Journal of Mental Health and Substance Abuse

Abstract 

The world was heavily saturated with Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in 2020. This crisis led the president of the United States of America to declare a national emergency regarding the Covid pandemic. All Americans were advised to remain at home as communities, states, businesses and all non-essential businesses were closed in order to stop the spread of this deadly virus. But the United States Postal Service, an essential business, more than ever paid heed to their objective to ensure through its postal duties that they delivered consistently and within its means the universal service of mailing and distributing mail pieces across the nation. This shutdown and with the death toll of Covid-19 continuously spiking did not prevent the U.S.P.S from standing by its objective and delivering billions of mail to Americans during this horrific time. This paper addresses how, as an essential business, the U.S.P.S stood postally and withstood all the implications of Covid in order to ensure that Americans continued to receive their mail, how Postal clerks were impacted by the pandemic, and what made the work of postal clerks so significant during the pandemic. Approach—This paper utilizes online resources that date back to the time of the pandemic giving various accounts of what happened to this essential government business and its postal clerks during the nation’s stretch of what was called the Covid19 pandemic. Each online resource, albeit an online periodical, postal websites, PBS, and other online media sources, discusses how the U. S. P. S. and its postal clerks were able to endure the day-to-day challenges of Covid-19 pandemic. Findings—The results determined that in the face of climatic catastrophes or national pandemics the United States Postal Service is like a juggernaut of a force that will not cease its operations or workforce as was evident in the actions it took during the Covid-19 pandemic.

 Keywords: Postal; USPS; Clerk; United States Post Office; Covid