By Mark Albert – July 5, 2015 The unofficial U.S. postal creed says neither rain, nor sleet, nor heat, nor gloom of night will keep carriers from their rounds. Thieves and vicious dogs, however, may be another matter. So the Post Office is delivering a solution. In broad daylight in Washington, D.C., last year, two…
February 14, 2015 BOSTON â Tejal Patel has been delivering mail for the United States Postal Service in Boston for 13 years, but she can’t recall a time when the snow made her job as frustrating as it has been on Saturday ahead of yet another blizzard. The month is only half over, but Boston…
(November 6, 2014) An Oct. 28 editorial pointed out many of the barriers to a thriving Postal Service. Closing post offices, processing plants and eliminating Saturday delivery are shortsighted âfixesâ that will degrade service and squander the greatest asset the service has: the letter carriers who go to every address six days a week. While…
Postal worker Keven Ngo, wearing a protective mask and gloves, prepares to deliver to the apartment building of Ebola patient Dr. Craig Spencer, in New York, Friday, Oct. 24, 2014. Spencer remained in stable condition while isolated in a hospital, talking by cellphone to his family and assisting disease detectives who are accounting for his…
Just how cold-blooded can one be? Sickening. “Assumption: Weather causes performance concerns. . . Reality: We live in the Midwest and we experience variation in weather. Reality: Our REGULAR CARRIERS have at least 10+ years [sic] experience. They are professional letter carriers, and we provide uniform allowances to support their needs in dealing with variation…
WASHINGTON, D.C. â The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released a letter Norton sent to United States Postal Service (USPS) Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe that asks him to reconsider the consolidation of more than 80 mail-processing centers in January 2015 that will delay First-Class and other mail delivery, without public input….
Mail carrier was recently named the most endangered job in the U.S., but the U.S. Postal Service seems to have other ideas. Its plan to deliver groceries to households in major metropolitan areas is the latest among several strategic moves that would mean more work for employees who handle the “last mile” of delivery. The…
The D.C. region ranks as the worst in the nation for mail delivery after 5 p.m., which for one part-time Postal Service employee in Prince George’s County had a deadly consequence. Tonight Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton will hold a roundtable with Gerald A. Roane, Postmaster of the District of Columbia, to discuss mail delivery in D.C….
