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.
As of last month, all federal workers are banned from having TikTok on their work phones.
In some places, using a personal device isn’t enough to get around TikTok restrictions.
There’s no telling precisely how many federal workers use TikTok, but certain hashtags show the breadth of its popularity.
The public relations staff at some federal agencies said they had no plans to interfere with what federal workers did on their own.