excessive heat

Aug 18th

Excessive post office heat frustrates postal workers, customers

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Air conditioning problems at a post office on Sunbeam Road in Mandarin have customers and federal employees heated. A clerk, who asked not to be identified, told First Coast News the facility’s air conditioning has been out for two months and they recently learned repairs would take an additional eight weeks. Customers […]

Oct 5th

OSHA cites USPS after 2 Iowa mail carriers exposed to excessive heat while delivering mail

OSHA cites US Postal Service after two Des Moines workers suffer heat illness while delivering the mail Agency finds mail carriers were exposed to excessive heat DES MOINES, Iowa – Feeling the symptoms of heat-related illness, a 24-year-old U.S. Postal Service mail carrier asked her supervisor to be relieved after walking about half-way through her […]