After 33 years of delivering mail in Metairie, Earl Egan recently stumbled upon something he’d never seen before.
Egan, 60, stood in front of a house he’d visited nearly every day since becoming a letter carrier in 1987 at 23 years old. A brand new pebble pathway led to the lime-green door, and a yellow flag read “Postman’s Path” in blue letters. An embroidered mailman figure was labeled “Earl.”
“It was the coolest thing,” Egan said. “I remember just smiling and thinking how great it was that they actually made a separate path just for the mailman to cut through.”
Lynda Grass, 83, handmade the flag with her embroidery machine in April after her husband, Carl Grass, 84, built the pathway. The two have known Egan since they moved into their home in 1991.
