Postal Service employees aren’t just busy at work.
Since its debut in January, Link’s “Off the Clock” feature has told you how some employees spend their free time.
Among them: George Collins, a Los Angeles general expeditor who is a gifted painter.
“I could always draw, and when I was in school and did a painting, teachers would display it in my classroom or other classrooms. I had a gift,” Collins said.
Another painter — Don Doheny, an Easton, MD, distribution operations manager — specializes in World War II scenes, while Brett Swanson, a Mystic, CT, letter carrier, is an artist of a different kind: He creates comic books.
Other employees have musical talents, including Christian Johnston, a Salt Lake City customer relations coordinator who performs in musical theater; Mike Maple, a Marquette, MI, letter carrier who has his own rock band, Liquid Mike; and Jacob Howley, a Washington, DC, attorney who is front man for Corned Beef and Hash, a band that plays an eclectic mix of musical genres.
“Off the Clock” also profiled several athletic employees, including Ishé Oluwa Kamau Ali Smith, a Las Vegas letter carrier and former prizefighter; Cesar Guerrero, a Los Angeles Postal Police officer and golfer; and Dallas Crawley, a Merrifield, VA, acting engineering systems maintenance supervisor who coaches youth basketball.
There were also nature enthusiasts, including Solomons, MD, Postmaster Theresa Smith, who volunteers as a Chesapeake Bay storyteller; Selden, NY, Postmaster Valarie Faria, who raises butterflies; and two scuba divers: Hope, ID, Postmaster Douglas Lowe and Charlitha Arney, a Minneapolis customer service operations manager.
Other “Off the Clock” subjects told us how they spend their time giving back to their community, including two volunteer firefighters: Ozona, TX, Postmaster Megan Beecher-Kennison and Statesboro, GA, Postmaster Angel Castro.
“You must have the heart for this kind of work,” Castro said. “When everybody is running out of a house on fire, we’re running in.”
Check out the “Off the Clock” archive for more stories about Postal Service employees and their after-hours pursuits.
