A week after Dallas letter carrier Eugene Gates Jr. collapsed during his route, and later died at a hospital, USPS shifts in Texas will start earlier.
Postal workers sent FOX 4 a flyer and alerts informing them their shifts would be moved to start at 7:30 in the morning."We're still in kind of limbo as to the exact cause of death, but we know it was extremely hot on the day that Eugene passed," said Kimetra Lewis, the Lonestar Branch 132 President of the National Association of Letter Carriers.
Lewis told us the shift change started Monday, with consecutive triple-digit temperature days in the forecast and dangerous humidity. She also said the change is statewide, but USPS officials would not confirm that information to FOX 4. "Letter carriers are concerned about being out there when it's at the highest point of the day. And it has, and that's their biggest concern," said Lewis. On the day Gates collapsed the heat index reached 115 degrees.
Tuesday morning, at the new start time of 7:30 a.m., the air temperature in Dallas was already 85 degrees.
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