The issue of postal delivery on Sunday arose from an article about ”A Seventh-day Adventist is suing claiming she was fired last year because she refused to work on her Sabbath. The woman’s attorney Daniel Faber recently represented a letter carrier who was fired from the Postal Service because he objected to working from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. “The letter carrier, Lonnie Leonard, was reinstated, paid $50,000 in back pay and credited with annual leave as a result of a settlement last October, Faber said.”

In the article, Todd McFarland, general counsel for the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists in Silver Springs, Md., said “the U.S. Postal Service is “our main nemesis” on the issue, partly because the service maintains it cannot overrule union contracts calling for Saturday shifts. McFarland said postal deliveries have been moved from Saturdays to Sundays in Collegedale, Tenn., because many residents are Seventh-day Adventists.”

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Any Postal Reporter readers from Tennessee?