The approved footwear for uniform program employees must have the SR/USA label. See ELM 939 for exceptions. To eliminate slips, trips, and falls, do not wear the following types of shoes on the workroom floor: – Heels more than 1 1/2 inches and soles more than 1/2 inch in height. – Spiked heels, regardless of height.Take walking time for instance. When we're talking about 0.2574 seconds per foot, how far does one have to walk to make a significant difference over 0.26 seconds per foot? A mile at the current RRECS standard (0.2574 sec/ft) is 22 min 39 sec. A mile at .26 seconds per foot is 22 min 53 sec.The guide includes an overview and history of RRECS, a mapping overview, an explanation of the drive speed matrix, a comparison of the new RRECS standards to the 4241-M worksheet, a comparison of the Evaluated Compensation System (ECS) to RRECS, a guide to determining rural route evaluations under RRECS, and more.Subscribe. Brian Sime was recently named South Dakota's Rural Letter Carrier of the Year. Sime has driven his mail route around Revillo, South Dakota, for 35 years. Before that, his father drove the route, so the route has been in his family for 70 years. He joins "In the Moment" to talk about staying safe on the job, driving 145 miles ...Nov 28, 2019. #3. Yes I'm a regular and my route is a 45k with 40 miles. We had a route go overburdened so an aux was created. Another rural carrier wants to give up some deliveries the route has less packages. The problem is that my route is the only one that borders his and the new aux is all in town. I'm close to 46k so more miles and ...Rural Delivery Carriers. From Handbook PO-603, Rural Carrier Duties and Responsibilities: Seat belts must be worn at all times when operating a Postal Service-owned or -leased vehicle. If a privately owned right-hand drive (RHD) vehicle is used on the route, seat belts must be worn at all times and the carrier must be positioned directly ...Consider, as an example, every time a rural carrier records a stamp sale on their scanner, it costs the USPS a little bit of money. So it is in the best interest of the USPS to make the RRECS scans as convoluted and difficult as possible. Maybe even explains why the user interface is so terrible in the first place! But that's a rather jaded take...Ruralinfo.net. 29,407 likes · 333 talking about this. Postal and Rural News and more!! www.ruralinfo.net518.2 Holidays on Nonscheduled Workdays. 518.21 Saturday. When a holiday falls on a Saturday, the preceding Friday is observed as the holiday. 518.22 Sunday. When a holiday falls on Sunday, the following Monday is observed as the holiday. 518.23 Nonscheduled Workday.02/16/2023. Subscribe. Per the 2021-2024 Agreement between the NRLCA and USPS: Effective the Presidents’ Day 2023 holiday, regular rural carriers who work their holiday, at their option, may elect to have their annual leave balance credited with one day of annual leave in lieu of holiday pay. DACA Code G has been established for this purpose ...Punkie5 -- Sounds like quite the mess at your office, sorry to say. -- Certainly seems your office has met the criteria to become a Formula Office: not enough subs, regular carriers often working their relief days, and manglement unsuccessful in its hiring efforts. 21 K-routes with a Saturday relief day is a killer too.Dec 8, 2022. #14. Unclewolverine said: I just took over a hold down and put on the first new set of labels this case has seen in about 3 years. My pm said they will get me new labels any time I want. I was just wondering if there was an 'official' time frame they are supposed to get updated. It appears not.Everyone, please help make our jobs easier and choose the correct category. Thank youRepresenting rural postal workers in the U.S.We have been told that upon clocking in, we are required to go to the supervisors desk for a daily service/stand up talk every day. I’ve been looking around and it seems under the new RRECS system, we are only getting paid for one five minute meeting a week. Our meetings last anywhere from 8-15 minutes every day. ... USPS Rural Carrier Union ...There is nothing that enables a rural carrier to "wait" without receiving pay on a green card, if you are an RCA, or form 8127 if regular. If you are waiting because you are early for a blue pick-up box, the schedule on that box is wrong. If it is for a mailing from a business, the business's schedule is wrong, or your start time is too early.Pursuant to the release of the January 2024 Consumer Price Index - Urban Wage and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), and in accordance with Article 9.1.E, the sixth and final COLA adjustment of the 2021-2024 National Agreement will result in a $353.00 increase for eligible rural carriers. This COLA adjustment will be effective March 9, 2024 (PP 2024-07).Postmaster Stand-up Talk. — Safety Talk for Letter Carriers and Rural Carriers. It won’t be long until school lets out for the summer and children begin to spend their days outside playing. We all know that means taking extra care to watch out for children playing around our vehicles, but it also is the time of year to be on the lookout for ...Feb 4, 2018. #7. Frustrating is when carriers resent you coming to their office with a class action that will upset their local in office agreements. Rewarding when a PM says that will not happen in this