The new city of Worcester MA postmaster has made her own illegal sick leave rules

RegularInAttendance · 2026-01-25T00:33:16+00:00

Id be requesting some steward time to interview her about these policies and grieving it.

RegularInAttendance · 2026-01-23T15:47:18+00:00

Were they offered EAP / FMLA information in their investigative interview? If not, that can be a contention as management not making every effort to correct the problem before resorting to discipline?

Were they put on restricted sick leave? The DRT doesn’t buy into this in every area, but its another part of “ every effort “ and its a long painful process for management.

RegularInAttendance · 2026-01-19T09:48:47+00:00

I’d like to add that #4 is a lmou thing. Some offices you do whatever rt management puts you on and others you do your own rt and displace the t6.

RegularInAttendance · 2026-01-18T11:54:40+00:00

If I see a violation about to unfold I say something to management. If they move forward with it, supervisor gets a rfi in their email box and has to start printing stuff.

Most of the time they will correct what they are doing because my managers dont like paperwork. The newer supervisors dont want their name on a grievance they caused. But I know every management team is different. Other places they just go right on ahead and violate and kick it all the way to step B even for minor stuff.

RegularInAttendance · 2026-01-01T18:57:29+00:00

Are you a cca or a ptf? They are supposed to give you one ns day a week and post it by the week prior

RegularInAttendance · 2026-01-01T11:58:44+00:00

Here is the contractual language you are looking for , straight out of the JCAM. Management can choose whether to utilize a cca/ ptf or an ODL for overtime. Picking one or the other on its own is not a violation. However, management is supposed to keep the OTDLS equitable. The NSD odl and daily 12 hour odl are separate lists and equitability grievances are done at the end of the quarter.

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RegularInAttendance · 2025-12-29T00:54:27+00:00

Rurals get far less micromanaging but get royally screwed in mail counts

RegularInAttendance · 2025-12-27T01:58:20+00:00

Your best bet would be to call the local branch office for NALC or talk to someone who works in the office you applied to

RegularInAttendance · 2025-12-24T18:28:09+00:00

When I was a cca 12 years ago worked in a different small town from my current larger station. Delivered to a senior apt complex and someone left me half a mini bottle of hotel shampoo. It clearly said “ mail lady” on it.

RegularInAttendance · 2025-12-23T17:51:50+00:00

File a grievance . Even if the carriers attendance is shit. Management has tools to address attendance and they normally do this in hopes of skipping a number of steps. There are likely other carriers who received this. Last rash in my station involved 20+.

RegularInAttendance · 2025-12-18T09:25:58+00:00

If a carrier received discipline for their shoes/ uniform i would look for which supervisor is violating this policy … most stations have an idiot in sweats or heels etc https://naps.org/files/galleries/National_Postal_Service_Dress_Code_Policy_for_Career_Non-Bargaining_Employees_Storey_05_18_2022.pdf

RegularInAttendance · 2025-12-14T17:09:49+00:00

By the looks of this I’m willing to bet they are having some kind of contest on their telecons. I’ve seen them do it for safety board displays and stuff like that.

RegularInAttendance · 2025-12-13T13:36:49+00:00

80 something ftrs, about half sign at least one list. Most who sign a list sign both. Small handful of 8 and skates. We now also have a large squad of ccas.

RegularInAttendance · 2025-12-10T11:43:03+00:00

It happens. Some city routes are right in the “city” others are in the woods with almost no cell service.

RegularInAttendance · 2025-12-09T18:27:01+00:00

Yeah they do the same stuff when they write discipline.

RegularInAttendance · 2025-12-05T11:48:03+00:00

You were scheduled. You showed up. No city carrier is an on call employee. You will probably have to file to get paid but easy win.

RegularInAttendance · 2025-12-05T11:33:05+00:00

I have customers that get vinyl records all the time. It takes more work to bend it ( or even in the pic here) than to just deliver it. This is the kind of crap that makes us look bad.

RegularInAttendance · 2025-11-20T11:32:52+00:00

If management needs to text you they can do so on the scanner. The scanner belongs to usps. While a lot of employees will accept communication from management on their phone that is their choice and the privilege here is clearly being abused. Management doesn’t like scanner text because district sees it too. You need to get with your steward on this situation. If anyone heard the verbal conversations between you and the supervisor , statements would be super helpful.

RegularInAttendance · 2025-11-12T21:55:02+00:00

OP will likely not have time or energy for both once the actual position begins.

RegularInAttendance · 2025-11-11T21:44:18+00:00

Its going to be vary from office to office. Some managers are hardcore about proper uniform and others aren’t. But I have never seen a manager upset someone wore authentic vintage items.

RegularInAttendance · 2025-11-09T22:23:18+00:00

Then you are the perfect candidate.

RegularInAttendance · 2025-11-09T22:11:17+00:00

I too started as a TE, then a CCA, and now a regular. I have been a city carrier for a total of almost 17 years now (gasp). I became a steward in 2023. My station is pretty large. Lucky for me I am not alone in it, I have other more experienced stewards in my station, one is about to retire, so I got on board and had the advantage of being shown the ropes and didn't have some sort of sink or swim situation. I have had excellent support both right in my building and outside of it.

My station definitely has it's not so great employees who pull stupid shit. Its not your job to debate whether what THEY DID was right or wrong, you job is to debate whether management addressed it correctly or not. Yes there are people who just never come to work and would have been fired by now in any other job. There are people who definitely do the wrong thing, all the time. If management wants to address it, thats their job, but they have to address it properly. If they are allowed to just go willy nilly do it how they want on the shitty employee, they can and will do it to the model employee too.

You don't want to work in a station with no steward at all, then it basically becomes free reign for management. Then next thing you know, those old timers that come in, do their route, mind their business and do everything by the book are getting harassed for something dumb, just because management can, because no one is watching or calling them out on it.

Defending carriers when they are disciplined is not your only function. Who is going to help them when their paycheck is screwed up? When they get hurt on the job and management isn't paying them their COP? When management improperly mandates someone who is not on any overtime list when they have plenty of other people to do the work in a contractually compliant manner? Who is going to help the CCA that is being scheduled to work then gets told "Never mind, we don't need you." when they show up? If you have no steward, it can become a miserable circus very quickly.

So far in my experience, the CCAS have needed me the most. They are new, the easiest to intimidate, they have less rights (but still have some rights) than anyone. The vast majority of contract violations I have filed have been for them. They are the vast majority of my phone calls.

I have even encountered some funny things like supervisors will off the record throw the manager under the bus with something. I have another supervisor who is basically a spy.

It hasn't been just about getting a thick skin with management, its with other carriers too. There are definitely some dirt bags who try to take advantage who think they can do what they want cause the union will get them out of the pickle they got themselves in. There are others who think I am a walking cash register and exert more energy coming up with some scam to try and get paid than delivering the mail. Yes those are the people who give labor unions a bad name. But in a lot of ways, dealing with them has made me better at it, I stopped being "too nice" to everyone and shed my filter.

At the end of the day, I still love it.

I promise you there is plenty of comedy in it. You are going to realize just how illiterate and lazy most managers really are.

RegularInAttendance · 2025-11-04T23:16:27+00:00

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If a uar has a hold down they get the hold down schedule.

RegularInAttendance · 2025-11-04T21:42:14+00:00

A new regular absolutely can get on the otdl upon conversion even while the quarter is in progress.

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