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Federal News Radio
The few, the proud, the mailman?
Monday - 5/18/2015
By Mike Causey
Working for the federal government can be downright dangerous. Too often, fatal.
All IRS personnel, and government (OSHA, meat, mine, wage and hour,
health) inspectors never know what to expect when meeting their public.
Park rangers sometimes risk life and limb getting customers out of a
jam. Federal law enforcement personnel are often a risk. Some Social
Security customers, age notwithstanding, can get out of hand. Big time.
Especially when it is discovered they have been cashing their deceased
mother's checks for a decade.
But when it comes to the danger-is-my-business beat, few places can
match the U.S. Postal Service. It's huge (600,000 plus people). It's
everywhere and it delivers. Some employees spend up to 6 hours a day in
a vehicle that makes frequent stops.
At one point in its history, the USPS had more accidents per year than
the peacetime U.S. Marine Corps. While many of the problems are car
related, postals face many industrial-type accidents processing the
mail. And dog bites! Big deal.
Many cartoons feature dogs chasing or biting postal letter carriers. In
less politically-correct, sensitive times they were funny. Now, not so
much.
The fact that so many letter carriers are bitten by dogs who, their
owners say, have never done it before is of little comfort. It happens
to 4,000 to 5,000 postal workers each year! That's a lot of people,
especially if you or a loved one is one of them...
Read the rest of the article, including where your city stands, at Federal News Radio
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