Archives: Heroes

This carrier came to the rescue of a customer who fell in his home

An employee provided first aid to an injured customer on her rural route

An employee aided a boy after a kitchen mishap

This carrier located and reunited a lost, disoriented customer with his family

An employee saw his neighbor take a tumble while mowing a lawn

The rural carrier saw the money flying through the air

This carrier stopped a fire on a customer’s porch

The Postmaster General Heroes’ Program seeks nominations

This carrier raced to alert condo residents to a fire

An employee helped prevent an outdoor fire from spreading

An employee aided a motorist who escaped a shooting spree

Two employees rushed to aid a co-worker who collapsed

These employees took action when a fire threatened their office

This employee urged her co-worker to go to a hospital. Doing so may have saved his life

This rural carrier saved a driver and her passenger from a vehicle fire

These two employees worked together to aid a co-worker in distress

This carrier tended to an injured customer — and put away her groceries, too

This rural carrier heard her name being called by a customer who had fallen in his yard

A letter carrier helped a customer in distress after a fall

This carrier found a 3-year-old wandering in the cold

A retail associate saved a customer from losing more money in a fake sweepstakes

This letter carrier prevented a customer with dementia from getting lost

This postal inspector helped students and drivers after a fiery car-bus collision

A carrier alerted a sleeping customer to a house fire

An employee responded to a customer’s medical emergency

This postmaster performed CPR on a customer who collapsed

A carrier helped free a customer pinned by a scooter

A carrier’s observation during a fire helped prevent a bigger catastrophe