Love letters, care packages, college acceptances, medications, divorce filings, ashes. In her 40 years with the United States Postal Service—as a letter carrier, clerk and then postmaster—Lynn Baring has delivered just about everything you can legally send.
This fall, she’ll retire after two decades at the Inverness Post Office, the hub of a town that has no mayor but, for many years, had Lynn. “As a town without a mayor, we’ve been fortunate to have…