Postmaster Deb Nelson presents Randall Bakker a 20 year certificate and a cake for his 20 years of service to United States Postal Service.
Randall Bakker is retiring after 20 years as a postal carrier.
"I started part time subbing for Delmer Stoltenberg in 1993, and took over for him full time in the summer of 1999,” said Bakker.
Though Bakker said that he won’t miss the snow, ice, rain and everything else in the postal motto that they fight through to get the mail delivered, he will miss seeing his customers.
“There are some nice customers out there,” he said. “Christmas time is the best time, the kids jumping up and down waiting for you to drive up. Makes you feel like Santa Claus. Even some of the dogs are nice.”
Bakker admits that the postman versus canine cliché is a real thing, but that he’s also had the opposite experiences as well.
“One family on my route had a mastiff puppy,” he said. “This dog was all sweetness and kindness. He liked me so much he wanted to ride along with me.”
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