Last week, after 34 years of operating the gas pedal with her left foot from the passengers seat, smoothly steering with her left hand along the shoulders of thousands of miles of local roads as she stuck letters and packages out the window into mailboxes, Vicki Lindley finally hit the brakes for good.
A rural postal delivery person for that entire span, Lindley, 62, said she is ready to retire.
She’s been there through some…