JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ind. (WDRB) — Officials in southern Indiana now confirm an accidental drowning killed a postal worker delivering mail in Madison. Teelah Kappeler, 31 died Saturday. Her husband, Mark Kappeler, said her car was found upside down, flipped on its top in a creek off Little Brushy Fork Road. It’s believed she was knocked … Read more
John Moore, of Martinton, hasn’t stopped working in 55 years at the Martinton Post Office on West Main Street — not even during the surprise gathering to celebrate his years of service, this past Friday morning. Moore, 75, started his Friday morning, unsuspecting as always, by arriving to work at 8 a.m. and helping the … Read more
JEFFERSON COUNTY, IN (WAVE) – Family and friends are mourning a postal worker who died when her car went off the road Saturday night. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department identified her as 31-year-old Teelah Kappeler of Hanover, Indiana. Her car was found overturned in a creek along her postal route off East Little Brushy Fork Road in Jefferson County. … Read more
Brinson bid adieu to Dennis Foulk, its rural mail carrier of 37 years, last Thursday. Foulk first started working for the U.S.P.S. as a substitute carrier in November of 1980, under Post Master Louise Scott. He was promoted to regular carrier in August of 1984. Foulk spent his entire postal career delivering the mail for … Read more
PURCELLVILLE, Va. (ABC7) — A lucky man in Loudoun County has the feeling of being one in a million Thursday. Or more precisely, one in 1,305,600, the odds of winning the top prize in the Virginia Lottery’s Hot Millions Multiplier game. Bill Malsch, a mail carrier who lives in Purcellville, has won that $4 million … Read more
A Union woman and postal service employee was hurt when the mail truck she was driving slid off the roadway and struck a utility pole Monday, Jan. 15. According to a Missouri State Highway patrol preliminary report Susan Luedde, 50, Union, was driving a 1990 USPS truck on Crider Road, north of North Bend Road … Read more
The Postal Service has a message for employees: There’s new revenue to be found everywhere — even rural areas. Through its Rural Reach program, USPS encourages rural carriers to help identify new sales opportunities for the organization. Here’s what you should know: • Rural Reach targets small-business customers. The program leverages rural carriers’ relationships with their … Read more
“I thought about working until Feb. 1 and then retiring. That would have given me a full 45 years working for the postal service. But I decided I really didn’t want to haul over the Christmas holidays. That’s one of our busiest times of the year. So I retired on Dec. 1 and figured I … Read more
Allen E. Hatten is not in the habit of going around wearing a tuxedo all willy nilly. And, perhaps not many rural mail carriers don a tuxedo for their retirement party from the USPS. But, for Hatten it was the appropriate attire. He had planned to wear a tux on his last mail route and, … Read more
U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman paid tribute to Garland County postal worker Larry Robertson on Wednesday, eulogizing his longtime rural letter carrier during a speech on the House floor. Robertson, who died Friday at age 54, had delivered mail around Fountain Lake and Jessieville for more than three decades. Friends and family members gathered at Mount … Read more
Firefighters from Smith Chapel Fire Department and EMS Station 3 responded to a two vehicle accident Monday. The white Chevrolet car driven by postal carrier Bonnie Moody of Mount Olive was rear-ended by a Ford F-150 truck driven by Felipe Ibarra of Dudley just before lunchtime Monday on Highway 55 West between Mount Olive and … Read more
Good-natured banter fills the sorting room of the Barnum Post Office each morning as the three rural mail carriers and the manager sort the mail and get it ready to deliver. The mail carriers, Tracy Matuseski, Karla Hofford and Holly Gamst, know each other very well. They grew up together as siblings in the same … Read more
Denny Graham recently ended his 42-year Postal Service career in style. The Henderson, MN, rural carrier delivered the last few miles of his route in a 1948 Plymouth he restored himself. “It was something we’ve had in the family a long time,” said Graham, a classic car enthusiast. “I thought it would be neat to … Read more
On June 2, Brenda Schaefer, former treasurer of National Rural Letter Carriers Association Local 39, was charged in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan in a one-count information with willful failure to maintain records of the Chesterfield Township (Macomb County) union. The charge follows an investigation by the Labor Department’s Office of … Read more
Adrian Scott’s supervisor was surprised when he asked for a day off recently. Scott, a rural carrier associate at Fairfield Station on Hilton Head Island, SC, usually accepts all available work assignments. He initially didn’t explain why he was unable to work — but as the day approached, he couldn’t contain his enthusiasm. After months … Read more
Rain, snow, natural disasters — not much stops the US Postal Service. But a heated incident on Sallie Manigault Lane in McClellanille did stop the delivery of mail in its tracks Tuesday. Officials with the Awendaw-McClellanville Consolidated Fire District say no one was injured in the fire, and the cause remains under investigation. Source: WCIV
Waukesha, WI, Post Office employees have an aspiring Olympian in their midst. Rural Carrier Associate Nick Turro hopes to compete in long-track speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. “I was always really fast,” said Turro, whose ice finesse as a college and junior league hockey player pushed him to try … Read more