| WHAT: |
Postal officials to recognize North Brunswick NJ Letter Carrier Richard Chiselko with the National Safety Council’s prestigious Million Mile Award for 30 years of accident free driving. |
| WHO: |
Richard Chiselko – Letter Carrier, North Brunswick NJ |
| WHEN: | 8:00 a.m. Wednesday, June 13, 2012 |
| WHERE: |
USPS Carrier Annex |
| DETAILS: |
The National Safety Council’s Million Mile Award is presented to professional drivers for operating a motor vehicle on the job for more than one million miles without a preventable accident. Reaching this unique milestone requires 30 years of service and an unwavering attention to safety. To put it in perspective, you would have to travel around the earth 40.1 times to cover one million miles. Mr. Chiselko, a Somerset resident, begins his work day at the New Brunswick Carrier Annex at 14 Home News Row. He delivers mail in North Brunswick in the neighborhoods near Nathan Drive and Hidden Lake Drive. Chiselko is joining an elite group of approximately 7,100 postal employees who have achieved this unique distinction since 2005. The Postal Service’s nationwide network of facilities is linked by nearly 214,000 vehicles — the world’s largest civilian fleet. As one of America’s last vestiges to make house calls, 297,000 letter carriers and truck drivers log more than 1.2 billion miles annually when delivering to America’s 151.5 million addresses. Information on the National Safety Council’s Safe Driver Program is located at www.nsc.org/usps. |
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A self-supporting government enterprise, the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that reaches every address in the nation — 151 million residences, businesses and Post Office™ Boxes. The Postal Service™ receives no tax dollars for operating expenses, and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations. With 32,000 retail locations and the most frequently visited website in the federal government, usps.com®, the Postal Service has annual revenue of more than $65 billion and delivers nearly 40 percent of the world’s mail. If it were a private sector company, the U.S. Postal Service would rank 35th in the 2011 Fortune 500. In 2011, Oxford Strategic Consulting ranked the US Postal Service number one in overall service performance of the posts in the top 20 wealthiest nations in the world. Black Enterprise and Hispanic Business magazines ranked the Postal Service as a leader in workforce diversity. The Postal Service has been named the Most Trusted Government Agency for six years and the sixth Most Trusted Business in the nation by the Ponemon Institute.
