USPS mail carriers say the service isn't doing enough to protect them from the coronavirus and are mixing DIY sanitizer and buying gloves online to stay safe

The USPS says it has implemented a raft of measures to fight the virus. Two postal workers we spoke with said it hasn't materialized.

With many Americans under orders to stay at home, work has continued as usual for the United States Postal Service, deemed an"essential" business.

Both were spending their own money on makeshift protection that they argued should be provided universally by their employers. His position at USPS requires him to fill in where he's needed, which means sharing trucks with other carriers, something he worries about. "The public, to be honest, are even more clueless," he said."I hate to put it that way. Everyone I encounter is nice and friendly.

More than 250 Postal Service workers have been infectedBoth said they didn't know of any of their coworkers getting sick yet. But the same can't be said for the Postal Service as a whole. Dave Partenheimer, a USPS spokesman, told Business Insider on Thursday that 259 of the Postal Service's 630,000 employees had tested positive for COVID-19.

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