Discrimination is mostly frowned upon and often prosecuted by the U.S. government. Yet, our government allows the U.S. Postal Service to discriminate against those customers on routes designated as “auxiliary.”

These customers do not enjoy many benefits provided by those permanent routes, which are bid routes for union members. The auxiliary-route customers are not under the labor agreement and must rely on temporary carriers for mail delivery.

Even when a newly hired employee is exceptionally conscientious and provides outstanding delivery service to an auxiliary route, customers know that this excellent service is only temporary because the newly hired employee will bid to a permanent route as soon as he or she accumulates enough seniority to win a bid.

The most disturbing fact about being on an auxiliary route is that USPS management continuously keeps that route designation, without any regard for fairly rotating the designations through realignment, and complaints are basically ignored, even when Congress inquires.

To say the least, we are very disturbed over a multitude of associated delivery problems that we have had to live with for more than 10 years because the U.S. Postal Service will not budget and realign its postal routes fairly and equitably.

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