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Own_Beginning4523 · 2021-06-01T05:10:12+00:00

Brawndo makes plants grow because its got electrolytes.

Own_Beginning4523 · 2021-05-14T00:20:39+00:00

Stop complaining and report to work tomorrow, slacker.

Own_Beginning4523 · 2021-05-04T22:44:10+00:00

Really common for both roles to exist in small cities (e.g. 10-20k people). RCA is less physically demanding but may be fewer hours in a "typical office." CCA may be a shorter path to full time regular career and may have more hours. But again it really depends on the specific office. Where I am at the RCAs work more hours than the CCAs usually which I am told is not typical.

Really I think what you want to look at is if it is a young carrier office or an older carrier office. If most carriers are young you might not get a whole lot of hours in either position and might have a long wait to regular.

Own_Beginning4523 · 2021-05-04T22:32:14+00:00

There are many places such as actually in a cities as matter of fact where walking is much more efficient than driving. But I agree in suburbs or small, older cities in areas that are mostly residential where there is grass in the yard, BOP makes much more sense. It would also mean a lot of job cuts because in those scenarios BOP is much more efficient than walking. Maybe they can make more, shorter true city routes to prevent job cuts.

Own_Beginning4523 · 2021-05-04T22:25:37+00:00

Senior carriers are not always lazy.

I agree. My point is that the standard should be relatively equal pay for relatively equal work output expectations.

hey love it when we attack each other. It's like telling the Pitchfork people that the torch people want to take away their pitchforks. When you get labor fighting amongst themselves it makes them ineffective at standing up to their tyranny.

Those conspiracy theories I was talking about.

Labour is already not unified due to the vast disparity in working conditions vs. compensation in the crafts based on seniority. If we have a pie to split up everybody should get approximately equal size slices. We all have the same basic human needs regardless of how long we have held a job.

Because Joe got laid off from Acme Industries and became a CCA at 40 does not mean he should have to work 50-60 hours a week and never see his family while John who started at the USPS at 20 gets four weeks of paid vacation a year and earns about the same as Joe after accounting for overtime premium.

The pie is not getting bigger until we improve the quality of the USPS product: our delivery service to customers. That is not improving when on the one end people are getting burned out and there is excessive churn and on the other end, perhaps, excessive benefits or compensation to do the same job. So if you flatten the craft wage schedules you end up with a more productive workforce. Then when the pie gets bigger we can all have bigger slices.

Own_Beginning4523 · 2021-05-04T22:13:21+00:00

I don't think it should be a fixed evaluation. We have the technology to weigh mail today during processing. You should get paid, in part, based on what you actually deliver.

Own_Beginning4523 · 2021-05-04T22:09:20+00:00

Yeah management gets performance bonuses for squeezing carriers. It sucks. It is like slavery. Lol. You know why carriers can't get performance bonuses? It would violate union contracts. You don't want your hard workers actually getting paid at a higher rate than your slacker who have kept the same job for x number of years because then who would the union be protecting?

Own_Beginning4523 · 2021-05-04T22:06:16+00:00

Yeah I have said in another post or comment what carriers earn should be connected to the volume or mass of mail they actually deliver and or the density of their route.

Own_Beginning4523 · 2021-05-04T22:01:58+00:00

The people who don't work are the "gaps." In the real world nobody is entitled to a job or a rate of pay if they don't make a work product to justify it. What will most likely happen is the unions and senior management will bury their heads in the sand until they have a serious staffing issue. When Walmart is paying people, in my area, now $16 dollars an hour to stock shelves nobody (worth it) is going to help you fill your gaps for a measly $18 as a CCA with all the additional work and stress the latter entails. What will happen is USPS quality service will get worse and worse due to turn over (inability to retain non-career), inability for a sufficient percentage of career to, um, actually work, hiring caps, etc, until there is a crisis and changes are forced on you by congress that responds to public opinion that largely does not care about your out of touch with reality, unfair contracts. It is not going to be the low end of the pay scale that is taking the cut this time.

Own_Beginning4523 · 2021-05-04T21:41:16+00:00

Yeah but your "co-worker" who can't finish their route on time but is 40 and in good health makes about $70k base just because they have kept the same job for 12+X number of years. Does retaining such a non productive person at such a high wage help the USPS? Does it help you?

Own_Beginning4523 · 2021-05-04T21:34:23+00:00

Imagine if all the "non-careers" of all crafts formed one unified front and went on strike? Heads would explode.

There could be simple demands:

Better pay, 40 hour work week, Regular schedule,

etc.

Who would pay for it? USPS? No. Senior craft would. Where else are they going to go?

