EVANSVILLE – If Austin Seibert looks tired at work, there’s a good reason.
Even though he’s an Evansville mail carrier with three years of experience under his belt, he has to work a second job at a bar to supplement his income. By the time he finishes yet another late shift, he has about three hours of shut eye before he finds himself back on the roads for his regular gig.
“And I still go out and get my route done every single day,” he said.
Seibert was one of about 50 postal service workers and supporters who amassed in Downtown Evansville Sunday afternoon for a “Save Our Service” rally .
Attendees called for National Association of Letter Carriers members to turn down a tentative agreement union president Brian Renfroe recently struck with the postal service . They say it offers only meager raises (about 1.3% across the board), exacerbates wage inequalities among workers, and does little to address the consolidations and brutal working conditions that have hurt carriers and other postal employees in recent years.