Working in Clark County: Cody Hershaw, mail carrier with USPS By Lyndsey Hewitt, Columbian Staff writer, news assistant
Published: December 19, 2020, 5:00am
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4 Photos U.S. Postal Service mail carrier Cody Hershaw looks down the street as he gets back into his delivery car on a recent Thursday while on a route in the Cascade neighborhoods in Vancouver. (joshua hart/The Columbian) Photo Gallery
The U.S. Postal Service had a doozy of a year.
It endured a period of chaos during the presidential election, in which an unprecedented 46 percent of Americans voted by mail, according to the Pew Research Center. Now, the federal agency is slammed by a “historic record” of mail and packages, according to a Dec. 14 news release. The reason? A huge rise in online shopping during the pandemic.