Mail carrier Jason Thompson recently went viral for describing what he saw as unsafe and completely disorganized working conditions at the Fairfield U.S. Postal Service (USPS) office near Cincinnati, Ohio. Thompson claims that after his Facebook post gained traction, USPS officials warned him to delete it or face serious consequences, and they followed through shortly afterward, placing him on emergency suspension.
Thompson’s main complaint wasn’t that the job was hard; he emphasized that carriers routinely deliver through “heat waves, blizzards, storms, and emergencies.” The issue this time, he argued, was that the situation felt completely different because there was zero plan in place to deal with Winter Storm Fern. As a result, there was zero work to do.
