For two decades Mickey Wheeley has delivered the mail to the same residents every day, so he knows something about these apartment dwellers.

The observant letter carrier became suspicious when the mail began piling up in one of the boxes, which included the resident's medication.

So the North Carolina mailman decided to walk to the resident's door to check it out — a decision that might have saved the man's life.

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