The Original Going Postal

Nothing against postal workers in general as any given career has its share of folks marching to a different drummer but this particular postal worker went the distance with his obsession. Ferdinand Cheval began work with the postal service in 1867,one day on his route he tripped over a stone which he picked up and admired for its unusual form. From that day on he started picking up stones everyday on his route,at first he put them in his pockets to carry them but eventually he needed a bag to carry them and soon after that he started using a wheelbarrow. When he returned home he would work into the wee hours by the light of an oil lamp building his Ideal Palace. After 33 year of collecting stones and building with them in the evenings he completed his work at age 70 and opened it to the public. The completed structure was 85 feet long and 30 feet high. A person would have to be really dedicated to their project to push a wheelbarrow full of stones on a delivery route...that or a little bit postal.