Route coverage number question.

[Crab Rice]

My 4241a says I have 69% route coverage. Does this mean it says I skip 30% of my boxes? I have 500 driving boxes and that would mean I skip 150 a day on average! Total BS. My lightest day is Tuesday and I have counted skips of around 100-120. The rest of the week is much heavier of course.

Am I reading this right or incorrect on the coverage?

 

[Drauwst]

Been looking for an answer on that too, as i had the same impression from it.
Mine is 88%.... i dont skip much and have made it a point not to for quite some time now. Only really skipped one road frequently that was under constant construction or not even drivable at times due to weather. I'd often have to find new paths to reach the boxes there so i often just did not even bother until the next day. Even despite that, it was only 4 boxes, and only other ones i'd not go to were a few businesses that never get mail/never check box, but they weren't out of the way either.

Saw some other routes with as low as 63%

 

[Lyra]

mine says 66% coverage

 

[Mike 60]

For my Rt.is says 96% coverage

 

[Crab Rice]

I've had a habit for years of slowing down but not completely stopping when I can. I wonder if one must come to a complete stop for a certain amount of seconds? Anyone?

 

[Kozaks]

mine is 82% and i stop at every box every day, regardless of mail, anticipating this for last 2 or more yrs........Only time i haven't stopped would be on highway , where it was too dangerous to stop with snow on shoulder and that was maybe a handful of days and 20 or so boxes of 640.

But when i do have a day off or on vacation, my route is split......how does splitting effect that , if a sub, on limited duty, only delivers half the route ,,,and City carriers, Sup. or other Rural Reg take piece of delivery?

 

[C$$]

I understand it the same as you. My route coverage is 75%, which implies I skip 1 out of 4 boxes. No sir, that is not correct.

Personally I think the info in the guide is bologna. PO came up with some other way of determining route coverage, and no one has bothered to tell us carriers.

 

[Chemado]

My coverage is 82%. Does it have anything to do with vacant, hold, seasonal fwd, or any other reason a box on your route wouldn't be delivered to?

 

[afk tornado]

Mine is 88% and I stop for a full second, maybe two, at each box. Only about 5% of my boxes are cbus, so that's not it. A route in my office had a coverage factor of 48% and I know this carrier is more careful than that. I smell something rotten about coverage factor.

 

[Kozaks]

I understand it the same as you. My route coverage is 75%, which implies I skip 1 out of 4 boxes. No sir, that is not correct.

Personally I think the info in the guide is bologna. PO came up with some other way of determining route coverage, and no one has bothered to tell us carriers.

i do wonder from an engineering aspect......If RRECS uses the time at each box/stop on say a heavy Monday to determine the time it should take for each box/stop for rest of wk. Maybe a group of boxes or CBUs use that method?

 

[Jaz]

For my Rt.is says 96% coverage

Did your route go up or down?

 

[neciat]

I've had a habit for years of slowing down but not completely stopping when I can. I wonder if one must come to a complete stop for a certain amount of seconds? Anyone?

@Crab Rice and all ---- I was with my PM yesterday and we were discussing the coverage factor issue. He was saying that it is not so much that you have to be stopped at the box / delivery point but that you have to be in the geo fence zone for like 5 seconds . There is a perimeter or area "before" and "after" the box that you must be in for a certain amount of time. KInda' like the white lines you see on the interstate where the helicopter times you between the two lines to calculate your speed ( distance divided by time = rate ) . It's like that but only much smaller. You get the idea. It still sucks for those of us in high density urban areas where there are boxes every 10 yards and we case everything and go. It seems as though the "system" CANNOT keep up with its' own standards @86ppm.

 

[YOUAREthecurrentresident]

I think you could stop at a mailbox, that didn't get any mail, for hours & I honestly don't think you'd get credit for that specific box. I don't believe for 1 sec that the GPS in the scanners are accurate enough to determine a specific box. Heck, I came in at 95% coverage...I pitch & ditch all day errrrr day. IMO, I think Informed delivery is what they are using for coverage %

 

[Mike 60]

Did your route go up or down?

My rt stayed a 42 k

 

[littlesew&sew]

My route coverage is 85%. I went up 3 hrs. Another route in my office is 42%. She went down from 41K to 41J. The other routes range from 70 to 89%. Two of them went up, and one down. I don't know the RMPO coverage % but they all went down.

 

[Windindaface]

Silly me. I thought this thread was about how many RCAS are available to cover a route in office.

 

[OutHereSomewhere]

@Crab Rice and all ---- I was with my PM yesterday and we were discussing the coverage factor issue. He was saying that it is not so much that you have to be stopped at the box / delivery point but that you have to be in the geo fence zone for like 5 seconds . There is a perimeter or area "before" and "after" the box that you must be in for a certain amount of time. KInda' like the white lines you see on the interstate where the helicopter times you between the two lines to calculate your speed ( distance divided by time = rate ) . It's like that but only much smaller. You get the idea. It still sucks for those of us in high density urban areas where there are boxes every 10 yards and we case everything and go. It seems as though the "system" CANNOT keep up with its' own standards @86ppm.

I've tried a little experiment over the last few months. When I get one of those warnings telling me an SPMS scan is coming up, I grab the scanner before I get to that address, stop at that address and start counting "one thousand one, one thousand two, and so on." It takes me to 3 to 4 before the scanner goes off wanting me to do the scans. So I'm guessing 3 or 4 seconds is how long it takes for the GPS bread crumbs to register with the "system." In other words, your PM is likely correct.

BTW, the highway patrolman that invented that white line system was from the county I grew up in. Basically, if you're going 60mph, it should take you exactly 1 minute to travel a mile. For each second you're under a minute, that's 1 mph over 60mph you're traveling. For each second over, you're traveling 1mph slower than 60mph.

 

[Jaz]

My rt stayed a 42 k

Ok mines went down 3 hours my coverage factor was 77%

 

[Jaz]

I think you could stop at a mailbox, that didn't get any mail, for hours & I honestly don't think you'd get credit for that specific box. I don't believe for 1 sec that the GPS in the scanners are accurate enough to determine a specific box. Heck, I came in at 95% coverage...I pitch & ditch all day errrrr day. IMO, I think Informed delivery is what they are using for coverage %

Lol, love the name, some people really do not READ their mail, wow really 95% are you up or same in hours

 

[neciat]

I've tried a little experiment over the last few months. When I get one of those warnings telling me an SPMS scan is coming up, I grab the scanner before I get to that address, stop at that address and start counting "one thousand one, one thousand two, and so on." It takes me to 3 to 4 before the scanner goes off wanting me to do the scans. So I'm guessing 3 or 4 seconds is how long it takes for the GPS bread crumbs to register with the "system." In other words, your PM is likely correct.

BTW, the highway patrolman that invented that white line system was from the county I grew up in. Basically, if you're going 60mph, it should take you exactly 1 minute to travel a mile. For each second you're under a minute, that's 1 mph over 60mph you're traveling. For each second over, you're traveling 1mph slower than 60mph.

There ya go..........................right there. Your explanation / experiment is a great way to explain it. Not that mine was terrible but yours is better. I mean, there IS a geo fence and all of that but your SPM analysis is a better way to compare it.