RFD

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Our Netflix this evening was a wonderful National Geographic movie,' The First Grader,' the real life story of an 84 year old Kenyan Mau Mau veteran  who went to school when universal education was finally offered in his country. We and his first grade classmates learned history from this 15 year war prisoner who knew the importance of getting an education no matter how old you are. His motivation to be able to read was a letter he had received many years before.


Afterwards Natureman remarked that even though we are in the End of the Rainbow Valley, the world could still come to us thanks to the rural delivery of mail. (Did you know RFD stands for rural free delivery.) As talk goes, Saturday mail delivery rural routes may be eliminated and some of our small town post offices closed. That probably means a place like us with a population of 365 will not have a post office.

So I guess I should relish the delivery of Netflix while the mail service is still running. After a google search I now know that RFD that started in 1865 as a result of people writing their congressmen. Perhaps we should make our demands known and write our congressman so we can still have Netflix and be able to pick up our packages and buy stamps, etc... You don't have to be a First Grader to understand the importance of communication.

This is an interesting link of Reaching Rural America... Click on the following:
Reaching Rural America