Postal Service apologizes for blood-stained mail
Monday, February 22, 2016
OLEAN, N.Y. -- The U.S. Postal Service apologized to residents along a mail route who received mail stained with blood. A Postal Service spokeswoman for the agency's western New York district said the blood was from a mail carrier whose finger was cut after a vehicle accident Tuesday. The worker cut his finger when he tried to adjust a damaged side mirror. The official said the carrier thought the bleeding had stopped and wasn't aware blood was smudging the mail he was dropping off.
Subscribe below or log in with your password here.
For more than 115 years, the Southeast Missourian has written the first draft of local history. We have aspired to enrich, entertain, educate and inform. Our core values have remained firm: truth, service, quality, integrity and community. Support our mission.
Join today
Note: Special discounts available to new subscribers only. Print subscriptions may include up to 13 Premium Issues per year, which include special magazines. For each Premium Issue, your account balance will be charged an additional fee in the billing period when the section publishes. This will result in shortening the length of your billing period.