Your recent editorial (“Having postal police on patrol could make the job safer for mail carriers”) in favor of a new law lifting the restrictions on the U.S. Postal Service Police is way off the mark.
First of all, there are over a half million employees of this agency, which has a terrible history of controlling workplace violence. (Remember the old phrase “going postal?”) These incidents have all but vanished since their officers have been concentrated on where the problem was. Remember, postal staff have just as much right to a safe environment as everyone else.
