Today, it is. And it's about a guy who flies over it all the time. It's not a big news story...in fact, I heard it on NPR a few weeks ago ...but it's about the way some people live between the coasts. In this case, it's about people who live VERY isolated lives in the mountains and valleys of Idaho. Some are so isolated, that the weekly visit from the mailman is the only regular company they keep.
But the Postal Service recently tried to shut down the mail-by-plane service as a cost-saving venture. For some reason -- protests from residents or the state's small congressional delegation or because of bad PR -- the new postmaster reversed the decision.
This story begins in Washington as a policy story, but by the end it paints a nice picture of the people in this remote part of the country -- not as curiosities, but as people passionate about their corner of the outdoors -- and what's more, it also shows them as neighbors: giving vegetables to Ray Arnold, the pilot/mailman, to pass along to the next people on his route.
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