My question to you is: Who cheated first?
Are you sure that you’re or those carriers that you mentioned, are getting proper credit for everything that you do?
I say that I know that none of us are. Here’s a method to make sure that you are getting proper credit for your % coverage, by the way, you aren’t.
The next time you have a box holder that is to be delivered, deliver it as usual, but ask you pm if it’s ok if you enter it “delivered” the next day.
By doing this, on your Radar report, which should return in 3-5 days, you SHOULD see the day that you delivered the box holder come back as a 100% day and the next day that you entered the box holder come back as a 100% day. You will only see the day you delivered the box holder correctly show 100% coverage. This proves that you and all rural carriers are being cheated daily. Depending on your average number of stops recorded from informed delivery as to how much we are getting cheated, because the Usps has illegally reprogrammed Rrecs to only allow % coverage for informed delivery and NOT consider the bread crumbs when determining how many stops we are making.
I’m also guessing that none of the routes in your office have ever been properly mapped, where each carrier sat down and went through box by box determining and recording where each stop, parking area ( for parcel delivery), and where each door delivery actually is. These things will CHEAT carriers out of a great deal of evaluation hours and thereby money.
Therefore is it morally ok to “cheat” to get some of that $ back???
I say not only ok, I believe it is justified. I do understand that there are carriers, like you that would like to take the high road, so here’s another, legally justified method that is in our contract for offices like yours to gain back 4-6 hours per week of evaluation pay.
You can and should ask for a DPS QUANTITY REVIEW.
Read up on what these entail and ask for one to start asap. You and everyone who starts one will win, because the plants no longer do there jobs properly and put all letters into be run in the DPS machines. They don’t want to work hard and any folded letters are put through our flat machines, that pays us as if those pieces are flats, (good for us), but they ARE letters and should be in our DPS. Therefore we should count them as letters in a DPS review and always win because those pieces were NOT counted as letters during our last mini count. Do this, and in 30 days you’ll be back paid with the gained hours and your route will be re-evaluated to a higher level until the next mini count. Where you can immediately start another review over again and do the same thing. Glitch in the system? Yes, and one where any carrier can add back hours to their routes.
Until the Usps starts charging mailers properly , (which they won’t) those folded booklets/letters will be charged as if they are machinable, but not placed into our DPS and cause our % coverage to be lower.
