No cell signal test

[oi veh.]

I mean, is that possible? Sure. Likely in the slightest? Absolutely not. Do you think that all the craft at the plants would be screaming from the rafters about holding back mail during the mini-survey? Because trust me, anyone who witnessed something like that would be posting left and right about it.

you mean like they did with the tractor trailers full of mail?

never underestimate the level of evil we are dealing with.

 

[oi veh.]

@Crab Rice - i was going to delete that earlier comment, but you handled it beautifully.

 

[Anthony]

 

[RDruckus]

I mean, is that possible? Sure. Likely in the slightest? Absolutely not. Do you think that all the craft at the plants would be screaming from the rafters about holding back mail during the mini-survey? Because trust me, anyone who witnessed something like that would be posting left and right about it.

I also remember USPS was caught renting tents and keeping this mail on vacant.lots with loaded trailers mentioned by @Oi veh.
No one at the plants found it, it wasn't at the plants to find...

There are other ploys used to cheat us that would be unstoppable by diligent plant workers. Use the search feature here, above right. Search Post in thread 'Caught the po' Caught the po

I'm sorry: they're evil, bold, callous and they hold us in derision.

 

[Augsburg]

scratching my head here

What is it that you're trying to figure out specifically here? Demonstrate that the MDD is too inaccurate to register a stop? The engineering report put in 'slop' to handle the 'noise' of fixes for registered stops. And as the engineers specifically noted, the fewer terrestrial fixes to compliment satellite signals, the much more likely the distance between boxes and the easier to fix those boxes to mapped points already in the system.

The majority of 'coverage' calculations comes from mapped addresses in AMS linked through delivery point sequencing. With the improvements in package identification and the mandating of mailers providing their own addressing rather than simply depending on OCR decoding, as the engineers predicted in their reports, more and more data will not be required from the MDD as more and more data is generated at the network level.

The biggest 'hole' I'm seeing in the system at the moment that's not being accounted for is non-trackable mail being picked up at boxes and I've already seen some suggestions on the national level on how to address that to give credit to routes and stations where it's coming from. The blind spot of locally sorted mail being registered for station and route credit is yet another datapoint that probably will have to be accounted for in spot checks during the year.

End result will be just fudging the numbers by another percent in coverage most likely. But we've honestly spent very very very little effort on a national level to identify how much mail is being sorted at the office to go back out to routes in raw mail. And honestly, the more efficient the station, the more likely that percent is being missed, but on the macro level? It's money not being paid, but it's panning for the most fine gold dust, less than 10 minutes of standard evaluation a week? The cost to verify those numbers would probably make the most proactive response by both the union and USPS to just simply say 'routes that fit the following model will have 10 minutes of standard time added to their routes per week.'

I'm not saying it's not worth going after, 10 minutes can change an evaluation up a level.

And by the by, if you want similar data to what the MDD is capturing in a visual format, sign up for a Waze account, use it each day, and you'll see very similar bead crumb trails to the MDD heartbeat marked on the map in the edit mode. Location services turned on with Google maps? You also can get a very similar aGPS trail as well.

Yup. I'm just throwing spaghetti .

The system is admittedly 'not accurate enough to discern distances less than 5 feet' (comprehensive guide 'creep time') so ultimately I'm building a case for all locations to be agreed on by management and carriers on the mapping. Those pings should not and can not be altered by management or Algorithms. All distances calculated by rolling 'breadcrumbs' should end. All coverage area % should be solely based on mail/packages; where 25% is the base line (because flats are ≈ 25% of mail and are not part of coverage area %) then dps/packages are added to that percentage. ex: Dps has 50% coverage packages went to 5% of boxes with no mail =80% coverage area for that day. Relying on inaccurate gps on ≈ 3 week rolling average makes mapping too essential of a job, when our job is to safely deliver the mail. USPS is wasting their $ having carriers move pings back to locations every month (you should only map on "return2du" time / 8127? ) and carriers don't have time for that BS.
So I'm just collecting everything I can, every instance of bad math and over engineering, every flaw of the MDD, to make a case for the augmentation of RRECS. We can't get rid of it, but we can make it better. The sooner the better. I won't be elected to go to national and no one would listen to me anyway, so I can only hope to get this message out to someone who can make it happen .

 

[Augsburg]

Yup. I'm just throwing spaghetti .

The system is admittedly 'not accurate enough to discern distances less than 5 feet' (comprehensive guide 'creep time') so ultimately I'm building a case for all locations to be agreed on by management and carriers on the mapping. Those pings should not and can not be altered by management or Algorithms. All distances calculated by rolling 'breadcrumbs' should end. All coverage area % should be solely based on mail/packages; where 25% is the base line (because flats are ≈ 25% of mail and are not part of coverage area %) then dps/packages are added to that percentage. ex: Dps has 50% coverage packages went to 5% of boxes with no mail =80% coverage area for that day. Relying on inaccurate gps on ≈ 3 week rolling average makes mapping too essential of a job, when our job is to safely deliver the mail. USPS is wasting their $ having carriers move pings back to locations every month (you should only map on "return2du" time / 8127? ) and carriers don't have time for that BS.
So I'm just collecting everything I can, every instance of bad math and over engineering, every flaw of the MDD, to make a case for the augmentation of RRECS. We can't get rid of it, but we can make it better. The sooner the better. I won't be elected to go to national and no one would listen to me anyway, so I can only hope to get this message out to someone who can make it happen .

Examples of how a route is "optimized" . I don't get any feet for additional authorized dismounts, but I get to drive inside buildings!?