"USPS Paul Reveres to the Rescue": Postal Workers in Washington and Dallas Facilities Defy DeJoy and Reconnect High-Speed Sorting Machines
August 22, 2020
Statue of Paul Revere (Roshan Vyas)
By Ericlewis0
From an August 22 Forbes article:
Postal workers in Washington State have reinstalled high-speed mail sorting machines—dismantled after controversial orders from the U.S. Postal Service— despite USPS orders not to put machines back in use….
Sorting machines in Wenatchee, Washington were also reconnected, against the orders of the Postal Service’s head of maintenance, Kevin Couch.
Also from Forbes:
After embattled Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced he would pause recent controversial changes to U.S. Postal Service protocol, the service told workers not to reinstall removed equipment.
40 percent of the high-speed mail sorting machines in the Seattle-Tacoma area were disconnected or dismantled since the changes went into effect, according to NPR, with workers in the Tacoma, Washington sorting plant saying eight of their 18 machines that sort and postmark letters were disconnected and pushed into a corner.
As the late John Lewis called such disobedience, “Good trouble.” Necessary trouble.
Let’s hope this heroic act of rebellion against a tyrant inspires othe USPS workers to do the same. Then, when DeJoy tries to re-destroy the machines, the world will be watching.
With any luck, there are some lawyers out there who will, pro bono, help these patriotic mail carriers keep their jobs. After all, they are only upholding the oath they took to keep their appointed rounds.
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