Posted on 08/05/2019 2:03:12 PM PDT by TomServo
A state representative is calling for improvements in postal workers’ “deplorable” working conditions seeing a mail carrier demonstrate how hot mail trucks get by cooking a steak on his dashboard.
Shawnna Bolick, a member of the Arizona House of Reps. (District 20), sent a letter to the president of the American Postal Workers Union, Mark Dimondstein on Thursday, urging him to look into the heat-related issue. In her letter, she explained how a worker had sent her daily updates, and photographs of a digital thermometer and the cooking steak, to show how hot his truck gets.
“Over the past several weeks, his mail delivery truck has averaged about 128 degrees Fahrenheit inside his vehicle,” the letter reads. “This past weekend he conducted an experiment and cooked a steak to an internal temperature of medium (142 degrees) not fully thawed at 10am on his dashboard from 10am until 12:30pm.”
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Or applying Asphaltic Roofing.
They should insulate an attic on that same day or any of fifty construction tasks that actually are tough.
My truck is too hot — boo hoo.
Must be damn good money....
The secret is not staying in your vehicle for long periods of time. The problem with not all, but some of the carriers is that they will drag their deliveries out throughout the day so they get back to the post office just prior to clocking out. That means parking your truck, and sitting in it to pass the time. If you get back too early, they'll put you to work sorting mail, or doing other stuff. We used to have a carrier who parked his truck, and visited somebody in the building across the way. He'd be there for hours. The guy we have now is a sweetheart, and he puts up with my package deliveries without complaint. I live on the third floor, and I can count on him to bring my packages up to my door, and he'll even knock on the door to let me know he's got something for me. The subs who cover for him on his days off, end up delivering packages from another building to me, or leave my packages in the front hall, which bugs the crap out of me, because I don't go downstairs every day to get my mail out of my mailbox.
If liberals demand that the Emma Lazarus poem at the Statue of Liberty is American immigration policy, then I say this motto defines postal worker policy.
-PJ
I don't know about your UPS drivers, but the ones who deliver in my neck of the woods are all bald. I wonder if they shave their heads to stay cool.
How did we ever get our mail delivered in the days before air conditioned vehicles? Many of the USPS people today have no idea how others that went before them, did the job without all the frills and benefits they get today, never complained about it, and thanked God everyday that they had a job.
Maybe Shawnna would rather make pizzas all day in the summer or shingle a roof or stand in the sun all day doing road work.
I think you nailed it!
Delivering mail in hot summer weather is new?
I wonder how hard they would scream if we cut the labor force by half and delivered the mail every other day?
The post office is a dead man walking and costing us dearly. Some things really do become obsolete even though we like them and they are charming, sometimes.
But heat? Oh yeah. THAT will stay this courier from the swift completion of his appointed rounds.
Plus it's not in the union contract.
Maybe sitting in the truck so long is the problem? Why not get out and deliver mail?
Or throw 50-pound alfalfa bales in a barn loft during the heat of the day.
My wife did it for a few years and was at $19/hr. My sister did it a lot longer and made around $25/hr. People that do it for the full 25/30 years end up over $30/hr.
My wife and sister both did it in FL where it’s not quite as hot as AZ but a LOT more humid.
I was in the sign business and serviced electric signs on occasion. Some were big enough to crawl inside and it had to be 130-140 degrees inside.
A/C does no good in mail trucks because one of the windows is always open.
128 degrees is way to hot to expect any kind of
Physical output from a worker. Get a lot more out of them with a little air conditioning.
Like my old millionaire boss used to say, “Dont stumble over dollar Bills to pick up nickles”.
The cut open finished steak looked delicious.
I would not want to be in Arizona in the summer without air conditioning.
I think that’s a very reasonable complaint.
OSHA has a lot to say about heat related conditions in the workplace. I would think they would get OSHA involved before going postal.
Yup. Toss in some humidity and it’s nasty. Worked in a shipyard for a time. Outside New Orleans. Heat and humidity and not a chance of AC.
One usps worker in this neighborhood died of heat last year in the open truck on her rounds.
you forgot about Global Warming, so yes your tax dollars are responsible
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