Unscaned parcel scans

[Deer Smearer]

Does anyone believe a medium priority box without a scan that fits in a number 3 mailbox isn’t a parcel?

 

[DB.Cooper]

If I carry it as a parcel, then I scan it as a parcel


What about the flat packages of checks that have a scan on it, it is a parcel. There fore, the same package of checks that have no scan is an unscanable parcel.

If it's more that 1/4 inch thick..... and I pick it up as a letter, with a STAMP on it.... my PO likes to red-stamp it as a PARCEL and send it back to the customer to pay 1st Class PARCEL rate for that fat letter.... js.... if a customer would have to pay PARCEL rate to mail it, why shouldn't we be paid PARCEL rate to deliver it???

 

[KDM]

Our supervisor just got back from training and said our union rep was there and anything that fits in a mailbox shouldn’t be an unscanned parcel?? What are the new standards for a parcel under rrecs without a scan? Size rigid etc.

If it won't fit in the case with the rest of the mail then it is a parcel. Micro Managing. You need about 20 a day every day to gain an hour. If someone gets that many they deserve the time. They have cut almost everything with rrecs and now they are just being greedy with unscanned parcels.

 

[DB.Cooper]

If it won't fit in the case with the rest of the mail then it is a parcel. Micro Managing. You need about 20 a day every day to gain an hour. If someone gets that many they deserve the time. They have cut almost everything with rrecs and now they are just being greedy with unscanned parcels.

They'll turn the screw on everything that is the carriers' discretion ...... load time and EOS will not be exempt either..... js.... welcome to the new world of RRECS and daily mailcounts....

 

[Still Learnin]

If I get it in my parcel buggy, it's a parcel.

I case only my flats, then I pull down. If something was a flat and I couldn't case it, it becomes a parcel because I have to sort it into my parcel trays.
For me it's about the action I take and needing that action properly credited to my route. I have no idea if I am thinking about this correctly, but it's what I do.

Same here. I get bundles of flats in my spur hamper occasionally. I treat each and every flat as a spur. It gets a highlight or red permanent marker through the address. Unscan parcel in/at mailbox.

 

[DB.Cooper]

Same here. I get bundles of flats in my spur hamper occasionally. I treat each and every flat as a spur. It gets a highlight or red permanent marker through the address. Unscan parcel in/at mailbox.

I sometimes get a stray DPS tray label in my parcel buggy.... maybe I could count those as parcels too???? Js.... good looking out there.....

 

[LouSainus]

If it is sorted with the parcels its an unscan parcel as those wont be counted during the minicount. Only hotcase mail is counted.

 

[Gotrope]

Does anyone believe a medium priority box without a scan that fits in a number 3 mailbox isn’t a parcel?

Yes, Doug Tulino

 

[nlsal209]

I over scan than under scan! If management does not agree with my scanning habits, that is unfortunate!

 

[Rt2mailman]

Glad to see most everyone is of the same belief on this. I don't believe/trust/care about the stray super that thinks we shouldn't scan. We're the ones casing, handling, loading and running the routes. We know what requires "parcel" effort to deliver.
For instance, 2 tubs of Bass Pro catalogs. Esc/Rural Activity/C/Mailbox.

Well what would prevent you from using Esc/R/3 (delivered to individual) which is door credit?
Who would know if you delivered it to the customer while at the box? Just saying, what would your managers do if it was taking pay out of your pocket? Think like them and do the opposite to balance your evaluation to be accurate.

 

[hunchback]

Maybe I am just being dense, but what it appears to me that everyone is missing here is they are trying to give you
NO CREDIT AT ALL FOR UNSCANNED PARCELLS THAT FIT IN THE BOX.
WHAT?
The mini count is to count letters and flats, so if noone goes through all your parcels to determine what will fit in a mail box, and then pull them out and count them as flats, then the unscanned parcels won't be counted at all.
Post Office "1" Onion "0"
SSDD
I wonder if the onion knows what a parcel is anymore under RRECS?
The question has been asked on this site, repeatedly for almost a decade now. And since we know they follow this site, don't you think that is enough time to figure it out?
"There's a lot we don't know right now "
Some things never change.

 

[csparks]

Well what would prevent you from using Esc/R/3 (delivered to individual) which is door credit?
Who would know if you delivered it to the customer while at the box? Just saying, what would your managers do if it was taking pay out of your pocket? Think like them and do the opposite to balance your evaluation to be accurate.

Strategicality.

IF anyone ever asked about all those unscanned parcels, I'd tell them what they were. Due to a huge reputation for "economy of effort", no one would believe I took them to the door.

