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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2662, 2 June 1908, Page 2

There must be few, even among "men of letters," who. like .Joseph Hunt, a Lincolnshire postman, can claim to have tramped a distance of, roughly, 240,000 miles, not much less that the equivalent of ten journeys round the world. Mi*. T. Goodman, rural postman, of Camborne. Cornwall, who has just been awarded the Imperial Service Medal by the King, has completed over forty years' service, during which he has walked over 230,000 miles. He walked for twelve years without a break, including Sundays, a round of I sixteen miles per day. A late atten- ! dance was never recorded against him. Not long ago George Thompson retired from service as postman in the Langrick district of Yorkshire, after covering on foot 125,000 miles in twe*hty-six years of letter-carrying, a service fourteen years shorter than that of his Cornwall rival. In thir-ty-four years, Orme M. Brown walked 111,000 miles as postman between Cupar and Kilmany and Logic. Mr. John Simmonds, of Henley-on Thames, retired with a record of 180,000 miles of fair "heel and toe." the result of forty years' tramping ; while, most amazing of all, Thomas Phipps, a postman in the Clipping Norton district was credited with an aggregate journey, of 440.000 miles between the years 1840 and 18r'S.