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Show Woman Mail Carrier No Longer An Oddity SEATTLE. Accepted among the men in the station and the housewives house-wives on her route as a seasoned veteran and a neighborhood fixture, Mrs. Ellen Nermo, substitute mail airier at the Seattle post office for the last two years, is planning to take civil service examinations tor permanent appointment. Recalling her first day as a letter carrier, Mrs. Nermo said, "I thought one woman was going to faint when she saw me come up the steps. Kids used to gather In knots and whisper when I appeared." ap-peared." Mrs. Nermo was among the women wom-en hired by the Seattle post office when war depleted ranks pf carriers. Her only trouble. Mrs. Nermo insists, in-sists, was with a housewife after she made a wrong delivery of a letter. let-ter. "This woman kepf lecturing me about the mistake and I took it as long as I could, then told her off," Mrs. Nermo said. |