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.
She is sharing her story with the WSWS to encourage other postal and logistics workers to come forward to provide evidence to the inquiry launched by the USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee. The investigation has been launched by workers to expose the terrible conditions which management, with the support of the bureaucrats in the postal unions, are covering up.
After reporting persistent sexual harassment by a supervisor, she received thinly veiled death threats and was fired. She is now being further harassed for continuing to fight to expose the conditions that postal workers face on the job.
Samantha: Death is what causes people to pay attention. You can report things to your boss, you can report to higher levels, you can report to OIG [Office of Inspector General], you can report to OSHA [Occupational Safety and Health Administration], but nobody is going to listen to the worker unless there is a significant amount of damage, which is usually death.
