Colville people ensure the mail gets through
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An hour's drive from the northern tip of Coromandel, you'll find a tiny post office run by volunteers. As rural postal services shrink, the small community here - population about 15-hundred - has taken things into its own hands to ensure the old motto "the mail must get through"
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