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A Baltimore worker delivered Amazon packages early in the pandemic. Photo: Elvert Barnes, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped from original. Part 2 of a series on Amazon's delivery drivers. Part 1, “Building Its Own Delivery Network, Amazon Puts the Squeeze On Drivers,” is here. The Amazonification of logistics has created a new group of highly exploited workers: delivery drivers. Amazon itself increasingly relies on an expanding network of subcontracted drivers and independent contractors to deliver packages to customers’ doors. The working conditions facing Amazon’s last-mile drivers are defined ...

For postal and UPS workers, the peak season started in March with the pandemic... and it never let up. Photos: IMF Photo Cory Hancock (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0), Michael Shea Every year, workers at the Postal Service and UPS expect to work long hours between Thanksgiving and Christmas. “This is like our Super Bowl,” said Kimberly Karol, president of the Iowa Postal Workers (APWU). “Employees really do rally together.” But this year has been like no other. Workers were still catching their breath from last year’s holiday peak when the pandemic struck and online ordering ratcheted up. It was l...

UPS and Postal Service Workers Struggle With COVID and High Volume Letter carrier Steve Guerra sorts mail at his station inside the Roxbury Post Office in Nubian Square before heading out to deliver mail and packages in Boston on December 1, 2020. Lane Turner / The Boston Globe via Getty Images By Every year, workers at the Postal Service and UPS expect to work long hours between Thanksgiving and Christmas. “This is like our Super Bowl,” said Kimberly Karol, president of the Iowa Postal Workers (APWU). “Employees really do rally together.” But this year has been like no other. Worker...