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[Deer Smearer]

Don't forget to do courtesy door stops for full boxes or welfare checks on slow days. Any slow days, not that I get many, I take business cbu stuff to door that has been sitting awhile. Usually, it's a new store manager who didn't know they had a mailbox. Whatever. It's all dismount time for customer service.
On normal mail flow days, it's rare for me to have 3 addresses without mail. For three little boxes, I'll stop and pause. My route is probably one of the few with a near 100% coverage factor. Remember, on boxholder days you get route coverage factor - the average % of boxes you have stopped for. Not 100% box coverage. So, if you consistently skip boxes you are harming your box factor number, as well.

It's playing the odds in Vegas...come on River.

Q&A #16 says 100%

16. How has the coverage factor for centralized delivery been calculated?
A. The coverage factor for all deliveries will be determined with a combination of bread-crumb data showing the mail stop, and/or informed delivery data showing which boxes received mail that day. If the delivery shows a stop and or mail, it will be considered served. Also, any days that include a boxholder or WSS coverage are calculated at 100% coverage.

 

[YOUAREthecurrentresident]

Q&A #16 says 100%

16. How has the coverage factor for centralized delivery been calculated?
A. The coverage factor for all deliveries will be determined with a combination of bread-crumb data showing the mail stop, and/or informed delivery data showing which boxes received mail that day. If the delivery shows a stop and or mail, it will be considered served. Also, any days that include a boxholder or WSS coverage are calculated at 100% coverage.

I was just gonna post this. This is what I believe to be true. Because we'd get penalized for holds, access blocked etc... But it seems every time I come on here, I find out something even worse than the last time I visited concerning RRECS. Maybe it's time for me to just stick my head in the sand & just let things play out. Maybe I'll get excessed to Hawaii

 

[Gotrope]

Q&A #16 says 100%

16. How has the coverage factor for centralized delivery been calculated?
A. The coverage factor for all deliveries will be determined with a combination of bread-crumb data showing the mail stop, and/or informed delivery data showing which boxes received mail that day. If the delivery shows a stop and or mail, it will be considered served. Also, any days that include a boxholder or WSS coverage are calculated at 100% coverage.

Yes, you are correct on the boxholder to individual addresses. But, on page 19 of the rrecs guide the daily addresses are still in discussion. As of last month, still in discussion. But, also notice more coverages are coming as wsh rather than wss? Even ones for every box are defaulting to wsh. I wish more people had access to informed visibility to see the stuff the USPS is documenting and using against carriers.

 

[Dumbassclerksyndrome]

I know I’ll get a lot of hate for this, but I’m not going to do things that I know I’m not going to keep doing for a 6 mth period or however long each evaluation is. I was raised by a military father who ingrained in me… get out, do your job and you can relax when finished. I’m going to do the rte the same way I started 28 years ago, efficiently, safely and with integrity. Not saying that doing things to maintain rte status and one’s pay is wrong, I’m just too old and too damn tired to put up with this BS.

 

[YOUAREthecurrentresident]

Yes, you are correct on the boxholder to individual addresses. But, on page 19 of the rrecs guide the daily addresses are still in discussion. As of last month, still in discussion. But, also notice more coverages are coming as wsh rather than wss? Even ones for every box are defaulting to wsh. I wish more people had access to informed visibility to see the stuff the USPS is documenting and using against carriers.

Are WSH mailings not showing up in our #s? How can the machine not be able to know exactly how much volume we process?? It's 2022...we have self driving cars, little robots that mow lawns etc. But the machine can't determine how many flats we get?? What about printing companies like Quadgraphics that drop pallets off at plant? Shouldn't they have volume #s??

 

[ifitfitsitships]

Are WSH mailings not showing up in our #s? How can the machine not be able to know exactly how much volume we process?? It's 2022...we have self driving cars, little robots that mow lawns etc. But the machine can't determine how many flats we get?? What about printing companies like Quadgraphics that drop pallets off at plant? Shouldn't they have volume #s??

Well...look at it this way:

We still have 30 year old vehicles with safety features from the 1960's and management that still tries to run things like a sweatshop from the 1890's.

 

[Gotrope]

I know I’ll get a lot of hate for this, but I’m not going to do things that I know I’m not going to keep doing for a 6 mth period or however long each evaluation is. I was raised by a military father who ingrained in me… get out, do your job and you can relax when finished. I’m going to do the rte the same way I started 28 years ago, efficiently, safely and with integrity. Not saying that doing things to maintain rte status and one’s pay is wrong, I’m just too old and too damn tired to put up with this BS.

I don't really put much extra effort into things like I used to. The business stops are more of a save myself time thing. My route has decent volume and seldom skip any deliveries per day. I'm on my way out and stopped caring about many things awhile ago. I wish sometimes I still cared but, usps has killed the joy here. Other than scanning, my hours are consistent with normal times. Of course, now the pandemic numbers are out of the system, helps daily time...kills route evaluations.

 

[TheDude]

I know I’ll get a lot of hate for this, but I’m not going to do things that I know I’m not going to keep doing for a 6 mth period or however long each evaluation is. I was raised by a military father who ingrained in me… get out, do your job and you can relax when finished. I’m going to do the rte the same way I started 28 years ago, efficiently, safely and with integrity. Not saying that doing things to maintain rte status and one’s pay is wrong, I’m just too old and too damn tired to put up with this BS.

One tactic I'm trying to figure out is to do the job in a manner that doesn't necessarily add much time but takes advantage of RRECS.

Relating to this discussion of Box Coverage, I do this:

When I take DPS to the street, I will intentionally stop at boxes that don't have mail to sort through the next few boxes DPS. That way I should get credit for stopping at that box and for the boxes with actual mail I can throw and go.

