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.

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