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The seven hour street time is close to becoming a reality, this is the best thing that could happen to the PO.
Looks like I am gonna have to cut out my two hour lunch and half hour breaks soon. I better soak up all the overtime I can right now.
No worries. Seven hour street/sleep time has been here for years. In our office the starting time is 8:30 with most routes leaving around 11:30. Ten/twelve hour days are normal even though the mail volume is down/flat. The managers are idiots and will continue the past practice of allowing at least three one hour lunches (sometimes you also get a "no lunch"). Keep sucking-up that V-time while there is still some first class paying the way.
....and to think I actually know some flat sorter machine operators who think their job is so secure...oh well...time to remember where the bid board is for when your job is abolished...hehe
oh yeah almost forgot...wonder if the mail handlers will rise up and nail these jobs from the clerks as they did with the APPS?? Wouldn't surprise me as the clerks union is asleep at the switch.
Join the troops to report Joe K of Cam NJ call District Manager Joann at
800-858-0493 ext 4400
Of course the mailhandlers will get the jobs,Burr ass and his coherts do not even do whaat technology such as PARS and APPS are.The carriers can look for more and more route consolidation,plain and simple.With all this technology/automation staring all the postal employees in the face,all three unions had better be looking at the OPM manuals and resources for various VERA's or RIF's.They better do it in a hurry as well.
Wait until you see the misdirected mail from the new system. We get flats from an office with an AFSM-100. Return to Sender or Return for Postage mail is looping unless you cover up the original address. We've got a clerk in our plant that has sent the same flat back every night for the last 10 days. He refuses to cover up the undeliverable address.
Seen those new 3d barcodes on the gummed labels? Those are only for the REC sites use. It does our USFM-1000 no good when they cover up barcodes that the needs to read to sort.
Just imagine all the bad barcoded letters getting bagged with the bad barcoded flats.
Gee what craft keys in the flats for the flat sorter?
Thanks PO this gives the clerks more jobs and to the carriers more hard delivery time and to you fat carriers come summer you'll really will be sweating, after seven hours of walking, hahahah and you don't want to merge with APWU.
I agree with the above statement but why are there so many fat carriers if they walk their routes, walking is a good way to lose weight, must be the hour and one half lunches and those donut breaks, quess they don't work as hard as they say. My carrier is about 5.10 and I'd quess 300 lbs.
If anonymous {this one} is gay, he must love to 'catch' from his bosses....just don't get AIDS!
It most likely will be clerks who are assigned to operate the machines, but clerk ranks will continue to shrink. Carriers will have less office time and more street time. The only craft employees who will gain anything will be MPEs and ETs, while lower level maintenance continues to shrink. Even rural carriers will lose office time, eventually.
City carriers may still get those early outs that so many have wanted. Will this create a surplus of carriers? It has often been asked if the Postal Service will use early outs as a bargaining chip in the next contract negotiations. It is up to the Postal Service to decare a surplus of carriers. Only the Postal Service knows for sure, and only time will tell.
i'm on the street for 6.5 hours now. i hope when i get my 10 hour mounted route this fall, it will all be on the street.
There will be a surplus or EVERYONE in the next three years or so.If you are a carrier in a rapidly growing city,that may be the best position to be in.PARS/FSM automation/Advanced face canceller/APPS/the Automated Postal Centers,and attempts to try to contract out drivers and maintenence/route consilidations=even Stevie Wonder can see what is coming.Postal workers (and management/PM's for that matter) either get some sort of additional buy out offers or the people with less than 15 years or so can forget it.If you are near the 25 year mark,continue to raise hell with your union for VERA's,if you have less than 15 years at the PO,pray the VERA's will continue.
Look for VERA's AND five day delivery ( Saturday and Sunday for express only) after APWU/NALC negotiations.
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You are right. However, there is now and will continue, for some time, to be a huge shortage of higher level maintenance. That is unlikely to change, even considering route consolodation efforts. The private sector is grabbing every qualified higher-level maintenance applicant as fast as they can be produced. The private sector offers better wages and better benefits. It is no wonder that the Postal Service is falling behind.
While city carriers are in better shape than some crafts, it is the rural carriers that remain in the best shape in delivery services. All of this may also be changing. Since the late 80s, there has been a push for contract delivery service. It appears that it is more than just a push now.
Moe -- there is no acceleration in delivery contracting. It has run at peak according to contracts for decades. It will take a change of contract language to see it move forward faster. You are correct, clerks are about obsolete. Carriers are next and much easier to consolidate. Additionally, more centralized delivery will be seen every day and once they start dropping bagged mail-- look for the stuff to clog Youngs fan. Past time on that but only 18 months away
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