Upper management in panic mode

[DB.Cooper]

What would be wrong with having the clerks not missthrow, and having expresses arriving on time and being expeditiously processed. If something is missthrown due to a labeling error it isn’t a missthrow, it’s a delay due to shipper labeling error and is excusable. Maybe state on shipping software “Please insure correct address, incorrect address can and most likely will delay delivery”.

Clerks can get away with murder... if they shot somebody, the USPS would send a carrier to prison to pay for the crime ..

 

[Rural-life-0323]

and having expresses arriving on time and being expeditiously processed.

I completely agree on this. I was doing our entire offices expresses before the change to all expresses done by 6pm was made. When we still had the 10:30, noon and 3 pm times there were A LOT more expresses making our early truck. Significantly more. The moment it changed to 6pm the majority of expresses never made our early truck. Go back to getting them on the early trucks and you drop the amount of 2nd trips tremendously!

I also want to state - RURAL CARRIERS HAVE GIVEN ENOUGH! We are not the problem with the budget. The minuscule changes (like this) that we could make to our craft would do little to fix the overall problem. Congress needs to look elsewhere.

 

[Unclewolverine]

It's been said so many times on here, a super fast way to cut stupid expenses would be to close all of the redundant rmpos! There 4 rmpos in our sparsly populated county that combined don't bring in enough to pay the rent for one of them. Get rid of those, then cut the fat in management and we would probably be in the black!

 

[mariomail]

Clerks can get away with murder... if they shot somebody, the USPS would send a carrier to prison to pay for the crime ..

so true ... that's how it is in my office always the carriers fault

 

[ATCBigE]

It's been said so many times on here, a super fast way to cut stupid expenses would be to close all of the redundant rmpos! There 4 rmpos in our sparsly populated county that combined don't bring in enough to pay the rent for one of them. Get rid of those, then cut the fat in management and we would probably be in the black!

Literally I have been saying that for past several years. If we are in as bad of situation cash wise as they are claiming, you take immediately action on everything not just one thing (FERS for now). You cut spending (stop all SD&C projects for now, all stupid expenses at offices, and so on) and then examine everything else to cut cost (closing offices, cutting management, preventing OT, and so on).

My office has 4 RMPO. Out of 4, you could easily close 3 of them no question asked. Most boxes in those 3 is about 75ish. Other 2 are about 15. One bigger with 275 boxes could close too and be put on my route but then I will be overburdened most likely then have an aux route and then maybe I can have a sub (27 months no sub). But if you close 3 of these offices, you could save roughly 400k a year the clerk and I figured. Close all 4 and it would be like 500k to 600k (not sure because rent price has changed and other factors). This is 1 office in USA. Do that for hundreds of office and bam.

 

[stillfirstclass]

Literally I have been saying that for past several years. If we are in as bad of situation cash wise as they are claiming, you take immediately action on everything not just one thing (FERS for now). You cut spending (stop all SD&C projects for now, all stupid expenses at offices, and so on) and then examine everything else to cut cost (closing offices, cutting management, preventing OT, and so on).

My office has 4 RMPO. Out of 4, you could easily close 3 of them no question asked. Most boxes in those 3 is about 75ish. Other 2 are about 15. One bigger with 275 boxes could close too and be put on my route but then I will be overburdened most likely then have an aux route and then maybe I can have a sub (27 months no sub). But if you close 3 of these offices, you could save roughly 400k a year the clerk and I figured. Close all 4 and it would be like 500k to 600k (not sure because rent price has changed and other factors). This is 1 office in USA. Do that for hundreds of office and bam.

money for person who thought of it.. money for bribes to p.a.c. who have friends that own those p.o.'s, and you'll still have a broke p.o. with more angry customers..

 

[Worve]

What would be wrong with having the clerks not missthrow, and having expresses arriving on time and being expeditiously processed. If something is missthrown due to a labeling error it isn’t a missthrow, it’s a delay due to shipper labeling error and is excusable. Maybe state on shipping software “Please insure correct address, incorrect address can and most likely will delay delivery”.

People make mistakes, I wish people would go thru parcels at start. It would stop 90% of miss throws in my office if not more. Clerks are rushing to hit the goal or exceed it while also knowing we are waiting to start routes. Pressure like that does lead to more mistakes. Just pointing out one simple change on carriers side would mitigate this drastically.

 

[Worve]

It's been said so many times on here, a super fast way to cut stupid expenses would be to close all of the redundant rmpos! There 4 rmpos in our sparsly populated county that combined don't bring in enough to pay the rent for one of them. Get rid of those, then cut the fat in management and we would probably be in the black!

Politics plays a huge factor in this, i completely agree with your sentiment.

 

[DB.Cooper]

People make mistakes, I wish people would go thru parcels at start. It would stop 90% of miss throws in my office if not more. Clerks are rushing to hit the goal or exceed it while also knowing we are waiting to start routes. Pressure like that does lead to more mistakes. Just pointing out one simple change on carriers side would mitigate this drastically.

