnamed Mail Carrier 2

Submitted by sfr on Tue, 2019-08-06 09:28
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1116
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Unnamed Mail Carrier 2
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Unnamed Mail Carrier 2
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

When Charles Mallison passes through Jefferson at the start of World War II in "Knight's Gambit," he thinks how soon newspapers delivered by the "RFD carrier" report the news of the local young men who have been killed in the fighting (251). The federal "R[ural] F[ree] D[elivery]" system brought mail directly to Americans who lived in the countryside, away from post offices.

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