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Teens take flying leap to deliver mail
he main worry for some young mail carriers in southern Wisconsin is neither dogs nor extreme weather. It's plunging into a lake.
A never-stopping boat delivers mail to dozens of mansions on Lake Geneva during the summer. Teenage carriers are hired to jump off the boat, put the mail in mailboxes on the dock, then scurry back on board. An ill-timed jumper could fall in.
The U.S. Postal Service says it's the only delivery like it in the nation and has been running since 1916. The boat carries about 150 people who watch the mail delivery, sometimes cheering for carriers when they safely return to the boat.
Though the post office lost $3.8 billion last year, officials say the Lake Geneva route is expected to stay a while. The contract for it is just $1 a year.
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This job would be really really scary! What would they do if he would fall? I don't think they could pay me enough to do this job.
Wow that kid jumped of a boat to get mail.I what a job like that.I thank that it would be fun and cool.that is why i want that job.
why on earth would you travel n a lake jus 2 giv sumbody sum mail i hope dhat you get lost n dha middle of the sea or ocean or wateva bcuz aint nobody tel to tak yo behind out dere in the ocean jus 2 deliva sumbodys mail
This article is about teens delivering mail in a very strange way. The main idea is that they deliver mail to mansions in southern Wisconsin by jumping off of the boat, putting it in the mail boxes and then jumping back on the boat. I chose this article because I had absolutely no idea that this was happening. I think that although it is interesting and probably one of the very few ways to deliver mail to these houses, it would be much better to find a safer, easier route.
Why would you want to deliver mail riding in the water?
Something could happen, maybe something could happen and the boat would sink, not only would the people in it drowned, but the mail to the people or whoever it is trying to get to ; they will never receive it.
So, I don't think that this boat thing trying to get the mail to the people or whoever or whatever else they are trying too send this mail too is a good idea.
I think it would be hard to jump off then jump back on a boat that doesn't stop moving. It would be scary to be sitting there and watching someone jump off then they fell into the water. I wouldn't want to have that job during the summer.