/m49386

actually contractually any CRAFT employee can transport and deliver Express mail.

Management should only be doing it if NO CRAFT employees are available

M-00870 Pre-arb November 1, 1988, H4N-3U-C 25828
We mutually agreed the general delivery and pickup of express Mail is bargaining-unit work. It is also understood that management has not designated this work to any specific craft. In accordance with the above understanding, management is prohibited from performing bargaining-unit work except as enumerated in Article 1, Section 6.

/m49381 are we not allowed to gamble legally even if on our lunch break? I've never heard of that. Or is this just about taking unauthorized breaks? Personally, I think the whole don't drink in uniform thing is stupid. Come on, let's be adults like Europeans. But that's the rules. I don't even buy alcohol on my way home from work.

/m49384 contractually, any postal employee can pick up and deliver express mail, due to the sensitive time nature... however, every effort SHOULD be made to have uniformed city carriers deliver it because it looks more professional.

/m49384 the only thing he should pick up is a mop and a broom and a toilet bowl cleaner!! and by the looks of my office he is on strike :)

is the janitor allowed to go pick up expree mail at our other office and bring it to our office every day?

MIRAP
My supervisor wants to change the way I do my route before he walks with me after the MIRAP adjustments were made in September. It was added to, 3 relays were added at the end 2 were taken away in the middle, and I think that I should have to do the route the way the PO and the Union made it when it is reevaluated. He is not listening to any input that I have. Aren't there some "rules" about this?

FedUp /m49376

Before i forget....be careful on using improper use of postal vehicle (transporting yourself to find said lotto tickets)

Jager /m49364

The problem with your argument is that (here in GA anyway) lotto tickets are time and date printed on the ticket....(scratch offs are not)
Most places have video security that could possibly be used against the carrier. Best thing to do is NOT to do it!

I am currently fighting a removal because a carrier didn't stop to consider the ramifications of his actions and the only advice I can give is "DON'T DO ANYTHING THAT COULD PUT YOUR JOB AT RISK". Management needs very little to put you off the clock and eventually fire you.

FedUp /m49376

The final receipt (m41 131.42) and the hot case (final) pull are two different things.

Final receipt is what the clerks work or distribute from what the trucks bring, that they have to sort to routes. M41 sect 291 The hot case (final) pull should any missorts the carriers return to the throwback case (this shouldn't be much).

FedUp /m49376
John Rich /m49377

Reason I asked is we have a supervisor that claims your last pull is flats so that he can tell you to curtail your flats to hold the route to 8

I forgot to add that I bring my lunch, I do not leave the route for it. The reason they want your lunch locations off your route is that if there is a reason for management to come out and find you, that they will know where you will be if they can not find you on the route. At least that is what they told me when I was hired 23 years ago.

FedUp /m49376 I think the final receipt of mail would also include spiking (screening) your DPS before hitting the street. In our District, we get trays of mail that include feet of non-sequenced letters that have to be brought back in and cased or worked on the street. District management is dumping unencoded mail in DPS trays to boost their percentages, putting the burden on carriers to clean up the mess. It's like a guy at the deli selling you 2 pounds of boiled ham and you get 1 and 1/2, plus his finger on the scale. Not only that, we were promised that DPS would be available at 7:30AM. It now arrives at 9:00AM, and carriers are instructed not to touch it until 9:45AM. Again, last night, carriers were out late trying to sort mail on the street. It's no wonder the National Association of Postmasters has recommended to its members not to complete Voice of the Employee surveys. Postmasters and supervisors are being step on by district managers and customer complaints are rising... but look how great our DPS percentages are. By the way, did you hit all of your MSP scans?

Fledgling /m49363 What about the final receipt of mail, as outlined in the M-41, section 131.42? The reason that I ask, is because it states in there that carriers are to inform management if they won't be able to complete their route in the scheduled time.
M-41 sec. 131.42 Inform management of this well in advance of the scheduled leaving time and not later than immediately following the final receipt of mail. Management will instruct you what to do.

Is that the same as final pull? Or is that something different? The reason that I ask, is because one of these days when they really p*ss me off, after I pull the hot case mail, I can then turn in my 3996. The definition of the word "receipt" is the act or process of receiving. So, is pulling the mail from the hot case, on the way out the door, the same as final receipt of mail?

Actually, I believe they started installing the GPS before they got the reprieve.

can anyone answer this question. How can the postal service go to congress and say they can not pay into the Health care retire fund because they are broke. But a month after congress gives tehm the reprive The USPS are installing GPS systems in trucks? What is wrong with Congress? and the Postal service?

Fledgling /m49362 Thank you. No, my authorized lunch location does not sell lottery tickets. But, I've got 30 minutes to find a place that does. (c;