How naif can (even a USPO manager) be? Postal Union Advises Workers in Public Eye Not to Wear Protective Masks and Gloves Oct 23, 2001 WASHINGTON (AP) - Worried about the image of postal workers, one union has been urging its members who work in the public eye not to wear the protective gear being provided since the discovery that anthrax was sent through the mail. Workplace guidelines have been modified to allow employees to wear gloves, masks and other protective gear. But "this is not the visual image we wish to project to the citizens we serve," according to a Friday newsletter by the American Postal Workers Union's news service, dated before two postal workers died. The newsletter was posted on the union's Web site Monday. Workers in the public eye should not wear the gear, the newsletter said. It does not address the issue of employees who handle mail, such as those at the Brentwood facility in Washington, the city's central mail processing facility.