CRESTVIEW, FL — What some might struggle to do with two legs, Anita Fee can do with one.
Working with the U.S. Post Office in the north part of Okaloosa County for nearly 14 years, Fee has been stationed in various positions, but her favorite has been mail carrier.
After years of filling in when called, she was given her own route in December. And even with a disability she is one of the fastest carriers in her area.
“She’s probably in the top 10 percent for speed and accuracy,” said John Blair, postmaster at Crestview Post Office. “She’s amazing.”
She doesn’t need any special treatment. She uses her own vehicle, a Jeep Cherokee, which she had the console taken out of and replaced with a boater’s seat so she can easily slide across the vehicle.
To reach the mailboxes, she often uses an old mail hawk — a claw device to grab letters.
Rural mail carrier says losing leg doesn’t slow her down
Certainly not a city carrier where the motto is ‘go slow, more dough’.
Honestly no. You would think so but she’s my grandmother and you would think the leg slowlS her down but honestly no.. She raised me to be a great person with outstanding work ethic. This women doesn’t even see her disability as a disablility. She thinks of her disablility as an excuse to rise above and cure all laziness. This women is the single
most lost working in the businsss you will ever see. It is amazing the potential people have that they don’t see.. I have aspired to be just like her in so many ways.. She is such an AMAZING person and she is a TRUE example that disabilities ARE NOT AN EXCUSE AND HOW TRUE WORK REALLY DOES PAY OFF. LOVE YOU NANA
I’m sure that the Postal Service will now require all carriers to give up one of their legs to increase delivery speed.