Man killed while repairing U.S. Postal Service truck in Hicksville Vehicle Maintenance Facility

WOODBURY – A man was killed while repairing a U.S. Postal Service truck in Hicksville Wednesday morning. Police say David Zimmerly was fixing the truck at the postal service’s maintenance facility on Ludy Street. Authorities say another employee didn’t see Zimmerly under the truck when he went to go move it and ran him over….

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Bureau of Labor Statistics: Number of feds killed on job rises again in 2013

(September 22, 2014) On Nov. 23, 2013, 26-year-old Tyson Barnette was shot multiple times while delivering the mail in Landover, Maryland. On Feb. 26, 2013, federal corrections officer Eric Williams was stabbed with a homemade weapon at the high-security Canaan penitentiary in Pennsylvania. In 2013 57 federal employees were killed on the job, according to…

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Maine postmaster accuses employer of retaliation after death threats against her

Diana Mallard says in a suit the Postal Service didn’t take an employee’s threats against her seriously.  (August 29, 2014) A U.S. Postal Service worker who was in charge at the Unity Post Office until last year has filed a lawsuit accusing her employer of retaliation after she demanded that they take a death threat…

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