If you shovel it, they will come. The Lincoln Post Office is asking customers to help keep letter carriers safe by shoveling a path to their mailbox as soon as possible after it snows.

“We want our carriers to return home to their families healthy each night,” said Postmaster Kerry Kowalski. “Keeping a path clear to your mailbox will go a long way toward keeping our letter carriers safe and ensuring mail delivery each day.”

Lincoln letter carriers, who each make an average of more than 600 deliveries daily, will continue to do their best to deliver the mail, according to Kowalski, but when mailboxes and approaches to mailboxes are buried in snow and ice it can make it difficult for letter carriers to make deliveries safely. Unsafe conditions such as unshoveled snow, icy sidewalks, or large amounts of snow blocking mailboxes can delay or even prevent mail delivery.

Postal customers who receive door mail delivery should ensure their sidewalks, steps, and access ways are kept safely clear of snow and ice. Customers receiving street-side mailbox or centralized cluster neighborhood mailbox delivery should also pay special attention to having a safe and clear pathway to their mailbox, including from the street to the back of those centralized cluster neighborhood mailboxes that are serviced from the back of the box by the carrier.

If access is not safe, mailboxes are blocked and streets are impassable, letter carriers must consider safety and accessibility first. They are instructed to refrain from delivering to locations they deem too hazardous.

“We want to thank those customers who have cleared their walks, steps, and approaches to mailboxes following each snow storm,” said Kowalski. And I encourage those who haven’t to do so as soon as possible.”

Courtesy: Lincoln Post Office