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The fact that postal workers are frontline workers is hardly a secret. Throughout the pandemic we all continued to get our mail, but, more importantly, all of the life-sustaining food and drug deliveries our households have relied on to reduce our own risk of contracting the virus. Postal and delivery workers reduced our collective risk for contracting COVID-19 immensely.
The real question is why all workers during the pandemic, including postal workers, have not had access to regular rapid testing.
While much has been written about the woes of workers telecommuting into the office from home, the fact is many employees physically reported to work in the education, medical, construction retail, hospitality and professional service industries throughout the pandemic.