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Here are some of our favorite stories
about United States Postal Service workers.
This must be the nicest mailman ever.
Here's Jim Moret.
This mailman has a package to drop off,
but he worries about porch pirates.
That's when the homeowner communicates
with him via security camera.
Hi, we're not home.
Okay, I'm a taking it back to the office.
Okay.
Watch the personalized service that follows.
It's from your Uncle Michael.
Oh, does that need to be signed for?
No, no, but usually I don't leave stuff
at the front if it's not from a store.
The homeowner informs him it's okay
to leave the package.
That's when he leans in earnestly with a solution.
Would you like me to put it inside the recycling bin?
Oh yeah, that would work.
Okay, you have a wonderful day.
Thank you, I appreciate it.
Social media is in love.
A great employee who truly cares, such a sweetheart.
We tracked down the homeowner, Karissa Basalyga
in Washington state.
Hands down, he is awesome.
I don't think I've ever had a mailman
take such care, intentional care with a package.
So what was in the package?
It's just a ton of really old coins.
And they're irreplaceable.
So hats off to this mail carrier for going
beyond the call of duty on his appointed rounds.
Have a great day.
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This postal worker is certainly in a good mood,
dancing as he delivers the mail.
He must have been listening to the Marvelettes.
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What a great attitude to have
throughout his delivery route.
But something tells me he knew he was on camera.
Either way, at least he didn't mail it in.
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Postal workers, running from the dogs,
maybe it's really a myth.
Because this mailman seems
to absolutely love the neighbor's Pooch.
Watch him cozy up to the nine-month old German Shepherd
named Kyza, not even realizing that cameras were rolling.
Kyza never barks, so perhaps
that's why the mailman likes to say hello.
And because he seems to stay on his side of the fence.
Oh man, water and Gatorade.
Thank God, thank you.
On a hot day, this man delivers the mail
and a little boy says thank you
with a delivery of cold drinks to cool off with.
I'll take a water and a Gatorade.
Henry Bailey has been a postal worker
in the Virginia area for 20 years.
He inspires eight year old Carmine McDaniel so much,
he even dressed up as a mailman for Halloween,
and then got a tour of the post office.
So on the hottest day of the year
with temps reaching triple digits,
Carmine thought it would be nice to treat the man
who delivers important papers to their home
with the cold one.
Oh my God, yes.
This gets our stamp of approval.
Many postal workers brave the elements.
This might be one of the most dedicated mailman ever.
Here's Les Trent.
A drone flies over a devastated neighborhood.
Every single house has been burned to the ground.
Then, the drone captures something truly remarkable.
It's the mailman, and in this apocalyptic landscape,
he's still making his rounds.
Delivering the mail, just like any other day.
Somehow all those mailboxes are still standing.
Despite the flames that leveled everything in their path.
The video was shot by drone photographer, Douglas Thron.
It looks like a nuclear bomb
just got dropped on the neighborhood.
And then all of a sudden you see
this mail truck driving down the street.
It just seemed surreal.
It was like the last little piece of life left on Earth.
So who is that inspiring Mailman?
His name is Trevor Smith and many people are calling him
the most dedicated mailman ever.
I followed my route like I normally do.
As I'd come across a box that was up
but with no house, I checked and there was a mail,
outgoing mail in it.
And so we pick those up and carried on.
The next day when I delivered,
there was again, outgoing mail in that box.
It's important that we continue
because we're part of that community, they trust us.
And we want to fulfill that trust by carrying on.
Looks like the post office will have to amend
their famous motto, "Neither snow, nor rain,
nor heat, nor gloom of night, nor inferno,
stays these couriers from the swift completion
of their appointed rounds."
Inside Edition caught up
with him two months later.
Steven Fabian picks up the story.
He's known as the most
dedicated mailman in America.
Trevor Smith became a national symbol of resilience
for making his appointed rounds
in the midst of the apocalyptic landscape
after California's last inferno in Napa Valley wine country.
We caught up with Trevor this week
during the busiest time of the year for all postal carriers.
His truck is filled with holiday cards and presents.
We're delivering Christmas cards,
we're picking up Christmas cards.
As he winds his way through the charming
California neighborhood, he passes the devastation
where every house was burned to the ground.
The scar on the land is a little,
it just makes you feel uneasy when you're driving past it.
But you kinda just look on to the customers
that are here still.
The lucky neighbors on the other side
of the street whose homes were spared,
treat Trevor like an old friend,
offering him a cold bottle of water.
Oh thank you, sir.
Or lemons from the tree in the backyard.
They remember how grateful they were to get their mail.
Even as fires devastated the block.
If you don't get mail, it's like you're cut off
from the world.
Now they hope Californians facing the fires
ravaging the southern part of the state
find their own reason to feel hope
during what should be the happiest time of the year.
(doorbell ringing)
God bless and Merry Christmas.
Yeah, same to you.
Speaking of Christmas.
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This is how you save Christmas.
All these presents were spared from this fire
thanks to one brave postal worker.
Watch as the USPS driver removed packages
with help from a stranger in the neighborhood
while the front of the truck was in flames.
Firefighters in Wake Forest, North Carolina
say the mail carrier saw smoke coming
from the dashboard and pulled over right away.
That's when she got to work on rescuing
what most likely, were people's holiday gifts.
Once firefighters arrived,
they quickly stamped out the fire.
The fire chief says, "Only two items were damaged
and no one was hurt."
You can't say this hero didn't deliver.
I'm Leigh Scheps for Inside Edition Digital.
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