Bloomfield Township Residents Trace Popular Carrier's Route

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About 45 Bloomfield Township residents walked in the footsteps of a popular mail carrier Wednesday and festooned blue ribbons on their mailboxes to honor his memory.

Reggie Bennett, 54, was found dead in his Detroit home more than a month ago, The Daily Tribune and WXYZ-TV report.

Bennett’s daughter suspected foul play because her father had wounds to his head and hands, and there was blood in his home, but an autopsy by the Wayne County Medical Examiner’s Office showed Bennett died of natural causes.

Bennett, who carried mail in Oakland County for about three decades, was friendly with the people along his route and was invited to their weddings. Jennie Greenwell told WXYZ many people in the neighborhood considered Bennett family, and that he was invited to many of their family weddings.

Her own daughters were “devastated” to learn he had died.

The walk was organized by Bennett’s colleagues at the Post Office.

The blue ribbons, which are also festooned to mailboxes in the nearby Bloomfield Crossing and North Bloomfield Hills subdivisions, will remain up until after Bennett’s daughter’s Aug. 15 wedding.