Comments on: Murphy Presses USPS for Answers Regarding Meriden Route Changes

By: common sense

common sense — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:15:44 +0000

I have to ask, how does one know that the Postal Service is under reporting mail volumes? Has one counted the mail to compare tallies? Are the mail carriers slowing down in protest of these route adjustments? Is there a very shallow learning curve for the carriers? There are many factors to take in consideration after routes are adjusted. One has to give it 30 days to see how they will work out. One also has to monitor carrier performance to ensure that the carriers are performing to their own previous standards.

By: Al

Al — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:01:39 +0000

Sounds like COR route adjustment process strikes again!!

By: JD

JD — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:25:03 +0000

The Postal Service is under reporting the mail volume number. For example, the carrier is about 30 minutes overtime in volume, but yet the supervisor says he can make it in eight, or says that the carrier is over only 15 minutes. The supervisor uses the computer print -out to tell each carrier how much time overtime they are allowed. This practice of feeding the computer, or lack of, for that matter, will eventually show that incorrectly the all the routes are under eight hours. Then the route cuts come along and the real life begins…