Previously, USPS has sent the same answer to multiple outlets who asked about RRECS, stating that the changes to the compensation system were codified by a labor-management agreement and an arbitration proceeding. “The parties worked jointly for years to implement these new provisions and will continue to share data and information …Jan 6, 2024. #8. ATCBigE said: Probably made some of the fine print bigger so we the carriers can see more of the screw job we are getting. If someone has the ability to post it, I will look through and compare it to last one. more likely turned some of the larger print into fine print. C.Driving the Rural Delivery Route. The U.S. Postal Service has almost 80,000 rural delivery routes serviced by some 133,000 rural letter carriers. For some of those routes, USPS provides the vehicle; for others, the carrier uses a private vehicle and receives a maintenance allowance from the Postal Service for wear and tear.08/01/2022. Subscribe. On August 1, 2022, the USPS and NRLCA signed an MOU on Rural Route Territorial Adjustments. The parties recognize that there is potential impact to rural route evaluations resulting from the implementation of the Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System (RRECS). To limit this impact and ensure that routes are evaluated ...Delivery Services - Delivery services from the USPS vary depending on the speed of delivery and what is being shipped. Learn about some of the mail delivery services. Advertisement...Record actual time used daily to service the EPLs. Actual time begins once all parcels are located at the EPL and carrier signs in on the keypad and continues untilAccording to the USPS, the minimum size of an envelope that can be mailed is 5 inches long by 3 1/2 inches high by 0.007 inches thick. The regulations also state that envelopes mus...Aug 1, 2022 · 08/01/2022. Subscribe. On August 1, 2022, the USPS and NRLCA signed an MOU on Rural Route Territorial Adjustments. The parties recognize that there is potential impact to rural route evaluations resulting from the implementation of the Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System (RRECS). To limit this impact and ensure that routes are evaluated ... They could have implemented RRECS and then after the first or second eval they could have began shoring the routes. Right now the model is unsustainable. No one can take time off. Too many J’s and H routes. No room for subs. Carriers lost thousands of dollars. The USPS have been silent on the data and silent on the program to shore-up routes.RRECS was the resolution developed by the two parties and an arbitrator, with much of the language surrounding its rollout focused on its intent to “modernize” the postal system.The best way to confirm an address is by looking up the ZIP code, which can be done at USPS.com. To do this, enter the address given, including the street number, name, city and st...Good morning, Quartz readers! Good morning, Quartz readers! Congress is returning early for a vote on the US postal service. House speaker Nancy Pelosi is trying to block operation...The National Labor Relations Board today issued an announcement detailing plans for a second vote among Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama warehouse employees. The planned follow-up would ...Change of address fraud lets fraudsters hijack a person's mail and reroute credit cards and other personal information. A group of bipartisan lawmakers has called on the U.S. Posta...Mar 25, 2023. #1. Hot off the press. The National Board has been given preliminary results for the first RECS evaluation. As you can see based on the graph that we were given, approximately 66% of all routes lost in evaluation and 6% stayed the same, and 28% gained in evaluation. As you can see the USPS has not provided to us requested ...Scanner setup 11 1/4 seconds (retrieval, setup, return to charger). IIRC, there's only a 3/4 second difference between a raw flat vs walking sequence sorted. Basically, our old standards have been butchered. We use to have 2-4 week mail counts that determined our evaluations for the year.The Postal Service’s Five-Year Strategic Plan, covering the fiscal years (FYs) 2020 to 2024, is intended to provide our stakeholders, including the President, Congress, the American people, our employees, business partners, and customers with the following: A comprehensive mission statement covering the major operations of the Postal Service.My gut feeling, however, is mail withdrawal is limited to smaller PO's, probably less mail, probably a small time loss. The program here will calculate your "withdraw mail" time. You will need: 1) Number of trays of DPS. 2) Number of trays of FSS. 3) Distance (in feet) walked to withdraw mail."Under the current conditions we cannot except that this is a viable solution until we are convinced that the new RRECS system is fully functional and in place. Therefore, we must decline to use the RRECS system at this time." If this is actually a USPS fault in general, how about a lawsuit.OPM, the Postal Service and a select few other agencies will spend a total of $101 million to stand up the new exchange, according to the interim rule, and will incur about $51 million in costs ...RRECS Mini Mail Survey to Be Held February 25-March 10. The first RRECS Mini Mail Survey will take place beginning February 25 and will run through March 10, 2023. The Mini Mail Survey is only documenting four (4) items and comprises approximately six (6) percent of your route’s evaluation. The other 94 percent is based on the data ...As of today, we have successfully mapped over 97% of our rural routes in the new RRECS system. As we are working to implement RRECS with a mini mail survey in September, we are now at a point where we need to pause work on rural route adjustments and overburdened routes. Every time we adjust a route,The U.S. Postal Service employs about 500,000 people and is responsible for the delivery of mail. Learn more about the United States Postal Service. Advertisement The United States...My gut feeling, however, is mail withdrawal is limited to smaller PO's, probably less mail, probably a small time loss. The program here will calculate your "withdraw mail" time. You will need: 1) Number of trays of DPS. 2) Number of trays of FSS. 3) Distance (in feet) walked to withdraw mail.This will ensure proper compensation when RRECS is implemented. In addition, 2 nd trips are to continue to be compensated per Handbook F-21 563 and documented on the PS Form 4240. Please see attached steps to take when carrier is performing a Second Trip on their route: PMCASING. PMCASING “stops the clock for …The USPS is raising stamp prices again. The upcoming change would be the second price hike in 2023 and make the cost of a stamp 66 cents. By clicking "TRY IT", I agree to receive n...It is important that the USPS accurately credit parcels in RRECS based on the location input by the carrier into the MDD scanner, rather than the location of the barcode scan. If the USPS is only crediting parcels based on the location of the barcode scan, this could result in rural carriers being unfairly compensated for their work. For …Another flaw in the system with RRECS. I could understand if the USPS was like it will take 2 weeks to get accurate data to bump your route to correct eval. But as you said new system it sounds like you have to wait 12 months before the full time goes into effect. But there are a few who think RRECS is the greatest thing since sliced bread.Maintains appearance of retail area by setting up, arranging, and replenishing displays, selling areas, work stations, storage areas and merchandise racks. Checks and sets post office stamp-vending machines and postage meters. Conducts product inventories by counting items on hand.May 5, 2022. #9. Mr. Merriweather said: According to my rep, anything done after PM casing is scanned is paid. They want us to scan that before going out for extra trips even if you are not casing. Wrong, anything done after PM casing is NOT PAID. Pm Casing stops the clock for end of shift duties which is actual time.RRECS Activities Menu on MDD: ... High Option was negotiated as non-disputable by the USPS, they wanted to take away our ability to dispute any questionable item and we settled on this. Links: NRLCA Comprehensive Guide to RRECS (January 4th, 2024) End of Shift Duty Examples NRLCA Mini Mail Survey Training Miscellaneous Activity Sheet Walking …If the carrier agrees to a route cut then the route can be cut. If your route’s STANDARD hours are greater than 57:36, then your route Is greater than a 48K. If you are going over evaluation because of that then you could file a grievance and get paid for the hours worked over 48 in 5 days. Management could also provide auxiliary assistance.If you're going over 48 hours ask for auxiliary assistance. If you're under Evaluation then you're still getting paid 48k. 47-48k is a temporary designation and when you get cut they'll probably cut you down to a sub 43k. Enjoy the money while it lasts. They have to cut the routes eventually.The U.S. Postal Service intended to begin implementing the new system, known as the Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System, or RRECS, on Saturday, despite a grievance filed by the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association union (NRLCA) seeking a 60-day delay and a release of the data that went into it.WE ARE NOT USPS CUSTOMER SERVICE - CUSTOMER SUPPORT QUESTIONS ARE NOT ALLOWED - please seek assistance from the US Postal Service for all package inquiries. ... Rrecs . Work Discussion So it's Wednesday do we think they are gonna implement rrecs this weekend or postpone it again. Also sidenote does anyone who …No one is monitoring RRECS scans, and no one trained us on them. I have never had a single second of green card time formally training me on RRECS. ... to each their own on the scans thing but unless a rural carrier is literally a threat to the lives or property of the postal service, their workers, or those they service then they are quite ...WE ARE NOT USPS CUSTOMER SERVICE - CUSTOMER SUPPORT QUESTIONS ARE NOT ALLOWED - please seek assistance from the US Postal Service for all package inquiries. ... Rrecs . Work Discussion So it's Wednesday do we think they are gonna implement rrecs this weekend or postpone it again. Also sidenote does anyone who …RRECS and speed/efficiency. Hey all. In my rural only PO, the regulars all seem to think that if you go under time, your route will be devalued. My understanding is that RRECS doesn’t pay attention to any of that and is all based on standards and matrices applied to every route the same based on mapping. Still, somehow carriers think I, the ...subsystems in RRECS. The Teams are composed of USPS employees and outside consultants. NRLCA has been represented on all development teams and had access