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Date published: 2/10/2010
Kudos to The Free Lance-Star for putting the safety and well-being of their employees above the "need" for people to have a newspaper in their hands.
I so wish that all businesses were as concerned. My husband has been a mail carrier for 25 years. I have always been amazed at the lack of concern for the postal workers. No matter what the weather, they are expected to try to make it in, the excuse being the desire of mail patrons to receive their mail. Yes, there are those who call to find out why they are not getting mail in neighborhoods that have not been plowed! I have always been understanding of the fact that people, not robots, deliver the mail and paper each day. Surely, folks can make it Lori Fitzgerald Stafford
Postal workers should not be on the road in bad conditions. No piece of mail is worth someone's life.
is closed. You figure out why I said that.
On the subject of snow..well, if you really want to get to work you will get to work, snow or no snow. But some people have a very low inconvenience tolerance so the first sign of snow they roll another one and watch the boob tube all day. That ecludes you of course.
open air shipping dock where rain and snow blow freely across, and Ive done it in below zero temps overnight while riding a forklift doing 8 mph. mailmen got it easy.
if you get in your vehicle and go to work expect to get into the mail delivery vehicle and do your job. if you choose not to, then call in and take a vacation day or a sick day. 25 years of great pay and benefits. have a nice day and dont go postal now.
Obviously you missed the point. If they aren't delivering mail, they are on a break. BTW, yes I shovel out into the road, well beyond my mailbox. Street were plowed to the point a mailman could drive (I drove a non- four wheel drive vehicle without problems). That being said, I don't care if they take the day off, just don't have someone write a letter the insinuates they aren't, yet don't deliver mail.
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