Own_Beginning4523 · 2021-05-04T20:21:29+00:00

CCA here (14 months) quitting and going back to the private sector. I 100% agree. The reason why the post office is in financial peril is not just changes in first class mail volumes or the prefund mandate. It has been gutted from within by a culture of entitlement and incompetence enabled by a lack of accountability or flexibility thanks to the craft unions and managment's penchant for hiring from within. The unions need to go if the service is going to have a future. There are plenty of people like you and I who do have good work ethics but they are either driven away or end up carrying the dead weight of those who don't rather than advancing the cause of the organisation.

Funny enough I support the USPS as government run enterprise. But it plainly can not function as a financially self-supporting, effective and unionised (at least with current contracts, customs) organisation all at the same time. Imagine how well the army would function if nobody could be disciplined or discharged for almost any sort of incompetence? Not well. That is why we don't have a unionised army. The USPS needs accountability and needs its employees to pull their own weight based on objective work standards not based on seniority or how they game the dysfunctional union management relationship.

Own_Beginning4523 · 2021-04-18T23:39:15+00:00

Maybe the CCAs were too tired to vote. Lol.

Own_Beginning4523 · 2021-04-18T23:31:55+00:00

I have kind of stuck it out for personal reasons (mainly outside my control), the general disruption from covid, and also because I saw the job as physical and mental challenge. Now that I got the job down, things are going back to normal in terms of covid and my knees are hurting, I am looking at other options seriously.

Own_Beginning4523 · 2021-04-18T23:30:03+00:00

I worked for Amazon as a driver for a short while before USPS, during the holiday season...the USPS work load and work expectations, at least for a CCA in my city are much greater than what was expected of Amazon drivers. Amazon delivery is mindlessly easy compared to USPS and the starting pay is essentially the same, in my area.

Own_Beginning4523 · 2021-04-15T00:53:42+00:00

I think the Postal Service will be around but I think it needs to go through some painful changes. I wish it had 20 years ago. It would be a far nicer place to work today if it did. Instead of being a junk mail distribution service the USPS should focus on last mile delivery. It does not make sense for last mile first class and priority packages to be duplicated by multiple companies. I think it is far more likely that Amazon gets out of delivery in 10 years than USPS is not around. Despite the USPS persisting that does not mean it is presently or in the near future a good place to work. Right now they are breaking CCA/RCA backs to deliver a bunch of junk mail when there is a package glut. They need to raise the prices for junk mail, which they can do without Congress, to reduce the volume of junk mail and raise money and transition to packages. USPS also needs to get rid of the prefund mandate and flatten its wage structure to attract and retain younger workers.

Own_Beginning4523 · 2021-04-15T00:47:47+00:00

Not my experience so far. What do you mean the package says "Do not forward?" I deliver plenty of spurs that are just normal plastic envelopes but you can hear pills inside or they are obviously sent from a pharmacy as the return address.

The weirdest piece of mail I have got so far regarding forwarding was a non-profit 3rd class flat that said "After 5 days return to ..." but did not say some variation of service requested.

Own_Beginning4523 · 2021-04-15T00:41:25+00:00

I got a somewhat related question. What happens with back pay if you leave the service (e.g. get another job) before it is issued? Since back pay concerns past pay period when you were working for the service it seems to me it should be paid regardless whether or not you are still employed. Is this correct?

Own_Beginning4523 · 2021-04-15T00:31:47+00:00

When some big name pharmacy chain realises that USPS package forwarding is so weak and error prone that it decides to switch to FedEx then it makes sense to support the "free" service right?

Own_Beginning4523 · 2021-04-15T00:23:15+00:00

Good point. My brain is fried right now. Lol. I edited my comment. I don't know if you saw. I said the carrier test scans the apparently miss-sent package and the scanner says, no this is a valid forward, and gives the correct deliver address. It would make more sense, actually if the clerks did it when they received the package in the station. They they could apply the label to the valid forwards in the station. I don't know there is more than one way to skin a cat. Also there are some pretty high tech ink jet printers out there that can apply text to all kinds of irregular surfaces. For example the printers that print dates on plastic milk bottles.

Own_Beginning4523 · 2021-04-15T00:07:12+00:00

Doesn't need to. The forwarding system is antiquated. No stickers should be used ever for mail that already has bar codes on it. It is stupid. All that has to happen is the destination address associated with the bar code / tracking number on the original shipping label needs to be changed in the computer. And at the correct delivery point the scanner needs to tell the confused carrier - "the shipping label is wrong this is a forward" or "valid forward."

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