Postal Employees

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I mean, yeah, but I still don't see how having an ancient evaluation is acceptable. Everything from the volumes to the walk speed, etc are from a very different era and from the previous regular when they were much younger. It's just an excuse to further bully the CCAs when they can't meet the unrealistic street time of 6 hours 10 minutes. Only at USPS is outdated nonsense like this allowed. I mean I understand the route literally has not changed since DPS became a thing, but would it kill them to do an evaluation every 5 years or so? Or when a new regular takes over?

We already have gps tracker creating a map each day. Actually this only raises serious questions. For example, Thursday in I had four large parcels. I loaded my truck and placed the four large parcels on top of everything and drove them off first. A 99 would know that but the computer will not. How do we handle that.

I have been told by my local president that the computer (or real people looking at your GPS) does account for this correctly

Trust me, I have learned the art of dicking management over when they are being intentionally dumb, and they still haven't learned sometimes. I have no problem doing that. Being a brand new CCA who is just trying to keep their job and please management despite us telling them to work at a normal pace and they can't be held to the same standard as the regular? Not so easy.

As far as my route is concerned, I honestly would not say it's an 8 hour route for the average carrier on a normal volume day. I feel like I work at a normal pace and I don't run or skip breaks, but judging by the size of other routes I've done over the years in other offices and seeing countless CCAs doing my route, I'd honestly say my route is about an hour over for the average carrier. Should I have to slow down and work dishonestly to accommodate the average carrier?

So I guess my point is CCAs are just trying to survive and they don't understand all this stuff. They are trying to listen to their boss instead of 10 opinions from 10 different carriers, and even though 7 hours Street time is still not quite enough for the average carrier on my route, it's a way more realistic goal than 6 hours 10 minutes. So I hope with this new technology it should be easy to get new evaluations on routes that haven't had one in forever.

I think at this point we simply have differing opinions. I can't stand things being disorganized, outdated, or just plain wrong. Heck my case labels are almost 2 years old and even though they are more than sufficient for anyone to case the route, having a few business names wrong and a couple new addresses being written in bugs me (and yes, it's as simple as management ordering new ones and I've about given up on that happening since I've pestered them for a year). Maybe I should wait til political season where I'm sure to be over half an hour or more 3 days a week for 6 consecutive weeks and request a route inspection just to have an updated evaluation.

Did I say anything about management doing it for me? I said it's their responsibility to order the labels. I can't put up new labels if I don't have them. I also submitted changes to my edit book back in January and they returned it to me a few weeks ago without making a single change. So I updated it again and still have not gotten a new edit sheet or case labels. At some point you just give up pestering them daily.