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	Letter Carrier Duites
		Carrier may be required to work up to 10 or 12 hours per day or longer as service needs require.
		At the carriers case there are trays and tubs of mail that have been distributed to their route by a distribution clerk.
		The carrier rolls this hamper to their case where the carrier then pulls the route down in delivery sequence and places this mail into trays or tubs and then into their parcel hamper.
	www.postalemployeenetwork.com /letter-carrier-duties.htm (644 words)

	Career Information
		A letter carrier is thus a government worker, serving the public directly, and enjoying the recognition, appreciation and trust of the citizens whose mail they carry.
		Letter carriers are ambassadors of the federal government – for many Americans, the face of their letter carrier is the face of government.
		Letter carrier routes should be set up so that office work and mail delivery can be completed in eight hours – usually split between two to three hours of office time and five to six hours of delivery time.
	www.nalc.org /nalc/career/index.html (1505 words)

	OCCinfo - Letter Carrier
		Letter carriers are employees of Canada Post who sort and deliver mail for established routes, record delivery of registered mail and collect payments for cash-on-delivery (COD) parcels.
		Letter carriers are on their feet all day and work in all types of weather conditions.
		Letter carriers are employed by Canada Post in larger towns and cities across the country.
	www.alberta-learning.ab.ca /occinfo/Content/RequestAction.asp?aspAction=GetHTMLProfile&format=html&OCCPRO_ID=71001779 (729 words)

	The Examiner: Did postal rules kill carrier? 12/09/02
		The night before mail carrier James Fussell was struck by a car and killed delivering mail after dark, he returned to his station and reported that it was too dark to continue, but he was sent back out to complete his route.
		Carriers are starting their work day later in the morning than they used to.
		Some carriers said refusal to deliver after dark was a "gray area" between carriers and supervisors.
	www.examiner.net /stories/120902/new_120902005.shtml (1587 words)

	Edunet: Careers - Letter Carrier
		Letter carriers are also responsible for recording the delivery of registered mail and for collecting payment for cash-on-delivery (C.O.D.) packages and noting changes of address.
		A letter carrier's work is very specialized and should not be confused with that of a messenger.
		As letter carrier, you are paid an annual salary based on an hourly rate with some opportunity for overtime.
	www.edunetconnect.com /cat/careers/lettcar.html (599 words)

	Letter: Will miss letter carrier Lorene - Arlington, MA - The Arlington Advocate
		She or he forges relationships with the inhabitants of an entire neighborhood, keeping an eye on pets, on houses when the inhabitants are out of town, bringing a kind word to shut ins, helping out when people have questions or concerns about their mail.
		The letter carrier is a human presence we come to rely upon, especially now in these days of increased electronic communication.
		The reliable presence of dedicated letter carriers that get to know the people on their routes is perhaps the only thing that still sets the post office apart from other methods of communication.
	www.wickedlocal.com /arlington/opinion/x225120136 (407 words)

	1st Grade Core Career Connection
		A city letter carrier will visit your class to share his career information.
		The carrier will tell the students they are first going to map out their route starting at the post office and ending up at school.
		Invite a city letter carrier to come in and teach this lesson to the students and share their career information.
	www.usoe.k12.ut.us /stc/ccc/docs/1/cityletter.htm (1278 words)

	Letter Carrier Uniforms \| USPS Uniforms \| Postal Carrier Uniform
		As a Letter Carrier who makes sure the mail is delivered on time every day, you know that it isn't always easy.
		From the basic Letter Carrier uniforms, pants, socks, shirts and shorts, to helpful add-ons like sun helmets and USPS Letter Carrier outerwear and rainwear, to a broad array of postal shoes, boots, and gloves, Postal Products has whatever you may need.
		No matter where you are in the country, we're helping Letter Carriers deliver the mail: rain or shine.
	www.mypostaluniforms.com /AdvCat/Letter-Carrier-Uniforms.htm (137 words)

