On 1/28/2015 5:51 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2015-01-28 5:17 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
>
>>
>> We park our car at the end of the driveway, then shovel a path down
>> the sidewalk path over to the car. If I can get to the car, I don't
>> see any point to clearing the whole driveway. I also try to make
>> a path across the grass on both sides for the mail carrier to go
>> house to house.
>>
> Why? I once saw the post office doing a time and motion study. The mail
> carrier was doing his regular route while someone with a stop watch was
> timing him. Rather than walking along at a brisk rate and walking
> across people's lawns, he was dawdling along and going up and down
> driveways. If their routes are established based on those studies, just
> clean the driveway and sidewalk.

I don't have to, and it's not as if my neighbors connect my path,
but if I can make their walk a little easier, why not. They
walk house to house through the snow unless it's really deep, not
up and down the driveways.

They already walk miles a day, they don't go up and down the
driveways if they can cut across.

nancy