German Postal Worker Returns to Barge Deliveries After Winter in Spreewald Forest

Postal worker Andrea Bunar has returned to delivering mail by barge in the Spreewald Forest Delta southeast of Berlin. The 55-year-old resumes her spring and summer route after months of winter deliveries by car, navigating narrow rivers and creeks around Lehde village. The village is the only place in Germany where post still arrives by boat, a tradition spanning 129 years. Bunar has worked the route for 14 years, carrying approximately 600 letters and 80 parcels weekly along an eight-kilometre circuit.