George is right.
Use the UPS for rural areas. Send an RN to ride shotgun in the truck.
Mark
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On Jan 14, 2021, at 11:10, yellowkd@xxxxxxx wrote:
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
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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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:
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
