Shifting Position On Driving ; Postal Service Defends Operating Vehicle From Passenger Seat As Legal for Carriers, but Even Judge Finds Practice Surprising

Buffalo NewsJuly 11, 2010

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At first blush, the practice might strike some people as surprising, even outrageous and most certainly illegal.

Well, it's not -- at least for letter carriers.

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Shifting Position On Driving ; Postal Service Defends Operating Vehicle From Passenger Seat As Legal for Carriers, but Even Judge Finds Practice Surprising

Driving a car while sitting in the passenger's seat might be lawful for mail carriers, but it's raising a few eyebrows at federal court in Buffalo.

Even the judge overseeing the case -- a personal injury trial involving a motorcyclist hit by a carrier on Tonawanda Creek Road in Amherst -- seemed s...

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