Some 200,000 letter 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.

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.

  • @Hawke
    7•1 month ago

    Pontiac Aztek, Tesla Cybertruck, Nissan Cube.

    • Flying Squid
      1•1 month ago

      Okay, I’ll give you the Cybertruck, although I would put that more on the level of a more specialty car that I wouldn’t put along the lines of normal mass-market cars. More like a supremely shitty sportscar. I stand by my comment regarding the other two.

      • @Hawke
        4•1 month ago

        Yeah, YMMV.

        You could also throw in the VW Thing and the Yugo or AMC Pacer. I looked at a couple of lists of ugly cars just to see if I was missing some, but most were just boring and not particularly ugly.

        I stand by the Aztek being worse than the PT cruiser though. The PT cruiser is one of those that falls on the side of “boring” for me, not egregiously ugly. I understand it’s also a pile of garbage from a quality perspective, so definitely a bad car.

        • Flying Squid
          2•1 month ago

          The Thing is one of those “so ugly it’s beautiful” cars to me. I also say that about pretty much any AMC car.

          But yeah, I can’t defend the Yugo.

          That said, the PT Cruiser is also a shitbox in terms of driving. Just a badly-made car. I worked for a place that had it as one of the company cars and it was always a “not it” when there were only two cars left available and one was the PT. So I admit I’ve got something that adds a huge bias.

          • @Hawke
            5•1 month ago

            The Thing is the same for me.

            I could also start to throw in most of the ridiculous 8-foot-tall American brodozer pickups, but while they’re ugly they’re mostly just bland rather than atrocious-looking. And my aversion to them is not necessarily based entirely on their appearance.