This mail carrier's delivery in a wildfire-scorched California neighborhood looks like something out of an apocalypse movie

Santa Rosa, California.
(Image credit: Screenshot/Douglas Thron Aerial Cinematographer/NY Daily News)

Neither rain nor snow nor wildfire could stop a California mail carrier from making deliveries Tuesday.

Drone footage captured a United States Postal Service truck driving through a torched neighborhood in Santa Rosa, California, passing blackened cars and leveled homes. Its driver even stopped to pop mail in a few of the boxes that were still standing.

Despite appearances to the contrary, driving through what looks like a scene from a post-apocalyptic thriller isn't exactly standard procedure for the USPS. San Francisco District Manager Noemi Luna clarified why the mail carrier was out in a statement to the San Jose Mercury News:

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This is an example of the long standing relationship that has been established between our carriers and their customers based on trust. The carrier in question was honoring a request by a few customers who were being let back in the fire zone to retrieve personal items. A few customers asked the carrier to leave their mail if the mailbox was still standing because they could not get to the annex to retrieve it. [Noemi Luna, via the San Jose Mercury News]

Your move, FedEx.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.