The employees of USPS are petitioning against the unlawful policy which requires us to wear face coverings, enforced on us by local management, district management, and the Postal Service COVID-19 Command Response Team at headquarters. The USPS is a complex federal agency that is independent of the executive branch of the US government under Title 39 USC.  The federal mask mandate by Executive Order 13991, signed by President Biden on January 20, 2021, should not apply to the USPS. Therefore, we find it unlawful for the USPS to have this face covering policy. 

We, the USPS employees, are asking the USPS Covid-19 Command Response Team, the Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, and Deputy Postmaster General Doug Tulino, to remove the face coverings policy. We also ask any and all USPS employees from across the nation to join in on this petition. The more support we have the better we are to see change happen. 

After 2 years of responding to the pandemic of Covid-19 with mandates and restrictions put in place by federal, state, and local authorities, employers and businesses, we are in a place where it is time to move forward and back to normal. If we are to truly follow the data and science, just as those whom impose mandates and restrictions on us say they do and wield it as power over us, then it is time for us to use the same power to declare this pandemic over. With widely available vaccines and therapies, high vaccination rates, lower case rates, and higher natural immunity rates, there is no longer a need for any Covid-19 responses, mandates or restrictions. If we can accomplish this goal with this petition the USPS can be a leading example to the country on how to move forward and back to normal. 

If 100,000 people can attend the Super Bowl game  without masks, then we should be able to attend work without face coverings.