U.S. Postal Service warns vaccine rules could affect deliveries

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service raised concerns on Wednesday that the Biden administration's new rules requiring large employers to require vaccinations or weekly COVID-19 testing could result in "high levels of absenteeism" and affect deliveries.

Last week, the Labor Department issued rules that require businesses with 100 or more employees to mandate weekly testing or vaccines by Jan. 4. The rules also require that employers ensure unvaccinated employees working in-person must wearing masks by Dec. 5.

The 644,000-employee USPS said in a financial filing that complying with the new vaccine and testing rules known as an Emergency Temporary Standard, or ETS, "will be extremely challenging to implement and administer during the height of our peak season, particularly given its expedited schedule."

Compliance, the USPS warned, "could result in labor challenges and high levels of absenteeism." Some employees could opt to leave, which "could cause significant business disruptions, and could adversely impact service performance and result in lower mail volume and revenue."

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-postal-warns-vaccine-rules-223629204.html

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Oh buck up and get vaccinated.

[texasfiddler]

1. Is Dejoy vaccinated? Can we get rid of him?

[Deuxcents]

2. What is so difficult

About getting vaccinated to keep you from getting severely sick n maybe die? I just don’t get it.

[Orrex]

8. But freedom!

[pazzyanne]

21. "freedumb"

There, fixed your spelling. You can thank me later.

[riversedge]

3. Hopefully, many are already vaccinated-at least the smart ones are.

[BigmanPigman]

4. I no longer know who to believe when it comes to the USPS.

Is this more of DeJoy's BS agenda?

[groundloop]

16. It's almost certainly DeJoy doing this.

He'll probably ensure that mail is slow so he can put the blame on President Biden.

[llmart]

25. +1

That was my first thought also.

[eppur_se_muova]

5. No, it's vaccine *deniers* who could affect deliveries.

193 million Americans are FULLY vaccinated. It's not hard to get the shots at all, unless you're stupid.

[TreasonousBastard]

12. Went to my local VA vesterday and there were huge signs up...

saying "Free Vaccination" all over the place. Walkins accepted.

[Baked Potato]

6. "Challenging" but not impossible. Nt

[Gaugamela]

7. Just get rid of DeJoy and we'll make up the difference. Nt

[turbinetree]

9. BS......

[Cryptoad]

10. SnowFlake.......

No Vax No Job,,,, simple

[kelly1mm]

11. In my small town PO there are 5 city routes and 7 rural routes for a total of 16 carriers. 6 are

not vaxed at this time. No one wears a mask in this PO as well. Western Maryland for context.

[VarryOn]

13. Too many unions are opposed to common sense...

Get the jab or lose the job. Very simple! And no getting on the dole when you won't get vaxxed!!!!

[KPN]

14. This is like bad science fiction. "A silly world, isn't it?" no longer cuts it.

[KPN]

15. Has DeJoy been vaccinated? If not, furlough his ass without pay, keys or computer/info

system access -- immediately.

[twin_ghost]

17. What?

[royable]

18. Lack of compliance, the non-brain-damaged warned,

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"could result in labor challenges and high levels of illness from COVID-19. "Some employees could opt to die or be permanently disabled, which "could cause significant business disruptions, and could adversely impact service performance and result in lower mail volume and revenue."

Putting the foot in the other shoe and all that....

[PatrickforB]

19. Oh bullshit. Mandate the vaccines.

[Lonestarblue]

20. I thought federal employees were already supposed to be vaccinated.

[Sherman A1]

22. Then it affects deliveries

The mandate must not be modified or rescinded.

[rurallib]

23. what unmitigated hog wash

[Mysterian]

24. More DeJoy bullshit!

Biden should have acted to get this son of a bitch removed a year ago (removing board members for cause), rather than waiting for board members' terms to expire, which happens next month. DeJoy has caused much damage to USPS in the one year that Biden chose not to act. We can't get rid of this treasonous rat bastard DeJoy fast enough.

[bucolic_frolic]

26. Why are those employees anymore unvaccinated than the rest of the population?

I think this is BS.

[madville]

31. CA is around 62% vaxxed and FL 60%

Just using those two large population blue and red states as a general example, if 40% of the USPS isn’t vaxxed and they get suspended or laid off, that’s gonna take awhile to fix. Many will comply though when crunch time comes.

[Elessar Zappa]

32. Those vax percentages include children.

California probably has plus or minus 75% of its adults vaccinated.

[madville]

33. Even then, 25% of the USPS not vaxxed would cause

Quite a disruption during the holiday season. I thought they were exempt from the vaccine mandate anyway, guess that changed.

[Johnny2X2X]

27. When it comes down to it

The vast majority of people won't quit their jobs over vaccine mandates. The ones who do aren't the type of people you want around anyway, they're incapable of critical thought and good decision making.

[Bobstandard]

28. Finally. An acceptable reason for mail slowdown

Should enough postal workers quit or be fired for not getting vaccinated that the mail is slowed, well, at least it’s a more acceptable reason than DeJoy gives for the slowdowns we’ve experienced.

We note that other industries that predicted similar personnel woes from vaccine mandates have not seen the predicted problems.

[BlueIdaho]

29. When can we boot NoJoy?

America should be able to file a class action lawsuit against that saboteur.

[dalton99a]

30. A temporarily sore arm is so scary

Fucking snowflakes