LOL Proud Postal Slug - ain't it the truth! LOL

BizCustomer /m3664 -- since it is more than 1/4 inch it is a "large envelope." 2.2 ounces is rated at 3 ounces, so it is $.88 for the first ounce and $.17 each for ounces 2 and 3, for a total of $1.22.

What is the correct postage for a 2.2 ounce #10 envelope just a little over 1/4" in thickness?

Anyone know what the Zip Forward Initiative is about? Why this new program will result in the removal of the SPBS from the P&DC?

Please refer to the Domestic Mail Manual 2009.It states that deceased mail is to be delivered to the addressee.If it is express mail,the body is to be exhumed and the city or rural carrier is required to take whatever bone mass is left of the hand and forge a signature.All mail can be delivered to any graveyard as long as their is a mail receptable on the tombstone or marker.

Hey you guys who are wondering about deceased mail. I work for the post office in Orange, Tx. For deceased mail you are to tag it with a deceased sticker, and there is one. You can order it on ebuy. After you have put a sticker on it you are to put a certain deceased placard on it and bundle it together and send it with your carrier endorsed forwards(letters and flats) and your rts letters. You can print the deceased placard on the internet. I'm not sure where you find it. My supervisor did that for me. I can find out and forward you the information if you all would like.

Also on the carrier endorsed flats and letters you are to separate them by zip codes and send them like that.

I agree with you all about postage due. I also handle that at our post office and I catch so much postage due. There are thick letters that come through that need a surcharge all the time. There are a great deal of flats also. But not every clerk in our office will not bother with putting in with accountables for the accountable clerk to weight and send out. That is what makes me mad. You all are right we are missing a great deal of revenue that way. I think that as dire a situation as we are supposed to be in every little helps!

Hey surfergirl, I can't believe you are having problems with overtime. In our post office in Texas there is a mandate that there can't be any overtime no matter what. We are still working out of trailers after hurricane Ike do twice the work as we normally do because we are having to push equipment, empty or full across our parking lots from front to the back of building in 105' temperatures. It takes us clerks twice the time to do everything. If we haven't finished our work after 8 hrs., we were told to leave it till the next day!

kc clerk and Jack, you're both wrong. Management can do what ever they want. The grievance(s) will be tied up for years, thus creating tacit approval for their actions.
I was involuntarily transfers in 2001. The grievance is still sitting at the NBA's office, eight years later, waiting to be acted on. I guess they're "waiting" for me to pass away!

Ooopps, wrong again. They can't force you to work OT on 5th day in service week so it's only a max of 56 hrs. 4 days @ 10 1 day @ 8 and non scheduled day @ 8.

TRUE JACK CASS!!! I got carried away by the 40 hr per week list. That's max of 58 hrs for non otdl.

kc clerk:

WRONG!

Non-otdl cannot work over 10 hours on a sched day, or 8 on a non-sched day.

aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh Vthick - congrats - 3 years and I"ll be permanentaly on break also - sitting and relaxing in my hot tub! LOL

Surfergirl: Where is a list for only 40 hr week (only scheduled days) posted at? Sign me up!!! Anybody can be REQUIRED to work up to 60 hrs per week max whether on or off any list. OTD are those requesting any OT and shall be maxed out (12 hrs day) if any non desired has to work OT. Also, I'm assuming you are referring to a full-time regular and not a PTF or PTR.

Regarding break rooms, lunch rooms, etc. I would wager that the majority of POs do not have either. Most POs are small offices and simply do not have the space.
My 1st office, a level 25 main office, a brand new building, had a large breakroom complete with a refridge, stove, vending machines and HOT water. the appliances were owned by the local and the vending was also controlled by the union. The branch office and a break "area" which was an area on the workroom floor petitioned off with lockers and vending machine.
Next office, a level 20 had a breakroom with only a soda machine, no vending. PM tried to bring in a "for profit" snack vendor, one of those honor system card board displays. That was done away with when someone informed the PM he could not do that as per the The Randolph-Sheppard Act as cited previously.
My last office, a 16, had NOTHING! just a bathroom. No need for a breakroom as there were no breaks. I did lunch in my car mostly, at the local rec field close by.
My hometown PO, an 18, also has no breakroom, only an "area' deisgnated by yellow lines on the floor.
So, I'm guessing that there is nothing that states that a PO "must" have such accomodations.
My current beak room is out on my deck, overlooking my back yard pond, I'm on a permanent break!

If your name is on the OTDL at all, you are on all list. No non list person can be required to work unless all OTDL employees are worked up to 12 hours.

just had a safety issue at our office regarding the breakroom. after contacting fed-osha, i found out that hot water does NOT have to be supplied in the breakroom. if there is a BATHROOM in the building that supplies hot water then no hot water is required in the breakroom. didn't make sense to the nice man at fed-osha so he did more research and to his surprise no hot water must be supplied in breakroom.