For more information on the history of the National Alliance of Postal Employees, see There’s Always Work at the Post Office: African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality, by Philip F. Rubio (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010)...
In both jobs moving the mail was the hardest part. We had to use some equipment that was heavy all by itself, then when filled with incoming or outgoing mail made the equipment even heavier. As a mail processor you had to really "hustle" to keep feeding the automatic equipment. It...