@Starbucks during COVID everyone & they momma was calling our farm workers and our delivery drivers @USPS @UPS + Hero’s. fast forward and this is how y’all treating them in 2025! Excuse me?
OVER WATER. #boycottstarbucks
not buying anything until you apologize and make it right pic.twitter.com/CeLIsEuiCN— Maritza (@maritzarosas25) July 15, 2025
A US Postal worker’s experience in Starbucks has caused quite a stir online after she alleged that she was refused a free cup of iced water when she was working in temperatures of over 100°F.
The episode has shined a spotlight on both corporate policy and the conditions that frontline workers are subject to in potentially hazardous weather.
The postal worker, who identified herself as @melaninglowesthetics on TikTok, posted a brief video, which went viral and was then taken down.
According to the woman, she had been taking a package to a Starbucks outlet, where she requested a small cup of iced water
