Robert Anthony Warren, a Bronx mail carrier, was sentenced in November to 36 months in prison for a related fraud.

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Carriers who spent years pounding the pavement relax under palm trees in a kind of mail carrier bliss: no ice to tumble on, no snow to slosh through, and best of all, no furry foes.

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Mail carrier Stephen Manning didn't even wear a coat as he delivered mail along Dorchester Avenue in Boston.

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"We will have a sneak peek of this device at our (Thursday) press conference, " wrote a spokesman for the carrier in an e-mail.

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