office and you make it happen. Frustrating is when the carrier blames you when they have no basis for a grievance.Which, of course, manglement will dispute ) Take heart, things get better -- somewhat. -- Step 4 ( L-118 ) from the M-38's Section 345.3 -- Carrier are required to follow the authorized line of travel out to, back from, and on the route. DEVIATIONS approved for lunch or OTHER PURPOSES on the route must not be counted as part of the total ...Variable Work Hours. As an RCA, you will replace a regular rural carrier on his or her scheduled day off (primarily Saturday), on vacation, or on other leave. Work hours will vary depending on the office and route to which you are assigned. You must be willing to work weekends and some holidays and be available for on-call employment.A regular rural carrier whose regular scheduled work day falls on a holiday will not be required to work and will be paid at the daily rate for that day. When a holiday falls on a Sunday, the following Monday shall be observed as the holiday. B. When a holiday falls on the relief day of an evaluated carrier, the carrier shall be granted the ...Rural Carriers Our PM said that upper management want to change our start time to possibly 8am. Has anyone heard about this? Last edited: Jul 31, 2022. Reactions: Dumbassclerksyndrome and ovomb1. L. lovethemail Well-known member. Jul 31, 2022 #2 In this heat 7:30 is bad enough. They threaten us with 8 every so often.We had a stand up talk today for the rural and city carriers today and the supervisor told us that we have to start scanning every package out for delivery and then the scanner sort the packages and tell you which row the package is on..Like row 1,2,3,4,5 or 6 and that's how you would load your vehicle..All the carriers were pissed it ...rural carrier modified work duty | Rural Mail Talk. Please keep questions in the Questions forum to contract, procedures, and requests for documentation. Vehicle, TSP, retirement, etc questions please post in the regular forums. Thank you. Everyone, please help make our jobs easier and choose the correct category. Thank you.This is the legal basis for the rural compensation system. The basic requirements as applied to rural carriers, are as follows: 1. Employee shall be employed on an annual basis at a guaranteed annual wage. 2. The guarantee must be a minimum of 1840 and a maximum of 2080 hours. 3.In today’s digital age, having a reliable cell phone carrier with wide coverage is essential. Whether you live in a bustling city or a remote rural area, staying connected is cruci...Jan 26, 2024 ... The best rural carriers ; Nationwide 4G coverage (%). Verizon. 70. AT&T. 68. T-Mobile. 62 ; Plan cost per line (4 lines). Verizon. Play More - $45Standard Training for Rural Letter Carriers OJT Guide Introduction to On-the-Job Training The Standard Training for Rural Letter Carriers program, course #10024378, is a combination of training including; DDC-USPS RHD & Delivery Vehicle eLearning and CD, #43601-06, 4 hours; USPS DefensiveWell-known member. Mar 16, 2017. #2. dannkim18 -- "So when a route goes up for bid and the senior RCA is out on Medical leave, i know that they can bid but have to mark the box that says they are currently not able to perform the duties, how long is the route held for that RCA. -- Article 12.3.B.5: When an absent regular carrier, PTF ...flexible rural carrier has not been designated to serve the route, the route shall be assigned to qualified substitutes, rural carrier associates, or rural carrier relief employees assigned to that delivery unit in the order of the longest period of continuous service in the office. Qualified is defined for Subsection D.1. and 3. as havingIn that case then most likely yes. As long as ALL RCAs and RDWL Regs that are available are scheduled, mgmts can force non-RDWL carriers to work by Junior. The only way to guar being off on your Relief Day is by having approved Leave on the workday before or. lbpd16 said:Rural Delivery Carriers. From Handbook PO-603, Rural Carrier Duties and Responsibilities: Seat belts must be worn at all times when operating a Postal Service-owned or -leased vehicle. If a privately owned right-hand drive (RHD) vehicle is used on the route, seat belts must be worn at all times and the carrier must be positioned directly ...Pursuant to the release of the January 2024 Consumer Price Index - Urban Wage and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), and in accordance with Article 9.1.E, the sixth and final COLA adjustment of the 2021-2024 National Agreement will result in a $353.00 increase for eligible rural carriers. This COLA adjustment will be effective March 9, 2024 (PP 2024-07).The 4/2/99 LMU speaks to an RCA volunteering to work at a different office. It says nothing about mgmt other than maki certain the sub won't be needed in their current office. There is also a Step 4 out of Desoto, Tx dated 3/24/16 about mgmt's requirement to pay mileage when a carrier is required to travel.Jul 28, 2023. #1. I’m have been reading acrosss the country that management is taking metris’ from rurals and giving them to city carriers and making the rurals drive LLVs. Does it really surprise anyone that the USPS has a work around for the agreed upon deployment of the metris’. They agreed with the union to put the new vans on rural ...Feb 1, 2021. #1. I was hired on 12/5/1995 as an RCA. I went regular on 1/26/2001. My Form 50 says Retirement Date 8/30/2033, The Day I Turn 57. Well that's 12 1/2 More Years & I See No Possible Way That I'll Make It, especially with today's micro managing & load of Amazon. I work in a small rural office, all personal vehicles, no LLVs.An Assistant Rural Carrier, also known as a Rural Letter Carrier, is one who has been hired by the U.S. Postal Service to deliver and transport mail. To work as a delivery driver for a Rural Carrier, you must be 18 years old, a citizen or legal alien of the United States, able to pass a drug screening and background check.RRECS Safety/Service Talks. 