Article January 13, 2003 Issue

Red flag alert: I've got mail for you!

By Kim Shippey Senior Writer

AFEW YEARS AGO , one of the semi-rural neighborhoods on Nantucket, about 30 miles off the southeast coast of Massachusetts, was ablaze with red flags. And the local post office was also seeing red.

You see, they weren't really flags. They were those cute little metal indicators, colored red, that you click up to alert mail carriers that you have items for collection.

A zealous friend of mine, new in the community and just longing to do something for the neighborhood association she had joined, offered to help in any way members needed. And as so often happens with these associations, in a matter of weeks she was the new president.

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