Norman Rockwell Is Dead

The optics of this are atrocious. How can you rationalizing demanding something of employers you’re not prepared to impose on a massive government workforce that literally goes door-to-door visiting homes & businesses daily. https://t.co/llh5AmWaPW

— Julian Sanchez (@normative) September 9, 2021

Sorry to break it to you, but in 60+ years I’ve never had a postal worker “visit” my house. Mail gets dropped in the mailbox by the front door. They never ring my doorbell and hand it to me. Nor does any delivery service. It’s been contactless for as long as I can remember.

They may be visiting businesses, but so do a lot of people. I don’t think many people are really worrying about this.

This reminds me of when Postal Inspectors would bring us cases against postal employees and explain it’s easier to convict them of a federal crime than it is to fire them. https://t.co/6DjgE0XbNs

— ArrestFutureCriminalsHat (@Popehat) September 9, 2021

Blame Richard Nixon. Chances are Biden fears having this grieved under the 1970 Postal Reorganization Act, which gave USPS workers stronger collective bargaining powers than most federal employees. Among other things, it makes work rules subject to negotiation. https://t.co/KeFfVDiVZZ

— Ken Girardin (@PolicyEngineer) September 9, 2021

As for why Postal workers are in this grey zone, keep two things always in mind: 

1) reporters are not government lawyers; or often even lawyers; 

2) Twitter is a terrible place to learn about the law.

Possible. Or encouraged to vax like a covered employee rather than vax or test? pic.twitter.com/9giUzNhq7C

— ArrestFutureCriminalsHat (@Popehat) September 10, 2021

The truth is out there. But probably not on Twitter.