For postal employees, the change will be more than metaphor.
Customers and other postal employees ran out of the post office screaming for help.
Local courts will be closed, and postal employees were told to stay home.
Right now, more than 150,000 postal employees are eligible for retirement.
In the past decade, there have been several shootings by postal employees.
Much of that work could be done by postal employees.
Many of the postal employees here consider themselves in that category.
He was a postal employee for several years, and worked with youth groups.
Beyond this narrow space only postal employees are allowed - but there is little of note.
Yet postal employees are actually about two and a half times less likely than the average worker to be killed on the job.