At Age 87, Newspaper Delivery Man Mel Rulison Finally Retires
Total sickness and vacation days taken since 1960: zero
In these waning days of print newspapers, it’s easy to forget an ingredient that was once paramount: the reliability of the individual delivering them.
In that regard, few can hold a stack to Mel Rulison, who retired this past weekend after 57 years as a delivery man for Gloversville, N.Y. newspaper The Leader-Herald. During that span, he never missed a day of part-time work, delivering between 220 and 300 copies of the paper each afternoon in the Meco part of town.
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