Speaking of "743" time. I checked the clock rings for me, during the month of March. Well.....seems the emperoress saw it fit to put me in for 743, 15 minutes at a time! Well, if Im working AMS I clock to it. Any time I see her employee ID on my clock rings...the magnifying glass comes out. Each time they 743 you for 15 min...they are SCREWING you out of 45 seconds of office time...FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH!

Since there is no change in pay...a carrier would never know. Better take a look!

My manager makes twice as much as I do. Trained in hell.

pm16.............input the hours averages? why wouldn't the actual hours be input? also, i wish i made a managers salary to do carrier work. my manager makes 10,000/year more than me and my pm makes 20,000/year more than me. must be nice

/m45930 exactly what should happen. Carriers carry mail, period. They don't want to work to 12 but we all have had to do it. If you start paying out a lot of V time, you will get the help you need. If you are showing the uppers that you are getting the job done, they won't send you the help because you showed that you could get it done with the current staffing. Yeah your numbers look good, but to what extent? You are killing your carriers, and their personal private lives. But hey, your numbers are good. Do the right way. Pay the V time.

pm16: Someone please tell me this is some sort of a joke? /m45939 You are walking all of the contracts in order to make the numbers fit, so your POOM's will think you are doing a good job. You must use your access to input 743 time everyday on every route too? That is what they do in my office. I personally had upwards of 20 code/clock ring changes in one day before. Is this what we have come to?

/m45928 nah i bet you sweat like that when you and your "buddy" are playing hide the night stick!!

Etour /m45892 CORS is a very tricky program, with many flaws. How can CORS mess with the route.....let see some of the ways. Imagine you have delivered all the mail in the front of your truck, so you go to the back to get more. Cors will eliminate that time. Say you drive from one NDCBU to another, gather up the mail, and get out of the truck. CORS will eliminate all that time. Say you drive from one street, wait for traffic and go to the next street. CORS will eliminate that. There are also numbers similar to percent to standard that can be "tweaked" to produce the desired results. For instance, and im not perfect on this part so don't take it to the bank....but at 100% (to standard ?) the route is 8:10. If instead they say, well put the carrier at 95%, now the route might be only 7:50. Also, the "squaring up" of route according to CORS might "save" 30 minutes, allegedly. Cors makes you take a right turn, instead of a left, turn, 1 minute saved. Crazy things like this. If the data is input wrong, you might get a CBU and cors will say it takes ZERO time to deliver. Hell, you might get a whole street and CORS will say it takes ZERO time to deliver. CORS also has the ability to align your route of travel, in such a manner that your swings will be set up so you have 35LBS in your satchel for every swing. or 25lbs, or 20 or whatever they tell it to.

pm16 /m45939 Soooo, you not only had 3 employees crossing crafts, you use a dummy sub in DOIS to hide the fact from us DEAT members. I wish and hope you are in my area....I would toss you under the bus with the crossing crafts, ordering the RCA and clerk to carry, you carrying, and then call in the OIG for your blantent falsification of DOIS records.

rhardin280 /m45936 -- the only way you have that 51% rule or bidding only in that one station is if those things are in your LMU.

/m45936 you must work in my city. Same scenario here.

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The only way you can do DOIS is to Dummy sub the route and input the hours averages under office and street under the dummy sub in TACS for the RCA and PM. The clerk is in DOIS so I can put them in under aux on street, the RCA, and PM must use the dummy sub ID under the scanner for the MSP scans. Transfer the RCA and PM hours to City carrier via LTATS and you are done.

pm16..........so which employee in dois shows up on the workhour/workload report for the day (all 3 including the pm, you)?

Now about elimination of one day of carrying. If that happens, kiss the usps good bye. The sixth day would be given to someone else to handle, and that would open the door wide open for contracting out, and also, things like having to bid on territory to see who gets it. I think Potter has stock in one of the other delivery companies. Why else would he be pushing a 5 day delivery so much. Management told us that a Gallup poll showed 60% approval for a 5 day delivery system. We all immediately demanded to see the questionaire (you know they can word questions to say what they want no matter how you ask), and then we demanded to see the demographics of where the poll was taken. Of course, this was done nationally not local, but we made our point. I have yet to come across anyone that is for the 5 day delivery except for the one person who should be fighting for it more than anyone. Unless of course, he will get a huge pay off if he can break it up.

One thing I don't understand. Just a couple of years ago, if more than 51% of a route was changed it had to be put up for bid. Now, It only has to be put up for bid if it is 100% changed. That, of course, would mean it was eliminated. Then, if a route was abolished in a station, then all routes of the city that were junior got put up for bid. Now, only the routes junior at the station are put up for bid, however, the bidding is city wide. In my city, we have 4 different stations. Funny thing about COR though, only the junior most or aux routes were eliminated. Seems to me that there is quite a bit of manipulation by management going on.

/m45932 The PMs don't want to or can't work. That is why they were promoted to PMs. Their job now is to harass us if they can get away with it.

m45932 I wish I had been able to do that. I think it would have made me a better supervisor.