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Post Offices Catch Up After Snowstorm

Sunday, December 24, 2006 8:09:39 PM
By DAN ELLIOTT

Idled by a blizzard for two days, Bo Boyette, a postman for the United States Postal Service, struggles to clear a bank of snow and drag boxes of mail into an office structure in Denver on Friday, Dec. 22, 2006. More than two feet or of snow was dropped on some parts of Colorado before the blizzard moved out of the interior West on Thursday. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)DENVER (AP) - An army of 1,500 mail carriers fanned out across Colorado and Wyoming on Christmas Eve, making rare Sunday deliveries in a bid to get hundreds of thousands of blizzard-delayed packages to their destinations on time.

"This is an unprecedented effort," Postal Service spokesman Al DeSarro said. They all volunteered for the extra duty, he said.

Normally, about 100 carriers would be working on Sunday, he said.


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