Demopolis, AL, Letter Carrier Konai Davis has been receiving accolades from her community for a good deed she performed during the hustle and bustle of the most recent peak season.
After attending the city’s popular Christmas on the River parade with friends and family, customer Anna Fleming realized a sentimental bracelet she had been wearing had fallen off during the crowded event. At the time, she was hosting a parade watch party for about 20 guests.
“I couldn’t break up the party to look for it, but I had it on my mind that whole day,” she said.
Fleming, who lives one street from the parade route, retraced her steps the following day. She combed the grounds of the event along with her sister. She also searched her own house high and low.
She turned to social media for help and posted a photo of the bracelet in the hopes someone might find it and return it to her.
Davis, a 19-year Postal Service employee whose delivery route includes the area Fleming was searching, saw the post and kept her eyes peeled for almost a week. Then one day as Davis was walking back to her vehicle, she spotted something near the main parade route.
“When I got up closer, I saw it was a bracelet. To be honest, if I hadn’t seen that post, I would’ve kept passing it by because it was so small and dainty. I don’t know how, but I spotted it. Everything happens for a reason,” she said.
Davis then compared the bracelet to photos Fleming had posted and messaged her to ask if it was the bracelet she was looking for, and it was. She delivered it to a grateful Fleming later that evening.
“It was the best delivery I made during peak season,” Davis said.
Fleming had received the bracelet as a gift from her mother after the birth of one of her three children.
“I had already given up and after searching twice, I wasn’t going to go back to look for it again. I was about to accept that it was gone, but it was so sweet to get it back. It was a little miracle,” Fleming said.
