as id been warned , there were mixed blessings about the route ; granted it could be a bit bleak in places , but on the whole there was rather more walking than delivering , on sections of the route i had to go a couple of hundred yards or more to get from one address to the next , and this i quite liked ; there was none of the monotony there might have been working nearer my own home , where there would be an incessant popping of letters into letter boxes , and it was really quite like going out for an early morning stroll at times .