USPS issues tips for customers after mail carriers in Idaho suffered 50 slips, trips and falls last year

IDAHO — Last year 50 Idaho postal carriers were injured due to an unforeseen slip, trip or fall— and many of the incidents occurred as a result of unsafe or hazardous conditions on their mail routes. Nationally, in 2018 an average of 51 postal carriers per day were injured by slips, trips and falls. Slips, […]

Maryland letter carrier sent to hospital after getting rear-ended

On October 30, 2015 at approximately 4:10pm, Troopers from the Maryland State Police McHenry Barracks responded to Old Frostburg Rd at Beall School Rd in Frostburg, MD for a motor vehicle collision. Investigation revealed a 1994 Chevrolet United States Postal Service mail delivery truck, operated by Ame Gomez (age 46 of Ellerslie, MD), was traveling […]

Rural mail carrier (RCA) ejected from mail truck after colliding with SUV in Pennsylvania

April 27, 2015 Two people, including a mail carrier (rural carrier associate [RCA])  , were injured when a mail truck and an SUV collided in Washington County Monday, emergency officials said. Samantha Mueller, 30, of Canonsburg told police she was driving her mail truck along the shoulder of the 1800 block of Route 980 in […]

Mail Carrier trapped inside vehicle after getting rear-ended, flipped upside down

(November 10, 2014) PETERBOROUGH, New Hampshire — A postal vehicle was rear-ended, pushed sideways, and flipped on its side, on Jaffrey Road Friday. Anna Cote, 51, of Peterborough, the mail carrier driving the postal truck, had to be pulled out of it by rescue personnel. She was transported to Monadnock Community Hospital by ambulance. Capt. […]

Wisconsin postal worker killed in rollover crash

CALEDONIA, Wisconsin – On Monday 11/03/14 at approximately 3:37p.m. the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch Center received a 911 reporting a single motor vehicle crash on Old County Highway U Road approximately .3 miles south of Potter Rd. in the Town of Caledonia. It was further reported that the operator and only occupant had been […]

Video: Florida Mailman suffers laceration to head after grandmother crashes head-on

HIALEAH, Fla. -A mail carrier, a grandmother and a 1-year-old girl were taken to the hospital after a head-on crash. The incident happened Friday at 305 West 68th St. in Hialeah. The mailman stopped on the side of the road. Police said he was outside of his car, reaching in to get a package. That’s […]

Pennsylvania Letter Carrier flown to hospital after getting hit by car

Butler, PA – U.S. postal carrier was flown by medical helicopter to a Pittsburgh hospital this afternoon after she was struck by a car along West New Castle Street. Fire Chief Nick Ban said the 51-year-old woman, whose name was not available, was crossing New Castle Street near its intersection with Sixth Avenue when she […]