Monitors show lack of respect

The recent monitoring in the Marysville and Everett post offices smacks of George Orwell. I don’t understand the logic in this monitoring at all. If I was a terrorist, and I’m not, I would just lie to the window clerks who asked me the questions.

“Do you have any combustibles in these packages?”

I think that as a customer in the lobby, I would feel violated by this mistrust of monitoring conversations without any warnings posted.

To think that any adult working in customer service has to be babysat with baby monitors shows no respect for the overwhelming majority of hard-working, adult employees who do a good job for the U.S. Postal Service and believe in service.

I wonder if the postmasters or managers who set this up will receive discipline, as would be common with any other employee who might monitor fellow employees, managers or customers.

American Postal Workers Union

Seahurst