"Going Postal" is a Myth
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- "Going Postal" is a myth: postal workers are no more likely to physically assault, sexually harass or verbally abuse their coworkers than employees in the national workforce, according to a report of the independent United States Postal Service Commission on A Safe and Secure Workplace, presented to the Postmaster General today by Joseph A. Califano, Jr., chairman of the commission and president of The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.

The 249-page report, prepared by CASA, concludes two years of study and reveals that postal workers are only a third as likely as those in the national workforce to be victims of homicide at work (0.26 vs. 0.77 per 100,000 workers annually from 1992 through 1998, the most recent comparable data available). Comparing industries, retail workers are eight times likelier than postal employees to be homicide victims at work; comparing occupations, taxi drivers are 150 times likelier than letter carriers to be homicide victims at work.

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