The Stand-Up Talk must be presented to all rural carriers by September 9, 2022. Mini Mail Survey Period: September 10 through September 23, 2022. A mini mail survey is ... The rural carrier and manager will certify the data on the Mini Mail Survey Summary is correct, no later than September 27, 2022.Any possession of car telephones [ bricks back then ] which, in management's judgement, interferes with a rural carrier's ability to perform his or [ her ] duties efficiently will be addressed locally on a case-by-case basis.-- Effective 14 FEB 2019, the Postal Service is revising the ELM, Section 831.332, to include the policy that Postal ...Special Contract Edition 2022 17. MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDINGBETWEEN THE. UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICEAND THE. NATIONAL RURAL LETTER CARRIERS' ASSOCIATION. The parties have agreed to an interim process for implementation of the revised rural route standardallowances under the Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System (RRECS).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 havingRural Carrier Margaret Ward was recently making deliveries in Church Hill, TN, when she caught sight of an 85-year-old customer lying in a driveway and waving for help. The woman did not want Ward to call 911 at first; she just wanted help getting up. Ward persuaded the customer to remain still, placed a pillow ...In recent years, there has been a growing trend of individuals and families seeking a change of pace and lifestyle by transitioning from urban areas to rural settings. One of the k...Well-known member. Jan 20, 2023. #1. The numbers are in except for 6 %. I've heard management complaining about routes in other offices being overpaid now due to non amazon. Only complain about those underpaid, never heard about our office which gets 3 X mailcount numbers everyday. I mentioned RRECS will add between 10 and 15 hours on routes in ...ruralcarriers - 'National Rural Letter Carriers Asscociation', NRLCA,'Rural Carrier', USPS, NALC, Postal, Service, Jeep, RHD, 'Letter Carrier','onLiners',Rural Carrier Information Gateway','crazypostal.com','crazypost' - rural carrier news of solidarity and union support sharing information about our rural craft to educate rural carriers across AmericaStandard 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 DefensiveFurther, 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.Nov 11, 2021. #15. gotstamps said: Any X-days that were still available but earned over 12 weeks prior to October 9, 2021 are eligible to be paid out after 12/25/21. If any of your X-days had not hit that 12-week mark by October 9, they then the "Clock" is paused & time resumes on 12/25. Mgmt is supposed to schedule those X-days with a 3 ...Well, you confirmed my statement ! Quality footwear can easily be $150 !! That does not leave much money for all the items you would need, especially, in a place with harsh winters ! The drivers foot shoe/boot soles always wear out within 5-6 mo. Elbows of jackets/coats tear up in 1 season.Rural Carrier Stand Up Talk June 14, 2016 Rural Carrier Academy Instructor Selection Process TARGET AUDIENCE - ALL RURAL CARRIERS IN ALL OFFICES WITH RURAL DELIVERY AD HOC INSTRUCTOR RURAL CARRIER ACADEMY As part of the Field Onboarding Program for nationwide rollout on October 1, the updated Standard Training for Rural Letter Carriers ...NEW: Update on Retro Pay Adjustment. 09/27/2022. As you know, the Postal Service (USPS) and National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association (NRLCA) ratified and signed a new collective bargaining agreement on March 23, 2022, approximately 6 months ago. The new ratified agreement covers the period May 21, 2021 through May 20, 2024, and provides ...The opposite side of the coin seems to be if the RCA doesn't finish the route and the regular rural carrier finishes the route, the RCA gets paid for their hours and mileage (EMA) and the regular rural carrier gets paid for the day. It was originally submitted this way. The PM got a call from district about this incident.Assigned Carrier copy for the route; Route Book copy filed at the carrier case; Route Folder copy (maintained by management in the local office) The PS Form 4241-A must be provided to the carrier in order to communicate the new RRECS evaluation for the route. Ensure the carrier is immediately made aware of schedule changes Classifications: K, J ...Dec 28, 2018. #1. I've been driving my POV for about two years seatbelt-less. I worry each day will be THE day I'm slammed from behind and go airborne through the windshield. The past 2 days managers have been including seatbelt usage in the safety talk for city carriers. A carrier in a nearby city was just killed when somebody hit his LLV as ...My route is a 46K with 600 boxes. So my current evaluation box factor was 2.0 (600boxes X 2.0=1200 minutes per week). Under RRECS (600boxes X 1.2162=730 minutes per week) That is a difference of 470 minutes (7.83 HOURS!!!!) So, I have to make up almost EIGHT hours of evaluated time right out of the gate!!