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Old 12-15-2016, 03:04 PM
Warren Kiefer Warren Kiefer is offline
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Originally Posted by jibuck View Post
USPS mail carriers are federal employees and as a result are prohibited from accepting any cash or cash equivalent items such as a gift card from any customer. Homemade treats, however, would be an acceptable gift.
Your answer is not totally correct. The postal station employees here in the Villages are Independent Contractors an as such are not Federal Employees. They get no perks from the Federal Government.