USPS mail dumped in parking lot

[Jimmy Higgins]

So, apparently there is video of a subcontractor handling bulk mailing... and dumping the mail in a parking lot in California. It is next to impossible to tell what happened. Disgruntled employee, partisan employee, mentally ill employee, employee that mistook the parking lot surface for a USPS center. Certainly in these times, the mind races towards conspiracy, when less conspiratorial causes can explain what happened. A disgruntled "FU I quit" employee probably makes the most sense, but we certainly are in odd times these days and the possibilities can run away in your mind.

US Postal Service employees weren't involved in the dumping of bags, Omar Gonzalez, the Western Regional Coordinator for the American Postal Workers Union, told CNN.

Gonzalez said the person seen on surveillance video tossing the bags of mail out of a Budget rental truck was a contractor and after watching the surveillance tape, Gonzalez said the bags appeared to be bulk shipment mail.
"We wanted to make sure it wasn't a bargaining employee," Gonzalez told CNN. "We talked to the Glendale supervisor and the Glendale manager and asked from where the contractors would have received the bags. That's when they responded, telling us the Union should not speak about it."

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Probably somebody who didn't want to take the time to deliver it. We get these cases periodically, this isn't evidence of trying to mess with the post office.

 

[Angry Floof]

The "f u I quit" scenario seems most plausible to me. USPS employees are under a lot of pressure in the best of times. There's a reason for the term "going postal." There's so many conflicts and suits and union actions going on behind the scenes it's a wonder they could ever be as efficient as they are, or were, possibly, as it stands now that trump has moved his incompetent, destructive attention to the USPS.