Postal Service snarled the nation’s mail delivery and stirred fears of how the agency would handle the election, rank-and-file workers quietly began to resist. Mechanics in New York drew out the dismantling and removal of mail-sorting machines until their supervisor gave up on the order. In Michigan, a group of letter carriers did an end run around a supervisor’s directive to leave election mail behind. In Pennsylvania, some postal workers looked for any excuse to buy enough time to finish their daily rounds. “I can’t see any postal worker not bending those rules,” one Philadelphia staffer said in an interview.

Source: Washington Post September 29, 2020 04:21 UTC