Once again United States Postal Service (USPS) workers across the country are being overwhelmed during the peak holiday season. This is the direct product of years of cuts and the so-called “modernization” drive aimed at making the Post Office “profitable” by reducing the workforce and shrinking the physical footprint of postal operations.
These conditions will not only continue but worsen until we organize independently to reverse job losses and fight for adequate hiring so that we can do our jobs safely and properly.
Photographs and videos circulating online show distribution facilities so overwhelmed with packages that stacks are spilling into walkways. A local news report from Louisville, Kentucky showed bins crowded into walkways, while customers complained of lengthy delays in receiving their mail.
