We need numbers every day to be able to make informed decisions about the risks we face as conditions change from hour to hour and day to day.

As essential workers, we are required to work as the USPS schedules us. Many are mandated to work extended days and hours. In extreme cases, non-career workers (those who have not yet achieved regular status with benefits) are working up to 12 hours/day and 7 days/week in violation of National Contracts.

For employees working in 38,000 post offices and over 400 processing facilities throughout the nation, the most dangerous conditions are inside post offices and processing facilities because the USPS has not implemented adequate 6 ft. safe distancing measures to provide protection.  Wearing masks is not enforced everywhere and there are still shortages of PPE.

Letter carriers can manage the risk of exposure while delivering, but employees inside their own buildings in post offices and in processing facilities, are continuing to work under unsafe conditions.

USPS management at all levels, from Executives in Washington, D.C. down to every single facility, are actively engaged in information mismanagement.  Citing HIPAA privacy rules, we don’t get up-to-date numbers of COVID-19 related absences, infections, quarantined individuals, and deaths in facilities.

• There is no way for us to know the actual conditions and the risks we are exposed to every day.
• One asymptomatic employee infecting several co-workers around them can shut down a post office or processing facility. At my post office that would affect 2300 businesses and 15,000 residential customers.
• We work exposed. We work more. Infected, we bring the virus home. Infected we carry the virus to the businesses and residences in our communities.
• We are critical to curbing the spread or continuing the spread of COVID-19
• There will be waves of COVID-19 affecting all of our communities into 2021.

Employees have the right to know if and to what extent COVID-19 is our post offices and processing facilities.

We need numbers every day to be able to make informed decisions about the risks we face as conditions change from hour to hour and day to day.