WIth my personal parcels, I see the results of clerks and USPS misrouting parcels all the hail over the place... I mean, they offer parcel tracking to customers, only to show those customers how funked up they are by sending their parcel all the hail over the place, and often back and forth from the same places.... Sheezy Louisy... they'd be lynching carriers at dawn if they were making USPS look this bad, but since it's clerks and mailhandlers, it's all okay...

 

[Bucknadhand]

Our clerk constantly misthrows at least 1-5 a day and we are a small office. Wish there was a scan that says "clerk error" or something like that, besides "no access" or weather delay when i get back. Or maybe i should just stop scanning them at all ugh

 

[DB.Cooper]

I always the thought there should just be a generic "unexpected delay" scan available, and a customer would receive an email that says an unexpected delay has occurred and we'll attempt to deliver your parcel on the next business day. Each carrier should be allowed one or 2 of these per day... Anything more would require an explanation... I mean stuff happens, why not allow 1% or so to accommodate these... it would save on 2nd trips and other nonsense they waste a lot of $$$$ on...

 

[TheDude]

Every cost cutting strategy that top management tries to implement is sabotaged by operations and labor there. Plant employees have been paid overtime long enough that they think they're OWED that overtime. When it's threatened, they slow down, mass sick calls, clog machinery, everything but strike as they are forbidden. The federal procurement process we're forced to utilize makes it almost impossible to effectively purchase equipment without up front payment, with no guarantee it works as promised. The PRC constantly works against the USPS even though they're supposed to help it operate.

Two years ago the Post Office used 180,000,000 gallons of gas. You can see what a $1 increase can do to costs. (note: Competitors have just added an 8% fuel surcharge on their shipping rates)

There's also a belief by Congress that postal carriers are vastly overpaid for the job they do relative to the private sector. They can't cut pay due to contracts, but they can shift standards -- RRECS was a prime example where they now get far more productivity from rural carriers than they did before the system. Look for the next huge move to be against city carriers, especially targeting their overtime. They could start with freezing expansion of regular routes and reducing the number with a freeze of some sort. Then hire CCA's to get routes carried with labor costs roughly half of what a regular makes.

Congress SHOULD act to make the USPS a fully integrated part of the Federal government. But they wont. We are truly between a rock and hard place.

While that seems like a ton of money, and it is, it has to be looked at in proportion to the scale of the USPS finances.

One thing I always look back on is the first RRECS implementation numbers. With the chart they shared, it's safe to assume that rural routes on average lost over 2 hours. That's 81000+ routes being paid on average 2 less hours PER WEEK. That's a savings of 162k+ plus man hours paid PER WEEK. That's nearly 8.5 MILLION less hours paid in the first year.


If the average carrier only made $25/hr, thats over $200 million less on salary paid in the first year of RRECS implementation alone.

Where did that money go? The real figure is most likely much higher and still with nothing to show from completely gutting a craft.

If you go back and look during COVID, every company that shipped packages had their stock prices and profits go through the roof. Yet, somehow, the USPS was still telling everyone how broke they were.

The most amazing thing about COVID is that the USPS was the only one of those shippers that had an entire craft that they didn't have to pay for the increase in delivered parcels. USPS and Fedex surely had to pony up to their delivery workers to get those parcels out yet they still made huge profits. USPS wasn't even paying Rural Carriers, yet still collecting that postage, and somehow lost money????

They are all a bunch of liars and thieves....

 

[PapahSmurf]

While that seems like a ton of money, and it is, it has to be looked at in proportion to the scale of the USPS finances.

One thing I always look back on is the first RRECS implementation numbers. With the chart they shared, it's safe to assume that rural routes on average lost over 2 hours. That's 81000+ routes being paid on average 2 less hours PER WEEK. That's a savings of 162k+ plus man hours paid PER WEEK. That's nearly 8.5 MILLION less hours paid in the first year.


If the average carrier only made $25/hr, thats over $200 million less on salary paid in the first year of RRECS implementation alone.

Where did that money go? The real figure is most likely much higher and still with nothing to show from completely gutting a craft.

If you go back and look during COVID, every company that shipped packages had their stock prices and profits go through the roof. Yet, somehow, the USPS was still telling everyone how broke they were.

The most amazing thing about COVID is that the USPS was the only one of those shippers that had an entire craft that they didn't have to pay for the increase in delivered parcels. USPS and Fedex surely had to pony up to their delivery workers to get those parcels out yet they still made huge profits. USPS wasn't even paying Rural Carriers, yet still collecting that postage, and somehow lost money????

They are all a bunch of liars and thieves....

I would love to see an updated chart for the routes that were cut and what the results were after the unlock period. No doubt the routes that gained time will be close to 0.