How I Handle the Mail

Nancy Peckenham
3 min readApr 2, 2020

Covid-19 means new precautions when the mail arrives.

Graphic by the author.

Who ever thought that the mail would become my adversary, as if it has taken on a life of its own?

I have always loved the daily mail delivery, a sort of roulette game that could bring random news or opportunities to your door. When I was a young teenager, I would hang around our front door just waiting for the mail to be pushed through the slot…

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Nancy Peckenham

Journalist, editor, mother, wife, sister, daughter, friend, adventurer, history-lover. Editor of Crow’s Feet