But their causes are being concealed, confused or justified away by union bureaucrats, who repeat the lies that the USPS is deeply in debt and that workers have no choice but to accept massive concessions. These conditions are well known to the nearly 650,000 US postal workers. US Postal Service (USPS) workers have been fighting an onslaught of falling wages, punitive surveillance systems, compensation schemes leading to systematic wage theft, dangerous working conditions, extreme weather conditions without any mitigating response, managerial abuse and retaliation, and delivery network “consolidations” leading to mass layoffs, with tens of thousands more layoffs planned. A US Postal Service letter carrier delivers mail in Atlanta.
