The NRLCA is aware that many carriers have already been given service talks on the Service Performance Measurement (SPM) over the last couple of weeks. The USPS prematurely put out talks and begin dates prior to the NRLCA and the USPS agreeing on the terms for this new work function. The NRLCA and the USPS have agreed on compensation and the process for compensation for this new work function for the interim period. The USPS will start the functionality of SPM beginning this Saturday September 19, 2015 across the country. Rural carrier will be compensated 50 seconds for each delivery address that receives a SPM work order and 70 seconds for each SPM work order received for a collection box. Rural carriers will record each day in the comments section of the 4240 when a SPM work order is received. Rural carriers when alerted with an audio or visual alert will not look at the MDD until they are stopped at the next delivery point.
The parties agree that all leave replacements will be compensated on 1314-A each pay period.
Regular carriers will be compensated via 8127 each accounting period (2 pay periods).
The parties agree that after data collection begins, the interim compensation may be adjusted. If the SPM becomes a permanent work function the parties will discuss the appropriate way to build this new work duty into the route evaluations.
Please review the documents below:
Source: News Info
They told us at our office this was only gonna apply to city carriers for the time being.. Only they got the service talk the other day
I think it already started for city carriers. This update is from our union and shouldnt start for rurals until Saturday..
We got this talk yesterday, city and rural
So what exactly is this? I didn’t quite understand the article.
I haven’t heard of this in my office.
Dot Marcum Choate Sean Choate Eve Brooks
It does start on Sat… For us Rural Carriers…
We still have the old scanners. Rural carriers. City has new scanners.
I am a rural and we have had new scanner for months
We have had new scanners also for awhile.
We haven’t received any info in my office?!
Nothing……
I have heard nothing either.
Just got it today. Service talk tomorrow. Lol
Stay out of this Kelly Brooks Haynes 🙂
So someone needs to guide me Saturday morning, I won’t be there tomorrow;)
I’m an rca so I haven’t worked all week, even tho I read the article I don’t understand everything its saying and I do work this Saturday. Can anyone explain to me?
We were told it started for city AND rural this past Monday. They said city carriers have already had some, but I don’t think any of us rural have, yet. Our stand up was Saturday.
Well I had one on my route on Wednesday….and let me tell u I AM NOT pleased with this. I was on a busy road and I scanner started talking. They tell u an address and how many mail pieces they want scanned for that address. I have called OSHA. They do not like the idea but outside the building they have no jurisdiction… Decided me to DOT. They do NOT like it either…suggest we fill out form 1767 internal safety form and when nothing gets done they will step in….please everyone fill these forms out. It might be your own life u are saving! This is DANGEROUS… And SHAME on our UNION to let this happen!!!!!!!!!!! So wrong.
Kelly Brooks Haynes Jonathan Gardner
No info in our office either ! Not surprised !
following….
Michael Nocton ?
my stand up was today. boss explained it perfectly to me. my summary is not as good though: once a week about, you’ll get a pop up message that asks if you’re at an address…you say yes or no. if you say yes then you scan any barcode on every piece of mail for that address that day. if a piece doent have a barcode, then you dont scan it. if you say no, then when you get to that address you have to hit ESC and W and the window will pop up and you’ll commence with the above.
Your explanation was alot better than the one we got this morning.
No talk about this has been given in our office.. What is this exactly,what does this mean?
Wow is this for all offices? because this is the first i have heard of it. This is the worst company for getting info to where it needs to be .. and it should not be this way!
anyone with the new scanners
Well we have them .. guess i ask the boss about it tomorrow thanks 🙂
Go ask your pm
They should have told you this week.
Linda Posey-Mize Jennifer Martin Sparks , Amy Smith Crain Lee Ann Franklin
We have been doing the rural scanner study at our office for months. We will start measuring the Mail on Sat. I believe this is only happening at designated study offices. Not all offices in my area are included in the study.
We were one of the first offices to get the new scanners, and we just got NEW NEW updated scanners. What a waste of $$.
What a great day to start!
We still don’t have our scanners!!
We didn’t get our scanners yet!
I actually laughed at our pm on Monday when she said there will be no rural compensation for this. Didn’t take long for that to change!
