A rat fell through the ceiling onto a customer’s shoulder earlier this year, they say.
Another one scampered across the counter.
Mail has been delivered late, the offices are dingy, and a bat swooped through in the middle of the day.
Representatives blame staffing cuts and a lack of capital improvements, saying the Arizona district that oversees New Mexico’s mail operations leaves its neighbor to the east with the heavy end of the mailbag.
“We’re just like this bastard child,” said Dan Huerta of the American Postal Workers Union Local 380. “We can tell there’s a big difference. They’re taking care of Arizona, and New Mexico gets nothing. The residents of New Mexico continue to get disrespected.”
“Members of the union that represents some 400 U.S. Postal Service workers in Albuquerque say the postal facilities in New Mexico’s largest city are a shambles, without enough employees to keep offices clean or ensure mail arrives in post office boxes on time.”
So in reaction to all this union members brought their pet rats n bats to work and called out for some o dat FMLA absences to make the point.
But what about ME????
Lucky it wasn’t one of the giant “rats” that works in
Nashua NH. It would have killed the customer.