I am not saying they do the delivering - here public health or private clinics
take the vaccine to nursing homes etc. and inoculate people. Pretty obviously
the post office doesn't have medical personnel. But you could bring the vaccine
doses and a nurse to the local post offices and regional shipping centers and
do everyone on one day.
Far more efficient than telling thousands of workers to find some place to be
vaccinated when all of them are clogged with people trying to get the vaccine.
The federal government is doing the main coordination of shipping the vaccine-
is should not be hard to send vaccine that is set aside to a group whether army
nurses or walgreens and have them vaccinate postal workers.
I mean we could not get extra people to work the post office over the holidays
due to perceived risk given people have died who work the regional center. The
vaccine would solve a lot of problems for them in getting stuff moving and for
us in having a post office again that functions
Best George
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From: "Mark F McDermott" <journey2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: comicartl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2021 10:59:55 AM
Subject: [comicart-l] Re: POST OFFICE- It is time to fix it
They (AMZN Fresh) can’t even deliver chilled or frozen products. The frozen
items would occasionally (depending upon that day’s temperature) be thawed out
as they are placed only in brown paper bags and they tend to drive around in a
non-refrigerated vehicle for 90 to 120 minutes. From what I have heard, the
vaccine
requires critical storage, temperature control. Thus, adding inoculations to
their repertoire might be a bit of a stretch…
Mark
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Of Mark Nevins (Redacted sender "nevins_mark" for DMARC)
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2021 10:26 AM
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Not to be a wise ass, but if we could teach and certify Amazon and UPS drivers
to safely administer the vaccine, we could all be inoculated by St. Patrick’s
Day.
Mark Nevins
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On Jan 14, 2021, at 10:20, yellowkd@xxxxxxx wrote:
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My guess is that more than just I on this list, have had problems with the post
office recently. I currently have a package sent to Western Pennsylvania that
is out over 30 days. Things are getting better - I got a package of silent
animate DVDs from New York media mail in 5 days yesterday and some comics also
media mail arrived in 12.
One of the key problems here is the virus which has deeply affected the
regional sorting hub in Detroit (and it seems elsewhere based on my tracking
packages-there are obvious regional centers that are in crisis).
As such I found it interesting yesterday in talking to postal workers (ship a
lot, you know a lot of postal workers- I am also on the local post office
advisory board so I talk to a lot of people about the post office) to discover
there is no plan to vaccinate postal workers! Yep the best way to do it is
offer it on the job- all these folks locally are in the post office picking up
or sorting mail at key times of the day. You bring in the vaccine and get every
worker who wants one gets it at the same time. I mean it ain't rocket science
and it is a federal program.
Right now a key part of commerce due to the pandemic and a key support for all
types of small businesses is the post office. It is a essential that it works
well. A lot of little main street stores are only surviving because they are
selling on line.
So I am sending off an email to my Senators telling them this needs to be
addressed and with a new administration coming in with people who think
government should work - maybe we can see some solutions-
Best George Hagenauer
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