	EXCHANGE
		The letter carrier is not the owner of the information.
		The letter carrier who contributes to the realization of Mail-Art, who is the carrier of postal art, is invisible.
		An intuitive retrospective of the evolution of (electronic) communication shows a system of objects and traces, in which the letter carrier as a concept accentuates the democratic aspect of the postal services.
	www.mailart.be /postman.html (1155 words)

	Obituary: Paul. M. Wrigley Jr. / Letter carrier in Mt. Oliver, Mt. Washington, Brentwood (Site not responding. Last check: )
		/ Letter carrier in Mt. Oliver, Mt. Washington, Brentwood
		Wrigley Jr., a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier for 40 years who not only delivered the mail but stepped in as a surrogate father when his brother was deployed in Vietnam, died Friday at his Speers home in Washington County from lung cancer.
		During the course of his career, he served as a carrier in Mount Oliver, Mount Washington, Downtown and Brentwood.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06359/748901-122.stm (530 words)

	Letter Carrier Receives Award as 'National Hero of the Year'
		Recipients of "Hero of the Year" Awards from the National Association of Letter Carriers are shown with NALC President William H. Young, 3rd from right, and Deputy Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, 4th from right, after receiving certificates in a Washington, DC ceremony September 7, 2006.
		A Florida letter carrier who took his airboat to Louisiana to help rescue Hurricane Katrina victims was presented with the National Hero of the Year award today by the 300,000-member National Association of Letter Carriers union.
		The union’s National Humanitarian of the Year award was presented to Lane Anderson, a retired letter carrier in Santa Barbara, California, who developed a memorial tribute on a Pacific beach to the thousands of men and women who have been killed in Iraq.
	www.expertclick.com /NewsReleaseWire/default.cfm?Action=ReleaseDetail&ID=13777 (661 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - LETTER-CARRIERS, JEWISH: (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jews carried letters to their coreligionists, apart from the regular post.
		Another reason may have been the fact that the Jews, in their relations with the post, were subject to exceptional laws.
		The nephew and assistant of the Jews' letter-carrier who was then in office remained in the Thurn and Taxis service with the same rights and duties, and in 1867 was taken over into the Prussian service.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=223&letter=L (517 words)

	Letter Carriers \| AHealthyMe.com
		Over the last 10 years the volume of business-class mail (don't let a letter carrier hear you call it "junk mail") has shot up, and the maximum load for one mailbag has increased from 25 to 35 pounds.
		One Chicago letter carrier, 15-year veteran Tom Andrew, says that dogs have attacked him numerous times as he's been walking the route he's had for the last eight years.
		While violence against a postal carrier in the suburbs or in small towns may be close to nonexistent, it's a threat in big cities, as seen in the headlines in 1999.
	www.ahealthyme.com /topic/letter (1172 words)

	The Law Offices of Dixie Mauzy, L.L.P. - Texas Civil Law and Personal Injury Firm (Site not responding. Last check: )
		If an injured letter carrier receives serious injuries and the party who causes his accident has no insurance or is underinsured with minimal auto liability limits of $20,000, the injured letter carrier may have a claim against his own insurance carrier that covers his personal cars for uninsured or underinsured motorist coverage.
		One of the perils of being a letter carrier is being bitten by a dog or being attacked by a dog causing a postman to be knocked to the ground or knocked off a porch causing serious injuries.
		Therefore, it is absolutely essential that where a letter carrier has trouble with a dog on a route that he immediately notify his station chief of the dog incident so he can get out a dog warning letter to the owner.
	www.dixiemauzy.com /d_letter_carriers.asp (1171 words)

	Neighborhoodtimes: Letter carrier lauded for bringing joy to the blind
		Letter carrier lauded for bringing joy to the blind
		This is the first year the library is honoring mail carriers for their service in delivering to disabled customers.
		About 5,000 patrons throughout the county use the library each year; it carries more than 50,000 titles that can be delivered by mail.
	www.sptimes.com /2005/12/18/Neighborhoodtimes/Letter_carrier_lauded.shtml (960 words)