-- Section 12.e. of the PO-603 ( Rural Carrier Duties and Responsibilities ) - Basic Carrier Responsibilities: - Providing and maintaining a vehicle ( if a USPS-owned/leased vehicle is not provided ) of adequate size, equipped with necessary equipment ( chains or snow tires, warning lights or signs, etc. ) free of extraneous matter, that ...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 ...Evaluated Carriers (Routes 35 Hours or More) (1) For all hours of required service in excess of the evaluated hours of the route, evaluated carriers shall be paid additional compensation at the appropriate rate for their step, in accordance with Article 8.3., for those hours within the 40-hour work week and at the FLSA overtime rate for those ...I could have told the PO that one. This "issue" was resolved in 1969. That's over 50 years ago. Also, the carrier does not need permission for a specific or particular vehicle. The criteria is that a vehicle is REQUIRED to be supplied / provided by the carrier. Then, to LITERALLY add insult to injury , they attempt to deny this carrier's claim.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...Article 31.1.P employer may require a ptf to work prior to selecting employees from the (Sunday volunteer and non volunteer) list. Correction to Article number: Article 30.2.P Sunday Work. An office-wide list will be established for substitutes, rural carrier associates, and rural carrier relief employees who desire to work on Sunday.2. From the date the information in 1. above is received, a sixty-day moratorium on the implementation of any rural route evaluation so that the Union may review and validate the data to its satisfaction, as required by the Panel Chairperson. Nothing herein shall waive the rights of rural carriers to pursue grievances challenging …May 30, 2020. #14. Then, there are these issues ; depending upon if the route is automated or not , FSS and / or DPS, the actual evaluation is different due to the time standards being different for POV and LLV which , in turn, make the pay different. Also, the carrier on a POV route IS RECEIVING the EMA while using a LLV on a POV route UNLESS ...The formula for figuring out your pension is the average of your high three consecutive years multiplied by your years as a career employee as a percentage. Under 62 is 1% per year, 62 and older 1.1% per year. Example: Average high 3 is $70,000. Retire at 62 with 30 years is 33% (30x 1.1%). $70,000 times .33 equals $23,100.Well-known member. Mar 24, 2022. #9. Nostradomus predicts that certain district managers will be indirectly firing of discipline left and right because of missed scans, and the once praised (now gutted) National Steward System will be overwhelmed with disciplinary grievances. Many of our well-meaning stewards will drop the stewardship because ...- In the rural carrier craft, at any local installation, regular rural carriers shall not be considered for any light duty assignment. ... The Department of Labor treats you like a criminal when you talk to them. You need expert advice. Reactions: Dumbassclerksyndrome, Oi veh., RDruckus and 2 others. Upvote 0 Downvote. P. psd181 Well-known ...Rural Mail Talk; Calendar; RCA info; Knowledgebase; Resources. All things RRECS; Links; Benefits; The Ruralinfo.net guide for Rural Carriers; Support Us. Postal …We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us.General Discussion. Threads. 8.5K. Messages. 153.3K. U. Is anyone else a 48k or above and have yet to receive any notice from mgmt of possible adjustments? 6 minutes ago. U caught my attention.New member. Aug 28, 2019. #1. I had box holders earlier this week and had about a full flat tub left of boxholders and was questioned by the postmaster did I do all of them! I have been a regular carrier about 15 years and this is the first time since I was a RCA over 20 years ago that I was asked that! It just rubbed me the wrong way.We just attended the Florida State Convention for the Florida Rural Letter Carriers Association and had the opportunity to talk with a lot of Florida Rural Letter Carriers. One common theme kept coming up: Rural Carriers feared filing OWCP injury claims because they worried their supervisors would retaliate against them. This was said over and ...Standard Program. 