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Finalists Selected for USPS
Publicity Campaign Spotlighting Retail Clerks
APWU Web News Article #46-05, Sept. 23, 2005
Nine Retail Sales Associates were selected this week to serve as Area representatives in the USPS “Postal Ambassador” publicity campaign. The following APWU members were among those selected: Benjamin J. Carter Jr.; Boris Dudar; Yvonne Hanshew; Arthur Holland Sr.; Janice Hunter; Sharra Kliebenstein; Steve Refinski; and Yolanda Rivera. [photos below]
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Retail Clerks at "Ambassador" training in Dallas, TX, August 2005. |
They were chosen from a group of 80 Retail Sales Associates — who were nominated by their local union or managers — to participate in the publicity campaign. The 80 traveled to Dallas in late August, where they learned how to “champion the benefits of upgrading the lobby environment.”
The entire group will take part in marketing USPS products and services, with the finalists playing the largest role.
The participation of clerks is due in part to APWU efforts in 2004 when the “Postal Ambassador” program was initially announced.
“When the program was brought to my attention, I saw that it spotlighted only letter carriers,” said APWU President William Burrus. “Our members perform the widest range of essential services in the nation’s mail system, and I demanded and received assurances that we would be included in the campaign.”
After an agreement was reached with postal management earlier this summer, APWU local unions in each District nominated five retail sales associates; District management nominated an additional five.
After the training, the 80 finalists [photos below] spent a day in Dallas “auditioning” for the Area representative positions. The following APWU members were among the nine selected as “Postal Ambassadors.”
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Benjamin Carter
Richard Davis
Deborah Somerville
Barbara Bringardner
Mary Colache
Paul Frankovich
Arthur Holland, Sr.
Eugene Hyden
Preston Mitchell
Laura Olson
Tina Pratt
Barry Rogers
Carrie Simpkins
Anna White
Natasha Williams-Noble
Dawn Bator-Humphrey
Sheryl Cole
Noelle Graczyk
Dawn Ireland
Steve Refinski
Debbie Rigsby
Alexsandra Warzecha
Thaddeus Wills
Catherine Angst
Carmen Cojoc 
Andrea Edwards
Kathyann Kowalski
Yolanda Peters
Yolanda Rivera
Jacqui Crist
Robyn Dart
Cheryl Dickerson
Cindy Henderson
Wendy Hubert
Marcie Nogueira
Lisa Trudeau
Felicia Carson
Renee Cooper 
Tom Coppola
Frank de Gourville
Stacey Kelly
Sharra Kliebenstein
Louis Muratore
Anne Ontai
Saray Spreer
Patricia Barnard
Armando Galarza
Yvonne Hanshew
Brian Hodges
Patricia Horne
Robin Horning
Sharol Mathis
Wilfredo Romero
Janice Hunter
Delora Lee
John Martinez
Shari Menard
Louis NaVarro
Melena Perdue
DeWayla Wyatt 
Anna Chisholm 
Borys Dudar
Russell Franklin
Timothy Garvey
Michael Harmon
Martin Johnson
Helen Lee
Paulette Lindsey
Della Nelson
Michelle Oxford
Lori Smith