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https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/usps-employees-got-an-email-today-telling-them-not-to-talk-to-the-press-under-any-circumstances/USPS employees got an email today telling them not to talk to the press under any circumstances
Published 5 mins ago on August 20, 2020By Sarah K. Burris
While the U.S. Postal Service is under attack, everyone from letter carriers to union chairs and those working behind the doors in processing facilities has sounded the alarm about what theyre seeing from the top as part of the intentional mail slow down.
VICE News reported Thursday that USPS staff were sent a letter telling them that they cant talk to the press under any circumstances.
The memo, dated Aug. 14, explains what staff should do if contacted, but it also says that if customers are asking questions, then employees should be suspicious.
More at link.
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)That really didn't help did it? People are gonna talk and film everything. It's over Dejoy. You're gonna go to jail
LisaL
(44,974 posts)LOL.
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)The second largest employer in the world and you don't expect people to not say anything? Sure...okay lol
LisaL
(44,974 posts)And tell employees not to reveal it, of cause...
👍
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Idiots. Scare tactics!
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Innocent immigrant kids would gladly trade placem, I'm sure! 👍
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)Give it time
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)But I want it now, dammit! 🤣
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)All in good time
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)No time like the present. Just saying.
Thekaspervote
(32,790 posts)Theyve got a really strong union, besides the cat is out the bag! The public will never stand for that
Go f..k yourself dejoyless!!
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Ty!
irisblue
(33,020 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,156 posts)expect that this infringes on Americans' rights to know how their tax dollars are being spent by post office employees and how their job of delivering our mail is going...
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)👍
chriscan64
(1,789 posts)"Sorry sir, I didn't get a letter, must be stuck in the mail... hold on The Times wants to ask me something"
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)But it is dated 8/14. Why the delay for email? Had their sophists combing over it?
mainer
(12,028 posts)Two of them in Maine went straight to the press.
https://www.pressherald.com/2020/08/20/bill-nemitz-when-the-mail-slowed-maine-postal-workers-picked-up-their-whistles/
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Only way to protect their pensions & health benefits, not to mention jobs! 👍
ProfessorGAC
(65,159 posts)Don't talk to customers who ask too many questions?
Streamlining operations includes discourteous behavior toward customers?
In which universe?
Their ass is caught!
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Yes, they are caught! 👍
maxsolomon
(33,384 posts)the sorting machines, the delivery priority directives.
employees are fucking pissed off.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Thx for sharing!