The VA and USPS are testing a program to encourage veterans to send medicines back for proper disposal.
The Veterans Affairs Department and U.S. Postal Service are testing a program to allow veterans to mail back expired and unused prescription drugs for safe disposal.
Veterans will receive special postage-paid envelopes and instructions with their prescriptions. Veterans with leftover medication can use the envelopes to mail back the drugs at any mailbox or post office.
The drugs will be delivered to disposal sites approved by the Environmental Protection Agency and Drug Enforcement Agency and disposed of through incineration, chemical or thermal processes. The agencies announced the program in an April 8 news release.
The pilot program will start with about 780,000 veterans in Baltimore, Md., Washington, D.C.; and West Virginia. The initiative began in Maine in 2008.
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I have worked for the PO for 20 yrs.
I have been a lette carrier for 20 yrs and have seen many changes. From the strong arm ruling to easing on the worker back to the strong arm ruling! We all know that the mail volumn has dropped, so have the employees to deliver the mail, to the time we have to deliver the mail. BUT management seems to be still growing. So many managers for so little mail. We as carriers may have less mail to deliver BUT we still have to go to every house and business. Cutting Sat delivery, what will happen on Mon when we have accumilated mail? Will it be like the day after a holiday? Too much mail in too little time! Our routes have been adjusted a couple times already in the last yr, early outs for the clerks, and management keeps on growing.