Hold down

[Skierstmoritz]

We haven't seen Amazon delivering in our area. Why would they when we deliver their pkgs for chump change. "Leave the headaches to the usps" seems to be their motto

 

[EthelAnne]

Amazon delivered their own parcels in our area during December and most of January and then we got some Amazon parcels back, but nowhere near what we'd been delivering before. Amazon has been delivering in our area (Northeast US) at least some of their own packages since summer of 2017.

 

[Smith07]

Art. 30.2.H, page 124 of contract: Relief day on vacant J and K routes: when a sub, RCA, or rural carrier relief employee is serving full-time on a vacant route or during the absence of the regular carrier, a relief day shall be granted, in the case of a J or K route, if requested by the employee and if a leave replacement is available, or if required by local mgmt.

The RCA should ask mgmt. to give them the same relief the regular would be entitled to. A day off the schedule in the office would help lessen the sting of being forced into Amazon. Mgmt. should find a way to have another RCA available to grant this relief day to the hold-down RCA.
Then there's also the question of bypassing the RCA to avoid overtime pay over 40 hours.

So should an RCA on hold down be rehired to work 6 days if the route is a 9hr route. Because that 6th day pushes me over.

 

[Smith07]

So should an RCA on hold down be required to work 6 days if the route is a 9hr route. Because that 6th day pushes me over.

 

[HardearnedTan]

An RCA who is the primary leave replacement is entitled to work the evaluated hrs. of the route, whatever that is. But once an RCA goes over 40 hours for a week, the extra hours are paid as overtime hours. See some of the other threads on RCA pay to learn more about how RCA's often get "screwed" on pay because of the overtime vs. eval of the route, and when working as assistance after completing a route on which they were being paid evaluation...
Mgmt. has options for arranging the work week so you don't get into overtime; one of them is granting you the appropriate relief day that the route is normally entitled to (whether on the same day or not as the regular took). But they don't have to offer you any relief, you must ask for it. If they choose, for operational purposes in their particular office, to "require" you to work six days, then they have to pay the OT and you have to understand how the hours beyond 40 per week affect your pay.