02/14/2023. Subscribe. The NRLCA has been notified that less than half of the offices have credit for Safety/Service Talks entered into the Rural Management Support System (RMSS). The NRLCA submitted a proposal to cover the shortage and it was not accepted. The USPS has unilaterally decided to have the Safety/Service ...Rural carrier associates fill in for regular rural mail carriers who need time off due to illness, emergency or vacation. RCAs deliver U.S. mail to suburban and rural homes and bus...Well-known member. Mar 1, 2017. #2. Squaring up routes is to square up the territory so multiple routes aren't 'tripping' over each other. The route evaluations shouldn't go down unless the route is 'overburdened'. There is no rebidding. If a new route (not aux) is created, then THAT route would be bid up. Mgmt cannot chang the majority of each ...-- Normally rural carriers are shut of of working in other crafts, but invoking Article 13 may ignore that. Anyone?-- Unknown if there is a time to accept or turn down the offer.-- Could be the difference between a steady pay check or unemployment benefits.-- In any case, good luck in your situation. Please, keep us informed.The three most junior carriers (routes 2, 4 and 5) will work every Saturday. Regarding 2080/2240, from the contract: "The Employer is not required to work any regular carrier on a relief day if it would cause the carrier to exceed the hours of the annual guarantee or fifty-six (56) actual hours within one (1) week." Not required to, but they can.Physically Strenuous Work. This job can be physically strenuous. You begin in the Post Office™, sorting mail in delivery sequence. Then, using carts and hampers, you take the sorted mail to your vehicle, load it, and deliver the mail along an established route. Performing these activities may require you to stand for long periods of time ...The standard training program for rural carriers consists of a minimum of. 24 hours (3 days) of classroom instruction using simulation, followed by a. minimum of 24 hours of on-the-job training (OJT), which may be conducted. in increments of less than 8 hours but not less than 2 hours per day. Each.Rural letter carriers are United States Postal Service and Canada Post employees who deliver mail in what are traditionally considered rural and suburban areas of the United …As a Postal Service ™ Rural Carrier Associate (RCA), you will have a continuous, part-time job with a reliable employer. If you are retired, self-employed, an at-home parent, an educator, night student, or are employed on an evening shift schedule, this on-call position could be the ideal job for you. RCAs are responsible for the safe and ...Well-known member. Mar 24, 2022. #17. gotstamps said: New contract or not, 3-5 days was considered "reasonable time". You could certainly let them know that since there is a new contract that says "automatically approved" if not denied within 3 days, you're under the inpression that its been approved.May 17, 2024 · Pursuant to the release of the January 2024 Consumer Price Index – Urban Wage and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), and in accordance with Article 9.1.E, the sixth and final COLA adjustment of the 2021-2024 National Agreement will result in a $353.00 increase for eligible rural carriers.As a Postal Service ™ Rural Carrier Associate (RCA), you will have a continuous, part-time job with a reliable employer. If you are retired, self-employed, an at-home parent, an educator, night student, or are employed on an evening shift schedule, this on-call position could be the ideal job for you. RCAs are responsible for the safe and ...PapahSmurf said: At least in our office, second trips are just additional straight time over evaluation plus any mileage if using a POV. 2nd trips are paid 2 min/mile + loading at the straight time rate. The OP is asking about assisting another route as a Regular Carrier, not a 2nd trip, which is paid at a special OT rate.Well-known member. Nov 13, 2021. #2. Darkness itself is not a hazard. Poorly lighted streets, blind sections of road, traversing walkways and steps in darkness are hazardous. It's the physical actions you must take in the darkness which create the hazard.-- Travel Mileage: Step 4 ( G10R-4G-C14188328 ) in part: The parties agree when rural carriers are required to travel to a temporary duty station that is within a 50-mile radius of their permanent duty station, there is an entitlement to mileage reimbursement. In accordance with Handbook F-15, Section 7-1, the mileage WILL BE reimbursed for any ...May 16, 2019. #2. The PTF position is a bid-for position akin to the Regular bid position. It would go through the same bidding process. PTFs are usually created due to a lack of new-hires, too many 120-Day letters to fulfill, & too many Peeps working OT.rahrahrah et al -- "Can regular rural carriers trade routes if both parties want to in the same office."