Year 1952. A sign posted outside the post office for the search for a postman. Requirements: Knowing how to read and own a bicycle to turn the island. Mario Ruoppolo will cover that assignment, with the face of Massimo Troisi. The film “The postman” and Salina are still a mutual reference in the collective imagination and the places made known by that film are the subject of attention. This was evidenced by the recent sentence of the Administrative Justice Council that established the rescue from the demolition of the Eoodle -style villa, refuge in the film of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, for “artistic, landscape interest and considerable public interest”.
But on the second Eolian island the Poste Italiane headquarters continues to be a reference so much so that in the three post offices present, One for each municipality, the company has been looking for a postman to be hired also to replace the colleagues of the other locations as needed. A permanent but at the same time traveling place. With a variant: instead of the bicycle, scooter and ferry. And also in this case the selection was successful And the new postman is Alfredo Benforte, 32 years old, a degree in political science and international relations, But above all, like the Troisi of the film, a lot of love for these islands and for Salina. For a short time the new employee has officially taken service. In particular in Lipari, where he found love and lives with his partner, and the post offices of Salina who in winter has just over 2 thousand inhabitants. «The Winter Aeolians have a different flavor, a unique charm that I have the privilege of living all year round. I chose Salina but, as you would say in a movie, it was the island that chose me ».
