Great work by the Ridgewood PD's new Traffic Bureau. No one should be immune from DWI arrest and prosecution.

It's scary to think of this person driving around our town while kids are in school. I hope they don't get to do it again.

Actually, I would think our children are safer when they are in school, than when they might be walking around town. Where does the article mention anything about the Traffic Bureau being involved? And how does any of this become a commentary on immunity from arrest and prosecution?

Is Patch desparate for "stories" such as this? Is the traffic bureau providing the "news" now? This is an internal Post Office matter and will be dealth with I'm sure.

Is it any wonder that the USPS is in the hole for a projected 15 billion? Would anyone in private industry be still holding a job while drinking and drugging while employeed? How effective was this person in performing her duties? The union needs to clean out the people collecting paychecks and not doing anything to earn them

The USPS has been around more than most posters and readers here that think they have a solution for everything. As for the Graydon solution it's still like treating a Broken Leg with a Band Aid. .

Ha, I remember when I first started with the PO, rescuing carriers who were passed out at the wheel was a standard PTF duty.

Click this LINK for a little timely Post Office history lesson:
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/13/nyregion/death-invades-a-tranquil-village-and-ridgewood-deals-with-horror.html?

Hey Dom....I grew up in NJ but never worked as a carrier there. Found the link to this article on PostalReporter.com. In any case, I still work down here in South Florida. Yes, i'm familiar with all the postal tragedies. I work in what used to be an small nondescript beachside town that was a ghost town in the winter, except for the retirement communities and natives. Now it's a well known destination. All the small southern town stereotypes once applied here, that's for sure.

Thanks Syd, I hope our readers here share the Historic LINK posted above. It was a real tragic moment for all of us. Move back to Ridgewood soon... ya hear!

Well I grew up in a nice section of Clifton, but always preferred Ridgewood, etc..To all who want to listen : Florida is not what it's cracked up to be. If one more guy in High Point says "At least we don't have to shovel snow..." I'll give him his kindly donated bottle of ice water back. ;)

drinking and drugs are abused by a lot of postal employees..U would be surprised by how many drink and do drugs on a daily basis...i just retired after 37 years and was stoned almost the entire time and never got caught...

Was there ever a sobriety road test given by the officer making the arrest? If not, this whole story is just another filler story.

The fact that anyone is operating a motor vehicle drunk while working, wheather it be a postal worker, bus driver, dpw,garbage man, or you is totally unacceptable......It has nothing to do with how a business is run or operated, these things happen every day in every type of business....it is a shame but fortunately no one was injured....Do not be so quick to judge the postal services woes unless you know your facts on now a private business which is federally regulated has had a noose put around there necks....most companys would be bankrupt and folded by now....which is probably what Congress and the US Government would like to see....take the company over, make profitable changes to it, take away collective bargaining rights and they unions, and then turn it into the prifitable company it use to be... untill congress got involved back in 2006 and started to force the PO to prefund there pension and health benefits for the next 75 years to the tune of 5.5 billion dollars a year over a 10 year period, the PO was and still would be a very profitable company, so Barbara and the rest of you nay sayers should never be quick to judge one, wheather it be a company or individual untill you know your facts. And for you stoned out idiot that just retired seek help because it is assholes like you that give the PO a bad name...