You guys hear about the new Amazon rules starting Easter Sunday?

[flash]

Ibpd16 -- "Scan rate: 18-22ppm."

-- That is while scanning parcels as you load them, right!

"First delivery: Within 5 minutes of office departure.'

-- How the heck are they going in enforce that one?

Umm. Our rts are 25 min from the hub.

 

[Shannonboy]

They put up a silly signup sheet here for "volunteers" for city and rural regs to help out on Sundays. Since we all pretty much get mandated our days off, do they really think we want to work 7 days a week. Our manglement is so out of touch.

Your mgmt is FREAKING STUPID....let them run the route themselves...

 

[Worve]

Your mgmt is FREAKING STUPID....let them run the route themselves...

Old primary said they have signs up for rural and city side regs asking for volunteers….. none of the regs got relief day this week fat chance any will. 2/3 ARCs called in . I’m off for another week yet waiting for phone to ring tomorrow.

 

[macon]

Ibpd16 -- "I just accepted pse clerk in my office and will resign my ARC position. However I also applied for Animal Control Officer with the city and for Park Ranger at one of the state parks. I get offered either of those 2 I’m out."

-- Since you've done about everything in the office, if offered a post master position, would you take it?!?

-- An Animal Control Officer position might land you in a post office!

We actually had a racoon and babies in our PO for 8 days. They would come out at nite and leave footprints all over the counters. Some carriers were surprised when they went to the restroom and saw them drinking from the toilet in the morning and they would climb the wall and go up into the ceiling. Everyone was afraid to go the bathroom. Animal control had to come out and set traps. Finally caught them..

 

[U caught my attention]

And this is a classic example of incrementalism, foot in the door, testing the waters , etc. Getting this to work even HALF WAY on "innocent Amazon Sunday" will be used against the craft as a whole. Even variations thereof will be used.

Crap. I bet you are correct. I never even considered the analytics collected from the "houry" workforce delivering only pkgs on a Sunday or day after a holiday. Those subs are still flying. Maybe I don't want to request a rt cut just yet.
Lord I am getting too old for this job.

 

[U caught my attention]

Hmmmm, 18 to 22 pkgs per hr, that's
144 to 176 pkgs delivered while being given an 8 hr street time.
I assume the 15 mins office time is organizing small parcels in trays.
I wonder how much undertime they will have.

I know with absolute certainty there are aready some crazy fast analytics out there from all us Amazombies delivering tremendous amnts of parcels preRrecs. Especially during peak.

The question is, what is a safe, sustainable and reasonable working pace?
Very interesting.

 

[Haygrrl]

Will ask one of our ARCs Sunday about this. They love to call me about dogs customers etc every Sunday about time I return the favor .

Edit: our start time Sunday holiday has always been 8 am. Doubt it changed most likely a area difference.

10am mid Atlantic

 

[Haygrrl]

Ibpd16 -- "Scan rate: 18-22ppm."

-- That is while scanning parcels as you load them, right!

"First delivery: Within 5 minutes of office departure.'

-- How the heck are they going in enforce that one?

Do they even hear the amount of stupidity thats coming out of their mouths?

 

[ATCBigE]

Umm. Our rts are 25 min from the hub.

Well drive faster to meet their goal. LLV will go 100+ mph and won't fall apart.

 

[NorthernPines]

Meh. Just ignore it and do your work.

What are they going to do? Fail when they try to discipline you for not meeting noncontractual performance numbers that they pulled out of their unwashed nethers, whilst not bringing you back and actually delivering Amazon themselves?

 

[Rt2mailman]

The Usps is finally realizing that they make no $ on Sundays from Amazon. We figured that out 7 years ago, it didn’t even cover the gas cost to run the Llv’s. So what’s the Usps going to do? Try to squeeze blood out of the Arcs and RCAs to cover their losses. I can hear them saying,”Tell them to go faster and give them ridiculously low time requirements to meet. They’ll go faster and some may even meet the new requirements, or die trying.”
Anytime a rural carrier is given a time requirement, all they should say is, “I’m working as fast as I can in a safe manner, do you want me to work faster?” If they say yes, file a grievance for requiring you to work in an “Unsafe” manner.

 

[Tired carrier]

Th

They already asked me a couple years ago to be a supervisor. And recently they asked me to be a 204b. My response both times was he’ll no

When I sent in my retirement papers last year they tried to get me to transfer into management. They also tried to get me to postpone my retirement because we were so short staffed. I told them that after working 40 years for this sh-t show that I was done and they couldn’t afford me.

 

[Shannonboy]

We actually had a racoon and babies in our PO for 8 days. They would come out at nite and leave footprints all over the counters. Some carriers were surprised when they went to the restroom and saw them drinking from the toilet in the morning and they would climb the wall and go up into the ceiling. Everyone was afraid to go the bathroom. Animal control had to come out and set traps. Finally caught them..

Have any of your MORON MGMT ever heard of something called....a PISTOL...

 

[Shannonboy]

The Usps is finally realizing that they make no $ on Sundays from Amazon. We figured that out 7 years ago, it didn’t even cover the gas cost to run the Llv’s. So what’s the Usps going to do? Try to squeeze blood out of the Arcs and RCAs to cover their losses. I can hear them saying,”Tell them to go faster and give them ridiculously low time requirements to meet. They’ll go faster and some may even meet the new requirements, or die trying.”
Anytime a rural carrier is given a time requirement, all they should say is, “I’m working as fast as I can in a safe manner, do you want me to work faster?” If they say yes, file a grievance for requiring you to work in an “Unsafe” manner.

EXCELLENT COMMENT, and right to the heart of the matter as usual. Rt2mailman, you got it figured out my friend...well said!

 

[Shannonboy]

Do they even hear the amount of stupidity thats coming out of their mouths?

Uuhhhh....that would be a big fat...NNOOO.... Mgmt loves to hear the sound of their own voices....they
are the epitome of NARCISSISM....FIRE THEM ALL.

 

[Sunofa]

LOL, there have been many Sundays where I’m DONE at 10:15-10:30 AM. I’m so glad I made regular last month, but this micromanagement and these out of touch demands are never going to stop until we are all basically city carriers. I haven’t heard about this affecting my area but I know stupidvisors would be just as upset as subs, I don’t think anyone wants to work Sunday, let alone ALL DAY Sunday. I’m convinced they really do try to think of the most pointless and inconvenient thing, and then implement just for fun at this point. There is nothing good that will come of this and as much as I sped to go home early I would purposefully take 12 hours every time until it stopped.

I agree totally!

 

[Sunofa]

I agree totally!

 

[Worve]

Old primary said they have signs up for rural and city side regs asking for volunteers….. none of the regs got relief day this week fat chance any will. 2/3 ARCs called in . I’m off for another week yet waiting for phone to ring tomorrow.

It rang I never answered or called back. Leave slip said do no call I’m done being the fixit person.

 

[Boston65]

FIXED!!!!!!

Decisions made by people who failed at carrying mail.

How about stopping the Sunday delivery all together?
Amahoe has gotten too big for themselves and can’t deliver as promised. I say let them handle Sunday.
The PO would save on hours , we would not be over working (at least on their behalf)

 

[Voglio-il mio]

"First delivery: Within 5 minutes of office departure.'

-- How the heck are they going in enforce that one?

Way back when I did Amazon, The Hubb was more than 30 minutes away from the town I was delivering.