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"Hundreds of postal workers in the Milwaukee area have reported falling on the ice and snow while delivering mail this winter.They are practically begging residents to clear their sidewalks and driveways.\"When it's covered like this and you can't see the ice up underneath and then you step, and it's over,\" letter carrier Conrad Deslandes said.VIDEO: Letter carriers ask homeowners to clear away ice, snowDeslandes is walking a winter tight rope. These days he's only as good as his last step.\"It's still dangerous, and we can't go as fast as we would like to because we got to be real careful. We don't want to fall and injure ourselves,\" Deslandes said.The regional postal office covering Milwaukee Metro and Northern Illinois said letter carriers have reported 255 slips and falls since November and 100 within the last week, which is higher than normal.\"It's definitely an issue, especially this time of the year, it is the No. 1 safety hazard that we have is the slip, trip and fall,\" said Scott Van Derven of the State Association of Letter Carriers.\"Please clear the sidewalks, please,\" Deslandes said.Deslandes said he's had a couple of falls this winter but not as bas as some of his co-workers.\"I have fallen. I do my best not to fall,\" letter carrier Chris Passow said.Passow has been a letter carrier for 23 years. He said he's gone down many times but has always been lucky enough to get back up.Some letter carriers WISN 12 News spoke with said they don't consider their job the most hazardous of professions but during this cold snap and the snow and ice, it's right up there."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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