Some 200,000 mail carriers have reached a tentative contract deal with the U.S. Postal Service that includes backdated pay raises and a promise to provide workers with air-conditioned trucks.
The new agreement, which still needs to be ratified by union members, runs through November 2026. Letter carriers have been working without a new contract since their old one expired in May 2023. Since then they have continued working under the terms of the old contract.
Both the union and the Postal Service welcomed the agreement, which was announced Friday.
It’s insane they’ve had to go this long without air conditioned trucks. For an operation that needs to be functional for our society to operate, they really should receive much better pay and conditions.
I’m assuming it’s partly because of how crazy inefficient A/C is if you’re opening your doors/windows every 30 seconds.
Wow, rough! Anyway, you should probably go to therapy to figure out why the fuck you said that out loud, or least spend do some introspection.
Besides, that’s not how it works. They are places of refuge for mail carriers as much as transportation. If they’re in the country they’ll be doing more driving and in the city they park and walk around with bags before returning to drive to the next area. A/C will help in both situations.
A/C does not, and cannot, function without insulation.
There is no insulation when the doors and windows are constantly open. You’re just burning energy for no impact.
You’re not going to get the whole interior down to 75° but having cool dehumidified air blowing on you makes a huge difference.
It doesn’t get to cool, for the exact same reason you don’t intake from outside to begin with.
Cool can’t happen without gradual lowering of the input temperature by recirculating it. It takes many cycles to have any impact at all.