A mailman, a NASA scientist and a park ranger: Some government employees shrug off TikTok bans


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Emmanuel Jean-Pierre is an aspiring writer who’s planning to release his first novel for young adults later this year. And, at least for now, he’s a letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service who’s hungry for a regular creative outlet. And for that he turns to TikTok, where he’s known as Manny the Mailman and is a budding star in the online community known as #mailtok, a hashtag with 24.5 million views. Jean-Pierre, who’s from Morristown, New Jersey, has attracted 215,500 followers on the video app where most days he posts from his mail truck during his lunch break. The...