Postal worker not keen to work Sundays, claimed it's meant to be 'Lord's day'
A former U.S. Postal Service letter carrier is taking his former employer to the Supreme Court next week, claiming that the agency discriminated against him and his religious beliefs.
Gerald Groff – a former Mennonite missionary and son of a truck driver – claimed that, in 2019, his employer made him choose between practicing his faith or a paycheck distributing packages. So, he resigned.
"I didn't really think I should have to quit. I really expected the post office to find a way to accommodate me and make it work for both them and myself," Groff said in an ABC News report.
The Postal Service does not deliver mail on Sundays. However, since 2015, it has been contracted to deliver packages for Amazon. This arrangement has been “a major source of revenue” for USPS in the face of declining traditional mail, according to the report.
Initially, the local postmaster accommodated Groff. Groff picked up an extra route in exchange for the postmaster tapping substitute carries for Groff’s Sunday shifts. A year later, however, his boss told Groff that he will no longer be accommodated.
"She said, ‘I'm not going to put up with your [expletive] this year,’" he said in the ABC News report. "And she said, basically, ‘You're going to have to find another job or you're going to work Sundays this time.’"
The arrangement, however, meant that Groff would have to work on the Sabbath.
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