A Massachusetts mail carrier recently swapped delivering the Globe for saving lives after following his instincts at the sight of a meandering child.

The postal worker of eight years said he was in the right place at the right time after a child managed to somehow get out of a daycare facility in Salem, Massachusetts.

Police say the three-year-old was wandering around sidewalks for about a half-hour before David Moulton saw him, realized something was wrong, and called 911.

"I just scooped him up before he got into the street over there," Mr. Moulton told CBS News, indicating to reporters the busy thoroughfare of Congress Street. "He's got no shoes and no jacket on, it's like, this isn't right. I'm wearing four layers of clothing you know."

"He ran past me this way first in the park. At first, I didn't think anything of it, I thought he was playing with kids or something like that, and then all of a sudden, he zipped by me again, I thought ‘he's heading to a busy street,'" said Moulton.

Salem Community Child Care runs a very busy operation, and neighbors who now routinely call Moulton a hero while he delivers the mail, also told CBS the facility is always busy.

As for Moulton, like all heroes without capes, he doesn't take much note of the new title, and instead calmly considers that God works in mysterious ways.

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