Postal employee killed in Shelby County crash
SHELBY COUNTY, Ind. (May 3, 2015) — A United States Postal employee was killed Sunday afternoon while delivering packages for Amazon.
A spokesperson with the U.S. Postal Service confirms that the employee was killed in an accident involving a postal delivery vehicle.
Mary Dando of the Postal Service said, “Our hearts and prayers go out to the employee’s family.” Fox 59 TV
Postal worker dies in Fountaintown crash
FOUNTAINTOWN, Ind. (WISH) —
Police believe the female postal worker was out delivering mail in a postal truck when the vehicle went off the north side of the road for unknown reasons and over corrected. The vehicle then went off the south side of the road and overturned.
The woman was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene. She was identified Monday morning as 45-year-old Melinda Thompson of Spiceland.
Police say it appears Thompson was not wearing a seat belt.
Thompson, a Rural Carrier Associate, has been working for USPS since 2008.
No Union” I am not a scab…… I am actually a steward for our local branch and have been for 10 years now. It is a terrible shame what happened to this lady, and I feel bad for her family. I realize if she had been wearing a seat belt then maybe she may still be alive. My whole point is if we weren’t delivering on Sundays, then she wouldn’t have been killed working on a Sunday. I don’t agree with working the CCA’s like the union does on Sunday’s, and not paying them what they do and with no benefits. I also don’t care that the contract was decided in arbitration. The CCA’s got screwed and this union could care less because there were 30,000 new potential members promised to them. If Rolando were given the choice of 30,000 CCA’s with no benefits, or 15,000 PTF’s with benefits he would choose the CCA’s everytime, and that is not right. If you don’t think so, then ask him for yourself. He should not be working these people on Sunday, unless they are at least getting benefits, and time and a half. End of story.
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What a bunch of fools here. The poor dead lady was violating work rules by not wearing a seatbelt. Seatbelt and CCAs are different topics. She is gone, leave the other crap out and wish her family condolences!
Our thoughts & prayers go out to the family. No matter what ALWAYS wear your seat belt. There is a provision in the ELM that would have gotten the family $10,000. had they taken a seat belt off of a Deceased person after a wreck. You need to look this one up and run a copy for your loved ones if it were to happen to you as you & I both know MNGT. will not tell anyone of their right to it! Again our thoughts & prayers for the family.
There are a whole lot of members who drink the koolaid in this union, and won’t think for themselves at all….. it’s really a shame actually that more of us don’t challenge our leadership at all
Im guessing Matt is a scab…
Sorry Hunter, but I do understand the situation…… I have dealt with state officers, and Rolando himself, and I can tell you that what happened to this poor carrier has absolutely NO effect on any of them…… they absolutely only care about the number of carriers we have in the union, and the CCA position to them is nothing but $ in their pockets….. criticize me all you want, but I suggest that a lot of our members really take a long, hard look at the situation
If they can’t handle it they should find another job. It’s not like they are getting $20 an hour and can’t find a job else where paying about what the PO pays. I’ve worked 6 days a week for going on 9 years now. I start @ 4am or earlier at times…..so don’t say it can’t be done! Bottom line in this story is “NO SEAT BELT” the end!
Think what you want but show a little respect for someone who lost her life and have respect for her family! She was a great person and she liked her job! It was a tragic accident… nothing more.
We have to deliver 7 days a week this is called the new normal. This is what we do. Plain and simple. We will deliver seven days a week forever. We are a delivery network and that means seven days a week. The CCA’s are all happy to work because they have a job. Just like when I began at the USPS I was happy and I worked 7 days a week as a mailhandler because that is what I was told “seven days a week 12-16 hours a day. The pay thing is a separate issue and i have no say in that. Every CCA I know complains about the hours but never the job itself. The way that management runs the office is generally the issue. In the office I work in the CCA’s are treated with respect whether they are carriers or clerks. This is the issue but we take care of our own. As far as the Unions are concerned both Rolando and Dimondstein are the best I have seen in my 25 years.
they pay extra for Sunday, because they don’t want to wait an extra day to get the packages….. it has nothing to do with them not being home during the week…. most packages are left during the day anyway and people get them when they get off work that night….. Sunday delivery is Rolando’s cash cow and his claim to fame…. he doesn’t give a rat’s ass that the CCA’s are getting run “ragged” just as Cynical said…. the CCA’s don’t even get OT for Sunday- only time and a quarter…. yet the regional union office told me this was a “win” for our union- BULLSHIT!!
people (matt) should really try and understand the issue before spouting off their foolishness. You need to get a clue before you speak out.
Why in the hell are we delivering on Sundays anyway??? I don’t care how much $ the post office gets from this- people need time with their families and a day off….. a lot of people have told me they don’t want anything on Sundays because they aren’t home to get it anyway…… besides the general public doesn’t care about their mail on Saturdays either, yet we are delivering stuff on Sundays?….. thanks Rolando and the NALC
You are A FOOL . The people PAYING to get their packages on Sunday are not home during the week. Thats why they pay extra for Sunday.
Quit blaming Rolando moron Firt the carrier wasn’t wearing a seatbelt. Second if we give up 6 day delivery that will be the beginning of the end for the postal service. Get educated.
We deliver on Sundays because there is a demand for it.
I worked Saturday and Sundays for years.
These deaths are tragic, indeed, and I can’t help but wonder if we’ll see more of this stuff especially on the CCA side as the Service pushes them to run harder and harder. How easy it is to get overworked with weeks without a day off, working 10+ hour days and do collections every day, and give up lunch and breaks because management demands they do so much in too little time to allow them to take their lunch breaks, at least. Fatigue will take its toll, mark my words.
From my first day way back in the Stone Age of October 13, 1984, I was told by management that I would have a 30 minute lunch break that I wouldn’t get paid for, which is fine, making your total workday 8 1/2 hours on a non-overtime day, minus the lunch break.
I took that to mean one thing: I wasn’t getting paid for thirty minutes a day, and therefore I would not work for 30 minutes a day. Period. Breaks were one thing – you still get paid and one day can differ greatly from another, although I always take my morning break. Afternoons? I usually don’t because there’s no good place on my route to take one, no shade, and I’d rather just get done. But my street times vary a lot because it’s mounted with lots of duplexes and apartments.
Management has to offer a carrier 30 minutes lunch time after six hours of work. They do not have to, and will not do anything to stop a carrier from working free of charge for 30 minutes. The union can’t do anything because management only has to OFFER the time, not force them to take it, so the problem is that of the carrier who works for free under the pressure from management.
Keep running CCA’s ragged, treat those who just went regular as a CCA and continue to violate Chapter 8 of the JCAM because they can.
Listen, CCA’s: you must work hard, nobody denies that, but you must take your lunch breaks and make supervisors allow you that 30 minutes. Go to your union if they threaten you for not giving them free work. And when you go regular, you act like a regular. If you don’t want to be on the ODL, don’t sign the damn list and make management assign OT correctly. They will continue to abuse you and your rights as long as you let them.
Near the end, I should have written “Managers keep running CCA’s ragged . . . “