Forget the inbox, they prefer the P.O. box
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Jerry Millsap, right, waves goodbye to Bob Albrecht after their morning meeting at the Zenda post office. Millsap and Albrecht are among a regular group of men who stop in the small office most days to catch up. Sue Bullock, officer in charge, in the background, says the office is the place to get to know people in the area.
ZENDA — Country performer Miranda Lambert often sings about her roots of growing up in rural Texas, including a 2007 hit single that features the lyrics “everybody dies famous in a small town.”
(Read all of this week's stories from Walworth County Sunday HERE. )
And most of those stories -- and tales -- about people’s lives, deaths and everything in-between get told at one central gathering place. In small communities around Walworth County, that spot is the local post office, many of which continue to survive and thrive despite the U.S. Postal Service’s financial struggles in a technology-dominated world.
That’s because the most frequent visitors to small-town post offices are retired, or at least AARP eligible, folks who still write letters with a pencil or pen and prefer chatting or tweeting with friends and family in person rather than via cell phone, iPad or computer.
Those traditions run deep in places such as Springfield, Pell Lake, Lyons, Honey Creek, Darien and Sharon.
And no better example of how social media really works and why post offices are so special to small-town residents occurs in Zenda nearly every morning.
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