It is in the smallest island of the Azores Archipelago, Corvo, located in the western group of the archipelago, that there is only one letter carrier at work and he knows the names of all the inhabitants of the island.
Orlando Rosa, born on the island of Pico, is a letter carrier in the village of Corvo on the island of Corvo and took about two months to memorize the names of all the people who live there because the doors of the houses had no number on the doors to identify them.
In Corvo, the mail has as recipient only the person’s name and their postal code, which makes it very difficult to identify the houses of people, so, Orlando Rosa, knows all the people and when these people are not at home to sign the correspondence, he knows where to find the residents of Corvo.
The previous mayor of Corvo had ordered numbers for the doors of the houses, but these ended up being arranged because everyone knows each other in Corvo.
Orlando Rosa says that the mail is extremely important for the village because it is an isolated island and a “small island”.
The elderly continue to receive their letters, bills and pensions in the same way as before and it is very important that the letter carrier knows them because they already reveal some age and it is good to have someone like Orlando who knows them and knows how to find them. However, nowadays, young people use the internet a lot and are the recipients of online orders, because in Corvo there are not many stores to buy things.
A very big story, in a small land, don’t you think?