USPS Has Shorted Some Workers' Pay For Years, Center For Public Integrity Investigation Finds

CBS Dallas/Fort Worth

August 31, 2021

Nancy Campos’ back ached as she loaded more than 100 Amazon packages onto her truck. The 59-year-old grandmother, a mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service, had worked 13 days in a row without a lunch break, and now she was delivering on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday to keep up with a never-ending flow of boxes.

At the end of her shift that January day, Campos filled out her time sheet. Then she took a picture of it – for proof.

“I knew what was going to happen,” said Campos, who delivers mail in Midland, “because it happens every pay period.”

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