LADYSMITH, Wis. (WEAU) – There’s often some excitement that comes with getting the mail. Maybe it’s a package, or a card. But it wasn’t the mail that excited one young girl in Chippewa Falls, it was the person who delivered it.
For ten years, Jennifer Hause has been a mail carrier in Chippewa Falls.
“My customers really make it super easy to stay here,” Hause said. “I think when you see people out on the route a lot, it’s easy to form a relationship wit them.”
Five years ago, Hause, also known as Jenny the Mail Lady, made one of those relationships.
“She made me more comfortable,” Jersey Work, who used to live on Hause’s route, said.
On her route, Hause met Jersey, who was eight at the time.
“I had just gone through a really bad divorce and I’m a really rough around the edges kind of guy so it was kind of rough raising girls,” Jay Work, Jersey’s dad said. “I had no idea what I was doing so I felt like a positive female role model couldn’t really hurt.”
If anything, it actually helped. So when Jersey’s birthday came up, Jenny got an idea.
“What little girl doesn’t want a porcelain doll?” Hause said. “So, I happened to have this one at my home.”
So on Jersey’s birthday, Hause gave her one.