-- To expand on "Postal-xam@58's" posting: - Article 12.5.B.4. A mutual exchange between regular carriers in the same post office or between a rural carrier and a member of another craft if prohibited.If you are assigned to a 48K (57:00 to 57:36 hours), and your actual hours exceed 48 actual work hours, you may be entitled to auxiliary assistance. Temporary relief is covered in the EL-902-The USPS- NRLCA National Agreement, the M-38, and the F-21. USPS Operations is developing a plan to adjust overburdened routes, but in the meantime, you ...Subscribe. The Special Contract Edition of the National Rural Letter Carrier magazine containing the 2021-2024 National Agreement is now available for viewing and …The report notes that user errors accounted for almost 40 percent of improper concerns, but again, without access to the data captured by RRECS, it's difficult for carriers to readjust. On online forums such as Rural Mail Talk, other rural carriers have described similar frustrations with the data collection. The result is that rural carriers ...The desired outcome to any change in casing equipment is an EFFICIENT CASE LAYOUT. =====. From the M-38, Section 342.21 One Bundle System. 342.211 Cases will be set up generally with two inch separations and two deliveries per separation ( or one inch slot with one delivery per slot ). Managers may vary the size of the separations and the ...Assistant Rural Carriers are employed by Rural Carrier’s as a part-time position that allows them to supplement their income and to provide needed service in rural areas. ... Talk Radio News is a team dedicated to consumers. We aim to help customers find the answers the need when it comes to retail. TalkRadioNews is a participant in the ...Some 50,000 rural carriers for the United States Postal Service are facing layoffs and thousands more confront wage cuts of up to $20,000 under a new compensation scheme. Local post offices around ...The approved footwear for uniform program employees must have the SR/USA label. See ELM 939 for exceptions. To eliminate slips, trips, and falls, do not wear the following types of shoes on the workroom floor: – Heels more than 1 1/2 inches and soles more than 1/2 inch in height. – Spiked heels, regardless of height.Further, in accordance with Article 9.1.H.3, effective November 18, 2023 (PP 25-2023), Rural Carrier Associates (RCAs) and Assistant Rural Carriers (ARCs) will receive a similar upward wage adjustment equal to 1.3% applied to the Tables Three and Four wage rates and a 1.0% wage adjustment for a total of 2.3% of the appropriate May 20, 2021, salary schedule.Apr 10, 2022. #6. Surprise! said: Seems after all that paying full price for membership it may be time to settle score now that you get the retirement discount. Become a representative to the National Convention. No thanks! Would feel guilty taking carriers money!We have been told that upon clocking in, we are required to go to the supervisors desk for a daily service/stand up talk every day. I’ve been looking around and it seems under the new RRECS system, we are only getting paid for one five minute meeting a week. Our meetings last anywhere from 8-15 minutes every day. ... USPS Rural Carrier Union ...Mar 9, 2024. #1. A question for rurals in big cities. I’m in a town of about 10000 with a county population of maybe 20000. We deliver every package. No Amazon, ups or FedEx comes anywhere near us so we deliver all their crap. We just got a new carrier that transferred from a large city, one of the largest cities in Texas.Best advice: Ask a mechanic or other carriers the kinds of vehicles they have had good luck with since if your vehicle is in the shop constantly you aren't making money. Last edited: Mar 3, 2021. Reactions: Oi veh. H. Hansonzoo New member. Mar 30, 2021 #16 Newer Rca here, went with a Honda crv. Awd I'd great for snow and dirt, …When it comes to critter removal, the cost can vary significantly depending on your location. Whether you live in a bustling city or a rural area, there are certain factors that ca...T-Mobile captures the silver medal, with rural customers spending 77.4% to 92.3% of their time connected to 4G. AT&T comes in third with an average connectivity time ranging from 75.5% to 88.8% .... Take walking time for instance. When we're talkinNational Rural Letter Carriers' Association, Alexandria, Vi Feb 27, 2021. #1. Good Morning fellow retirees. I retired the end of 2018 and kept our Rural Carrier Benefit Plan which of course requires you to maintain membership in the Association. Today got my pension via direct deposit and there was a $9.17 difference which is the retiree monthly "dues". Striking alone hasn't deterred these youth from getting out t Rural Carrier: An employee assigned to case, deliver, and collect mail using a vehicle along a rural route and to provide most services available at a small Post Office. Rural Carrier Associate (RCA): A non-career bargaining unit employee assigned as a leave replacement on rural routes during the absence of the regular rural carriers. Assistant Rural Carriers are employed by Rural Carrier’s as a part-tim...
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