USPS promotes safe workplaces, zero tolerance policy

The Postal Service is committed to fostering a positive and safe work environment that’s free of threats, fear and violence for all employees. To help fulfill this commitment, a Threat Assessment Team is available at USPS headquarters in Washington, DC, and in all area and district offices to respond to threats and potential violence. Team … Read more

Zero tolerance – USPS promotes safe workplaces

The Postal Service is committed to fostering a positive and safe work environment that’s free of threats, fear, and violence for all employees. To help fulfill this commitment, a Threat Assessment Team is available at headquarters and in all area and district offices to respond to threats and potential violence. Team members are trained to … Read more

Postal worker bosses come to blows after name-calling, cops say

By Sarah Cassi – February 5, 2016 Two U.S. Postal Service supervisors exchanged blows at a Lehigh County facility after one called the other a “lazy bitch,” according to Pennsylvania State Police. State police with the Bethlehem barracks said troopers were called Jan. 27 to the Hanover Township location at 1000 Postal Road after the … Read more

Coworkers defend Memphis postal worker indicted for attacking supervisor

By Jerry Askin – January 26, 2016 MEMPHIS, TN (WMC) – A United States Postal Service worker has been indicted on assault charges. Police said Richard Martin attacked a USPS supervisor while at work Saturday. Some postal workers spent Tuesday defending Martin and decrying what they call bad management at the United States Postal Service … Read more

USPS Workplace Harassment: Know Your Rights! Take Responsibility!

Attached is a package of USPS Workplace Harassment documents and information as listed below: USPS Zero Tolerance Policy – Letter (Feb 2015) USPS Publication 308 – Know Your Rights: A Guide for Victims & Witnesses of Federal Crimes (Feb 1998) USPS Poster 159 [Blue Intranet Presentation] – Workplace Harassment (Feb 2015) USPS Publication 553 – Employee’s Guide … Read more

Video: The Secret Inside the Postal Service – Sexual assaults committed by postal employees against other postal employees

It’s a story the U.S. Postal Service did not want us to tell you: Sexual assaults committed not just by customers and strangers, but by postal employees against other postal employees. A thick layer of snow had just dropped onto the road as we climbed a mountain near Albany, New York, to meet Diane Caruso-Ruston. … Read more

USPS Zero Tolerance Policy in Philadelphia? APWU Local President Casselli ‘thrown out of building’

…On October 21, 2014, at approximately 2:00 a.m., I was walking the workfloor on Tour 1 and was approached by Mr. Hinton who began screaming out my name and making threatening remarks as to what he was going to do to me.  I informed Mr. Hinton that I was not stopping anyone from working.  He … Read more