INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — When a mail carrier died on the job, his wife blamed the Post Office for not taking his concerns about excessive heat seriously. The widow finally has closure two years after his death. All Kay Watzlawick has of her husband John are memories. They would’ve been married 35 years this year…
A woman is suing over claims she was discriminated against in her position as a letter carrier and her employment was terminated after an injury on the job. Kimberly L. Cox filed a lawsuit Aug. 4 in the Marshall Division of the Eastern District of Texas against Patrick R. Donahoe, as Postmaster General, and the…
(August 11, 2014) CHEVERLY, Md. [WUSA9] — Solving the 2013 murder of the Md. letter carrier, Tyson Jerome Barnette is still a top priority, according to a spokesperson for the Postal Inspection Service. The letter carrier was shot and killed on November 23, 2013, officials said. Barnette was delivering mail at night in Cheverly, Md….
Father Pat Donahoe of Our Lady of Perpetual Privation, the world’s largest postal parish, dons his stole and makes his way to the confessional, where every Saturday at three PM he is forced to perform the wearisome work of hearing the confessions of the most humble members of his postal flock. Father Pat does not…
When Queens, NY, Letter Carrier Joseph Urbina heard loud crying and screaming coming from the fourth floor of an apartment house, he ran toward the building and saw a raging fire inside one of the units. Urbina immediately called 911 and helped a family escape from the burning apartment. Then he ran through the building,…