to all of their work output. Development of RRECS From a bird’s eye view, RRECS is a simple system. It has three components: standards, a data capture system, and business logic. InWell-known member. Jan 14, 2022. #1. Years ago this forum got pretty heated at times between those that said it was only common sense that when RRECS was finally implemented we would finally get paid for all the miles we drive. Based on the limited information we have so far about the methodology used to figure the drive time for routes that ...Cloaking technology can achieve invisibility by bending light waves around an object. Find out how a cloaking device works and learn about cloaking technology limitations. Advertis...This is an unofficial forum for USPS employees, customers, and anyone else to discuss the USPS and USPS related topics. WE ARE NOT USPS CUSTOMER SERVICE - CUSTOMER SUPPORT QUESTIONS ARE NOT ALLOWED - please seek assistance from the US Postal Service for all package inquiries. General questions are welcomed. …15, 2022, based on the number of new RRECS scans completed during a 2-week period beginning March 26, 2022. Base hour changes will be calculated and applied automatically from USPS HQ. The NRLCA has created a self-training module for rural carriers that is available for download as a self-playing slideshow here or as a PDF here. A RRECS MDD ScanApr 24, 2022. #7. Gotrope said: It is 400 per day or 2400 per week which results in dps reverting to random letters. If over 12 days you received less than 4800 dps letters the total volume will convert to random, resulting in an automatic failure of review. Rrecs data collection has been initiated as of yesterday for new evaluation in September.Maintains appearance of retail area by setting up, arranging, and replenishing displays, selling areas, work stations, storage areas and merchandise racks. Checks and sets post office stamp-vending machines and postage meters. Conducts product inventories by counting items on hand.Under RRECS, we now get the same credit for all scan pieces regardless of size or weight. The Pickup Request page is worth 6.84 seconds in-office time. Driving & Walking speeds will be credited, also. For the actual dismount & collection of pkgs, 71.22 seconds are credited.From the RRECS MDD SCAN ENTRY QUICK GUIDE. K - PMCASING - Immediately after completion of all other End-of-Shift duties but before beginning to case mail for next day delivery if required or authorized. L - CLOCKOUT - Immediately prior to cradling the scanner and leaving the office at the end of the day. J.May 5, 2023 · Senators say new US Postal Service pay plan will cut rural worker compensation. A group of six U.S. senators on Friday urged the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to delay implementation of a new compensation system that it says will reduce pay for tens of thousands of rural postal delivery workers. Senators say new US Postal Service pay plan will cut rural worker compensation. A group of six U.S. senators on Friday urged the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to delay implementation of a new compensation system that it says will reduce pay for tens of thousands of rural postal delivery workers.I asked my station manager a few days ago if there was any update with rrecs. He said no, then I chipped in, ‘oh yea, they won’t say anything till Wednesday or Thursday’ to which he replied, ‘they’ll probably call everybody Saturday morning saying it’s postponed again’. Best answer is, WHO KNOWS. [deleted]May 3, 2023. #1. Our PM & Sup have decided that only parcels that have damaged or illegible barcodes qualify as unscannable parcels.The parcels that don’t have any barcodes at all are supposed to be scanned as misc trip to door My issue w/ this is offices across the country are not following this definition & the carriers in our office are ...LiteBlue helps employees monitor and manage careers and benefits. This is a U.S. government website intended for use only by Postal Service employees.84 votes, 253 comments. This is the official Q+A for the RRECS on r/USPS ! Ask questions below and ill answer them as quick as I can! Other… Skip to main content. Open menu Open navigation Go to Reddit Home. r/USPS A chip A close button. Get app Get the Reddit app Log In Log in to Reddit. Expand user menu Open settings menu. Log In / Sign Up; …A. The Origin of RRECS The NRLCA and USPS agreed to create the Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System (RRECS) in a memorandum of understanding (MOU) appended to the interest arbitration award issued by neutral chair Jack Clarke on July 3, 2012. The MOU specified the following procedure for selecting a Panel to overseeThe PS Form 4241-A must be provided to the carrier in order to communicate the new RRECS evaluation for the route. The PS Form 4241-A will be available beginning on Saturday, April 1, 2023 at 7 a.m. In addition to the PS Form 4241-A, the carrier must be provided a copy of the 4241-A RRECS Cheatsheet. IMPORTANT: RRECS 4241A Printing & Distribution.Mar 14, 2023. #6. C$$ said: I ran a diff from this version (12 March 2023) to an old copy (24 August 2022): Mostly, they changed "Mini Mail Count" to "mini mail survey". They also added in March 25, 2023 as the effective date of RRECS. Other changes to specific questions: 15.Mar 25, 2023 · PRELIMINARY RRECS EVALUATION RESULTS via NRLCA. The National Board has been given preliminary results for the first RRECS