Woman invents way to help her retrieve mail without having to walk to the street

"The last time I went, I tripped there and fell. If I picked my foot up that much further, I wouldn't have fallen and that's when I thought, ‘You better start looking for something’”, she recalled.

So the woman had the idea of building a pulley system with a clothesline running from her porch to the street, enabling her to get and send out her daily mail as the mailbox travels from one location to the other.

Betty had the system developed by Mark Wilcox, a landscaper who has been doing work at her house for many years.

"The top cable is what keeps it secure so it runs straight and doesn't sag. Otherwise, the string would lose its tension and sag down real low. Betty put a clip in here and connects it to her mail, so if the mailman goes in there and it falls, she just has to grab the string and it won't be on the ground”, he explained.

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