Postal Workers in Chambersburg Won’t Wear Masks and Are Immune from State Enforcement

WITF reporter, Brett Sholtis attempted to speak to a postal employee who was not wearing a mask. He also tried to talk to her supervisor. The supervisor told Sholtis that she had no comment, and gave him Ray Diautolo’s phone number. Diautolo is a spokesman for the Postal Service. 

Sholtis reported that “U.S. Postal Service spokesman Ray Diautolo said post offices are not required to follow state orders, but the postal service has made a ‘voluntary decision to align with local and state ordinances during the pandemic.

We are therefore requiring our employees to wear face coverings in locations with such ordinances and we are placing signage on the doors of our lobbies for customers to see that we are requiring social distancing and that a form of face covering should be worn by postal customers while they are in our retail lobbies,’ Daiutolo said.

Daiutolo said the local manager in Chambersburg was addressing the issue with employees who weren’t wearing masks. However, a postal clerk and another post office worker were not wearing masks while in close proximity to customers and other employees during a reporter’s visit to the post office Wednesday.”