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'Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor Heat ...': Watch Mail Carrier Deliver To Burned-Out Homes

The video raises a central question, given that much of the area is under a mandatory evacuation order and curfew: Who's going to get that mail?
Aerial drone footage shows a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier making the rounds in Santa Rosa, Calif., delivering mail at houses that were reduced to rubble by intense wildfires.

The U.S. Postal Service hasn't abandoned Santa Rosa, Calif., where hundreds of people are coping with total losses of their homes from an explosive wildfire. The scene in Santa Rosa has been compared with an apocalypse — but that didn't stop a mail truck from making the rounds in at least one devastated neighborhood this

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