After 20 years on the same route, the Whole Neighborhood Turned Out To Say Goodbye to a Beloved Mailman
#PostalWorker #FloydMartin #USPS #Marietta For the last 20 years, Floyd Martin's worked the same route in downtown Marietta, and all the people along his route have come to love him — REALLY love him. “He’s really part of our family," Sarah Bullington, who has lived in the neighborhood for 11 years, told BuzzFeed News. “He’s just really special.” Martin told BuzzFeed News the best part of his job was all the people he met and befriended over the years. "They would invite me to dinner. [On] holidays, they would try to make sure I wasn’t alone. They bring gifts to me. If my truck broke down, which it did, they would come out to check on me. They were there for me," he said. So when some of the neighbors learned Martin was planning to retire a couple of months ago, they knew they had to send him off in style. “I knew we had to do something big,” said Becky Poole, who has known Martin for about 25 years. “I had no idea it was going to be this big.” Aro...