Postal Employees

We recently were given the Sunday Amazon schedule for 2015. Previously in 2014, one CCA had to travel upto an hour to a larger post office via PO minivan to deliver packages. This gave the other CCAs a break on Sundays. Now, according to the new schedule, they want all CCAs, except one body, to head to a closer PO to deliver every Sunday. In other words, CCAs in our PO will work every day, just like we have been during the holiday season, without any foreseeable day off.

I've enjoyed the hold-down on my route as a T6, yet the last time I had a N/S day that I actually took was probably in October or first week of November. Since then, I've come in every day, 7:30 to 5:30 most days and 6:30 on other days, doing my route plus pieces, thankfully none of which were longer than 90 minutes. I understand that "this is our season," which means we've got little to no choice regarding days off. However, the holidays are over, and I was looking forward to actually having a Sunday off soon...but that doesn't look like it's going to happen.

My question is this: To the CCAs, have you received the new Amazon Sunday schedule, and how frequently are you expected to deliver on Sundays? I just wonder if this is a pilot program in our area or if it's nationwide.

Regulars, early in your careers, did you have to report to work every day?

On that final note, have a happy new year, and the first of many bottles of beer has been opened!

Edited by user Wednesday, December 31, 2014 3:49:04 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

At our office it depending on how many slaves we had. When we were staffed with around 20 we switched every other Sunday. As people quit & things got heavier everyone was required to work every Sunday. As people get burnt out the employee pool drops & more work is put on all the other poor *******s remaining.

Same here as a casual, a TE and a PTF.

We do every other Sundays here (except for the last month with holiday volume) because we have the staff. When it's a holiday week (Veterans Day, Columbus Day, MLK Day, etc...), we do either Sunday or the holiday.

Our management isn't completely sadistic and makes sure we get a day off during the week if we work a Sunday.

WorkingTitle- They could schedule you every Sunday if they want. Nothing says they have to rotate CCAs if they do not want to.

Thanks Frustrated.

I and the other CCAs in my PO have been working every Sunday since mid-October. I think I'm logging the most hours though because of the hold down and extra pieces. Plus, I'm not crazy about Amazon Sundays, as easy as they are, mainly because I think everybody needs a break once in a while. People are more productive when they've had some rest. If they want to work me every Sunday, fine. That just means I'll be more cautious and careful with each step.

@Workingtitle3484- yesterday they had us start at 9am to deliver the amazon packages, and they decided to only have 5 CCA's this weekend. Last weekend they had all 8. Supervisor told PM that we were done amazon at 1:30 so he sent us out with NON amazon packages to deliver. Anyways, he was wrong, we weren't done with amazon that early. So, the PM said "oh, perfect, lets cut down to 5 to save some hours since they finished early" And let me mention the fact that our PM is having the clerks sort parcels saturday night (amazon, ups, fedex) so in the morning it isn't just amazon, it's all mixed up. Long story short, we basically each had to take 5-6 routes worth of parcels (anywhere from 4-8 hampers) We didn't get back until 8PM. PM is really smart, considering we all went into Penalty time. I'm sure a lot will be changing for next weekend.