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38 years of mail service
By Alan Rivett
If there was ever anyone who could tell
you about delivering mail through rain,
sleet and snow, it's John Pritchard.
Mr. Pritchard, . an employee of the
Lucknow Pest office, retired this year
froze his rural courier duties after 38 years
of making sure everyone on the Rural
Route 1 received their mail.
• Ile started delivering mail in 1938 at age
16, helping his brother Elmo Pritchard to
deliver the mail to RR 1 and 2 mail routes
at that time. He also held the R.R.6 and RR
3 routes for a time, before ;acquiring the .
RR 1 route 38 years, ago which he held up
until January of this year. The route is now
held by Mr. Bruce Raynard.
In the early days of mail delivery, Mr.
Pritchard recalls that horses and cutters
wereroacisroutinely used in the winter tune to
get through the almost impassable rural
"We'd use the horse and cutter from ear-
ly December until the Spring. Sometimes,
the weather would be so bad that you
would have to go through the fields from
one road to the other," said Mr. Pritchard.
He said the hordes were a reliable form
of mail delivery back then, with the horse
over time getting so familiarized with the
route that it would automatically stop
when it reached the next mail box.
However, Mr, Pritchard remembers one
time when a line broke and the horse ran
away from hint
"It was at the division line of Ashfield
Township and we were meeting a feed
truck, but the horse wouldn't meet it. One
of the lines broke and the horse got away.
Luckily, one of the boxholders came out
and 'caught the horse and brought him
back to rne. I never lost a letter," said Mr.
Pritchard. .
The mail courier's day begins every
weekday at 830 a.m. with the sorting of
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the Mail which is held in shutes for the in-
dividual mail routes.
"it's all got to be in order. If it isn't in
order, you're liable to make a mistake,1)
said 11/Ir. Pritchard.
The sorted mail is put into a sachel, then
the actual delivery _begins. Mr. Pritchard
said the route was approximately 30 miles
with 65 customers on the route which in-
cluded highway 86 south to Concession 12
of West Wawanosh and the sideroads ad-
joining each way.
Be said the delivery would be complete
at approximately 11430 a.m. each day, ex-
cept for the winter time which took extra
time on some days. •
. AS for winter delivery, Mr. Pritchard
said there weren't many times when the
mail didn't 0 through because of the
weather. -
"If we could see at all, we would go," he
saitL
Be said he will miss the contact with the
people, especially around Christmas time
when the boxholders would often leave "a
little something" for him for his mail
delivery during the year.
"I'm going to miss meeting the people,
especially the people at the post office. We
had just a great relationship. If you can't
get along with the people you work with,
you might as well not go to work at all,"
said Mr. Pritchard, adding that he also ap-
preciated the support of his family who
would sometimes help with the deliveries.
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