Letter carriers around the country recently took a seat belt pledge, vowing to always buckle up when driving while on duty, as Link reported last week.
“Safety is not optional,” Elvin Mercado, chief retail and delivery officer, told employees.
The importance of always buckling up was reinforced by another Link story last week, about a rural carrier whose Jeep hit another vehicle in a head-on collision. The employee was not wearing a seat belt and suffered serious injuries.
Link shared news of the Postal Service running another 90-day Customer Experience Vision Activation pilot at 16 sorting and delivery centers; new USPS wrapping paper to match its new Happy Birthday stamps; an ethics reminder about when it’s acceptable to attend an event for free; and the reason May was chosen as Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
“On the Job” highlighted the work of Adrian Sherrod, a postage due technician at the Memphis, TN, Processing and Delivery Center who handles Business Reply Mail for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, among her other duties. “I’ve been with the Postal Service for 28 years and have taken pride in each job I have performed, but this position is really fulfilling,” Sherrod said.
And “People” took a behind-the-scenes look at the photo shoot for the USPS Dog Bite Awareness campaign coming in June. This year, the spot stars James O’Malley, a carrier coordinator in Pennsylvania, and a black Labrador retriever named Olive, a therapy dog.
Finally, “Heroes” told the story of Deanna Owsley, a rural carrier in Clinton, MO, who noticed a customer didn’t answer her front door, as was her habit.
Owsley and a neighbor with a spare key entered the woman’s home and discovered her on the floor. The USPS employee called 911. Paramedics airlifted the woman — who had suffered a brain hemorrhage — to the hospital.
Owsley returned to the customer’s home to feed her cats.
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