Hickory Post Office honors 2 Thursday

HICKORY — The U.S. Postal Service will honor two of its employees Thursday for milestone safety achievements. City letter carrier Eugene Curtis and rural letter carrier Karen Thrift will be inducted into the National Safety Council’s coveted Million Mile Club, which recognizes drivers who have gone at least 30 years without a preventable motor vehicle accident. The short recognition ceremony will take place Thursday, June 25, 8:15 am at Hickory Post Office, 231 Government Avenue SW.

The Million Mile Club is the highest honor given to a professional driver in the workplace by the National Safety Council, and according to the NSC, the status is to professional driving as reaching the peak of Mt. Everest is to the sport of climbing. Both employees – Curtis, a 36-year veteran and Granite Falls resident, and Thrift, a 30-year employee living in Conover – have worked the majority of their careers in Hickory. “It is wonderful to have employees with this level of dedication and excellence in performance serving the people of this town,” said Jim Frizzell, Hickory Postmaster.

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