What happens if I have to start doing second trips every day?

[dunshine]

Hi, I just recently adapted a new pickup on my route from a business who moved from one of our city routes to my route. Long story short, they have a lot of sales and get busy A LOT. I drive a 2 door jeep wrangler and when they have their sales I definitely have to do second trips. I also have 5 other businesses i pick up from but only 2 of them can get heavy with a lot of packages.

I do not mind at all, because the most packages I pick up from them has been around 115, and with all of my pickups total some days I bring back 500 packages to the post office, and I will take ANYTHING extra on my route to boost my evaluation and I honestly rather it be pickups than a new neighborhood

but the other day one of the workers of this business asked me if i’m going to have that Jeep all summer and that it’s not going to work. I just thought well if you move to a rural route you get the rural vehicle I know how to drive it to the post office and back.

I just wanted to make sure that nothing is going to happen to my route if second trips become a heavily regular thing, management has been asking me if it gets too difficult for me to just give some of my pickups back to their city collection but I really refuse to do that. I don’t think they’d try to pull the “You have to buy a better suited vehicle” card on me right? Or try to take away my pickups due to my second trips? Just want to be sure.

 

[btdtret]

dunshine -- "I just wanted to make sure that nothing is going to happen to my route if second trips become a heavily regular thing, management has been asking me if it gets too difficult for me to just give some of my pickups back to their city collection but I really refuse to do that."

-- "I don’t think they’d try to pull the “You have to buy a better suited vehicle” card on me right? Or try to take away my pickups due to my second trips?" Why not? ( see Step 4 ( V-2 ))

-- For starters , manglement has to approve "second trips".

-- Section 141.2 of the PO-603: Your personal vehicle MUST BE large enough to accommodate the normal mail volume and constructed to protect the mail from loss of damage. ( you and manglement will have to agree on what is the "normal mail volume".

-- Similar wording in the M-38's Section 224.1.

-- Get a hold of Step 4 ( V-2 ), in parts:

- Excessive Additional Trips:

- If it is determined that the number of additional trips required is excessive, management MAY require a rural carrier to provide a larger vehicle or MAY adjust the carrier's route, in accordance with the following ( short versions ):

- if on more than 12 days in a 6 months period ( not counting the Christmas period ), manglement MAY require the rural carrier to provide a larger vehicle that will significantly reduce additional trips or MAY adjust the route at the option of the carrier.

- the carrier has 60s days ( or show a sales slip ) to provide a larger vehicle ( if LLV routes area also making "excessive" second trips, politely tell manglement that you will get a larger vehicle as soon as the LLV routes get larger vehicle ).

- If unable ( unwilling? ) to do so, manglement WILL consider assigning a Employer provided vehicle to the route if available, and IF the Employer provided vehicle will significantly reduce additional trips, PRIOR to adjusting the route.

-- If you have a sub, what is the size of the sub's vehicle?

 

[gotstamps]

Nothing happens to your route when the 2nd Trips are for collecting outgoing mail.

Mgmt can allow the collection route to do the pickups for large shipments. As long as the pkgs are scanned in as pickup, I believe your route still gets the credit. This has not been verified but there are some routes in my office that have large pickups done for them by our Collection route & they have high evals & get back early.

 

[dunshine]

-- If you have a sub, what is the size of the sub's vehicle?

I don’t have a sub, and i don’t think anyone has me in their matrix lol