US postal workers side with communities over collaboration with ICE: "Don't be a snitch"

About this episode

This episode features a discussion with postal worker Connor Mauche about the challenges faced by USPS employees in the current political climate.

While facing decades-long political efforts to throttle and privatize the United States Postal Service (USPS), and while US Postmaster General David Steiner ominously warns that the USPS will "run out of money" within a year, postal workers continue to deliver the mail and serve communities across the country. But that job has gotten harder, more dangerous, and more complicated in recent years. From increases in targeted violence against letter carriers to the Trump administration's attacks on mail-in voting, to ICE and Border Patrol agents invading communities on their mail routes, USPS workers are confronting many daily hazards on the job that the public doesn't see. In this episode, we speak with Connor Mauche, a letter carrier in New York and a shop steward for Branch 3 of the National Association of Letter Carriers, about what it's like to be a postal worker in America in 2026. Additional links/info: National Association of Letter Carriers - Branch 3 website Ann DeStefano Sutherland, The Revolt of the Good Guys (a documentary about the Great Postal Strike of 1970) Derek Dolbeare, Labor Notes , " Dispatch: Letter carriers are gearing up for another contract fight " Sara…

People in this episode

Guest: Connor Mauche

Topics covered

• postal workers
• community service
• ICE collaboration
• political challenges
• labor rights
• USPS privatization

Keywords

• USPS
• postal workers
• ICE
• labor rights
• community service
• political challenges
• New York
• 2026

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: National Association of Letter Carriers, US Postal Service, Economic Policy Institute, AP, The Guardian, Labor Notes

Books & works: The Revolt of the Good Guys

Places: New York

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