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Tom
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I heard through the grapevine today that a woman postal employee at a downtown Dallas postal facility was removed from the premises for running a football pool. Don't know any further details.

Recently, the USPS issued revised rules for conduct on postal property.
See: http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20071800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2007/pdf/E7-16986.pdf

Specifically, about gambling, the revised rule states:

Sec.  447.21  Prohibited conduct.

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    (g) No employee while on property owned or leased by the Postal Service or the United States or while on duty, shall participate in any gambling activity, including the operation of a gambling device, in conducting or acting as an agent for a lottery or pool, in conducting a game for money or property, or in selling or purchasing a numbers slip or ticket.

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Well, I don't know how it is at your post office, but at every post office I've been to there was a football pool and also someone in charge of pooling money for playing the lottery. Not that it makes it right, or cardinally wrong, but it is ethically wrong according to the rules. The woman removed for running the football pool may have been doing it on the clock and on the workroom floor, going over the line and causing her removal. It's best if you do neither (football pools or lottery) while on the clock or on postal property. But if you do, according to one postal employee I heard today, DO NOT sign your real name or your real initials on the football pool sheet. That would BE REALLY STUPID, the employee stated.

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I updated the logo for PostalProfiles.com. I think it really helps the site look more professional. I'm working on opening the site to unlimited registrations. (As it stands now, the beta test period is limited to 100 users.) I'll let you know when that is done.

I've noticed that a few members don't know what to blog about. That's OK if you don't have anything to say. For those who are thinking about signing up, but don't think they have anything to say, I encourage you to sign up anyway. Here's why: I have likened PostalProfiles to a "postal myspace" but in many ways it's more like Facebook and similar sites. PostalProfiles enables people to have a common contact point to send and receive messages and other content. Now, when someone at work asks for my email address I will be telling them they can find me at postalprofiles.com/tom. Hopefully, PostalProfiles will become so well known in the postal community that postal people can just say their member name is "Tom" (or whatever) at PostalProfiles. 

Also, a note about embedding videos. I haven't tried it yet, but you can embed videos from YouTube and similar sites directly into your blogs at PostalProfiles.

Thanks for using PostalProfiles.com,

Tom