OSHA Regional News Release – Oct. 27, 2015 Employer name: U.S. Postal Service, Ottumwa, Iowa Citations issued: Oct. 23, 2015 Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Des Moines Area Office cited the postal facility for three safety and health violations, one repeated, one serious and one other-than-serious. The citations…
New blog for former and present TE/CCA carriers about buying their time back just as many buy their military time back: USPS City Carrier Assistant Buy-Back Option – ccabbo.blogspot.com
By Mel Carriere – July 30, 2015 “Today’s topic is letter carrier lunches, a subject I think is near and dear to the heart of those of us who swing the satchel for a living, because lunch is that one precious half hour in an otherwise frenzied, feverishly paced, oppressively overburdened day where we can…
By Alexis Krell – June 13, 2015 For more than 10 years, women on Robert Taitano’s mail route in Tacoma told the U.S. Postal Service the substitute carrier was creepy or worse. They said he groped them and made sexual comments. He entered their homes and businesses without permission. Once, before he delivered a Victoriaâs…
Published on Feb 13, 2015 On Saturday, May 9, thousands of the U.S. Postal Serviceâs letter carriersâwith generous help from countless volunteersâwill conduct the 23rd annual âStamp Out Hungerâ Food Drive, the largest one-day food drive in America. Letter carriers visit every address in America at least six days a week, so we are acutely…
I know I can be a horse’s ass sometimes, but that guy up there in the picture would tell you he takes umbrage with you comparing me to his hindquarters, upon which he places a high esteem. Therefore, says Mr. Horse here on the dusty back stretches of my semi ruralish route, keep your insults…
By: Joel D. Smith HARRISBURG, Pa. — Monday, Dec. 15, is the busiest day of the year for deliveries, making an already tough job, even more challenging. They work in the rain, the snow, and everything in between. Mail carriers are a hearty bunch, and right now the USPS is looking for some more help….
PORTLAND â A man who shot an intruder outside his Dunkirk home was sentenced Wednesday to 60 days in the Jay County jail, followed by four months on home detention. David McLaughlin, 32, was found guilty of criminal recklessness resulting in serious bodily injury by a Jay Superior Court jury on Sept. 4. Testimony indicated…
