Today, we're featuring the accomplishments of another Alabama District winner of the National Safety Council's Award of Honor, Coden Rural Carrier Kelly Milne.
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Coden Postmaster Ronnie Adams with Rural Carrier Kelly Milne
The Award of Honor is for Postal employees who drive as a part of their jobs. The minimum qualifications to receive the award are 15 years or 100,000 miles without a preventable accident (to see the full list of requirements, click here to go to last Wednesday's post). Kelly's record on the road leaves those minimum qualifications behind in the dust. She has been with the Postal Service for 31 years and has driven approximately 345,280 accident-free miles. What an impressive record of focus and care! Usually, employees who are conscientious in one area of performance try to be that way in everything that they do, and that seems to be the case with Kelly, too. Coden Postmaster Ronnie Adams took this opportunity to give Kelly public recognition for the credit whe deserves overall as an employee and as a person: Kelly is the type of person who gets to work 15 to 30 minutes ahead of time; she always says that she doesn't like to be late for work. Se has lived here in Coden all of her life, so she knows everyone she delivers to.
She really goes out of her way to serve her patrons. Just last week, there was an elderly woman who needed her medication, but she couldn't get to the post office to pick it up. Kelly volunteered to take it to her on her way home.
Kelly was on her route when we called Coden, so we asked Adams to inquire about Kelly's successful approach to safe driving.
I asked Kelly what contributed to her safe driving record. Kelly works on a very busy street, so she must use extra caution. She responded that she is ALWAYS conscious of other drivers because you never know what they are going to do. she always looks before pulling out, even when she sees nthing in her mirror. she always leaves way out for herself to keep from having to back up. She knows that backing up is one of the leading causes of accidents.
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Thanks for the words of wisdom, Kelly, and congratulations on your much-deserved award.
Postmarks also thanks Postmaster Ronnie Adams for sharing the picture and for telling us all about Kelly.