When I case DPS, I don't usually stop at any excess boxes. However, I throw all my DPS errors and anything that would have gotten brought back, had I taken DPS to the street, in a hold mail slot and sort it all out when I get back......the same way I would have done if I had taken everything to the street. That should lengthen end of shift time.

Stuff like that...

 

[She mails rural]

Monday I didn't get home until 830 the next 2 days home by 3 with my breaks repaired even. Our mail goes from one extreme to another! I asked pm yesterday has there been any talk of how this was looking and I never got a reply, Subject was changed quick. So I know for sure now this is gonna be real bad for us, expecally the ones of us that the mapping didn't get finished and fixed correctly. I suspose are only choice is when October gets here and we are all cut then to make sure we don't work one second over our evaluations. If that means using a cut off time, leaving stuff or bringing it back idk. If they leave me where I'm at then I'll work like I've been so it's up to them what I'll be doing. Between then no hiring, regulars get no help and looking at pay to be cut as we go into peek season then they made their bed is how I see it!

 

[EthelAnne]

. . .but I am just not confident any of this crap actually matters yet.

This is how I feel, too. I just can't believe there would be absolutely no interest in the RRECS scans (other than the six time keeping ones) if they were actually counting that info as part of our evaluations. I've seen knock down, drag out fights over a handful of mark-ups during a mail count and they just don't care how many times this week I've input FLATSWSS?

 

[stillfirstclass]

This is how I feel, too. I just can't believe there would be absolutely no interest in the RRECS scans (other than the six time keeping ones) if they were actually counting that info as part of our evaluations. I've seen knock down, drag out fights over a handful of mark-ups during a mail count and they just don't care how many times this week I've input FLATSWSS?

with mailcount starting in a month and a half

 

[mail1000]

.....and less credit for what we do deliver , coverage wise / box count , IF Informed Visibility is also flawed.

which is on a daily basis

 

[Rt2mailman]

There is a “Fix” for days the plant holds/doesn’t work mail for MY route.
A few days ago, I accidentally hit Pm casing when I returned to the office instead of “RETURN2DU”, and my manager said, “There is nothing we can do about that, sorry”. To make up for my error I didn’t hit Pm casing when I did Pm case on that rare next Pm casing day.
Now, since errors “CAN NOT BE FIXED”, I make those same errors every time I believe the Usps is holding back mail to save $ through Rrecs.
Somehow, someway, I accidentally hit “Boxholder” for all residents every time I get less than my normal 3 trays of DPS. It’s probably just a coincidence, but oh well, I can’t fix those pesky errors.

 

[mail1000]

There is a “Fix” for days the plant holds/doesn’t work mail for MY route.
A few days ago, I accidentally hit Pm casing when I returned to the office instead of “RETURN2DU”, and my manager said, “There is nothing we can do about that, sorry”. To make up for my error I didn’t hit Pm casing when I did Pm case on that rare next Pm casing day.
Now, since errors “CAN NOT BE FIXED”, I make those same errors every time I believe the Usps is holding back mail to save $ through Rrecs.
Somehow, someway, I accidentally hit “Boxholder” for all residents every time I get less than my normal 3 trays of DPS. It’s probably just a coincidence, but oh well, I can’t fix those pesky errors.

LOL-yet how much you wanna bet management CAN and WILL fix that error-the hitting boxholder....????!!!!!

 

[Itstillfun]

There is a “Fix” for days the plant holds/doesn’t work mail for MY route.
A few days ago, I accidentally hit Pm casing when I returned to the office instead of “RETURN2DU”, and my manager said, “There is nothing we can do about that, sorry”. To make up for my error I didn’t hit Pm casing when I did Pm case on that rare next Pm casing day.
Now, since errors “CAN NOT BE FIXED”, I make those same errors every time I believe the Usps is holding back mail to save $ through Rrecs.
Somehow, someway, I accidentally hit “Boxholder” for all residents every time I get less than my normal 3 trays of DPS. It’s probably just a coincidence, but oh well, I can’t fix those pesky errors.

Fat fingers

 

[MildlyInfuriated]

Yes, we had a snow day in the Northeast during the 2018 count. The count was grieved (still no resolution).

I thought that day didn’t count but the extra volume the following day did? Didn’t we actually get a gift there?

 

[EthelAnne]

I thought that day didn’t count but the extra volume the following day did? Didn’t we actually get a gift there?

AFAIK, no. That's why the grievance was filed. The storm hit us on Wednesday, March 7 and Thursday, March 8 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_6–8,_2018_nor%27easter). The count ended March 9. The USPS refused to agree to use the numbers from the first week for the second week and also refused to add more days to the count, so in effect we only had three "normal" days of mail that second week of the count. My office never received Advo/Red Plum the second week, so we've been delivering Advo for free every other week for the past four years.

Of all the things that make me furious with the NRLCA, the failure to force decisions on these grievances is top of the list. I used to go to quarterly meetings where a union official would hand out a spreadsheet of grievances that were still active (so that if we had the same issue locally, we would know that, nationally, the union already had filed on it) and it was like a joke to this guy to point out the oldest grievances on the list. He didn't realize how that made the union look; for some reason, he thought it was funny. "Oh, I think that carrier retired six years ago!" I think the oldest grievance on the list at that time was 8 years old; I'm sure with Covid and it just being impossible for these people to work the past two years because of it (meanwhile, we delivered mail every day), there are grievances much older than that now.

 

[MildlyInfuriated]

Well...look at it this way:

We still have 30 year old vehicles with safety features from the 1960's and management that still tries to run things like a sweatshop from the 1890's.

Don’t forget leather shoes from the 1700’s