ALLEN PARK, Mich. – During a House subcommittee hearing, Rep. Rashida Tlaib held up a photo of Nick Acker, an Air Force Veteran who was found dead in a mail handling machine, asking Postmaster General David Steiner to visit the USPS Detroit Network Distribution Center in Allen Park.
“I want to show you a picture,” Tlaib said during the March 17 hearing. “This is Nicholas John Acker. On November 8, he was found dead… His body was found. It was trapped, actually, in a mail handling machine… He checked into work at 11 a.m. and his body wasn’t discovered until the following day.”
Acker was a maintenance mechanic from Trenton and was discovered dead and trapped inside one of the facility’s mail-processing machines on Nov. 8, 2025. His body had reportedly been there for 6-8 hours before first responders arrived.
Tlaib called Acker’s death an “unspeakable tragedy” and said it was “heartbreaking and it was preventable,” adding that Acker had previously voiced concerns about the facility’s operations and safety practices to his fiancé.
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