Breaux Bridge – Heavy rain early in the month turned the shoulders of newly resurfaced streets in the Camille Subdivision into ribbons of mud. Not only were residents complaining but even the U.S. Postal Service was threatening to stop home delivery, Major Jack Dale Delhomme said at last week’s council meeting.

“Whatever happened to ‘rain, sleet or snow’?” quipped city attorney Chester Cedars, paraphrasing the old mailman’s motto.

“I would think that would be more of a bluff,” he said.

It wasn’t even that, Postmaster Tim Thomas told the Teche News.

“I just asked them if they could help us out,” Thomas said. “(The mail carrier) was slipping and sliding. I have to look out for the safety of my people.”

The City Council asked city engineer Chris Richard to follow up with a street contractor to remedy the problem.

A new overlay on the streets raised the street level significantly and dirt was hauled in to cover what in some areas were pretty steep drop-offs, Richard explained.

“We added dirt and seeded it and then the rains came,” he said.