A Cincinnati-area mail carrier says he showed up for work after a major winter storm only to find a scene that looked less like a workplace and more like a snowed-over storage yard, and now he says he’s been placed on an unpaid “emergency placement” after taking his concerns to Facebook.
In a FOX19 NOW report, Alexis Martin laid out the dispute through the experience of Jason Thompson, a longtime USPS letter carrier who said the system broke down on the exact morning it mattered most, when roads were dangerous, communication was thin, and the equipment needed to do the job was literally buried.
Thompson’s story sits right in the uncomfortable gap between what customers expect – mail shows up no matter what – and what workers say happens behind the scenes when severe weather hits: confusion, last-minute improvising, and a lot of pressure to “make it work” even when the basics aren’t in place…