There’s an uprising happening across the country -- across all 50 states, DC and even US territories -- that the national media isn’t talking about.

The National Association of Letter Carriers represents over 225,000 mail delivery workers in cities and suburbs. And for the first time in 50+ years, its members are revolting.

Stoking the anger is the failure of top secret contract negotiations between the union’s president, Brian Renfroe, and USPS postmaster general Louis DeJoy that left workers without a contract for more than 500 days.

Still even after all that time, the contract that Renfroe finally took to members included a mere 1.3% raise for a job that starts out at $19-an-hour for the first two years. Some workers will make 20 cents more an hour while the highest-earning workers get a mere 43 cent bump.

The failure to deliver has already had a devastating impact on individual mail carriers.

To so many carriers, that pittance of a raise is the embodiment of a much larger set of problems that have degraded a job that once guaranteed a solid middle class life. That is the deeper undercurrent fueling this backlash: over the past 30+ years, the wages, the treatment, and the quality of life have been stuck in a downward spiral.

Rank and file letter carriers all over the country are speaking out about what has become an increasingly untenable job, with mounting risks to their physical safety due to the routes they take and the conditions in which they work.

Watch our exclusive report, telling the stories of mail carriers in their own words, as we continue to drive working class media and political action that supports workers and exposes corporate greed.

Now take the next step and click ‘START WRITING’ to sign and send your direct message to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy standing with workers and demanding the USPS negotiate a contract that delivers better wages, benefits, and working conditions now.