WCVB Boston - The U.S. Postal Service says dozens of mail carriers in Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts have been hurt this winter as they tried to deliver mail in snowy and icy conditions...Christine Dugas, a spokeswoman for the Postal Service in Providence, said on Tuesday that at least 44 carriers have been hurt when they slipped, tripped or fell on the snow and ice. Their injuries range from bruised backs to broken wrists...Dugas said three more carriers were hit by cars as they walked in the street because sidewalks were not cleared.
I feel like I should be warning everyone to double up on Oxen and gun powder munitions a-la Oregon Trail before heading out of their house this morning. That's how serious this is getting. Just crude grave markings of fallen mailmen left and right, (replace dysentery with hypothermia).
Is there no hope? The Mailman, by and large the toughest sons of bitches to ever take the civil service exam can't even traverse safely in this weather. These are a people who, for hundreds of years, have up held their pledge and credo of "neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, Nor Hail shall keep the postman from their appointed rounds." Granted the motto kind of loses steam in the second half (its a bit wordy guys, clean it up) but still, they took an oath!