In the Q & A section, it states that ONLY the city carriers will be getting the “samplings”. I read ALL that BS to find out we aren’t included at this time. Then there’s the instructions for rural pay! They need to decide… No talk in our office yet, either.
This is news to me. Have not heard a word. Read the article and this function sounds like a major waste of time.
Not only regulars “ALL” couriers including Rca, cca, etc… have to do the same!! Rochelle Harpold Cotton
Let me guess , its all built in , no extra time.
Only place I know that spends $5 to make $1
“The Pilot is scheduled at 55 sites for August 10-September 12, 2015. National training will occur in early September, with national sampling beginning September 14. Click here for a complete list of Pilot sites.”
I bet we never get paid for it on 8127! I bet it is something we are forced to do just like all this clerk work we are forced to do because the clerks are either too lazy to do it or they are too busy. We have a clerk serving as a 204B who’s job is to do dispatch. Because he is serving as 204B, RCA’s are doing dispatch. This only becomes a problem when there are routes down and regular carriers are being called in to work. I told them as long as they have RCA’s doing dispatch that they are not to call me on my day off. They are to assume I’m working at the farm.
What clerk
Work?
What is this, Sharon Hallman-Moyer?
This is a test that we maybe part of. I over heard Terry say the scanner was talking yesterday. Lol
Does this mean I have to start carrying my scanner to the door, and how do I get the 8127? We’ll talk about this on Saturday. LoL
Wtf is this crap?
Sounds like a backdoor mail count to me.
It’s probably part of the new standards, as well as the new way we’ll be counted in the future.
Just keep in mind we haven’t had the service talk.
But they did hand out that stupid memo.
What memo?
The memo about scanning things at the exact point of delivery.
Oh that memo
We were told. Read this and sign that. That was our talk. Lol
That’s horrible!!
They canceled ours today (Thursday 9/17) utf. It sounds to me like a glorified count (that they weren’t supposed to have). Sigh…..
It started on Monday for us
We were told today rurals are now excempt from this program
Yeah..PM told us about it this morning. This afternoon..he says..never mind??!?
yep, tues we had the standup. Today they said ignore it if we get prompts.
Just ignore it and after it gives its little speel of ft from address just press esc…..done
We had a service talk about this Monday. They said it would start Monday. I guess they were wrong.
Reba Hall Oper!!!!!!!?!??!
Mike Nissly
Im so confused. What is today’s date? Is this an old post?
Never ever underestimate the clusterf’ness of this organization.
Pays 70sec 8127 reg.
1314 green card rca
I want to know what do we get out of it?
here is how you get out of it, resign your position at the post office and you will no longer have to do the duties you are paid to do.
as a RCA I am reading as much about it as possible since I work this Saturday…reckon they will talk to us again Saturday on it
Sounds like a complete waste of time….better make 5 o’clock , rush rush rush, oh hey let us annoy the hell out of you with extra time consuming nonsense while you’re at it…jeez…here’s a thought, let us deliver the damn mail like we all know how to do and stop adding more stupid crap for us to do and shortening our time limits. Ok rant over….yours truly, an annoyed rca
Tim Edwards Sr
Same old postal bullshit. They implement before the craft knows what’s going on.
This thing really irked us. It did this before the house and we had four boxes before it and one had a package to scan. Had to dig that mail out.
then you hit ESC to make it go away. when u get back to the house, hit ESC and then W (or some other letter) and it’ll bring up the prompt and then proceed.
thanks. Would be nice if we received some instructions on these things.
my boss got some thing in his email and read it to me.
We are rural study office, told yesterday this starts Saturday and measurements also. This morning we were told the measurements for Saturday were cancelled but the other scan thing was a go. Then about 15 minutes later supervisor got an email telling him since we are a study site we aren’t included in the new scan study. Now if they could figure out how to stay in the “R” setting after you enter into it instead of every time you hit enter it goes back to original screen and you have go back to “R” to finish what you were doing. Massive waste of time several times a day.
Sherri
The scanner talked to me & it was 3 boxes behind where I was delivering so I had to turn around & go back to the Box it alerted then I had to take all the letter out of the Box & scan the bar codes! and of course this is just another thing we as carriers have to do with out being paid!!!
My pm says they’ll be paying us actual time
My supervisor doesn’t even know what a 8127 is. I was like really. So he said he will have to check into it. Lol