Philadelphia Postmaster Roman D. King of Pedricktown, NJ, died Feb. 13 at 55 years old.
King worked for USPS for 30 years. He served as postmaster in Philadelphia, Alabama, Tennessee and Virginia. During his career, he held positions in mail processing and customer service, including officer in charge. He was also a Gulf War veteran.
“We are shocked and saddened to have lost a member of our postal family,” said Delaware-Pennsylvania 2 District Manager Edward Williamson. “Our thoughts and prayers are with his family. Roman performed his duties admirably during his time here in Philadelphia and we always enjoyed his infectious laugh and smile. He certainly had an impact on many postal employees throughout the country.”
A district statement added: “King will be remembered for his passion, service, commitment to excellence and his refusal to give up on the people and communities he served.”
Doing the right thing
Coraopolis, PA, Letter Carrier Bruce Armah went the extra mile — 52 miles, to be exact — for a customer who lost her wallet.
He was recently delivering mail when he spotted a black billfold poking out of a snowbank.
“It’s just the right thing. If you find someone’s wallet, you just return it,” he said. “I remember when I was a teenager, my father lost his wallet, but someone returned it to him. A couple of months later, my dad found a wallet, and he returned it to that person. He taught me how important it is to return someone’s wallet.”
After he finished his workday, Armah set out to reunite the wallet with its rightful owner, who was grateful for the employee’s actions.
His good deed received local news coverage.
For the record
The Jacksonville, FL, Local Processing Center recently recognized Mail Processing Clerk Daryle Rhodes for her performance and record-breaking time on the delivery bar code sorter, or DBCS machine.
She exceeded the standard of sorting 26,000 mailpieces per hour by sorting 39,000 mailpieces an hour for four consecutive hours, according to Brian Baker, distribution operations manager.
“This was the best performance in the district and a new record for the DBCS machine,” he said.
Rhodes shared her record-breaking strategy.
“The key to mastering the machine has many different variables. I have a very safe, intentional, meticulous way I run the machine to insure timely, neat, consistent, processed mail,” she said.
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