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Attacks on rural letter carriers the beginning of devastating restructuring of the US Postal Service

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More than 90,000 rural letter carriers for the United States Postal Service (USPS) are battling changes to their compensation which have led to massive pay cuts and longer workweeks.

The replacement of the pre-existing method of calculating rural carriers’ hours and wages has resulted in wage cuts as high as $20,000 a year in some cases. Rural carriers’ attempts to challenge and prove any discrepancies between their actual work and what is calculated by the new system have been derailed by the USPS’s refusal to disclose the year-long electronic collection of data used by the system which they alone control.

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Blue
Blue
3 months ago

Anytime you give the remote control to someone else theyre going to “watch” what they want to watch. This experiment should be administered, reviewed, and maintained by a 3rd party and should be kept away from management and their “editing” tools. They should cart off a majority of upper level management who constantly send out idiotic emails and make asinine suggestions who have never carried a piece of mail in their pitiful, sad, pathetic, yet well educated lives. This could potentially save tens of millions of dollars, which could be used to pay for a 3rd party to handle the… Read more »

Kevin Ward
Kevin Ward
3 months ago

Sc**p the entire flawed process if usps refuses to show the results and how they were derived. Put rural carriers on the clock for everything watch them get back salary cuts.

Vocalcarrier
Vocalcarrier
2 months ago

RRECS was delayed several years until the USPS perfected this new pay system. Inputting information into a scanner that carriers cannot verify is wrong. Not being compensated for new deliveries is wrong. Not being able to verify any data related to how rural carriers are compensated is wrong. Rural carriers don’t have any recourse and that is wrong. Will anything be done to make any of this right? Not likely.

Lou Gotts
Lou Gotts
2 months ago

You know things are bad when an article on a socialist web site makes sense.

Lou Gotts
Lou Gotts
2 months ago

There might be a way to get out of this s**tshow of a union without waiting untill the 10 day window. Still researching it. Stay tuned.

Lou Gotts
Lou Gotts
2 months ago

The incompetent union officials tell us they have no idea how to address cuts/additions to routes and that miles are now meaningless. Sounds like the definition of misrepresentation to me.

Lou Gotts
Lou Gotts
2 months ago

https://www.history.com/news/how-a-postal-strike-became-a-national-emergency-for-richard-nixon

We should stop and think about the carriers who had the cajones to walk when they decided enough was enough. Without them we wouldn’t have a fraction of what we have today. I’m not advocating we do what they did, just that we remember their testicular fort*tude.

Defund the Union
Defund the Union
2 months ago

If you’re a union member, QUIT ASAP! File a PS Form 1188, Cancellation of Organization Dues from Payroll Withholdings, to cancel dues withholding.

David
David
2 months ago

We should have went on strike. . It would have been fixed in days. We have a Union that no longer cares about its employees.

Lou Gotts
Lou Gotts
2 months ago

All the union cares about is you keep paying your dues so the big shots can take home fat paychecks and live large at the endless conventions on our dime.

Lou Gotts
Lou Gotts
2 months ago

Just remember that if you call our union leadership a bunch of useless c**ksuckers, you owe an apology to the word useless.

Wallace
Wallace
2 months ago

Pay us like city carriers. Then we can drag our feet and give off loops.

Lou Gotts
Lou Gotts
2 months ago

When consolidation comes to your office and your route grows by 20, 40, 60 miles, you will get NOTHING for the increased mileage. This is the kind of nonsense our union has agreed to, and they have no idea how to fix it. Might be time to rethink the whole “no strike” thing and have the PAC put money into changing the federal law that prevents us from walking.

Dean Boone
Dean Boone
2 months ago

How is representation by the NRLCA working out for you Rural Carriers? Keep paying your dues, suckers!!