--- title: Alabama Postal Worker Rescues Man Trapped for 10 Days description: A 66-year-old Alabama resident rescued after spending ten days stranded on the floor of his home has his local mail carrier to thank. canonical: https://time.com/3967422/alabama-mail-carrier-rescues-man/ author: Katy Osborn article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-22T14:19:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-14T22:35:04.000Z og:title: Alabama Postal Worker Saves Man Trapped for 10 Days og:description: She noticed he hadn't picked up his mail og:url: https://time.com/3967422/alabama-mail-carrier-rescues-man/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Alabama Postal Worker Saves Man Trapped for 10 Days twitter:description: She noticed he hadn't picked up his mail twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Alabama Postal Worker Saves Man's Life After Noticing He Hadn't Picked Up His Mail by [Katy Osborn](https://time.com/author/katy-osborn/) ## Katy Osborn Updated: Dec 14, 2023 10:35 PM UTCPublished: Jul 22, 2015 2:19 PM UTC by [Katy Osborn](https://time.com/author/katy-osborn/) ## Katy Osborn Updated: Dec 14, 2023 10:35 PM UTCPublished: Jul 22, 2015 2:19 PM UTC A 66-year-old Alabama resident who spent 10 days stranded on the floor of his home after a bad fall is now safe and sound in a Montgomery hospital—and he has his local mail carrier to thank. The mail carrier, Cissy Cartwright of Hope Hull, Ala., is being hailed as a hero after she rescued the injured Tommy Hope from his secluded rural home last week when she noticed he hadn’t checked his mail in an uncharacteristically long time, [NBC News ](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alabama-mail-carrier-rescues-injured-man-trapped-10-days-n396091)reports. After making her way up Hope’s long driveway and noticing that his front door was wide open, Cartwright found Hope, who has a history of back problems, lying dehydrated with broken broken bones. He’d been trapped since July 4. Hope Hull Post Master Sherry Hughes [told NBC](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alabama-mail-carrier-rescues-injured-man-trapped-10-days-n396091) that Hope had survived primarily by “\[scooting\] on his back to his front door to catch rain water.” Hope has reportedly called the post office daily with an update on his recovery, grateful for Cartwright. \[[_NBC News_](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alabama-mail-carrier-rescues-injured-man-trapped-10-days-n396091)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3967422/alabama-mail-carrier-rescues-man/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3967422/alabama-mail-carrier-rescues-man/"},"headline":"Alabama Postal Worker Saves Man's Life After Noticing He Hadn't Picked Up His Mail","datePublished":"2015-07-22T14:19:44.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-14T22:35:04.000Z","description":"Tommy Hope had taken a bad fall 10 days earlier","url":"https://time.com/3967422/alabama-mail-carrier-rescues-man/","keywords":["Newsfeed","alabama","Appreciation"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katy Osborn","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katy-osborn/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3967422/alabama-mail-carrier-rescues-man/","name":"Alabama Postal Worker Saves Man's Life After Noticing He Hadn't Picked Up His Mail"}}]}] ```