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,

All city carriers will get three annual pay increases of 1.3% each by 2025, some of which will be paid retroactively from November 2023.

The deal was reached Friday but still needs to be ratified by union members. Mail carriers have been working without a contract for more than a year.