MINNEAPOLIS - Thousands of postal workers in America have a new reason to be annoyed this week. They did not get paid.
After complaints were received at kare11.com, United State Postal Service (USPS) spokesperson Peter Nowacki explained that "a programming glitch at our payroll processing center resulted in errors on the checks of approximately 5,000 rural carriers nationwide."
The workers should have been paid on September 30. They believed that they would then be paid on the following Monday, but the deposits had not all been made.
According to Nowacki, the "glitch" has been identified and corrected so that the shortened payday should not occur again.
In the Northland District, which includes Minnesota and Western Wisconsin, 333 full-time postal carriers and 444 rural "carrier associates" were affected. Nowacki described the latter as "substitute carriers."
Workers who lost eight hours of pay or more were offered a salary advance equal to 65 percent of their regular pay, according to Nowacki. All of the missing pay is to be included in the next paycheck on October 14.
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