Confessions of a USPS worker: Delivering Amazon parcels 'till we drop'

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This is what it is like to work at the coalface of the e-commerce economy. A first-hand account, published on the blog platform Medium, details the day-to-day travails of a US Postal Service (USPS) worker and the huge pressure he and others find themselves under as a result of the large number of packages delivered on behalf of Amazon. “It’s a constructed funding shortage that Amazon has exploited for its own purposes. This instituted austerity regarding the postal service was the perfect opportunity for Amazon to come in and transform what was at least a mildly public institution into a fully private one.”