The campaign is continuing with the story of Travis\u2019s co-worker \u201cBradley,\u201d who supported a different presidential candidate than Travis and wanted everyone to know it.<\/p>\n
Bradley \u2014 this isn\u2019t his real name, either \u2014 made a video recording of himself in his postal vehicle, talking about his preferred presidential candidate. Bradley, who identified himself as a USPS employee in the video, then posted the recording on Facebook.<\/p>\n
An investigation determined that Bradley, while on duty, had made and posted several other messages about presidential politics.<\/p>\n
Like Travis, who agreed to a 30-day suspension for his violation, Bradley faced consequences for his actions.<\/p>\n
Bradley served a 60-day suspension for electioneering on federal property and breaking the Hatch Act\u2019s social media rules.<\/p>\n
USPS wants employees to know about Travis and Bradley so they won\u2019t run afoul of the law, too. The organization plans to showcase other workers who violated the Hatch Act during a campaign that will run throughout the year.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Ethics Blue page<\/a><\/em>\u00a0has more Hatch Act resources, including a\u00a0\u201c<\/em>Let\u2019s Talk Politics!<\/a><\/em>\u201d<\/em>\u00a0fact sheet. Employees who have questions can contact their local field law office or send an email to\u00a0ethics.help@usps.gov<\/a><\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n USPS News Link – 4\/28\/20 – Remember \u201cTravis,\u201d the USPS employee who violated the Hatch Act by attempting to distribute signs for his favorite presidential candidate at the Post Office where he works? The Postal Service recently\u00a0featured Travis\u00a0\u2014 not his real name \u2014 in its campaign to educate employees about the Hatch Act, a law […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28596","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\/28596","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=28596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28597,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28596\/revisions\/28597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Hatch-Act-Violation1.jpg\")
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