‘Like Armageddon’: Rotting food, dead animals and chaos at postal facilities amid cutbacks
LA TimesEmployees at California postal facilities provide a glimpse of the chaos amid both the pandemic and widespread cuts imposed by the USPS. Inside one sprawling facility at Florence and Central avenues in Los Angeles, which serves 92 L.A.-area post offices, seven delivery bar code sorters were removed in June, leaving three, Gonzalez said. At one point, Scantlebury said, the “whole building was filled with gnats.” The delays were particularly tragic for live animals, including baby chickens and crickets, that are transported through the U.S. Usually, mail handlers say, they can hear the birds peeping and rustling around in their boxes. Workers sometimes see shipments of crickets jumping around inside their packaging, said Eddie Cowan, a mail handler and the president of a local chapter of the National Postal Mail Handlers Union. Every afternoon, Diaz said, a truck driver picked up the post office’s outgoing mail and took it to a processing facility in Bakersfield.
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