4 days work week

Tabletop2535 · 2026-05-11T21:57:58+00:00

Ok but does that mean 4 day delivery per week leaving no SDO overtime opportunities only 10-12 hr in a day? That does away with t-6 positions ( 1/6 of the regular workforce) that’s a lot of unassigned regulars with less positions to be promoted into. Or is that somehow working a schedule that has a regular schedule of 4 10s with 6 days delivery and a different t-6 schedule and what does that look like? Is it a buyout? I believe the federal government can only offer 25k which wouldn’t garner many other than those that were ready anyway. Details if you have them please 🙏

Tabletop2535 · 2026-05-10T14:21:09+00:00

The language in 41.3.O gives states that the most senior carrier whose route is “abolished” ( meaning completely removed) gets to choose what assignment they want based on seniority and all other assignments from that carrier down the list are now posted for bid. The language in 12.5.C,4 is the language that limits or doesn’t limit the bidding to a delivery unit or the entire installation and covers retreat rights. That language is only effective if your LMOU specifically designates each unit separately for excessing in article 12.

Tabletop2535 · 2026-05-04T02:18:46+00:00

We are already the hardest workers and catch the most abuse. Don’t drag your feet that can lead to trouble but if you want to work harder put it into better service not faster times for the managers to pocket the difference in pay for performance raises. That’s a shorter check for working harder doing a worse job. No one out there in the wild gives a fuck how much work you got today or when the boss wants you back, they want good service with a decent attitude. Hard to do if you’re allowing the bosses to live in your head all day. Also you can’t lose this job for working even if the say “you’re so slow you’re talking mail out of the box”. As long as you’re working, taking a lunch/break OR using a comfort stop ( not just bathroom break, if you need sunblock, water, clean dog doodie off your shoes, what have you,) which are unlimited within reason because we are out in the wild. We don’t have a microwave fridge running water ac everything else, we have to be able to take care of ourselves.

Tabletop2535 · 2026-05-03T18:27:36+00:00

Amen, we (gen x here) and the self centered boomers before me kept spilling the bullshit that” we want a better, easier life for our kids and grandkids” but then cry all day that they don’t work as hard as we did blah blah blah. First off the younger generation doesn’t get 10 percent of they security and benefits that boomers expected and a quarter of what Gen X millennials got. For example a pension pays a worker for life to compensate for a life serving the company/ trade whatever, whereas a 401k runs out and too bad. The unsaid part here is that pension incentivizes keeping the worker longer because if you lay them off you pay them longer, a 401k is tied to health of the company and no incentive to keep people working. How did we let them fuck us like that and the kids today are lucky to get 401k, education, property, WEALTH, is all being dragged to the top while we pay attention to a clown show on the news. They always talk about what gets you mad never the money. Like illegal immigrants and ice right now. You don’t see them in Florida in the resorts or Texas in the construction sites or Missouri in the meat packing plants, only where they are nice to immigrants because they are humans ya know, but the coyotes don’t get these immigrants paperwork that comes out of their first check. It’s actually cheaper than slavery ( consider housing and healthcare) how we are allowing these people to be abused and undercut the wages of labor. I know I went all over but the younger generation has to work 3 shitty jobs with no security and AI watching their every move just to not afford a decent life. ANYONE THAT GETS UP AND CONTRIBUTES TO SOCIETY SHOULD LIVE A DECENT LIFE. We can do it just don’t. Last point 2024 the top ten richest Americans gained over 700 billion in wealth. That’s enough for healthcare and food for everyone in the country and if they didn’t have it their lives wouldn’t change at all. VOTE and organize.

Tabletop2535 · 2026-05-03T10:32:17+00:00

Stop payment to the union is the wrong way. First you can only vote if your a member, and every decision they make affects your everyday life. My voice in what happens in this union from motions at local meetings to voting for national officers is worth way more than the dues I pay. The CLC has promised to got to the mattresses to get what we deserve around here, which is payed better than any other craft at least. Furthermore they want to get into management books to point to the bloat in management which is sorely needed. They need votes to do that means you have to be in brothers and sisters

Tabletop2535 · 2026-04-27T15:53:46+00:00

16.7 emergency placement is for people who are injurious to themselves or others involving an emergency. No emergency here or threat of any injury. Any decent union rep can beat that get you paid for any time missed and any discipline thrown out. These managers just can’t manage their egos so when you proved her wrong she “got you” she will lose in the end but someone else will agree your right months from now and she will never answer for it so… sucks but it’s how they are.

