For some, post office takes on renewed importance during isolation

By Anna Merriman

Valley News Staff Writer

Carol Fairbanks loads sorted mail into bins at the U.S. Postal Service processing plant in White River Junction, Vt., Tuesday, April 14, 2020. (Valley News - James M. Patterson)

HANOVER — Wearing a pink floral homemade mask, Hanover resident Margaret Sheehan arrived on the steps of the South Main Street post office Tuesday morning, packages in hand.

It was one of several trips the avid seamstress has made to the post office over the past few weeks.

As the outbreak of COVID-19 forces residents around the country, including Sheehan, to isolate at home, she has relied on the postal service to send homemade masks to her friends in Orford; her mother-in-law in Massachusetts; and her brother in Washington, D.C.

The agency, she said, has become a “connection to the outside world.”

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