Was an rca in a number of different offices for @ 8 years. If I cut corners or acted as a runner, I could beat eval on a fairly regular basis on routes I knew. If I did the route by "the book" , curb it, park it , brake it, take it, and didn't run the parcels, I had difficulty in making evaluation. After Amazon arrived, I could never beat evaluation on a regular basis. In all the offices I worked, we were never fairly counted.
As a 3 year regular now, meeting evaluation is a non starter. We get heavy Amazon and it disappeared during the 2018 count and reappeared immediately after. My route, ,like all the others in the office, averaged 55 scans/day during count. These days we get 150-180+ scans /day after the holidays. Our union has no answer and no help. We feel like we are on our own and totally abandoned. I will be in 2080 difficulties again this year, but what can I do? I take my time off, but I refuse to run and cut corners. Remember, safety depends on me. Not my employer! Too many regulars in my office have been forced to retire before their time because of Amazon. That's why I became regular. I will not let that happen to me.
Fortunately, our pm is a former rural carrier, and "gets it". Otherwise, it would be intolerable. I feel for all the carriers who have to deal with insane management. We are lucky in that respect.
Our union is incomprehensible! Where is the leadership, the guidance, the information? Where is our latest contract? Our DR/ADR just shrug their shoulders and say wait for rrecs to be implemented. 5 years later, I'm still waiting! I carried that brick for 5 years to the door thru snowstorms and nor'easters only to be told " sorry, that didn't count", do it for another year, it counts now. What am I to think?
I go in tmrw, on a Monday, looking at another s#$show. End of rant!
