{"id":28474,"date":"2020-04-07T10:21:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T15:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=28474"},"modified":"2020-04-07T10:21:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T15:21:34","slug":"postal-workers-afraid-to-work-say-they-arent-provided-protection-during-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2020\/04\/07\/postal-workers-afraid-to-work-say-they-arent-provided-protection-during-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal workers afraid to work, say they aren\u2019t provided protection during COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUSTIN (KXAN) \u2014 US Postal Service workers say they lack supplies and can\u2019t protect themselves during the COVID-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no precautions taken to separate the public from the worker inside the post office,\u201d says a tipster to KXAN News. \u201cThe grocery stores are providing clear shields for its clerks but not the US Post Office.\u201d<\/p>\n

KXAN has heard from several postal employees worried about their safety and health. They say the Postal Service has been slow to provide workers with protective gear.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey want us to disinfect our vehicles every day, but they don\u2019t give us no supplies to disinfect our vehicle. They want us to buy hand sanitizer. Shouldn\u2019t that be the responsibility of the company?\u201d wrote in one frustrated USPS worker to KXAN.<\/p>\n

The Postal Service says millions of masks, gloves and cleaning and sanitizing products are available and distributed to more than 30,000 locations every day. More at KXAN<\/a><\/p>\n

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AUSTIN (KXAN) \u2014 US Postal Service workers say they lack supplies and can\u2019t protect themselves during the COVID-19 outbreak. \u201cThere is no precautions taken to separate the public from the worker inside the post office,\u201d says a tipster to KXAN News. \u201cThe grocery stores are providing clear shields for its clerks but not the US […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","video-post","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28474","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=28474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28476,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28474\/revisions\/28476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}