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Postal worker cooks steak on truck dashboard to showcase 'inhumane' working conditions [tr]
Yahoo News ^ | 8/5/2019 | Mahira Dayal

Posted on 08/05/2019 2:03:12 PM PDT by TomServo

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To: TomServo

That’s why southern Italy and Spain observed the “siesta,” where businesses are closed all afternoon in the summer; open only in the morning and evening.


41 posted on 08/05/2019 3:12:23 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: CondorFlight

add to that the sidewalk temp is closer to 150f as well


42 posted on 08/05/2019 3:12:55 PM PDT by Jeff Vader
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To: TomServo

My nephews wife has been a UPS driver in the Mohave for at least thirty five years. For years she delivered to the Ft. Irwin area which is fringe Death Valley. She uses a battery operated fan in her truck.


43 posted on 08/05/2019 3:16:42 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: TomServo
Worked in Kuwait for a while. You had ONE chance to start the car, after that, the ignition key was too hot to hold. The Arabs got to park in the shaded areas, the rest of us were on our own.

In earlier times, these guys also had people shooting at them. (Starts at :18)

44 posted on 08/05/2019 3:17:00 PM PDT by Oatka
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To: Maudeen
especially for senior citizens who depend on the postal service.

For what ? Medicare alternative offers? AARP magazines?

45 posted on 08/05/2019 3:20:13 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: TomServo

I think this is deliberate so they don’t actually have to stop for lunch.


46 posted on 08/05/2019 3:21:43 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: TomServo

Having no a/c in the desert is brutal.

People have long used carpet-type runners designed for dashes to reduce the amount of radiated heat. Maybe some other material could be used to cover dashes in postal trucks - like a silicon coating? Cheap, easy to retrofit.

Thinking of just the little electric carts that our route uses, they do make golf car tops that are ‘swamp cooler’ tops that you fill with ice water and off you go for 9 holes. But the AC top is current-hungry so 18 holes is probably a no-go as would be 7 hours of blasting air on a route.

But how about this idea: DH bought one of those ‘as seen on tv’ personal “air conditioners” aka hamster-sized swamp cooler. Low amps, fill with water and select speed. Why not modify one to run off accessory plug (or separate batt even), with a slosh-proof mounting for those pot-holes, and, voila!, filtered air and a cool breeze on demand, open window stop and gos eliminate humidity, and no major modifications like current-hungry golf car tops required. You can even snap one of those Fabreeze a/c air freshner clips on the front and smell laundry fresh. Happy Postal worker. Happy taxpayer. Problem solved.


47 posted on 08/05/2019 3:29:08 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: American in Israel

Best statement so far on this thread.


48 posted on 08/05/2019 3:33:21 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Songcraft

Oh the humaility


49 posted on 08/05/2019 3:42:03 PM PDT by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing)
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To: Magic Fingers

Yes, suffering is ennobling as long
as someone else is doing the suffering.


50 posted on 08/05/2019 3:44:42 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: PAR35

Sending cards, bills, etc. $.55 is $.55. It all adds up just like the increase in gasoline tax that many states are experiencing. Many seniors don’t do the internet thing and many don’t have credit cards. The majority of the older folks in our church do not use a computer.


51 posted on 08/05/2019 3:54:09 PM PDT by Maudeen (AMERICAN by Birth . . . CHRISTIAN by the Grace of GOD)
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To: reed13k

That's just a formaility.

52 posted on 08/05/2019 4:03:26 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: rktman

It’s more than that. If they get a few years seniority and work a lot of overtime which is common they can gross close to $500 daily, plus 30 days vacation and 10 paid federal holidays, health care, pension investments etc.


53 posted on 08/05/2019 4:12:45 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: sparklite2

Well put.


54 posted on 08/05/2019 4:15:59 PM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: TomServo

Why do you we continue to waste taxpayer money on a service that loses money every year ?


55 posted on 08/05/2019 4:16:09 PM PDT by Smellin Salt
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To: Magic Fingers

Steak? I knew these lazy bums make too much money.


56 posted on 08/05/2019 4:16:35 PM PDT by hal ogen (not funny<font)
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To: hal ogen

See #14


57 posted on 08/05/2019 4:24:15 PM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: TomServo

Gosh...what did postal carriers do, for the past...say....75 years, in AZ???

Did they all pass from heat stroke?


58 posted on 08/05/2019 4:27:14 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Jane Long

No...they went on retirement disability ASAP.


59 posted on 08/05/2019 4:52:05 PM PDT by hal ogen (not funny<font)
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To: hal ogen
😱👍🏼
60 posted on 08/05/2019 5:02:34 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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