Attacks on rural letter carriers the beginning of devastating restructuring of the US Postal Service

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More than 90,000 rural letter carriers for the United States Postal Service (USPS) are battling changes to their compensation which have led to massive pay cuts and longer workweeks.

The replacement of the pre-existing method of calculating rural carriers’ hours and wages has resulted in wage cuts as high as $20,000 a year in some cases. Rural carriers’ attempts to challenge and prove any discrepancies between their actual work and what is calculated by the new system have been derailed by the USPS’s refusal to disclose the year-long electronic collection of data used by the system which they alone control.

Attacks on rural letter carriers the beginning of devastating restructuring of the US Postal Service

The “Delivering for America” plan is designed to drastically cut the cost of the mail delivery system at the expense of the workforce and quality of service, with the ultimate goal of privatization.