Postal Service apologizes for delivering blood-stained mail

OLEAN, N.Y. (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service has apologized to residents along an upstate New York mail route who received mail stained with blood.

A Postal Service spokeswoman for the agency's western New York district tells the Olean (OH'-lee-an) Times Herald (bit.ly/1VrWGJ5) that the blood was from a mail carrier whose finger was cut after a vehicle accident Tuesday.