{"id":14327,"date":"2016-03-08T09:17:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T14:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=14327"},"modified":"2016-03-08T09:23:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T14:23:05","slug":"donald-trump-bumper-sticker-lands-postal-worker-in-hot-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/03\/08\/donald-trump-bumper-sticker-lands-postal-worker-in-hot-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump bumper sticker lands postal worker in hot water"},"content":{"rendered":"
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3\/8\/16 – Tomas Strouhal just wanted to openly support Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The 23-year-old Quarryville resident put a Trump bumper sticker on his 2003 Chrysler Sebring and hung up a newspaper clipping inside his locker at the Leola post office, where he works.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But Strouhal\u2019s employer took issue with them. Citing the Hatch Act, which governs political activity by federal employees, his supervisor said the \u201cTrump: Make America Great Again\u201d bumper sticker must go if his car is parked in the post office parking lot.<\/p>\n

USPS backed down after a few days when they realized the rules allow one bumper sticker, even if the car is parked at the post office.<\/p>\n

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The Leola post office deferred comment to postal service spokeswoman Karen Mazurkiewicz. She referred to a 2011 letter from the postal service\u2019s ethics department that reads, in part, “If the car is parked on postal or other government property, the Hatch Act limits to one the number of visible bumper stickers that can be placed on the vehicle.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Strouhal thinks it was his support of Trump, rather than some other candidate, that ticked off his supervisor. According to Strouhal, it’s caused his co-workers to treat him differently and have a general \u201cattitude\u201d toward him.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Trump) is not a politician,\u201d Strouhal said. \u201cHe\u2019s a normal, working-class American, and my views are just like his.\u201d<\/p>\n

True.<\/p>\n

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3\/8\/16 – Tomas Strouhal just wanted to openly support Donald Trump. The 23-year-old Quarryville resident put a Trump bumper sticker on his 2003 Chrysler Sebring and hung up a newspaper clipping inside his locker at the Leola post office, where he works. But Strouhal\u2019s employer took issue with them. Citing the Hatch Act, which governs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14327"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14331,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14327\/revisions\/14331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}