Most offices around my area are early drops at latest I believe is about 7am.
You guys hear about the new Amazon rules starting Easter Sunday?
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Most offices around my area are early drops at latest I believe is about 7am.
Deer Smearer
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But it’s a pre thought out nationally mandated plan. It’s perfect.
Your only defense will be to capitalize on the things done wrong and make them pay dearly with excess time.
When you start at 10 and looking at a 8+ hr day you just want to be done before dark.But it’s a pre thought out nationally mandated plan. It’s perfect.
Your only defense will be to capitalize on the things done wrong and make them pay dearly with excess time.
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100% understandable.
That’s what they are counting on. Remember, they want to go home just as bad as the carriers.
Sunday Amazon delivery times are the big deal right now.
Management is at home the entire time Sundays and holidays. Yes I have tried to push the issue, so has city side. Neither union does anything about it. So management is not effected at all.
Voglio-il mio
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I think part of the USPS thought process is, "if ARC's or RCA's show up to do the work" they will now work with greater speed so that they can get home earlier to avoid the dark or to be capable of spending more time with the family. By shrinking the window to complete the task is giving them motivation to move quicker.
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It's the CCA's too. City AND Rural hourly part-timers only delivering parcels.
I would love to see those analytics.
Oh I know fully well why they did it. To be honest when I did it I always went as safely and quickly as I could. Couldn’t get done any sooner than I all ready was. It won’t save any $$ for hours, besides clerk craft in my office. It will most likely cost them a lot more once it gets dark by 5 and sooner.
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Anyone have the issue with start times having to be 10am, but you work from another office? We assumed we needed to be at the office to start our work at 10am, but we drive 35 minutes from our home office with our LLVs to get there. So we got there at 9:20 to have time to grab scanners, check vehicles and drive, but we're told me can't be at our home office until 10am, so now we have to wander into the office 40 minutes after start time to start our day, when everyone from that home office is already loaded up and ready to go. This stuff is a mess. Now, we'll be getting grief for being out later than everyone else because we aren't allowed to be there to start at the same time as everyone else.
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Got done with the Amazon nonsense last night at 8:30, just as tornados and high winds were moving into the area. Was wondering if some poor slob sub west of me was caught in it. Feel like I've been battered by Iron Mike this morning.
Got the "Amazon starts at 10:00" on Sunday excuse again, but after driving 20 miles to pick it up and back, my first scan wasn't until about 11:45. 150 miles in an LLV, and nearly all of it on gravel roads.
One box was beat to death, and wrapped in USPS Priority Mail tape.
Got the "Amazon starts at 10:00" on Sunday excuse again, but after driving 20 miles to pick it up and back, my first scan wasn't until about 11:45. 150 miles in an LLV, and nearly all of it on gravel roads.
One box was beat to death, and wrapped in USPS Priority Mail tape.
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Amazon is running the show. Why would they care about the wear and tear on a postal workers body? We technically don't work for them right? 5 years I have worked for USPS and I am seriously looking elsewhere for employment. Amazon is my final reason.
Its pathetic that NO ONE at USPS has the nads to stick up for our people a little bit. So the Amazon folks come in, drive off to deliver on Sunday so some posh prick can sleep off his martinis?
We don't. We drive miles and miles to load up an LLV. Then drive back, unload, sort, reload and head out. First scan maybe 11:45. Not the same job at all. We will be worked till after dark, then many expected to be back in the office 8 hours later.
This is surely a straw on the back that's leading to me leaving in 6-ish weeks.
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Descatusat
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If it helps, they said this 10AM start time was national and mandatory. We did it for 2 weeks and the second week the office that we have to drive to claimed they needed help when we got done, even though my office had to start 30 minutes later due to travel time. We didn't help them. They were out much later than the PO wanted and now this week our start times have all reverted back. So there is hope that offices can push back on this if it inconveniences the PO enough. I believe it came down to them having to pay their clerk to wait on their carriers so much later.
We all knew it wouldn't make sense for this to be a blanket policy when you have clerks in some offices who are done throwing at 8 and then just standing there for 2 hours until carriers show up, but I didn't expect them to cave and revert is so quickly.
We all knew it wouldn't make sense for this to be a blanket policy when you have clerks in some offices who are done throwing at 8 and then just standing there for 2 hours until carriers show up, but I didn't expect them to cave and revert is so quickly.
Will be a real gas for offices with only a couple subs trying to make it thru summer, Holidays, etc. Burning up for 10-12 hours thru the heat of the day, finishing who knows/no-one cares when. Then, dealing with a Monday or day-after-holiday.
Meanwhile, the USPS RCA Maximation Study will meet this summer. The Keynote Speaker will stand up and say:
"Two Words: Bone Marrow. RCAs got it, and we can use it."
Meanwhile, the USPS RCA Maximation Study will meet this summer. The Keynote Speaker will stand up and say:
"Two Words: Bone Marrow. RCAs got it, and we can use it."
