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                               Not Snow
                               Nor Rain

                        By MIRIAM ALLEN DeFORD

                  _Sam should have let the 22 nixies
                  go to the dead letter office ... or
                  gone there himself for sanctuary!_

           [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
             Worlds of If Science Fiction, November 1959.
         Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
         the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]


On his first day as a mail carrier, Sam Wilson noted that inscription,
cribbed from Herodotus, on the General Post Office, and took it to
heart: "Not snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these
couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."

It couldn't be literally true, of course. Given a real blizzard, it
would be 