Carter Scott, winner of the Postal Service’s Driver of the Year Award, has walked — or rather driven — the talk and then some.
“I believe in safety,” he says.
The tractor-trailer operator for the Suburban Processing and Distribution Center in Gaithersburg, MD, has had no preventable incidents since he began his career as a USPS driver in 1979.
The announcement of Scott’s win was made at the recent National Postal Forum, where Kelly Abney, who recently retired as chief logistics officer, accepted on his behalf. The driving ace will be officially presented with the award at his workplace.
USPS nominees for the award must have driven 15 years, or 100,000 miles, without a preventable incident.
“I drive the postal vehicle just as I drive my personal vehicle,” Scott said. “My intention is to return home each day to my family.”
Knox Knox, who’s there?
Mary Cardoza-Lane made postal history last month when she took the oath as the new postmaster in Fort Knox, KY — the first woman to hold the position in the military community about 35 miles south of Louisville.
“There have been acting postmasters before, but for actual postmasters, it looks like I’m the first one,” Cardoza-Lane told the U.S. Army website. “I thought that was interesting.”
Cardoza-Lane began her career in 2005 as a letter carrier in Louisville. She later served as a retail associate and postmaster for other communities.
“It’s always meaningful when you’re dealing with people’s mail, because it’s important to them,” she said. “But it’s more meaningful working with the soldiers.”
Ahead of the game
Want an investment that is pretty much guaranteed to return about 10 percent a year tax-free for the indefinite future?
Buy Forever stamps.
So says Allan Sloan, a financial journalist who penned an essay about stamps for the Barron’s news website last week.
Because Forever stamps are always equal in value to the current First-Class Mail 1-ounce price, they represent an investment like no other: Forever stamps are up 78 percent from their initial 2007 price, considerably more than the 52 percent rise in the Consumer Price Index during that period.
Of course, as Sloan concedes, you’d have to buy a lot of stamps to make the investment worthwhile.
Nevertheless, he writes, “I still get a small kick from being ahead of the game.”
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