Load truck scan confusion

[Rt2mailman]

Is there really a speed aspect to our evaluations?

If my data in Rrecs (mileage, volume, mailboxes, CBU's, etc...) says 10 hrs per day, but I bust through it everyday and get it done in 7, are you saying that my new eval having exactly the same Rrecs data as before, is going to go down?

Speed in itself does nothing to lower evaluation. The problems that arise from speed is the typical lack of interest in precise scanning due to focus being on getting done early. It is rare to see a carrier that gets done with his 8+ hour route in 4-5 hours make every scan that he should be making. Unscanned parcels, additional authorized dismounts/trips to the door, proper pick up scans, and proper edit book/mapping/case work is often neglected for all the speedsters in my office. They will even work off the clock with early starts just to be the first one back, then wonder why their evaluation went down.
An arbitrator commanded Rrecs to be put in place. The biggest argument the USPS had in their favor was showing the paid hours verses the worked hours. All of the fast carriers that didn't care to do everything we are supposed to do in our jobs, but focused on getting done early were the biggest cause that inflicted us with Rrecs.

 

[oi veh.]

it doesn’t take a lot of time unless you include the time to create and edit tic tok content.

why did you feel the need to say that in response?

I just concentrate on moving mail, my phone is nearby but I rarely touch it on the clock.

i would say that the majority of regular carriers (especially those on this board) do the same.

perhaps you should subtract vinegar from your diet.

 

[Wing]

why did you feel the need to say that in response?



i would say that the majority of regular carriers (especially those on this board) do the same.

perhaps you should subtract vinegar from your diet.

Sorry, no real need, I know most here are in the choir and I enjoy reading the comments and reaching understandings I wouldn’t otherwise reach. We did have a carrier that did just that, created tik tok all day while also delivering mail, complained about the llv not having a working charger to keep the phone charged, wore ear buds and was never off the phone. Did pretty good considering but didn’t last. I thought it was comical.

Was just emphasizing that the standard for handling each mail piece is tight but does provide adequate time.

I do start each day with a tablespoon of braggs cider vinegar, use it to wash down a probiotic.

 

[EthelAnne]

Six experienced professors of Industrial Engineering could have come up with a standard for loading that would have been as accurate as any of the other standards they adopted.

I'm reluctant to continue to engage with you because it's apparent you're not reading my replies, but I've got nothing better to do, so why not?

I'll say it again: the tasks associated with loading a vehicle are too varied from office to office (all the things I already listed in my previous response!) to come up with a standard time for this job task.

Let's look at another task that the engineers did come up with a standard time for: opening a mailbox, placing mail inside, closing mailbox. Not a lot of variables here. Whether I'm in an LLV or a Metris, or a POV, there's little difference between how this task is performed. Easy to measure, very few steps, simple to measure, and easy to come up with a time standard for reasonably experienced (or whatever the term they use) carriers to perform this task.

The job task of loading a vehicle (similarly to EOS) is too complicated to come up with a one-size-fits-all time standard. You're said "six experienced professors of Industrial Engineering could have come up with a standard time" but the fact is, six experienced professors of Industrial Engineering did look at this job task and determined they could not.

 

[Wing]

I'm reluctant to continue to engage with you because it's apparent you're not reading my replies, but I've got nothing better to do, so why not?

I'll say it again: the tasks associated with loading a vehicle are too varied from office to office (all the things I already listed in my previous response!) to come up with a standard time for this job task.

Let's look at another task that the engineers did come up with a standard time for: opening a mailbox, placing mail inside, closing mailbox. Not a lot of variables here. Whether I'm in an LLV or a Metris, or a POV, there's little difference between how this task is performed. Easy to measure, very few steps, simple to measure, and easy to come up with a time standard for reasonably experienced (or whatever the term they use) carriers to perform this task.

The job task of loading a vehicle (similarly to EOS) is too complicated to come up with a one-size-fits-all time standard. You're said "six experienced professors of Industrial Engineering could have come up with a standard time" but the fact is, six experienced professors of Industrial Engineering did look at this job task and determined they could not.

Your responses and comments are only serving to reinforce my own opinions to myself. Standards remove ambiguity that exists whenever different people do the same activity. Without standards, it’s easy to have conflicting views on how long a task should take, with each view having merit. A defined standard thus places restrictions on the methods timed to perform the task, restrictions that if mandated, can impair the efficiency of someone that has the ability to combine/consolidate tasks or use a different method.

A standard can be determined for loading. Distance, case to vehicle times walking speed. Number of small parcels times a factor. Number of medium parcels times a factor. Number of large parcels times a factor. Number of letters times a factor. Number of flats times a factor. Gov/pov times its perspective adjustment factor. That would do it, all of the data is already available. It wouldn’t be exact, no standard is, but it would be as accurate as the credit given for say a door delivery, and door delivery time is a larger time segment than vehicle loading time.

Once the standard is established, it is up to the carrier to decide how to arrange their activities, we get credit stipulated by the standard regardless of the time we actually consume. Without the standard, as in recording actual time, we are at the mercy of supervision dictating how we perform the task. The dictated method to perform the task interferes with our ability to perform at a higher level. Management becomes interested in minimizing the time of loading, and in so doing sub optimizers our ability to complete other aspects of our day as best we can.

As far as opening, filling, and closing a mailbox. Come on, what is the degree of blockage, is approach clear, are there potholes, is the mailbox regulation height, what size, construction material, condition is the mailbox in, does the metris door block elbow articulation. The time for servicing a mailbox is all over the map. Sure, it’s a small time, but multiply that small time by 500 mailboxes and it adds up.