Four workers have died at the Palmetto Regional Processing and Distribution Center in Georgia in the past two years. The most recent is Demarcus Little, a 45 year-old father of two.
Postal workers have been dying across the country. Management is being let off the hook. USPS was recently fined only $26,481 for the death of Nick Acker, who was crushed to death in a mail sort machine in Allen Park, Michigan.
The deaths are part of a broader assault on the postal workforce. Utilizing a manufactured deficit, USPS Postmaster General David Steiner has proposed ending six-day mail delivery, closing “unprofitable” local post offices and ending the Universal Service Obligation. They have already suspended payments into workers’ pension system. The proposals would mean the effective abolition of USPS as a public service and placing it under control of private corporations.
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