The issue in this grievance concerns the proper handling and disposition of mail collected/accepted on a rural route. Specifically, the issues in the case involved the proper credit for collection mail during mail count when management requires the carriers to…
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The issue in this grievance concerns whether rural carriers should receive additional credit during a mail count for obtaining equipment to unload the vehicle. The parties have defined unloading as the time associated with the removal of empty equipment, supplies…
At the 2019 National Convention PMG Megan Brennan announced that there will be no Nationally called Mail Count for all rural routes the last two (2) weeks in September. The only routes that will be counted will be those that…
PMG just announced at the National convention that there will be NO National mail count. Only those routes that fall under the special count criteria below will be counted in September 2019. Under Special Mail Count requirements, there are…
The issue in this grievance concerned carriers being required to scan ALL International Mail Pieces. This IS the current direction from USPS, but the carriers in this case were only required to scan those pieces beginning with C, R, A,…
The issue in this grievance concerns whether the postmaster or designee must be accompanied by the rural carrier assigned to the route during a route inspection. After reviewing this matter, we mutually agree that no national interpretive issue is fairly…
The issue in this grievance concerns the proper credit provided during a mail count for letter mail with addresses that cannot be processed in Delivery Point Sequence (DPS) order, such as apartment or high rise buildings. After reviewing this matter,…
This case involves management refusing to compensate carriers when servicing newly established Amazon Parcel Lockers. The parties agree that the actual street addresses associated with APLs must be served by a rural route. During a mail count, in addition to…
This case involves management refusing to compensate carriers when servicing newly established Electronic Parcel Lockers (EPL). The parties agree that If it is determined that EPLs will be used for parcel delivery, actual time will be provided for time spent…
The attachments address the Postal Services position on scanning International Scans. The NRLCA received several calls related to instructions by management to not scan certain International pieces of mail depending on the letter the scan started with. Postal Headquarters has…
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Did you know Thats right… If you are close to moving into the next hour of evaluation, overlooking something small could mean a $2190.00 mistake Just as an example: A 40k Step 12 route’s salary is $58,455.00 A 41k Step…
September mail counts have always been confusing. Sometimes we all count, sometimes we don’t.. So, hopefully this will help clear things up a bit in regard to September mail counts. The most important thing to know is there is ALWAYS…
This always seems to be a confusing matter year after year.. NON DELIVERABLE DPS – Rural carriers are paid less to deliver a piece of DPS than they are for a regular worked letter. The premise of DPS is that…
Who knows what MMM mail or 3M mail? MMM is mail from your DPS that is: Missorted – This is mail that belongs to a different route in your office. Missequenced– This is mail that is out of sequence in your…
(Edited by Ruralinfo.net for clarification and to fix an error) This is something many managers like to deny credit for during a count. Remember all of those times throughout the year where you get mail back from CFS for whatever reason?…
Let the games begin, because really that is what they are.. Games.. I mean what other time of year are we considered “petty” when we ask for time for things we do EVERYDAY? These are not fun games, these…