ESCANABA — A disruption in mail service that delayed some Daily Press subscribers from reading their newspapers and slowed other deliveries is expected to end this week as carriers stricken by illness return to their jobs.

“We are back fully staffed, knock on wood, no one else gets sick,” said Escanaba Postmaster Kristen Overla.

According to Overla, in addition to four postal employees being off due to injury, there were multiple employees off sick last week, preventing two routes from going out for a couple of days. As a stop-gap measure to get mail delivered, a supervisor from the post office, Overla herself, and a city carrier from Ishpeming — who came to Escanaba specifically to help — ran mail routes.

Overla also noted the Escanaba Post Office is hiring. Jobs are posted online at https://about.usps.com/careers/