Samantha is a postal worker in Illinois. She reached out to the World Socialist Web Site after reading about the deaths of Nick Acker and Russell Scruggs, Jr., two postal workers who died on the job in November 2025.
Despite bitter cold temperatures on Sunday, postal workers and other community members in Minneapolis rallied against recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in the Twin Cities, specifically demanding that ICE not use postal property to stage its operations.
The Postal Service is reminding fleet managers and drivers to always buy fuel from stations in the USPS Preferred Fueling Network to help keep the organization’s costs down.