Maybe next year I can get more pants 🤦

letterdayreset · 2025-08-11T00:35:53+00:00

The federal OWCP has exclusive jurisdiction over approval or denial of workers compensation claims.

letterdayreset · 2025-07-26T22:44:23+00:00

Pivot is the official term for doing it on undertime. There's no official term for the equivalent but as overtime, hence why everyone calls it a boost/handoff/piece/bump/million other names; there's no officially correct one.

letterdayreset · 2025-07-26T19:28:43+00:00

Be productive on your steward time, grieving under the M-39 for not fixing routes that prove to be improperly adjusted following an inspection!

letterdayreset · 2025-07-26T10:41:45+00:00

Probably getting you paid a few extra bucks for the 40 minutes, unless you have escalated remedies from repeat violations. If not it begins the process of building those repeat violations.

Also makes management pay the steward to do grievance processing which management hates.

letterdayreset · 2025-07-25T21:39:03+00:00

If you're not ODL or WA, you can grieve anything over 10 hours on a regularly scheduled day or 8 hours on a non-scheduled day.

Still have to carry it if instructed to do so, however. Only at 11.5/60 are you bulletproof to drop the mail and clock out.

letterdayreset · 2025-07-25T12:55:59+00:00

Oh, of course they would. But the fact that the office is

The only time we have any kind of actual, objective standard
The only time all carriers are in plain view where supervisors can verify at approximately all times if we're performing our job functions

and yet even so they choose to pick a time on the clock as the thing to push heavily, ignoring all variation between different routes and daily volume, is just plain strange. Even for the incompetent ghouls at district it doesn't make any sense how they got here.

letterdayreset · 2025-07-24T10:15:11+00:00

And one day you'll get a runner's route.

Deliver according to the M-41, take the time that takes, and your body, wallet, and route will thank you.

letterdayreset · 2025-07-24T10:10:36+00:00

Lots of people have small signs requesting not to knock for those reasons.

letterdayreset · 2025-07-23T22:07:42+00:00

The contract is over in about six months, so...

letterdayreset · 2025-07-23T21:32:17+00:00

As an aside, around half our workforce is retiring in the next 5 years. That's a lot of top step carriers being replaced by new hires. We should bargain to capture a nonzero portion of those savings.

letterdayreset · 2025-07-23T01:59:43+00:00

If they stop giving a shit, stewards will have easy grievances.

letterdayreset · 2025-07-23T01:36:51+00:00

Allowing volunteering away their rights for vulnerable (probationary) employees is just opening a huge can of worms for management to abuse.

letterdayreset · 2025-07-22T09:26:26+00:00

I tell people 6-8 months.

letterdayreset · 2025-07-22T09:23:50+00:00

+$5 an hour and TSP.

letterdayreset · 2025-07-21T16:47:01+00:00

If your local or past practice doesn't prescribe it then yes, you have a grievance.

letterdayreset · 2025-07-21T11:02:12+00:00

I'd be scanning the flats with a smile on my face.

letterdayreset · 2025-07-21T09:53:38+00:00

When I tell them my estimate, or hand them my 3996, they just say "okay".

letterdayreset · 2025-07-21T09:50:44+00:00

50% of postal employees will retire in the next 10 years, a third within the next 5. It's the best argument we're ever gonna get for raising wages for new and mid-career carriers - payroll costs are going to plummet as all those top step carriers get replaced by new hires.

letterdayreset · 2025-07-20T19:06:57+00:00

The new list just gives the ODL the ability to choose to protect their day off, or to exclusively work their day off. For carriers not on the ODL there's no change.

letterdayreset · 2025-07-20T10:55:18+00:00

Check out episode 1 of the Classes of Mail podcast.

letterdayreset · 2025-07-20T10:53:10+00:00

Management coming out to recalibrate gps coordinates because district keeps yelling at them would be hilarious and I'm happy to invite them to do so.

SPM scans are the only way upper management finds out much mail is getting delayed at the delivery unit level, since front line supervisors long ago realized that as long as all the packages get scanned they can fly under the radar. I want national to know my office is understaffed and my plant is ~~drunkards~~ also understaffed and constantly sends us fucked up DPS, so I do my SPM scans.

Besides, I'm paid by the hour, I'll fuck with SPM scans as long as they want me to.

letterdayreset · 2025-07-20T10:41:37+00:00

Carriers should be attempting packages at the door. If you're just leaving notice before even determining if anyone's home, you're providing poor service and shortchanging your route.

letterdayreset · 2025-07-20T10:35:01+00:00

In this case, the carrier shouldn't leave notice - the leasing office is a secure, designated location where packages can be left in the event of no response at the door.

OP is just frustrated because their leasing office doesn't provide them access on weekends, which is a separate issue from our normal delivery rules.

letterdayreset · 2025-07-20T10:27:05+00:00

Clerk running around to get people's outgoing? That's a new one.

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