	Chicago Letter Carrier Caught Burning Mail
		A part-time letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service in Chicago faces a variety of charges after he was allegedly caught red-handed by police burning undelivered mail in his back yard on New Year's Day.
		He worked for the USPS as a part-time letter carrier out of the Lakeview Station in Chicago's north side for two years.
		Although some of the recovered letters were postmarked in April, Lalley said most of the mail should have been delivered in November and December.
	directmag.com /news/marketing_chicago_letter_carrier (458 words)

	ZOOM . activities . games . Letter Carrier \| PBS Kids
		This relay race is for 4 or more players and should be played in an open area.
		Each player has to race on his hands and knees with a letter on his back.
		When he reaches the mailbox, he "mails" the letter and runs back to his team.
	pbskids.org /zoom/activities/games/lettercarrier.html (87 words)

	The National Rural Letter Carrier
		Those are the words which rural carriers and other postal dept employees repeatedly hear and question how it will affect them, their work and achieve the estimated savings as part of the Postal Service's 5-year strategic plan.
		Worse yet, letters which can't be deciphered at all by the machine might end up being pitched.
		It will also be necessary to study the rural carrier's added or changed responsibilities and duties as a result of automation technological and mechanization change, including but not limited to compensation and the effect to the rural carrier's office and route functions.
	www.cedar.buffalo.edu /pub_docs/article35.html (1423 words)

	Letter-Carrier Pact Blocks Outsourcing;
		The executive council of the urban Letter Carriers' union announced a tentative five-year contract agreement with the U.S. Postal Service July 12, settling the thorny issue of contracted-out labor but requiring members to pay a greater share of their health costs.
		Pending ratification by the members of the National Association of Letter Carriers, the contract would impose a six-month moratorium on any outsourcing of urban delivery services.
		But Rick Solby, a Letter Carrier in lower Manhattan who plans to retire in four-and-a-half years, was not enthused by the terms.
	www.thechief-leader.com /news/2007/0727/news/003.html (557 words)

	CNN.com - Canadian letter carrier suspended after kicking dog - November 30, 2000
		WINNIPEG, Canada (Reuters) -- A Canadian letter carrier faces suspension after he kicked an aggressive poodle while trying to deliver mail to the dog owner's house.
		The letter carrier's union plans to file a grievance against Canada Post on the basis that the discipline was unjust.
		We've never had a letter carrier suspended for this in the past," Bob Tyre, a union officer told Reuters Thursday.
	www.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/americas/11/30/canada.postman.reut/index.html (413 words)

	Best Letter Carrier
		But it's still rare for a letter carrier to transcend the institutional blue uniform and make personal connections with people on his or her route.
		Rapp is modest and insists that most carriers are just as conscientious as he is, but as he talks it's easy to understand why the folks on his route are so happy with him.
		"If I wasn't a letter carrier, my ideal job would be testing camping or fishing gear," he says.
	www.inlander.com /bestof2003/330771420692361.php (555 words)

	Deseret Morning News \| Ex-letter carrier speaks out
		Aragon doesn't think the problems will be resolved any time soon, despite a formal investigation by the National Association of Letter Carriers and incessant complaints by postal workers.
		In fact, letter carriers across the nation are upset.
		The National Association of Letter Carriers is investigating complaints about the Provo post office.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595045956,00.html (771 words)

	Letter Carrier Uniforms \| USPS Uniforms \| Postal Carrier Uniform
		As a Letter Carrier who makes sure the mail is delivered on time every day, you know that it isn't always easy.
		From the basic Letter Carrier uniforms, pants, socks, shirts and shorts, to helpful add-ons like sun helmets and USPS Letter Carrier outerwear and rainwear, to a broad array of postal shoes, boots, and gloves, Postal Products has whatever you may need.
		No matter where you are in the country, we're helping Letter Carriers deliver the mail: rain or shine.
	www.officialuspsuniforms.com /AdvCat/Letter-Carrier-Uniforms.htm (199 words)

