‘I’m forced to lie to customers about their mail or if their mail is coming out,’ a carrier said.
“The mail is really being delayed and it’s overwhelming to the carriers.” If you’re not back in the time they want you to return, they write you up,” said the mail carrier. “They want us out on the street by 10am and some cases want us back at 4.30pm. Mail carriers are also being forced to return to stations earlier.
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One in the Richmond, Virginia, area said mail carriers are being forced to come in later in the morning, and truck drivers who deliver mail to USPS stations have also had hours cut, resulting in less time to conduct deliveries and complete workloads. Several workers at the USPS who spoke to the Guardian requested anonymity for fear of retaliation. The fund created a deficit within the USPS over the past several years, and the coronavirus pandemic has hurt the agency further amid revenue declines. Since Congress’ actions, the USPS has reduced its number of employees by about 200,000 workers to cut costs. In 2006, Congress forced the USPS to create a $72bn fund to fully pay for post-retirement healthcare costs for employees 50 years into the future, which applies to no other federal agency or corporation. The mail is really being delayed and it’s overwhelming to the carriers Mail carrier in Virginia The USPS has struggled financially due to budget cuts and measures imposed by Congress. The USPS has now warned that mail ballots in 46 states and Washington DC may not be delivered on time to be counted. Trump said on 13 August that he opposes providing additional funding to the USPS to make it more difficult to deliver mail-in ballots. He also noted conversion of non-career employees to career employees with benefits has been halted, and mail carriers are being forced out on to their routes without being given enough time to complete their office duties, leaving those tasks to gradually pile up, causing further delays. Obey the law and potentially lose your job or obey the order and possibly be arrested.” It puts the carrier in an impossible to win situation. Not everyone understands that, but the union does. “For first-class mail, there is federal law that says it must be delivered on the day it is received by the office, or have delivery attempted.”įinley added: “By following an order to break federal law, each individual carrier assumes liability for their own action that breaks the law. “Essentially, by ordering us to leave behind mail, we are being instructed to break federal law,” said Zack Finley, a city mail carrier in Midland, Texas, and local union shop steward with the National Association of Letter Carriers. ‘There are buckets of mail sitting, and we are only able to take out as much as we can,’ said one carrier.
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