Alva Review-Courier -

While working in my front yard the other day, I noticed the mailman zip past our house without stopping. Not too unusual and my only thought was, “Evidently had no mail today.” But just a few minutes later here he came again from the other direction. Our neighborhood consists of a couple of streets built in a figure eight. It circles through about 50 homes, so it really isn’t that large of a mail delivery zone. But it can be confusing to a newbie, which obviously he was.

I continued my raking and then I heard him coming from the opposite direction. Minutes later he reversed course and passed o...