Catonsville Post Office to honor its Million Mile accident-free drivers

What:
The U.S. Postal Service will host a special safety ceremony.

Who:
William Ridenour, Baltimore Postmaster
Tod Luceford, Catonsville Postmaster

When:
Friday, August 8 at 9 a.m.

Where:
700 Geipe Rd
Catonsville, MD

Background:
The Postal Service will recognize seven postal drivers from the Catonsville Post Office for their extraordinary achievement of driving one million accident-free miles. As a result, they will be entered into the prestigious National Safety Council’s “Million Mile Club” (MMC). The million mile award is a lifetime enrollment, and it is given to employees who have accumulated one million miles or 30 years of driving without being involved in a preventable motor vehicle accident.

According to the National Safety Council, it takes approximately 30 years to accumulate one million miles.

The Postal Service operates the largest civilian vehicle fleet in the world with more than 219,000 vehicles driving more than 1.2 billion miles each year. Of those vehicles over 9,000 drivers enrolled in the MMC since 1972 when it first began participation in the National Safety Council’s highest award category.

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