FAIR OAKS RANCH — Add “nor lack of gas” to the familiar motto of the U.S. postal service — “Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night, stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”
Just ask mail carrier Aden Shields, who received a nod of approval from Mayor Greg Maxton after Shields’ truck hit empty on the petrol gauge Oct. 3 and he continued delivering the post on foot.
Though Shields called a supervisor to bring him a gas can, he didn’t want to postpone his “appointed rounds.”
With temperatures rising to the low 90s, Shields, positioned at Fair View Valley and Fair View Bluff streets, spent an hour delivering the pre-sorted mail and packages from home to home.
A resident saw Shields making rounds the old-fashioned way and called Maxton to commend the postal worker.
