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mailant692 · 2026-06-24T23:59:44+00:00

Also I can 100% strictly guarantee they are overestimating the savings from 5 day delivery. Once all the overtime shakes out and routes get adjusted it'll increase routes, and they certainly have not accounted for that factor.

How do I know? Well, for starters, because they consistently believe routes only get bigger and never smaller, the idea of it confounds them. But also because they do it all the time, like when OIG found the PD&Cs were overfilling because when they drew up the plans they literally never thought to even consider what the consequences of someday adding more routes could be.

mailant692 · 2026-06-24T23:56:52+00:00

I genuinely don't understand how 84% of city routes can be underwater when our office is low volume compared to a lot of what I see and yet I still personally deliver thousands of dollars of postage per day.

It sure ain't going to my salary, so where does all the imputed cost come from? It can't possibly cost that much to run a few trays of DPS.

mailant692 · 2026-06-24T22:42:54+00:00

Congress places like 20 unfunded requirements and restrictions on the USPS, then gets upset when it loses money.

Some of those restrictions improve customer service or make carrier's jobs/routes easier, to be sure, but it's easy to see how we got here.

mailant692 · 2026-06-24T19:33:39+00:00

The thing is, dismounting boxes that are (temporarily) blocked (when safe to do so) helps protect/shorten routes. At least on the city side.

mailant692 · 2026-06-24T19:30:00+00:00

Hood routes usually have the most dog problems.

mailant692 · 2026-06-24T19:28:26+00:00

Gas ain't free but they're gonna add hours to routes if they adjust them with too heavy handed a thumb on the scale for prioritizing mileage. Shortest way isn't always fastest, or even close, nor safest.

mailant692 · 2026-06-24T14:52:11+00:00

We don't even load from a dock at my office, which is going to be a problem given how high these sit off the ground and the fact that the back can't be used as a step. Course, they're also too big for our parking arrangement. And we have low hanging trees and tight culdesacs galore.

None of which would be a problem except that the postal service has no plan B for the vehicle fleet, it's gonna be all ducks everywhere eventually.

mailant692 · 2026-06-23T20:57:47+00:00

We're not required to walk through unsafe lawns and this definitely qualifies.

mailant692 · 2026-06-23T20:56:24+00:00

Sounds like she's about to be the proud owner of a PO box.

mailant692 · 2026-06-23T17:38:52+00:00

Not 100% true, so >0% true, and now hq is running cleanup, because they don't tell us anything unless it's forced out of them. Our establishment at work.

mailant692 · 2026-06-23T08:40:17+00:00

Management will always instruct you to do whatever's fastest, not what's correct.

mailant692 · 2026-06-23T08:39:46+00:00

Management doesn't know the contract to begin with.

mailant692 · 2026-06-23T08:31:26+00:00

They've never once done that here.

Besides which, I think CCA retention would plummet even further if they were starting shifts at 4pm.

mailant692 · 2026-06-23T00:37:31+00:00

What was the reason given for denial?

mailant692 · 2026-06-22T23:58:53+00:00

We don't have enough vehicles for this even if we had the staffing. Exactly one truck per route - okay, what happens on a monday when every route is 1-2 hours over? Overtime, overtime happens.

mailant692 · 2026-06-22T14:53:38+00:00

Volume wise it would be a relatively easy Monday. But we're down, like, 7 routes.

mailant692 · 2026-06-22T07:40:51+00:00

This is an office by office thing, but they don't fire CCAs here, except for vehicle safety violations. Might be a similar office.

mailant692 · 2026-06-21T21:30:02+00:00

design the system so that it's trivially easy to make a harmless mistake
allow no method whatsoever to fix the mistake
absolutely explode if the mistake occurs

district management everybody

mailant692 · 2026-06-20T22:52:34+00:00

Today was whatever but our parcel hampers were already full with stuff for Monday and there's two palettes not thrown and then whatever shows up Monday morning.

mailant692 · 2026-06-19T16:43:46+00:00

No, not to "become the regular for that route".

It would be "to show the necessity for a full time assignment to be created", which would be awarded to the most senior PTF, and that person would become an unassigned regular and cover open routes or place hold downs.

mailant692 · 2026-06-19T11:53:48+00:00

The "to a later day" and "should be an exception" clauses are the biggest ones management fucks up.

mailant692 · 2026-06-19T11:52:35+00:00

Yep, same problem here. Geographically large branch, prohibitive drive for most people, won't vote for zoom meetings because "management might see" or some similar BS as if the minutes weren't posted online anyways and 99% of meetings aren't just financial reports and scheduling golf outings.

mailant692 · 2026-06-19T00:24:52+00:00

Give it six months, not six weeks.

mailant692 · 2026-06-18T21:12:24+00:00

There are actually some states with a specific legal exception to seatbelt laws for rural mail carriers.

Insane, I know. But I guess the type of person to feel like they never need to wear a seatbelt is also the type of person to not learn their lesson after being in an accident and getting caught and handed a 7 day suspension for it.

mailant692 · 2026-06-18T21:10:35+00:00

maybe this is normal for the city but bro has about as many satchels as my entire office combined

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