The Department of Labor has opened an investigation into an alleged payroll "glitch" that caused 50,000 United States Postal Service (USPS) rural carriers to go without paychecks at the start of September.
Last week’s article on the results of the latest route evaluations at the United States Post Service received a wide response from rural letter carriers.
With a new “evaluation period” beginning last week for tens of thousands of rural letter carriers, which is used to determine their pay for the next six months, even deeper cuts to their pay are on the horizon.
“How do you tell your children you won't see them again, and when you do, you have no money to do anything with them?” said one worker, who lost $10,000 a year in pay. “I mean, how is this acceptable?”