MMS letters and flats are way down.

[Worve]

Paper mail in general is down here has been for a year +. Parcel volume has been steadily increasing for years. Multiple days during mms less than 1 tray of mail. Average 1.5 to 3 trays usually used to be 3-5 daily. Flats are about normal for me, but DR here made a stop at plant Monday. We got hammered with flats Saturday…. Coincidence I think not.

 

[ConradHunter]

Paper mail in general is down here and has been for a year plus, while parcel volume just keeps climbing. During MMS we’ve had multiple days with less than one tray of mail; lately 1.5 to 3 trays is normal when it used to be more like 3 to 5 every day. Flats are about normal for me, but DR made a stop at the plant Monday and then we got absolutely hammered with flats Saturday. Hard not to notice that timing Tropica casino would make me look at the same sort of pattern in game history or transaction activity: a quiet stretch followed by a sudden spike usually makes you wonder what changed upstream. Coincidence? I think not.

Same pattern in a lot of places — letters keep sliding, parcels keep creeping up, and the “light” mail days don’t necessarily feel light once the packages are counted. The frustrating part is how uneven it gets: a couple days with barely any DPS, then a wall of flats shows up all at once.

And yeah, when flats suddenly appear right after attention from above, it’s hard not to raise an eyebrow. Could be coincidence, but we’ve all seen enough timing like that to be skeptical.

 

[Old Fart]

So we had this happen on Monday, as usual each route got a bucket of precounted flats. However, included in the bucket was full coverage addressed letter sized flyers tossed loosely in the buckets. The radar report showed they had not been counted. Not counted as raw mail, not counted as flats. What to do, what to do?

When that happened to us we were allowed to scan the coverage, per District inquiry.

 

[Old Fart]

Our carriers were dead serious about the count. Every single thing was paid attention to. Upside down DPS averaged hundreds, which CAN make the difference. Even stuff that's counted for the entire evaluation period like customer pickups without pickup sheet were paid special attention to. They KNEW a slight difference would mean less time off or less money.

 

[RammerJammer]

Our carriers were dead serious about the count. Every single thing was paid attention to. Upside down DPS averaged hundreds, which CAN make the difference. Even stuff that's counted for the entire evaluation period like customer pickups without pickup sheet were paid special attention to. They KNEW a slight difference would mean less time off or less money.

Like what did they do different other than punch in O, answer no, enter how many, scan 5? And of course how many trips to door. Did their inverted average hundreds after x 1/4 ?

 

[Old Fart]

Yes. I we had a postcard coverage inserted in DPS that were loaded at the plant upside down, so every customer got that as upside down plus any others. On one day we had two like that, giving every route at least double their number of boxes as upside down. We could have turned the tray over and had fewer upside downs.

 

[Wilco183]

Yes. I we had a postcard coverage inserted in DPS that were loaded at the plant upside down, so every customer got that as upside down plus any others. On one day we had two like that, giving every route at least double their number of boxes as upside down. We could have turned the tray over and had fewer upside downs.

Meh, I used to do this when spitting upside down DPS into CBUs throughout the year. During count, I'd make up a decent number that wasn't obviously divisible by 4 to make them use the calculator.