12/7/2020 CHICAGO (CBS) — A Chicago-area postal worker who is battling COVID-19 spoke out Monday out about the mail service delays and issues we’ve spent months uncovering, across the city and surrounding suburbs.
That worker told CBS 2’s Tara Molina that staffers do not feel safe, with more and more of them coming down with the virus – and that’s what’s behind many of those delays.
You won’t see the U.S. Postal Worker’s face and their voice has been disguised, but what the worker wants you to hear is the other side of the story.
By now, you’ve probably heard about missing mail and delayed mail, you may be dealing with it. But you haven’t heard this.
For months, every week, we’ve heard from Chicagoans who are frustrated about spotty mail service. It has resulted in missing checks, missing prescriptions, and major delays in service in general.
“You’ll go and check at the Post Office and there’s a line that is outrageous, because everyone is checking for their mail,” Aquanetta Gutter of south suburban Riverdale told us last week.
Last week, after several detailed requests to determine exactly what’s causing the delays and the missing mail, a USPS spokesman told us COVID cases inside local offices are behind at least some of the issues.
A total of 17,575 of their 644,000 employees nationwide have tested positive. Molina talked to one of them.
I work in Administrative Support Office and share desk and computer with two other general clerks. The tour 2 clerk came down with Covid 19 and the supervisor was not forthcoming with that employees diagnosis. When I came down with it the office was then sanitized. If sanitary measures had been in place after the first infection, then I would not have had Covid.
They have these slogans like ” an ounce of prevention is worth a pound
of cure ” . Doing the right thing is not only cost effective. The fact is that
when common sense is not used. The whole USPS is in a state of missed
goals. The public needs leadership to value its workforce, so its workers
can safely serve with the quality service that they are used to.
It is sad, that with time, not much ever changes. I still feel for the young 31 year old
mother that died a week after giving life to her baby. She was black, and i am a old
white person, but when life doesn’t matter. I don’t how you can redeem a system where the truth, or the parties involved don’t matter!.