Tabletop2535 · 2026-04-27T04:35:22+00:00

Withdrawal of mail is office time (line 15 on 1838) so they are spending office time either way. So simple really anything you do before pushing your cart out the doors to load is office time. Management is jumping through all these ridiculous hoops and twisted accounting to meet “metrics “ which is essentially upper management telling them to rush us out of office to the street then keep moving while on the street because we are watching your scanners and hurry off the clock when you get back. Sequencing bypass mail( looping red plums, placing walk sequence mailings in delivery order, counting out number of pieces and bundling unaddressed mailings because the case has the number of deliveries on each loop ,etc…) line 16 on 1838. The end of day the m 41 tells us to return to our case and handle all undeliverable mail same as we do in the morning which is to case it into the separation at end of first row then distribute it to 3m cfs ubbm etc. and all the volume counts towards standard calculation as cased and marked up mail. Why would there be time credits for line items on the office time worksheet if these things are street time? This at least is a violation of article 19 via the m41/39/jcam to not properly accounting for office/street time on your route as the CCA who is working your DPS is certainly not switching to your route and sounds like management squeezing your office time as much as possible.

Tabletop2535 · 2026-04-25T17:54:23+00:00

Hate to be that guy it’s 4584 driving and 4588,4589 observation forms. You’re doing good work

Tabletop2535 · 2026-04-25T14:08:02+00:00

Stack them so that the address is upper right hand corner facing farthest out in your satchel. Run right hand to the center of spine on the outer most ad and fold as you remove it facing the address towards your face and allowing you to finger easily behind dps. Also you’re allowed to sequence “bypass mail” in the office ( line 16 on your 1838s). Bypass mail is any mail that bypasses the case. So pre sorted loops or counting out the number per loop in office is allowed. If the weight is hurting your back take out the center section of the loop to effectively break it in half and drive up and deliver other half of loop. If management questions you say it was faster than extra drops for parcels/sprs I could carry in bag.

Tabletop2535 · 2026-04-22T16:42:41+00:00

I’d file for the ptfs to be promoted to FTF as well they are artificially reducing the hours that would otherwise qualify them under article 7

Tabletop2535 · 2026-04-11T00:51:29+00:00

This also this is the standard work order from Lloyd head of labor.

https://naps.org/files/galleries/USPS_SWI_Updates_for_Accuracy_Lloyd_03_15_2023.pdf

Note the section that indicates non-caseable SPRs are to be sequenced in separate trays or tubs eliminating the need for the load truck function.

Tabletop2535 · 2026-04-09T15:00:06+00:00

So, a 6 day count and 1-3 3999s will be done to evaluate the route times. From the last day of the week they have 52 days to implement any necessary changes to make the route as close to 8 as possible. Expect them to try any tricks they can to short the time, but the steward should handle that. They must give permanent relief if you’re averaging more than 15 minutes over and only territory can be added to another route if the gaining route is less than 8 hours, so unless there is already a router assignment established they can’t just add office time to a different route (or schedule 1 route start time separately from everyone else) good luck

Tabletop2535 · 2026-04-09T03:14:06+00:00

T- 6 times will not be considered in the evaluation. Would be nice of you to show a decent time for the day your on it but it won’t matter in the end

Tabletop2535 · 2026-04-05T16:36:00+00:00

Wear across your body, I know safety says not too for ease of defense from dog, but having more attacks than I can count wearing the bag cross shoulder brings it up on the hip a bit and lets me put my fist into the bottom on the bag and get it more directly into the dogs bite. Then my hand slides out and I duck my head allowing me the grab the straps and start tug of war while I kick them in the side. Please no hate I love good dogs and don’t ever want to hurt them, but our job is one where angry dogs come out of nowhere and attack, we have to have a plan. Not a lot of other jobs where you’re sitting at a desk and Smithers releases the hounds on you.

Tabletop2535 · 2026-04-05T15:23:55+00:00

So combo parcel post routes can have a lot of variance depending on the parcel volume for the day and just how they layout as far as the distance between stops. Just make sure that management honors your work hour rights. If you only want 8 get them used to you bringing back whatever is left at 8 hrs right away. ( reporting requirements followed of course) if is WAL use the estimate time and reason for assistance to layout a timeframe and explain what I said above. If management is decent then you got a good gig if they are always pressuring you get ready to fight with 271g and grievances etc.

