Mail delivery job for a hero

He's rarely missed a day delivering mail. Six days a week, in blizzards or record-breaking heat-waves, he is on his appointed rounds.

Russell White, a postal carrier for the Churchton post office, certainly abides by the postman's creed - "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."

His devotion to the job and his customers is so complete that when his fellow carrier, Donna Dalrymple, became ill, he took on her route as well. Now he is on the job early and long, serving more than 600 homes and businesses in Churchton.

Ms. Dalrymple fell ill...