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.Knowledgebase. Subscribe. CONTRACT AND MORETOP DOCUMENTSSALARY AND EMA. 2021 – 2024 National Contract. Handbook PO-603 – Rural Carrier Duties and Responsibilities. ELM 53 – Employee and Labor Relations Manual. Order of Consideration. Table of Evaluated Hours for Rural Routes. Leave Replacement Matrix Guidelines.-- Article 30.1.P. -- Other Route Assignments. A regular rural carrier SHALL NOT be required to serve all or part of any rural route other than his or her assigned route except as provided in ELM, Section 546. ( Section 546 deals with Reassignment or Reemployment of Employees Injured on Duty ).-- It is rare to get a "shall not" in the contract.performed daily by rural carriers. These counts are largely automated and require minimal carrier intervention. The resulting database is used to calculate standard times for the work activities and routes. • Count data is also captured from mapping software developed by the project. Mapping customers and routes requires a significantIt takes a special breed to be a rural mail carrier. Most people think all we do is drive around in the country for a few hours sticking envelopes in mail boxes; taking 2-hour breaks and collecting a big government paycheck. All I say to those people is “ try it for a week or even 2 days ” and you will see for yourself what a demanding and ...Shoes and hats are okay, but shirts, pants, jackets are "off limits". Probably the same for some "look alike" brands out there. -- Retiring city carriers often "pass down" their old uniforms -- while manglement looks the other way when rural carriers wear city carrier shirts / pants. a.2. Views. 382. May 10, 2024. Oi veh. Putnam County postal office to be renamed to memorialize life of rural mail carrier fatally attacked by dogs. Ruralinfo. May 10, 2024. Replies.For instance, if you have a Carrier Pickup out on the route, the scanner is usually in Scanning mode, so you have to: 1. Press Escape to get back to Main menu. 2. Press R to get in the Rural menu. 3. Press O for Carrier Pickup. 4. Press 1 or 2 as to whether you have a Carrier Pickup request sheet.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 ...Reactions: clown car carrier and Beffannie. Upvote 0 Downvote. 9. 9^2=81 Active member. Mar 14, 2024 #3 I could have swore I received my results a week later during the last count.. Upvote 0 Downvote. Oi veh. Administrator. Staff member. Mar 14, 2024 #4 they have until tomorrow COB to input data from MMS.Well-known member. May 16, 2017. #9. There is a difference, light duty is duty given to an employee that has had some "injury" outside of work, (of which the USPS usually offers none to rural carriers), limited duty is work offered to USPS employees that have had an injury while at work. If the RCA is "scheduled " to work his "hold down route ...Well-known member. Step 4: Working relief day (vs) carrier required to work holiday, Rancho Cucamonga, CA (p. 13) The issue in this grievance is whether management is required to schedule a regular rural carrier to work a relief day before scheduling a regular carrier to work on a designated holiday.Staff member. Oct 19, 2023. #1. CAPE CORAL, Fla. — For more than four decades, Carolyn Wetzel has snaked her way through Cape Coral in her mail truck. At 81, she approaches each day with as much enthusiasm as her first. "I love this job," Carolyn said. "I can't seem to retire," she added with a laugh. Retirement is not a […]Rural Carrier News. Kansas City Rural Letter Carriers’ Association Past President David Troutman died in a car crash on his route yesterday. Thread starter Ruralinfo; Start date Jan 13, 2024; Ruralinfo Administrator. Staff member. Jan 13, 2024 #1 On Friday, Jan. 12, at 4:21 p.m., Sumner County Sheriff deputies were dispatched to the …Overtime compensation for regular rural carriers compensated pursuant to FLSA Section 7(b)(2) shall be paid at the rate of 150 percent of the carrier’s regular rate. The regular rate for such carriers shall be the total amount of compensation earned for hours actually worked since commencement of the guarantee period, excluding previous ...RRECS - Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System. Threads 1.5K Messages 