When a federal agency shuts down and sends everyone home during an emergency, it is news. Huge news, and widely reported, as we generally expect Federal Agencies to be there to answer our questions and provide emergency aid. I have worked for BLM, USFS and USPS in addition to USACE. All four agencies had procedures for what we were expected to do in any emergency situation, and "going home" was never a part of the drill. I simply asked (as someone who pays her salary) what Federal agency she works for. That is all.
an emergency alert went out to everyone that is signed up for civil defense notices the specific civil defense message along with the emergency tone was "BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL"
You've been told that a nuclear missile is on its way to visit you. What exactly do you expect a letter carrier to do?
Actually, they haven't turned a profit ever since Congress saddled them with pre-funding retirement for all employees, but that's an unfair requirement not put on any other agency. It was done by a crooked Congress to give FedEx and UPS an unfair advantage. Still, it's clear by your posts that no official order to go home was given by her employer and she simply made the choice on her own.
Friendly tip, which you should know, you've been around forums longer than I have, but fucking with people's spouses never ends well.
she and her coworkers were officially told by her superiors"to go be with your families". don't care if you believe it ornot. as a "supposed" former USPS employee, you should know that the official usps vehicles are designated as emergency response vehicles in any first response scenarios. EMS has first dibs.
Whoa whoa whoa, whatever happened to whether rain nor sleet nor snow nor nuclear missile or whatever that slogan is?
neither rain nor sleet nor gloom of night. don't say shit about nuclear fallout. going to have to pick it up at the PO one's own self
If true, the USPS in Hawaii seems to just do what it wants despite how it operates in the other 49 states. Absolutely crucial to the success of emergency operations nationwide, and proud of it, USPS employees have long been an invaluable resource due to their unmatchable knowledge of location, location, location, of every business and every residence. And the vehicles to get to them. And drivers who know the routes. They saved many lives during the Tillamook Flood when I was at the Corps. Huge part of the Katrina rescues. They are charged with delivering emergency meds, supplies, doctors... Without their massive participation, most emergency operations would be sadly undermanned and inefficient. https://www.prc.gov/sites/default/files/archived/Emergency_Prep_Report.pdf Hearing the claim that they ran home and supposedly handed their vehicles over to the failed state agency that caused the panic sounds like cause for a Congressional Inquiry.
