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Show Bermuda Mailmen Add Courtesy to Speed Record in Delivery of Mail on Island The old adage that "The Postman Always Rings Twice," is topped in Bermuda by the fact that this colony's col-ony's postmen frequently deliver mail within 20 minutes after letters are posted. Furthermore His Majesty's Majes-ty's carrier thanks the receiver for accepting the mail not only once but probably twice. Mailmen in the coral islands in the mid-Atlantic are an extremely courteous lot. The cool, white houses that border the winding coral cor-al stone highways are visited by islands is-lands mailmen who embody typical Bermudian courtesy in both manner and speech. There are 31 postmen on the islands is-lands who know by heart all the family names in Bermuda that would confuse the average postman to the point of distraction. Rarely do the Outerbridges, the Tuckers, the Darrells, the Smiths, the Coopers Coop-ers and the Triminghams get the wrong mail. The islands postmen know all the initials that go with the old islands' names, and letters never go astray. In Bermuda, where traffic is confined con-fined to bicycles and horse and carriage, although the swiftest transportation of the century, airplane air-plane service, is utilized in reaching reach-ing the islands, the postoffices have set up quite a few records for speed in mail delivery that American Ameri-can postmen would find difficult to beat Delivery is made in less than six hours over the greatest distance on the islands, which extends from St George's to Somerset, 24 miles in all. |