Now they want US to be "census takers"....

Washington » Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, wants your mail carrier to count you.

Chaffetz said Wednesday he will introduce legislation to marry the U.S. Postal Service temporarily with the Census Bureau so that the postal workers can help with the once-a-decade count of how many people live in America.

"They really have the workforce in place to do this," Chaffetz said. "They already go to everybody's door."

Chaffetz proposes taking a "postal holiday," so that mail carriers, instead of dropping bills and magazines to your mailbox, would count the number of people in each household. The Postal Service matches up well with the Census needs, Chaffetz argues.

There are 760,000 postal employees, and the Census is anticipating it will need 750,000 temporary workers to conduct the Census next year. Congress is forking out $11 billion to do the count while the Postal Service is looking at a $1 billion revenue shortfall this year.

The Postal Service had no comment on the bill because the legislation had yet to be formally introduced Wednesday and Census officials did not respond Wednesday to a request for comment.

Chaffetz says he's introducing the bill to avoid having the Census hire groups like the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, which has been under investigation in several states for voter fraud during the 2008 election.

"The ultimate underlying thing here about the Census is trust," Chaffetz says. "And people trust postal employees a lot more than somebody just off the street."
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That's right a "dismount" at EVERY door. I'm sure the NRLCA would be able to "negotiate" a 3-second "credit" for us.

K route- for each 10 days LWOP you will lose 1 day of annual

J route - 11 days
H route - 12 days

I'm sure someone else has the "official" numbers for you, but annual days are based on "hours worked." Therefore for every ___ number of LWOP days you use you will LOSE a day of annual leave. I forget what the number is.

Edited by author 06-17-2009 07:25 PM
I questioned LWOP on Saturdays....I was told no matter how days we use lwop they will not take away one day of annual?

USPS Conducting Study On Impact of 5 day delivery

The NRLCA has been notified that the USPS is currently conducting a study of the impact of five-day delivery along with developing an implementation plan for a five-day service plan. A team of postal service headquarters executives and staff has been given a time frame of 60 days to complete the study. June 10th, 2009 the NRLCA was contacted for our input.
The current concept examines the impact of five-day delivery with no business or collections on Saturday, with Post Offices with current Saturday hours remaining open. The NRLCA is preparing a response with our issues and concerns. The website will be updated as information becomes available.
NRLCA NATIONAL BOARD

http://www.nrlca.org/membershipUpdates/sel...ate.cfm/memUpID/121

Can anyone out there help me out. I need to know when you recieved your form fifty in the mail regarding the count results. I am on the west coast and just recieved mine yesterday, lowering my pay 2,000.00 , processed on the 2nd of June and backdated effective the 25th of April. Thus meaning they will go back 3 if not 4 pay checks and take my money back. (OUCH) I'm just trying to get some feedback thank you

Cindi...they are all full of chit. Both management and the stew. NOTHING is supposed to be done with that route at all and is supposed to be held open for excess carriers until FSS flats come thru. The senior sub will not get it UNLESS that sub is the Primary for that vacant route. What is supposed to happen, per the MOU that Pitts signed not too long ago with the USPS, is the Primary sub HOLDS DOWN that route that becomes vacant UNTIL FSS Flats come thru. Then, and only then, can anything be done with that route...and that means it most likely will NOT go to the senior sub...it can then be chopped up to other routes OR carriers that go under 32 hours on their eval next mail count (a year away) will take the route. No one is supposed to be bidding on it either, and that means the Regulars in office, also. Good luck and talk to your Asst. State Stew or call your State Steward if your local Steward is giving you this chitty advice.

Had a carrier retire 2 weeks ago. Route will be posted for regulars in office. Was told that the residual will be cut up and distributed among the regulars. Steward says because of lost hours during mail count. Not going to hire senior RCA because of this. He has been there almost 10 years. I don't believe that the office is within the 50 mile FSS. (Middle Tennessee Area. If I am wrong and somebody else knows please correct me.) And as far as I know there are no excess carriers either. My question is...can management do this?
I believe the steward is pushing for this also to rebuild routes.
Can the RCA file a grievance to have the route posted?
Just trying to help him by asking.

 busy1 as an RCA I drew unemployment until I made Reg and the RCAs in the office draw unemployment on the days they don't work.
 It depends on your state and you have to prve you work for the Post Office

I'm an RCA with top seniority in my office. For the past 10 months I've run the aux route plus run morning express, so I've basically been working full-time hours. My route is being dissolved the end of this month and I've been told I'll have to sub on a route which has no primary where I'll only get 2 days a month plus vacation/sick time to work.

My question is can I file for unemployment since my hours are being cut so drastically? Thanks.

busy1

Well, I found out that 12 LWOP days will take an annual day away from your totals. For this old guy it might be worth the days off instead of working 6 days a week.

Now that most of us are now H routes and working 6 days a week I need to know if LWOP is a viable way of taking time off and not hurting ones vacation day totals. I would like a few more days off and at the same time offer up a RCA some hours now that there are a lot fewer hours for them.

It seems none of these people ever worked in the private sector as one wouldn't spend that kind of money to accomplish what they did for maybe $35 of mail. Especially when no one will go to there box that late at night. I sure wouldn't want my mail sitting overnight in the box if it didn't get to my house at the usual time when I expect it to be there. The next day would be fine. I would have fudged the records, just like the guys at the top do to cover their butts.

Edited by author 04-25-2009 11:23 PM
Our office had to pick up letter mail that was 50 miles away. The postmaster and clerks were out delivering this mail from about 5pm to 7:30 pm. about another 100 miles plus overtime. The clerk said it probably cost about $1000.00 to get this mail transported and delivered, which is more than all the rural carriers in the office got paid for the day. We were all told days before to cut lights off, save energy any way we can, keep thermostat at ridiculous settings, conserve water, conserve gas. What kind of bonus do these d.u.m.b.-a.s.s.e.s. get for making these stupid decisions? These so called managers are the same ones that are driving the post office right out of business! What the H-ll is going on?????