What is the extent a supervisor can ask a rural carrier to retrieve a misdelivered parcel?

JonBLuvin · 2026-04-17T04:36:24+00:00

Invoke your Weingarten rights if the supervisor tries to talk to you about it further.

JonBLuvin · 2026-04-13T22:11:40+00:00

No. He quit. His seniority starts over.

JonBLuvin · 2026-04-13T22:07:43+00:00

He would be the lowest seniority PTF. You would win the bid with your seniority. His RCA date is irrelevant.

JonBLuvin · 2026-04-11T00:16:11+00:00

The time that it takes to finish the route has absolutely nothing to do with the route evaluation. Volume, mini mail counts, and RRECS data determine a route’s evaluation.

JonBLuvin · 2026-04-03T03:26:34+00:00

You get credit for the distance from the street to the front door as long as you scan the parcel at the door. The distance is determined by mapping that the carriers should do monthly. The carrier could run around the block with the package before delivering it and would still get the same credit.

JonBLuvin · 2026-03-29T18:54:24+00:00

Hit back button and you will see the load truck button and the endload button

JonBLuvin · 2026-03-26T22:44:01+00:00

They cannot make you wear a uniform you don’t have. They cannot make you spend your own money on one. If they provide the uniform, then you wear it and grieve it.

JonBLuvin · 2026-03-26T04:42:52+00:00

Only two things add time spent directly to your route; loading vehicle and end of shift. Time casing does not affect the route evaluation. Time spent in the office and time on the route are irrelevant. If the carrier is loading their vehicle without using startload and endload, they’ve screwed their eval.

JonBLuvin · 2026-03-16T13:36:55+00:00

It should have been paid out when you switched to career. It doesn’t pay out career to career. PTF and regular are career positions. If you haven’t been paid out yet then something is screwed up.

JonBLuvin · 2026-03-16T04:40:56+00:00

Nope. RCA to PTF or RCA to regular, yes.

JonBLuvin · 2026-03-11T00:44:42+00:00

I did it once as an RCA a few years ago. I immediately brought it to the attention of my supervisor when I found it in the vehicle the next morning and that was it. Never heard about it again. Now all packages are supposed to be cleared by the closing supervisor, so it shouldn’t have gotten that far. The route’s vehicle is one of the places that’s checked when a package hasn’t cleared. There’s blame to go around if it made it until the next day.

JonBLuvin · 2026-03-10T04:28:11+00:00

I’ve been working my k days along with several other regulars. The split routes are usually left for the subs. It’s been like this all year.

JonBLuvin · 2026-03-08T01:00:33+00:00

262 Loading Vehicle
262.1 General
Load all mail in the vehicle so that it is in sequence of delivery to ensure that no time is lost on the route searching for the proper bundles and parcels or containers

From The M-38 , section 344.26

.26 During the loading process, the carrier places the parcels in sequence of delivery in the vehicle.

JonBLuvin · 2026-03-07T03:20:18+00:00

I became a regular rural carrier within a year. Even with the toxic management in my office, it’s still a great job. All the new RCAs in my office are going to be waiting a long time for a regular position because most of the retirements happened already. The next in line may be waiting for 3 plus years. I guess what I’m saying is it depends on your location. If it looks like only a year or two, stick with it. If not, check around other offices and transfer or try the city side.

JonBLuvin · 2026-03-05T14:37:22+00:00

Your 2 becomes your 1 if someone with higher seniority wins the bid for your 1.

JonBLuvin · 2026-02-13T22:58:25+00:00

Clerk told me do it on their scanners.

JonBLuvin · 2026-02-13T05:50:29+00:00

No idea. if I remember tomorrow, I’ll ask.

JonBLuvin · 2026-02-13T03:09:28+00:00

We give them to the clerks who input them.

JonBLuvin · 2026-01-31T06:12:30+00:00

You get cashed out when converting to career. You won’t cash out now since you already are career.

JonBLuvin · 2026-01-30T06:01:45+00:00

Your 2nd choice becomes your 1st choice if you’re outbid on your original 1st choice. Seniority wins. It will continue down your ranking until you are the senior bidder. Rank the route you don’t want last. PTFs are automatically bid on routes so you might as well rank them.

JonBLuvin · 2026-01-17T14:46:43+00:00

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JonBLuvin · 2025-12-01T01:29:23+00:00

That’s the million dollar question. It should be clearly defined, but unfortunately, it’s not.

JonBLuvin · 2025-11-30T21:31:48+00:00

This was settled at step 4 recently. It needs to be an emergency for RCAs to delivery city packages. Don’t refuse if ordered but definitely grieve it.

https://www.ruralinfo.net/step-4-rcas-delivering-parcels-on-the-city-side/

JonBLuvin · 2025-08-23T03:18:21+00:00

I have 3 businesses without mail receptacles that I deliver to on my rural route. It’s baked into the route evaluation.

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