Ok, so this is a deal to me as I get about 5 a day on average, sometimes I can have twenty..I have hospitals and medical businesses on my route that get CD galore in large stiff packaging...pictures in reincforced envelopes, Ulines and Grainger up the wazoo for all those businesses (every week!), and I have a UPS sstore that gets about a tub of mail and flats everyday by itself.
OK so that said, this will be long, this is what I was told WAS a ParcelL by the union:
-A parcel is considered a parcel if it has a bar code on it, or it is obviously a parcel without a bar code
and this is what I was told is NOT a Parcel:
it no longer matters if it is rigid or does not fit in the case.
Ulines, Graingers and Bass pro etc, catalogues are not parcels.
hold mail bundles are not parcels.
large bundles of mail ( like i stated i get a tub a day for my UPS store) are not parcels
pictures in reinforced envelopes
thick bubble mailers are not parcels
cd in large rigid envelopes are not parcels
Now talking to a new 204B that I am friends with (don't shoot me!!) that just went to count training with PM. She said she was also trying to get a straight answer at the training and our union rep was there. He stated over and over again that an UNSCANPARCEL is only a parcel that you cannot read the barcode or cannot enter a barcode in for manually. They even asked about boxes that have to go in parcel locker, nope, asked about boxes that had to go to door, nope.
So hopefully when we have our regional zoom mail count training we can get some better answers.
as I do deliver a lot of what I consider UNSCANPARCEL items and I want to get credit for them.
I have always argued for every item and every minute during mail counts ( I was an RCA on hold downs and jumped to new routes that needed counted so did one about every year for 5 years.) each route I was on went up after the count, and the mail volume factor also went up. Other carriers who just agreed with everything always went down. so, in reply to those that think that these times do not add up...THEY DO!
ok, so anyone got an answer yet