The United States Postal Service has stopped giving overtime, cut staff and won’t fill shifts as mail piles up in post offices, the leader of a Massachusetts postal workers union told the Herald on Sunday.
The U. S. Postal Service has stopped giving overtime, cut staff and won’t fill shifts as mail piles up in post offices, a leader of a Massachusetts postal workers union told the Herald on Sunday. “They’ve just kind of slowed everything down,” said John Flattery, president of the American Postal Workers Union, Central Massachusetts Area chapter Local 4553. “It’s just being purposely delayed, and it’s frustrating to watch,” he said. “It’s scaring the hell out of a lot of people in the Post Office.” These delays come ahead of the September primary election and November general election, when mail-in voting will be at an all-time high because of the coronavirus pandemic.
