Anne Nix makes NH's floating postal office runBusinessWeekFrom a closet packed with canvas bags, a scale and other supplies, she runs the nation's only inland floating post office. Summer mail service to a handful of the lake's islands began in 1892. There's no indication it will end soon despite the …
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Postal worker Anne Nix weighs mail on the M/V Sophie C on Lake Winnipesaukee in Meredith, N.H. The vessel is the nation’s only inland floating post office. More: continued here
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