Comments on: NALC: Employee safety paramount following suspicious letter report https://postalemployeenetwork.com/news/2015/03/19/nalc-employee-safety-paramount-following-suspicious-letter-report/ Postal News For Postal Employees And Retirees Thu, 19 Mar 2015 20:36:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Biscuit https://postalemployeenetwork.com/news/2015/03/19/nalc-employee-safety-paramount-following-suspicious-letter-report/comment-page-1/#comment-63250 Thu, 19 Mar 2015 20:36:05 +0000 http://postalemployeenetwork.com/news/?p=10384#comment-63250 Well, just yesterday, a number of small parcels at our station were separated because of a “white powdery substance” on them. The supervisor said they would be put in plastic bags and delivered anyway. No testing, no sequestering, and no instructions to mail handlers or carriers to take precautions or remedial action (washing, etc.).

Many carriers were frustrated and angry, but the boss said it was his decision…

The supervisor is a good person, but I personally think he was damned if he took proper action, and damned if he did not.

I really think upper management would have been on him if he had not basically ignored the issue, which I find more disturbing than the possible poison…

Safety, as a rule, is something talked about and promoted, but usually not allowed to happen because of time constraints, regardless of what they say.

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