 

[csparks]

What if they are pictures that won’t fit in the box and don’t have a scan you still bring them to the door

I've had a handful of those, and do enter them under the Rural Activity Scans as Unscanned Parcel (C) then, door delivery.

I may be lazy, but I don't bend things that are obviously photos, like ShutterFly. Luckily, some of those are will fold as they are 4X6 prints.

 

[hunchback]

How I understand it, an unscannable is how I deliver it. Mini mail count is 2 weeks. What I do on the route is everyday. What do I care about how management determines my flats vs parcels during the mini mail count?

If I understand what the OP is saying they really don't want any unscanned parcels, so if they see unscanned parcels delivered in box it is disobeying a direct order.
Which the mantra is obey and grieve it. So how many parcels will you lose all year long before you get a settlement, if ever? These unscanned parcels won't ever be counted as anything if this policy stands.
If on the other hand the onion has established what exactly a parcel would be, under RRECS, during nearly a decade everyone was asking this question... Then this problem wouldn't exist.
Do you think the onion knows the answer?
What is a parcel under RRECS?

 

[KDM]

If I understand what the OP is saying they really don't want any unscanned parcels, so if they see unscanned parcels delivered in box it is disobeying a direct order.
Which the mantra is obey and grieve it. So how many parcels will you lose all year long before you get a settlement, if ever? These unscanned parcels won't ever be counted as anything if this policy stands.
If on the other hand the onion has established what exactly a parcel would be, under RRECS, during nearly a decade everyone was asking this question... Then this problem wouldn't exist.
Do you think the onion knows the answer?
What is a parcel under RRECS?

Since they haven't stated what a parcel is they must be what each carrier decides.

 

[Dumbassclerksyndrome]

If I understand what the OP is saying they really don't want any unscanned parcels, so if they see unscanned parcels delivered in box it is disobeying a direct order.
Which the mantra is obey and grieve it. So how many parcels will you lose all year long before you get a settlement, if ever? These unscanned parcels won't ever be counted as anything if this policy stands.
If on the other hand the onion has established what exactly a parcel would be, under RRECS, during nearly a decade everyone was asking this question... Then this problem wouldn't exist.
Do you think the onion knows the answer?
What is a parcel under RRECS?

I do not believe the OP said that it was a direct order. Only the fact that there should be no on unscan parcels. Because if it’s a direct order, I would like that direct order in writing with every signature of the management, and above that gave that direct order

 

[DB.Cooper]

Well what would prevent you from using Esc/R/3 (delivered to individual) which is door credit?
Who would know if you delivered it to the customer while at the box? Just saying, what would your managers do if it was taking pay out of your pocket? Think like them and do the opposite to balance your evaluation to be accurate.

I really think you should consolidate all these little gems into about a 90-page cheat sheet.... might be more useful than all this other RRECS mumbo jumbo floating around.... you have my permission to include my idea that stray DPS tray labels found in buggies can be claimed as UNSCANPARCELs....

 

[Casca]

This is straight from the RRECS guide. Unscan can be delivered to the mailbox, porch or parcel locker. Reading the RRECS guide is the only training some of us have gotten, and more training than many. It was asked in the RRECS Q&A about unscan parcels and the answer was to look at the RRECS scan instruction sheet. So, here it is.

 

[hunchback]

I do not believe the OP said that it was a direct order. Only the fact that there should be no on unscan parcels. Because if it’s a direct order, I would like that direct order in writing with every signature of the management, and above that gave that direct order

From the OP "Our supervisor just got back from training and said our union rep was there and anything that fits in a mailbox shouldn’t be an unscanned parcel??"

Where i come from that could be considered a direct order

I'm not saying they are ordering that there be no unscanned parcels.
But by saying that anything that fits in the box shouldn't be an unscanned parcel, think about it how many parcels too big for a mail box ever come through without a scan.
So if you don't get the scan throughout the year, and they aren't counted as a parcel or a flat during the mini count, you will get NO CREDIT for delivering them at all.
WASN'T RRECS SUPPOSED TO GET CARRIERS PAID FOR EVERY PIECE THEY DELIVER?

 

[Dumbassclerksyndrome]

From the OP "Our supervisor just got back from training and said our union rep was there and anything that fits in a mailbox shouldn’t be an unscanned parcel??"

Where i come from that could be considered a direct order

Hmm… my neck of the woods, it’s a simple statement saying something. Direct order to moi… you are NOT to use unscannable parcel for items that fit in a mailbox. Kinda like PM telling me I’m not to use specific scans and my response… why is it on my options if not to use?