47.8K. Sub-forums. Sub-forums. RRECS detailed calculations by C$$ Threads 1.5K Messages 47.8K. A. Honest days of work and future of RRECS. Today at 2:51 PM; ATCBigE; Christmas Period. Threads 157 Messages 2.4K. Threads 157 Messages 2.4K. 2. Big Package. May 4, 2024;Feb 3, 2018. #6. special1303 -- Everyone involved should get a LOW!! -- The carrier who works off the clock for 15 minutes. -- The carrier who comes in 7 minutes late. -- Manglement for letting carriers come in early and late. -- If everyone is signing the 4240, then everyone is falsifying an official document.All -- Rural Carrier Carols, Vol 3. Let It Snow Well, conditions at work are frightful, And the boss is not delightful. And some day we'll all be let go! This job blows. This job blows. This job blows. The parcels show no sign of stopping, And that's my back a-popping. And, gee, the clerks are slow. This job blows. This job blows. This job blows.Oct 1, 2019. #4. P-P-F -- "Regulars required to train subs?" -- There is nothing in writing. There is not extra pay, but maybe a lot of aggravation -- from both the sub and manglement. There is always the satisfaction of training a new sub and having the new sub become an asset to the office.Aug 28, 2020. #15. Cliff Clavin -- " Are Regular carriers entitled to "Wait Time" for waiting for Clerks to finish throwing the mail or perhaps the truck is late getting to your office? -- Tread carefully as noted above, manglement can push your start time back ( but never seem to push the "depart for the streets, return to office, or leave for ...Representing rural postal workers in the U.S.Straight Talk Wireless is on the Verizon network. It and other carriers that use larger companies’ networks, such as Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile, are termed mobile virtual netwo...Dec 11, 2021. #1. So this came up at my office today. I always leave my carrier a $20 and a card during the holidays, plus water or snacks when it's hot during the summer. One carrier in my office said they don't tip their mail person. They said something about professional courtesy and that his carrier knows he's also a carrier so they don't ...Jul 18, 2017. #1. Hey all. Does the rural carrier benefit plan 382 high option-self and family include any sort of Eye and Dental benefits? I've signed up for it, but now my wife has a cavity and I can't seem to figure out whether it covers dental at all. I know there is FEDVIP benefits we can sign up for, but I didnt when i got on full time ...- Page 45 of the contract: Rural carrier craft employees may stop for not more than thirty ( 30 ) minutes for lunch, the exact time used must be recorded. ( it does say "rural carrier craft employees" without specifying "regular", "RCA", "AUX carrier" or any of the numerous designations.Apparently, they make more than regulars. Rural Carrier Associate average salary by State. StateAvg. salaryHourly rate. California California$72,615 $72,615$34.91 $34.91. Colorado Colorado$76,067 $76,067$36.57 $36.57. Connecticut Connecticut$89,364 $89,364$42.96 $42.96. Delaware Delaware$88,475 $88,475$42.54 $42.54.The probationary period for a rural carrier associate shall be 90 days actually worked or one calendar year, whichever comes first. All other applicable provisions of Article 12.1 shall apply. If anybody can confirm is this is valid or not for RCAs being able to get promoted without waiting a year, please let me know.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.. Here's the rule on Aux routes: "AuxiliarWell-known member. Oct 23, 2023. #11. Curtailing mail is actually mana Well-known member. Mar 19, 2017. #1. On January 19th I filed a grievance for my annual leave being denied. I believe there was a sub available, management says differently. Grievance denied at step 1. ADR requested proof of other carrier's leave slips and that is where it still stands. I know there are time limits on these things.Well-known member. Nov 20, 2023. #24. ECAB rules that Rural Carriers are covered driving to work: “The Employee’s Compensation Appeals Board has ruled that a rural carrier who was in a car accident on her way to work was in the performance of duty as she was driving the vehicle which she intended to use to deliver mail on the date of … Well-known member. Jan 20, 2023. #1. The numbers are in 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 ...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. City Carrier Assistant - United States Postal Service - Estherv...
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