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Lake Geneva tradition leaps along with mailboat jumpers

Published: June 28, 2023, 10 a.m.

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night can stop postal carriers from delivering the mail – so the unofficial motto goes. But for some teenage mail carriers in southern Wisconsin, there are even more hurdles to surmount. As WPR’s Sarah Lehr tells us, the Lake Geneva mail jumpers hop from ship to shore as they deliver letters to lakefront homes.