- Home - Essential Reads: Stories and Features - I See Dead Cars: A Mailman's Daily Trip Down Memory Lane ## I See Dead Cars: A Mailman's Daily Trip Down Memory Lane "Men are tormented with the opinions they have of things, not by the things themselves." —Epictetus From the June 2003 issue of Car and Driver. I was at your house the other day, and I'm going to tell everyone what I saw. Dead cars. What was I doing at your house? Delivering the mail. I'm the mailman, and I'm at everyone's house every day but Sunday. You may have an image of the mailman making his daily rounds, schmoozing with…