Two workers at the Windsor Terrace post office have enraged the neighborhood with a simple demand that they be given a lunch break.
The other day, The Stoop’s switchboard lit up with complaints after a sign was posted explaining that the Prospect Park West postal substation would be closed every day from 12:30 to 2 pm.
“I mean, they have a job to do!” screamed one of our callers. “And this is what they do? It’s just another thing that’s so wrong. And we have no control over it.”
Postal officials approved the lunch break and have responded by sending over a “Mobile Post Office” truck — though residents say it’s not always there.
The two postal workers refused to give their names for this article, but said they need a midday break because the crowds have become unmanageable ever since a third worker broker her foot in November.
“It was just the two of us through Christmas, and it was terrible,” said one worker. “The line was through the door. We complain every day to [managers at the main post office on] Ninth Street, but they don’t listen.”
After being contacted by The Stoop, a staffer for Rep. Yvette Clarke (D–Park Slope) said the congresswoman would send a complaint to the Postmaster General.
But she said she’d send it from a different post office than the one on Prospect Park West.
