Edited by author 11-19-2009 10:24 PM
Hello again,

As I had mentioned, I am a non career employee, a casual ;)
I've worked in automation on and off for roughly 5 years...

I was able to show our plant how to get our machines to run at roughly .05 to .1

It doesn't seem that anyone knows whats going on at other plants, trying to get this info. is difficult...

If someone could post the mean OOS rate nationwide, that would be awesome ;)

I have submitted an E-idea through a career employee but how do we get action on it? There has been no response to the submission.

From my position, I see no urgency in the Postal Services desire to reduce waste and increase efficiency. Just getting my idea heard and tested has been a ridiculous waste of time and the in-fighting it created, well that was kinda cool ;) I dislike people that think they know everything, when all they see is a computer screen! Time to take the blinders off people.....

Instead, the #1 plant in the nation for oos, runs suspect mailings twice to reduce the oos problem. Talk about a waste of time and money!

Morning... I been to busy this weekend to look over this board. But, I will have to agree with postalvet /m1234 on this one. From ET's on down to MM7 need to be able to access the computer to look up items from MTSC or NCED. So in my office majority of individuals do have access.

sequence fix I have told you in the past that the information you seek is on the blue pages and you have responded that you do not have access to the blue page. How do you do your job with out computer access?

If you are an ET then you should have computer access and then can go to the MTSC site and get all the reports you want.

The office I retired from even permitted the Union craft director to have computer access. So even you should have access.

Is there a "list" of all Processing facilities and their respective OOS rate?

Or how about a Nationwide mean OOS rate?



anyone?

Hi Guys
I need your help tonight,Did the post office say or put in writing
that they were going to change the way they grade the 955 test?This
was about july or august.
Thanks alot
Roy

I hope someone can point me in the right direction. I remember reading about how on your route sheets that the supervisor is not supposed to put on them more work than you can get done in your workday. But, I on my daily route sheets I consistently see over 10 hours of work. I only sign off on 7.5 hours no matter how many hours extra management puts on the sheets. I would like to be able to show them that they should only be putting on a certain amount of hours for each day.

Hi
Has anyone heard of anyone having trouble getting past the unproctured portion of the new 955 exam?

Edited by author 10-27-2009 08:32 AM
Thank You for the reply. Does that include Phase 6's?

.1-.2 is not bad. Some of our runs are a joke. .30- .60 and higher depending on several factors. All of which can be eliminated...

Is there a "list" of all Processing facilities and their respective OOS rate?

Or how about a Nationwide mean OOS rate?

Edited by author 10-27-2009 02:40 AM
On the DBCS's I maintain I am currently getting an OOS rate for the second pass of between .1-.2 per thousand.

Edited by author 10-26-2009 10:50 PM
The Latest:

I have now figured out how to make all DBCS's operae at a .5-1 per thousand OOS reject rate.

What is your plant operating at nightly, oos rate??

PLEASE reply if you know...

Hi Everyone
Did anyone file a greavience on how the postal service was able to
rescore our 955 test results?
Iwas able to score on all of the tests,But when they restructure the
results I missed the bem and mpe.Do I do a up date or wait for the greivence to go to national?
Thanks
Roy

if I remember correct, a few years ago the costs broke dwon something like this;

manual $43.00 per 1000
automation $21.00 per 1000

maybe someone else will come up with new numbers.

"Op's can cry all they want on how they want to reduce OOS, but when they have 1 clerk load AND sweep a machine, how serious can they be?"

True, true...

Although, the oos problem isn't related to operators as much as everyone wants to insist. There is a fundamental flaw in the process that people are missing ;)

Does anyone know if there is any documentation that describes the time required to sort a certain amount of letters by hand? Say if your plant is sending out 10-30k rejects nightly. How much does that cost the USPS?

Sequencefix...I think you're finally getting a grasp of Today's Postal Operations/Management Concepts...If nothing's broke then who will you blame?
Something has to be broken so you can submit your "goal" and get your bonus, err, I mean Pay for Performance.
Op's can cry all they want on how they want to reduce OOS, but when they have 1 clerk load AND sweep a machine, how serious can they be?

I'm not so sure... Currently, we have a supervisor that is on detail for three weeks in order to "monitor" the automation section. They're trying to minimize oos errors using the standard process you listed below. Unfortunately, they will turn blue in the face before those procedures cure the problem.

As for overall cost, I have a hard time believing that rehandling thousands of pieces of mail is free or of no cost. Add managements continual time and effort into reducing oos errors and the cost most assuredly adds up, especially across the nation.

Ultimately, I am beginning to understand why many of the regulars don't really care. You can only care as much as your supervisors/management. If they only see what they want to see, it's hard to try to improve when nobody listens to the people doing the work.

Blinders anyone ;)