Postal Worker Awarded $70,000 in Compensatory Damages – The postal worker alleged that she was discriminated against on the basis of disability when the agency sent her home and gave her leave without pay on several occasions due to lack of work within her restrictions. The EEOC Administrative Judge found discrimination and awarded the employee $70,000 in non-pecuniary, compensatory damages. The EEOC affirmed the Administrative Judge’s decision, finding substantial evidence that there were vacant full-time positions to which employee could have be reassigned to provide accommodation to her medical restrictions which would not create undue hardship to the agency. The EEOC also concluded that the award of $70,000 was appropriate for the emotional harm caused by the agency’s discriminatory conduct. Miller v. Potter  

Postal Service says some upstate mail lost in highway collapse - (Syracuse, N.Y.-AP, July 26, 2006 9:35 AM) _ The U.S. Postal Service says some certified mail sent from parts of central New York to Connecticut was lost in last month’s massive flooding. Post office officials say the mail was being transported in one of the two trucks that plunged into a chasm that opened across Interstate 88 in Delaware County during late June’s torrential rains and severe flooding.

The American Council on Exercise recently published a study on the number of steps taken by people from 10 different occupations. Secretaries took the least number of steps, an average of 4,327 (1.7miles); lawyers took 5,062 steps (2.0 miles) and police officers took 5,336 steps (2.1 miles). At the other end of the spectrum, postal workers took 18,904 steps (7.5 miles), followed by custodians (12,991 steps, 5.2 miles) and restaurant servers (10,087 steps, 4.0 miles).