A million miles of safe driving.

No preventable accidents over a period that extends more than 30 years. Through our winters?  Our construction?  These back roads?  Is that even possible?

It is possible and, on Friday, June 27, the Binghamton Post Office and Postmaster Lona Miller will celebrate 7 letter carriers who have completed 30 years of accident free driving in the region.

Honorees are James Gilroy, John Graham, Douglas Lewis, Wilson Lord, Timothy Maslin, Allan Ostrom and Kelli Lou Baer.

Additional Expert Driver Awards will also be presented to four other Binghamton carriers with safe driving records exceeding the 30 year mark:  James Pesko, with 32 years of safe driving, Jeff Potter with 33 years, and Sheila Warren and Bert Godoy with 31 years each. 

Expert Drive Awards will also be presented to carriers Vicky Studer and Micky O’Neill, each with 28 years of safe driving, and Steve Brewer with 25 years. 

Postal officials note that harsh winter driving may be behind us, but with youngsters at play, construction and tourists on unfamiliar roads are just some of the challenges of this season.  It takes care, attention and skills every day behind the wheel. 

According to the National Safety Council and the Postal Service, a Million Miler is recognized for one million miles of driving or 30 years of driving without a preventable accident.  An Expert Driver may be recognized at any work anniversary for driving without a preventable accident. 

OSHA defines an accident as an ‘unplanned event that results in personal injury or property damage.’

MEDIA AVAILABILITY
7:30 am     Friday, June 29
Binghamton Post Office
115 Henry Street
Front entrance/customer parking to carrier area

Editor’s Fast Fact: 
How far is a million miles?
At 184 miles one way, a million miles is about 2,717 round trips on New York’s Interstate 81!  Each of these drivers has done just that (or more) on local roadways in the Southern Tier….accident free…for decades. 

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