The Beacon

The BEACON is a blog for sharing ongoing light news about employees and events happening around post offices and plants in the Northern New England District of the U.S. Postal Service



Thursday, July 28, 2011

Five Gardiner, ME, Drivers Achieve 2011 Safety Honors

Fourteen Northern New England District postal drivers have been selected for the National Safety Council's (NSC) 2011 Award of Honor: All Award of Honor recipients met the minimum criteria of 15 years or 100,000 miles without a preventable accident. Five of the honorees work at the Gardiner, ME, Post Office.
Seen left to right are Gardiner Rural Carrier Lorraine Boucher, Postmaster Audrey Johnson, Rural Carrier/Million Miler Ralph (Skip) Hunter, Letter Carrier Charles Webber and T-6 Letter Carrier John Fish . Not present is Rural Carrier Stephanie Hanley.

The 2011 Award of Honor was issued to the following seven Northern New England drivers:
Salem, NH - Joseph Russo
Salem, NH - Paula Ciras
Ferrisburgh, VT -Sally Torrey
East Calais, ME- Cassandra Molleur
Kingfield, ME - Charmayne Coffren 
Athens, ME - Richard Brown
Portland, ME - Dominic Paul Di Matteo  (past Million Mile winner)
Old Town, ME - Mark Russell
Old Town, ME - Durice Washburn

The top drivers in each Area are in the running for the 2011 USPS Joseph M. Kaplan Safe Driver of the Year Award to be announced in November.