"They Rely On Me": An Update From A USPS Mail Carrier

Death, Sex & Money

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🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

As the USPS finds itself at the center of a political divide, we check in with a mail carrier who wrote to us earlier this year about being an essential worker at the height of the pandemic.

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0:00.0	Hi, Anna.
0:04.0	My name's Beth.
0:05.0	I'm a male carrier.
0:07.0	I work in rural Maine.
0:11.3	This is Death Sex and Money.
0:12.9	And four months ago, this listener Beth was among the essential workers who got in touch
0:17.5	to tell us what it was like reporting to work when most of the rest of the country was
0:21.9	shutting down.
0:23.4	I don't know if this virus is on the mail, the packages, the mailboxes.
0:34.5	I touch everything.
0:38.6	And I wonder if I am carrying this virus in my truck.
0:50.1	I wonder if I'm leaving it as somebody's house for somebody else to get.
0:55.7	It's scary.
0:57.1	Hello?
0:58.1	Hi, Beth.
0:59.1	Hi.
1:00.1	Hey, it's Anna's seal.
1:08.4	How are you?
1:10.4	Beth lives with her eight-year-old daughter and boyfriend in Maine.
1:13.4	Her boyfriend works in IT and has had to keep going into work too.
1:17.3	Since Beth wrote to us in March, her state has kept COVID cases fairly low and has one
1:21.8	of the lowest infection rates in the country.
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