My aunt and uncle in the late 1970's did not have running water in their farmhouse, there was a hand pump. It was an outhouse, a washtub for a bath, and a chamber pot at night. They still cooked on a wood stove at this time. I'm only 53, oh they did have electricity for lighting, they may have been poor, but they were HAPPY. Things are not important, it is who is in your life.
I've never seen a USPS vehicle with a plate.
They *USUALLY* have a paper tag hiding in the rear window. Made stops for the window effecting the angular visibility before (warning) but have to pick my battles when calls are stacking up now that all us Motors guys are back in cars and doing regular patrol...
Great grandparents had a huge dairy farm in Oklahoma. Their house was a shack with a closet having been converted to a bathroom at some point. The front porch had been enclosed so they'd have a dining area and the outhouse out back was still in use. Now the cinderblock dairy barns were spotless and state-of-the-art. My dad grew up there and said they only got electricity when the dairy barns were upgraded sometime in the 1950s. They lived poor but when he retired around 80, he made a fortune selling that farm then bought an old small house in town. He never spent any of it other than buying that house.
