George Ulrich gets up long before the sun, around 3 a.m., every workday. He drives through the gloom of night to be at work by 5 a.m., delivering mail in Scarsdale, N.Y.
Ulrich has been working the early-early shift for 17 years, and he does it for a special reason. As the father of a daughter with profound disabilities, he needs to be home in Croton-on-Hudson when Victoria, 16, returns from school around 2:30 p.m.
But that arrangement could be coming to an end. The U.S. Postal Service, going through a painful downsizing, has been restructuring its personnel around the region, and Ulrich's supervisors say the 5 a.m. start time is no longer possible.
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