Unnamed Mail Carrier 3

Submitted by sfr on Tue, 2019-08-06 09:27
Character Key Number: 
1115
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Unnamed Mail Carrier 3
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Unnamed Mail Carrier 3
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

"By the People" notes that symbolically "now," because farm families made so many of their purchases by mail, the "R.F.D. carrier" is "by proxy tailor and seamstress to rural America" (87). ("R[ural] F[ree] D[elivery]" brought mail directly to Americans who lived in the countryside, away from post offices. According to Wikipedia, the service began in Mississippi in 1901.)

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