What are all these 48k routes that claim to get done in 4.5-5 hours a day?

[flashaholic1]

I read about it all the time on Reddit, rural carriers with 48k routes who claim to only work 4.5-5 hours a day and how much they love their job.

Wondering how that is even possible unless you have non-existent parcel volume or very little mail. My 25 mile 800 mailbox 46K route that's inundated with Amazon everyday takes 4.5 hours just to deliver, not even counting casing, pulling down and loading the vehicle. Am I missing something here?

 

[Mailman65]

Good question. My 48K (63.34) 61 mile route takes a minimum of 4-4.5 to over 6 to deliver depending on parcel volume. Average roughly 170-180 scans a day.

 

[Worve]

I can answer for a route in office when I was a sub. 24 miles 700 boxes with 8 cbus 190 ish slots. done from start time to end of day 5.5 hrs routinely. This is outside peak, Amazon prime days, Mondays. Eval wise 48k 72 standard weekly hours. At this time I cased everything, only took 1.5- 2 hrs in office including load time. 200-250 parcels a day, 800-1k dps.

 

[damifiknow]

is 48k every other saturday off, if so im 5hrs out on the rt delivering in the summer, closer to 5.5-6 in the winter.

 

[pomastercontrolsmyfreedom]

I'm 48k, extremely heavy amazon, I am happy if I get done under 10hrs. I don't take breaks and I hustle. My route is overburdened. I have officially asked and filed for a route cut, but I was told "You should be grateful there are some routes evaluated at 90 hours a week" ok, but are they actually pulling 90 hours a week?

 

[Old Fart]

I read about it all the time on Reddit, rural carriers with 48k routes who claim to only work 4.5-5 hours a day and how much they love their job.

Wondering how that is even possible unless you have non-existent parcel volume or very little mail. My 25 mile 800 mailbox 46K route that's inundated with Amazon everyday takes 4.5 hours just to deliver, not even counting casing, pulling down and loading the vehicle. Am I missing something here?

Our offices now have mostly J and H routes, a few K's. Surveying 4240 from several weeks during slowest periods, most are about or slightly under evaluation. Which clearly indicates on AVERAGE they're OVER their evaluation times over six months or more.

If these routes had remained K routes, yes, they'd be under. But I THOUGHT we evaluated to the AVERAGE carrier during an AVERAGE time? Seems evaluation is made only on very light days.

 

[Carrierguy]

I’ve got a 47k that’s 4 minutes shy of being a 48K. I come in at 8 and am usually done between 1pm and 2pm.

Im less than 20 miles, 800 addresses with Relatively low letter volume but I average 180 parcels. I’m 80% CBU’s.

I get a lot of time because most homes on my route are 1/4 mile from their mailbox.

 

[stillfirstclass]

Carrierguy is the rarity... sometimes a supe, a jealous one, comes on here and remembers the 3 tuesdays last summer that the carrier was done at 1:00 and rattles everybody's chain

 

[Carrierguy]

Carrierguy is the rarity... sometimes a supe, a jealous one, comes on here and remembers the 3 tuesdays last summer that the carrier was done at 1:00 and rattles everybody's chain

Nah my postmaster knows not to mess with me. Everytime they do I go scorched earth with grievances.

 

[Old Fart]

I'm 48k, extremely heavy amazon, I am happy if I get done under 10hrs. I don't take breaks and I hustle. My route is overburdened. I have officially asked and filed for a route cut, but I was told "You should be grateful there are some routes evaluated at 90 hours a week" ok, but are they actually pulling 90 hours a week?

management's goal is to get as much free labor (legally) as they can. That's their beauty of 90 hour routes that get paid at 60 hours.

 

[Carrierguy]

I’ve got a 47k that’s 4 minutes shy of being a 48K. I come in at 8 and am usually done between 1pm and 2pm.

Im less than 20 miles, 800 addresses with Relatively low letter volume but I average 180 parcels. I’m 80% CBU’s.

I get a lot of time because most homes on my route are 1/4 mile from their mailbox.

I did the math and “just” using “To Door” on 30 homes that are each 1000ft away from the mailbox, gives me 1hr 50min of credit.

 

[NorthernPines]

It's ultimately an issue of efficiency in numbers.

I fully believe that a 48K is completable in 6 or 7 hours on most delivery days, by a swift, competent carrier, if the standard hours of the route fall into the proper range of a 48K.

If I am, say, (as a totally not real-life comparable thought exercise), delivering a route at approximately 75 standard hours, in the mid 50s every week, then that's the equivalent of finishing a 48K at an average of under 7 hours a day.

 

[Twistofcain]

I was a 48k (62 standard) before cut. It always took me at least 10 hours ( no lunch no breaks, etc). After cut, it's taking me 8-9 hours a day. Thinking I'll evaluate higher than a 43k soon...

 

[oi veh.]

cbu routes who never leave the pavement are always going to be done sooner than someone who is driving miles and miles every day, often on very crappy roads that are one lane wide.

my route is 85 miles. it takes 3 and 1/2 hours to drive just the mileage with no mail.

a good day for me (light mail, few packages to door) is 5.5 hours.

that's just the route time. not including the hour or so in the morning and 30 or so minutes EOS.

every route is different, every carrier is unique. there is no, despite thoughts to the contrary, one size fits all.

 

[csparks]

It rankles me some when I hear about that stuff. So many rural carriers out in gravel country driving over 100 miles a day, delivering a 46K stuffed with Amazon....

Couldn't get done in 5 hours if they sorted it up, then never stopped at a single box, let alone up a driveway.

 

[Worve]

It rankles me some when I hear about that stuff. So many rural carriers out in gravel country driving over 100 miles a day, delivering a 46K stuffed with Amazon....

Couldn't get done in 5 hours if they sorted it up, then never stopped at a single box, let alone up a driveway.

Each route is different, rrecs really rewards suburbia routes with low paper mail and decent to heavy parcels. Mine is literally 1/2 and 1/2 88 miles but the first half of route box wise is in the first 6 miles…

 

[Table2blows]

I’m one, 48k usually done in 5-6 hours, sometimes less than 5, < 40 miles, a little over 500 boxes, no cbu. Over the past couple weeks I’ve had days anywhere from 80 to 250+ scans. Businesses is my answer in my case.

 

[Tank]

I’ve got a 47k that’s 4 minutes shy of being a 48K. I come in at 8 and am usually done between 1pm and 2pm.

Im less than 20 miles, 800 addresses with Relatively low letter volume but I average 180 parcels. I’m 80% CBU’s.

I get a lot of time because most homes on my route are 1/4 mile from their mailbox.

My route is 48k, 72+ standard hours. I'm in at 7:30, never done before 5:00. 22.5 miles, 1230 addresses and 180s parcels is a very light day. So it's good to know that I'm being paid an hour more per week than you while working 15-20 hours more. And the best part, when my route is cut (and it's still growing), I'm looking forward to the pay cut and zero chance of ever being fairly compensated for the last two years.

 

[vmlb]

165 miles, 170 if it rains. 220 boxes, RRECS moved me from 46k to 43j. I suppose the scanners made it possible for me to drive faster on the 100 miles of gravel roads. When these carriers are finishing way below rated times, are they turning off the engine while delivering a package, and securing the vehicle? Are they carrying their satchel when they deliver?

 

[vmlb]

I also have some driveways that are a half mile long