	Letter carrier has positive image of post (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He may travel the same Chandler streets every day, but Candelaria sees and speaks to a variety of different people, whether he's hand-delivering Express Mail or sorting letters in the cluster box of an apartment complex.
		Candelaria decided to become a letter carrier after serving four years in the Air Force.
		Like all letter carriers, the 48-year-old has to be able to lift a minimum of 70 pounds and stand for eight hours a day.
	www.azcentral.com /community/chandler/articles/0823cr-neighpark23Z6.html (355 words)

	ABC News: Pa. Letter Carrier Attacked by Squirrel
		Letter Carrier Attacked by Squirrel Is Taken to Hospital
		OIL CITY, Pa. Nov 2, 2006 (AP)— Letter carriers occasionally have to deal with angry dogs or maybe even a spider's nest in a mailbox, but a mean squirrel?
		Barb Dougherty, a 30-year Postal Service employee, said she was attacked and bitten Monday by a squirrel while delivering mail in Oil City, about 75 miles north of Pittsburgh.
	abcnews.go.com /US/wireStory?id=2621847 (262 words)

	NALC Branch 599 Tampa Letter Carriers Website
		The Tampa Letter Carriers are Branch 599 of the National Association of Letter Carriers, a labor union representing letter carriers in Tampa, Brandon, Plant City, Sun City and Ruskin, Florida.
		Branch 599 was chartered on October 20, 1924, and is a member in good standing of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), which represents city letter carriers employed by the United States Postal Service (USPS).
		This website provides information and networking resources to letter carriers in hopes of improving the working conditions of letter carriers, improving service to postal patrons and customers, and improving the efficiency and viability of the USPS.
	www.nalc599.com /index.htm (102 words)

	Top Stories
		TIVERTON — A Tiverton letter carrier was attacked by two dogs on Tucker Avenue in town on Thursday, May 4.
		The carrier was taken to Memorial Hospital for treatment.
		This is the first dog bite injury to a letter carrier in Tiverton in three years, the postmaster said.
	www.eastbayri.com /story/294259040571188.php (500 words)

	Letter Carrier Receives Award as National Hero of the Year (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A Maine letter carrier who used his Navy life-saving skills to prevent an injured motorcyclist from bleeding to death, was honored today as the National Hero of the Year by the National Association of Letter Carriers at an award ceremony at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill hotel.
		These letter carriers are good men and women who believe that serving America means more than delivering the mail.
		Paula P. Peiper, 50, of Carlisle, Pennsylvania as recipient of the Special Carrier Alert Rescue Award for her quick action on December 6, 2004 after noticing that an 88-year-old customer along her route in Carlisle had not picked up his mail for a few days.
	www.expertclick.com /NewsReleaseWire/default.cfm?Action=ReleaseDetail&ID=10307 (683 words)

	Canada Post - Letter Carrier Presort
		The LCP option allows Customers to presort items to specific letter carrier walks (or other delivery routes) using Delivery Mode Codes and presortation software recognized by Canada Post, allowing Canada Post to bypass various processing steps and facilities within its mail distribution network.
		The postal code is a six-character, alphanumeric code in the form of ANA NAN in which “A” represents a letter of the alphabet and “N” represents a number.
		The NPS is used for all Canada Post presortation processes, including Letter Carrier Presort.
	www.canadapost.ca /personal/tools/pg/preparation/MPlcp-e.asp (2222 words)

	JS Online: Hurricane reroutes letter carrier
		Evacuated postal carriers and clerks are urged to call the U.S. Postal Service at (877) 477-3273 to make arrangements to receive paychecks and new job assignments.
		Many postal carriers from the Gulf Coast are still deemed "missing" by the Postal Service, which is working to locate employees so it can deliver their paychecks and link them to new jobs around the country.
		He'll do that route while its regular carrier is on vacation, then switch to a new route next week when she returns.
	www.jsonline.com /news/wauk/sep05/355299.asp (1053 words)

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