Is 5 Day delivery really so bad?

really · Oct 28, 2026

w2e2w2e said:
Sorry, meant to add if they could even out mail on Mondays...did not even think of those 8 Tuesdays!!!
But, I still like the idea.
just my opinion.

yea they have been doing it for years, it's called leveling
leveling means slammed on monday
don't think for a moment that leveling is going to be done

shoe72 · Oct 29, 2026

I remember when they actually did 'load leveling' in our area. Lasted about 2-3 weeks. It was a great time, knowing your mail wouldn't be overwhelming, no surprise cart of bundled flats. Of course, you'd never get a true light day. But the distribution facility was so overrun with mail and flats just sitting around there they stopped it. We got slammed when they lifted the 'load leveling' plan.
Just go back to when we could curtail super heavy bulk mail in house using dated plastic markers for tubs. You had 2 days to deliver the bulk mail after we got it. Let the managers actually manage something instead of sitting on a tele-comm for hours.

johnwayne · Oct 30, 2026

shoe72 said:
How do you hire, schedule and keep people when the regular 5 day workers need a vacation or, God forbid, a sick day?
I'm in a small 1 K route office with a good sub now. Why would she stay?
And yes, Mondays and Tuesdays after holidays would be insane. They'd have to adjust routes/add aux routes I would think.
No thanks, you want 5 day a week work, go regular on a bigger route or go corporate.

except ive been on a k route for 7 years, and havent had a sub for 5. create a "weekend warrior" position. Where the rca gets as many hours as they wish during the weekend. And then have the rca work a route or two during the week if so desired. Got to get rcas hours, and not have them running to three different offices to get them.

Rogtar · Oct 30, 2026

johnwayne said:
except ive been on a k route for 7 years, and havent had a sub for 5. create a "weekend warrior" position. Where the rca gets as many hours as they wish during the weekend. And then have the rca work a route or two during the week if so desired. Got to get rcas hours, and not have them running to three different offices to get them.

Sounds like a slightly expanded ARC. Which might work except the vacation during the week, then just add academy training to get there. I'd believe it would work if there were enough leave to allow non-formula loads but the problem was never your schedules, it was the work environments. RCAs and PTFs get screwed over regardless, and the USPS will never load-level so every Monday will be ever so terrible. That said, this is everyone's best way to go back to non-formula offices nationwide, so who knows how much support there is in the craft.

Gyros6875 · Oct 31, 2026

The biggest issue I see is how would we ever higher RCAs ?

I mean I wouldn't apply for a job where I only work weekends for a few hours each day depending on package volume. Outside of 2-3 weeks a year when your Regular goes on vacation.

I guess I could keep another job M-F but then I would be working 7 days a week and have to call off my M-F job randomly if the post office needed me if someone called out sick etc.

Also every Monday would be like a day after a holiday not to mention the Tuesdays when we have a Monday holiday. Doing that 52 times a year would be a nightmare.