NAMPA, Idaho — Employees at the Nampa Post Office say they’ve been working in unsafe conditions for months, raising concerns about possible asbestos exposure and sewage backups inside the nearly century-old building.
The Nampa Post Office has served the community from its 11th Avenue South location since 1931. Now, workers are questioning whether postal leaders properly handled a possible asbestos exposure mixed with a sewage backup.
The concerns came to Idaho News 6 in May from the partner of a postal employee, citing flooding in the building’s basement where asbestos-containing materials had previously been identified.
Don Bouie, president of the American Postal Workers Union Local 479, says current employees contacted the union after reporting sewage backups, flooding and concerns that maintenance work may have disturbed asbestos-containing materials.
“It was seeping up through the drains as well as through the toilets and onto the floors. Terrible smell, worse than a porta potty,” Bouie said
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