Going Postal: Black People and the Potential Default of the United States Postal Service
24th September 2011
No one appears ready to say it, so we will. The United States Postal Service (USPS) is on the verge of default because it has become one of the largest employers of Black people in the world. It’s disproportionately Black job force – which employs, like the local, state, and federal government, a disproportionate amount of Black people – is a burden to generating profits, maintaining a high standard of work ethic, and ultimately, staving off default.
No company – private or public- can go 365Black and not expect a significant shift in productivity, efficiency, and overall skill within that workforce. The USPS has been prostituted out, like so many other government agencies, as a vast employer of Black people due to private companies and corporations continued inability to “make up” work for Black people to perform.