Ariel Wittenberg at E&E News By Politico reports the e-mail went out shortly after a dangerous heat dome in July had smothered Upstate New York.  A U.S. Postal Service Manager in Buffalo was angry Letter Carriers appeared to be lingering in air-conditioned Post Offices and told local supervisors to “get this time back.”  “Turn A/C off and drive them out,” the manager ordered in a July 2nd e-mail obtained by POLITICO’s E&E News. “We need to tighten our 4 walls up.”  One year after it was accused of falsifying heat-safety training records for thousands of Letter Carriers, the Postal Service is now facing allegations that it is pushing Employees to rush mail deliveries in sweltering conditions.  Letter Carriers in locations across the country say that for a second year they have not received essential safety training on how to stay healthy in the heat, even as their personnel records say otherwise.  Recently, 77 House Democrats in a letter urged Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to immediately implement safeguards to protect Workers from heat.  “If there is a set of supposed mistakes coming up over and over again across the country that put people at risk of the heat, that becomes a systemic problem,” said U.S. Representative Greg Casar (Democrat-Texas), who spearheaded the letter.

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