Due to continued staffing challenges in rural delivery operations, the Postal Service and the NRLCA have signed the attached MOU regarding two temporary modifications to the USPS-NRLCA National Agreement. Beginning Saturday, August 24, 2024 and continuing through Friday, February 21, 2025, regular rural carriers may volunteer to work on Sunday to deliver packages and may also volunteer to provide service on rural routes other than their assigned routes in the office. Regular rural carriers will be compensated at the overtime rate for hours worked on Sunday and for hours performing service on routes other than their assigned routes.
Regular rural carriers will not be required to work on Sunday or serve part of any other rural route. Regular rural carriers must volunteer to perform these additional services.
Maybe someone could explain the word “volunteer” to management.
Maybe they can explain “the regular carrier’s assigned route must be completed prior to scheduling assistance on other routes” as well. They want us to case every route in the office before we take our routes out for delivery. Not sure how we’re supposed to PM Case in RRECS and THEN Depart To Route and management gives us dumb cow stares when we ask.