I've been a postal worker for 17 years, and I'm unnerved by the current situation: 'It's getting scarier'

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• Chris (not his real name), 41, is a veteran postal worker in Massachusetts who spoke to Business Insider about what the past few months have been like for him.
• The US Postal Service has been dealing with financial trouble, a pandemic, and the president's recent admission that he would block funding in order to sabotage mail-in voting.
• Chris, whose identity Business Insider has verified, spoke anonymously out of concern for losing his position.
• This is his story, edited for length and clarity, as told to reporter Juliana Kaplan.
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[The past few months,] it's been very, very different. I've been doing it for 17 years.

Especially with these COVID times we're in, [my management team has] been excellent as far as providing us with gloves, masks, hand sanitizer, and even social distancing the whole office.

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