Brooklyn Postal Workers Face ‘Obscene’ Changes Amid Nationwide Shakeup

In late July, workers at the United States Postal Service’s Flatbush station were informed that they were going to be the subjects of a test. They were spending too much time in the office, management said, and so new measures would be put in place to streamline the operation and reduce costs. 

Instead of coming in from 7:30 or 8 a.m. to 6 or 7 p.m. as usual, workers were to arrive and leave an hour or more later. Instead of picking up the mail that had come in that morning, even waiting for late mail trucks, they were to go out only with what was left over from the night before. And instead of taking a little overtime to come back to the station and take out the mail that had come in during the day, carriers were to stay out and then go home when…

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