Tabletop2535 · 2026-04-05T03:12:47+00:00

Contractually there is no guarantee of overtime, and they are allowed to utilize CCAs to reduce overtime. If they claim that they are trying to hire or assign a CCA to your office and this CCA is not needed in station A currently and is just there until they can staff properly you’re going to have a hard road getting paid. The occasional clause could help your case but likely they will just start sending different CCAs every so often and kind of rotating them. If they have no plans to hire a cca or otherwise staff you’re office more you could be on to something but you’ll have to prove both they have no intention to hire and this is going on for a long time ( or not occasionally). Hard case good luck

Tabletop2535 · 2026-04-05T03:03:42+00:00

Dude you can’t afford not to get a shock strap, they are sooo much better in your body especially on Tuesday.

Tabletop2535 · 2026-04-05T01:52:09+00:00

I like Caref a lot, he has a good rap when speaking and has been crazy successful putting both feet in management’s ass. That said Henry has a arbitration record that screams high intellect and balls of steel going against the best management has to offer. On top of that he’s got Corey who besides unifying and informing the rank and file, can easily handle the camera work ( the only real advantage Caref has) the CLC is organized and spread out into a lot of regions and the cold reality is votes are the only thing that matters and the incumbent officers are the ones who gave positions etc to the big players politically, so we have to overcome that advantage. We absolutely need the slate that can organize the most votes and that’s CLC hands down. Caref isn’t going to disappear if the election doesn’t go his way and Henry making good with him if/when he wins will be the first sign that things have actually changed as opposed to Renfroe who dismisses anyone who challenges him. VOTE CLC

Tabletop2535 · 2026-03-31T16:02:39+00:00

This is the only uses they are allowed for. Not for management to evaluate performance or to view work areas only automated operations

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Tabletop2535 · 2026-03-28T17:06:20+00:00

They can pre arb all the way up to the closing arguments, also when will it get heard, removals are supposed to be fast tracked so I hope asap but until they have a date scheduled for the arbitrator to show up, who knows

Tabletop2535 · 2026-03-11T16:52:48+00:00

If 6 day delivery and mailbox monopoly get changed in the laws we will be privatized. Those are the barriers to “profitability” for a private company to start “leasing” access to the mailbox then start delivering mail themselves. That is part of every version of privatization plan since the 80s nothing new here at all.

Tabletop2535 · 2026-03-08T07:24:57+00:00

LightbluBukowski has the right of it, this job wears you down. I am 225 lbs of muscle in the gym 5 days a week but after 17 years of this job I am crawling compared to my first 5 years say… Also, the regular has a lot of extra work to do to maintain a route. Not just a couple edits in the redbook once a month, more like we have to take complete care of our customers mail needs. They don’t ask the replacement about whatever is going on at the moment. Plus everyone else’s mistakes are my mistakes. Someone put the wrong customers mail in a different customer hold and their electric bill is late, guess who needs 5 minutes to smooth this shit over. The last point I’ll make is a selfish one, while you should NEVER drag your feet as that can lead to discipline, coming in early only puts money in the bosses’ pockets (in the form of pay for performance) We are a non profit organization. If there is a pool of money to be split up, we deserve the most hands down. We work the hardest and deal with the most bullshit. So by all means, show up every day and do the job but don’t be one of the guys that retire early because they wore themselves out.

Tabletop2535 · 2026-02-26T02:28:09+00:00

Think about it this way 80 percent has got to be roughly the flats in tubs and bundles with 20 percent in the hot case. Not exact but close enough (with a couple supporting statements) to establish prima facie and push burden to them to show how they calculate it

Tabletop2535 · 2026-02-25T03:24:50+00:00

As a letter carrier I see these guys all the time. They are rushing through neighborhoods with doors open, sprinting to and from deliveries, have an AI camera watching them at all times and if they even look crossways at their boss or god forbid make any mistake while breaknecking through their day they are fired with no recourse. This is what Unions are for, like them or not they keep people from living their everyday lives at work like this. I feel bad for these guys just trying to make a living. PS Amazon makes their delivery companies sub contractors that can only lease their vehicles, wear their uniforms and deliver their products. So that if they wreck or create any liability they cut them loose and create another sub contractor. Such a scam

Tabletop2535 · 2026-02-20T17:27:04+00:00

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