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magnolia72

magnolia72

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Well, I feel like an idiot for just realizing today that Amazon Sunday is a large reason our routes lost time. Our office does not receive Amazon packages but the PM goes to the neighboring town's PO and picks them up on Sunday morning. The RCA's have been on rotation working the Sunday packages until this last Sunday when the top of the totem pole RCA declared that she WAS NOT working Easter Sunday because that's the only day of the year she graces the door of her local church. The PM, who seemly falls in line for said RCA, said that was fine. He still went to the neighboring PO and picked up the packages.

Yesterday was a heavy package day because of that according to another RCA in the office and from the looks of the time sheet at my case. And then it hit me. The PM didn't start Amazon Sunday's until after our last count. He told another carrier in the office that Amazon demands that those packages be delivered on Sunday, well except when the head RCA refuses to work it. Since the packages are not being delivered directly to our office, can they not just be sent over on Monday morning for Monday delivery? There is no way our routes are getting credit for Sunday packages and the PM knows this. He is deliberately setting our routes up to lose.
 
That has been the scam from the beginning whether it be Amazon, UPS or any other packages on Sunday. You get ZERO credit for any of that but Sunday delivery can be suspended at any time and that deluge will rain down on you during the week in which case you work for a year without being paid properly for it.

Most offices with large routes will suddenly start Sunday delivery as way to hold salaries down. It is strange however your PM gets them. Typically undelivered Amazon will simply be routed to the other office in a gaylord on a plant truck.

If you hate church or religion that is your affair but you aren't going to deny other people their right to worship. The Postal Service is already a steaming pile that is burning in hell thanks to the sort of people that try to do that.
 
jaymacgthree said:
That has been the scam from the beginning whether it be Amazon, UPS or any other packages on Sunday. You get ZERO credit for any of that but Sunday delivery can be suspended at any time and that deluge will rain down on you during the week in which case you work for a year without being paid properly for it.

Most offices with large routes will suddenly start Sunday delivery as way to hold salaries down. It is strange however your PM gets them. Typically undelivered Amazon will simply be routed to the other office in a gaylord on a plant truck.

If you hate church or religion that is your affair but you aren't going to deny other people their right to worship. The Postal Service is already a steaming pile that is burning in hell thanks to the sort of people that try to do that.
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I don't hate church or religion, only stating that this carrier was using going to church on Easter as her excuse for refusing to work. This woman never graces the doors of a church any other time of the year, which is her right. She only uses church as an excuse to get out of her turn to work.
 
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I'AM amazed your PM does clerk duties
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He chooses to work 7 days a week. We lost our last clerk because he only gave her the bare minimum on hours. After she left, clerks from other offices were coming in to fill the clerk hours, only to play on their phones while he did all the sorting and scanning in the AM. He is a total control freak.
 
I'm tapping the experts on here.......but I surely thought that all parcels delivered were tied to the route the address is on, and that included Amazon both Sunday and weekly.
 
Old Fart said:
I'm tapping the experts on here.......but I surely thought that all parcels delivered were tied to the route the address is on, and that included Amazon both Sunday and weekly.
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Way back when RRECS started, Sundays and Holidays packages were not included in credits for the route, I don't know if that has changed.
 
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Back in the day, I would bring up sunday delivery and why I wasn't given credit. Union always said, "You didn't carry it, did you?". I've maintained that it is the routes mail, not my mail. The route is what should get credit for it.

Glad I'm gone.
 
magnolia72 said:
I don't hate church or religion, only stating that this carrier was using going to church on Easter as her excuse for refusing to work. This woman never graces the doors of a church any other time of the year, which is her right. She only uses church as an excuse to get out of her turn to work.
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How do you know this? Some churches have very early service and late ones. I'm a regular now but I could easily go to my early service and still make the 10 am start time for Amazon with no problem. I certainly wouldn't need to report to you that I did it either.

The Supreme court remanded this back to the lower courts and alluded to the fact that unless USPS can prove a financial hardship (which they can't) then the have to try to accommodate religious services when they can.
 
After re-reading the above posts, I'm seeing that some carriers are of the belief that the USPS can deliver any parcels on Sundays or holidays. That is not true. Only Amazon parcels are allowed to be delivered on those days, not UPS, and not USPS (except express) parcels are allowed.
If any manager is delivering/allowing those parcels to be worked that is a contractual violation and should be grieved asking every route that has occurred on to be made whole.
Our office was told by an upper manager that Priority and UPS parcels could be delivered to lighten the load and avoid over time on those heavy days after a holiday, that is not true. We grieved that fact and won.
 
Rural-life-0323 said:
How do you know this? Some churches have very early service and late ones. I'm a regular now but I could easily go to my early service and still make the 10 am start time for Amazon with no problem. I certainly wouldn't need to report to you that I did it either.

The Supreme court remanded this back to the lower courts and alluded to the fact that unless USPS can prove a financial hardship (which they can't) then the have to try to accommodate religious services when they can.
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Our offices accommodate several. We have adequate help who want to work on Sundays so those who have church are not scheduled. IF we are in a crisis and need carriers they're asked to help out.
 
Rural-life-0323 said:
How do you know this? Some churches have very early service and late ones. I'm a regular now but I could easily go to my early service and still make the 10 am start time for Amazon with no problem. I certainly wouldn't need to report to you that I did it either.

The Supreme court remanded this back to the lower courts and alluded to the fact that unless USPS can prove a financial hardship (which they can't) then the have to try to accommodate religious services when they can.
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You totally took this to a place nowhere near where I was going. My main question was about Amazon Sunday having to be delivered on Sunday when the Amazon truck doesn't even deliver to our office.
 
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