evaluation. As you can see based on the graph that we were given, approximately 66% of all routes lost in evaluation and 6% stayed the same, and 28% gained in evaluation. As you can see the USPS has not provided to us ... April 11, 1953 — April 19, 2024. Bob Sturtz, age 71 of Winnebago passed away April 19, 2024 with his loving family by his side. There will be a memorial visitation from 1-3 PM Sunday April 28, 2024 at Spencer-Owen Funeral Home in Winnebago. Condolences can be sent to the family at:For 2020, certain tax changes may affect your deductions, your refund, and other financial information. That’s why it’s important to know what’s different. It’s that time of year: ...Sep 7, 2022. #4. Flimflammed (Quasar) said: If you are required to go get any of your mail except a final pull of hot case. You are to receive withdrawal allowance. It's in the RRECS mini mail count video. I am not sure thought it was 30 minutes. It is 30 min per week, including footage “From the point where the carrier stands while casing ...LiteBlue helps employees monitor and manage careers and benefits. This is a U.S. government website intended for use only by Postal Service employees.Ruralinfo.net is the site on the internet for rural letter carriers working for the United States Postal Service Disclaimer! Ruralinfo.net is not sponsored or authorized by the NRLCA, the USPS or any state or local association.Mar 14, 2023. #6. C$$ said: I ran a diff from this version (12 March 2023) to an old copy (24 August 2022): Mostly, they changed "Mini Mail Count" to "mini mail survey". They also added in March 25, 2023 as the effective date of RRECS. Other changes to specific questions: 15.Apr 21, 2023 · Well-known member. Apr 21, 2023. #1. So then, I was led to believe that taking a signature package or letter to the door would be given at the door credit if a 3849 was left. Apparently that is not the case, doormisc must also be entered to get the dismount and distance credit. If that is indeed the case, it thus raises another question, are we ... Jun 5, 2023 · But Senate Democrats and rural carriers facing pay cuts say USPS and its union have given them insufficient training on the Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System (RRECS) that went into effect last month. About two-thirds of rural carriers, or about 14,000 employees nationwide, are facing substantial pay cuts under the RRECS system. If the carrier agrees to a route cut then the route can be cut. If your route’s STANDARD hours are greater than 57:36, then your route Is greater than a 48K. If you are going over evaluation because of that then you could file a grievance and get paid for the hours worked over 48 in 5 days. Management could also provide auxiliary assistance. 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. Aug 18, 2023 · New RRECS MOU. Please see the below MOU between the U.S. Postal Service and the NRLCA setting the future evaluation periods for all rural routes with effective dates at six-month intervals. This MOU also outlines several changes to be made to the calculation of Route Coverage effective with the rural route evaluations, October 7, 2023. Jan 5, 2019. #1. Since the June 23rd, 2018 final report of the panel for the Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System (RRECS) the postal service has had teams developing the software and systems to support RRECS. As we move forward with implementing RRECS, the USPS will conduct an end to end test on 4,205 rural study routes to confirm ...Well-known member. Apr 21, 2023. #1. So then, I was led to believe that taking a signature package or letter to the door would be given at the door credit if a 3849 was left. Apparently that is not the case, doormisc must also be entered to get the dismount and distance credit. If that is indeed the case, it thus raises another question, are we ...They could have implemented RRECS and then after the first or second eval they could have began shoring the routes. Right now the model is unsustainable. No one can take time off. Too many J’s and H routes. No room for subs. Carriers lost thousands of dollars. The USPS have been silent on the data and silent on the program to shore-up …Everyone, please help make our jobs easier and choose the correct category. Thank youRRECS and speed/efficiency. Hey all. In my rural only PO, the regulars all seem to think that if you go under time, your route will be devalued. My understanding is that RRECS doesn’t pay attention to any of that and is all based on standards and matrices applied to every route the same based on mapping. Still, somehow carriers think I, the ...A. The Origin of RRECS The NRLCA and USPS agreed to create the Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System (RRECS) in a memorandum of understanding (MOU) appended to the interest arbitration award issued by neutral chair Jack Clarke on July 3, 2012. The MOU specified the following procedure for selecting a Panel to oversee the project:Step 4 Grievance on Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System. 09/13/2022. Subscribe. On May 31, 2022, the NRLCA filed a Step 4 grievance regarding the Postal Service’s action to begin data collection and implementation of the Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System (RRECS) on May 21, 2022.But while there have been a series of delays, RRECS is mandated under a memorandum of understanding between the NRLCA and USPS. To put RRECS together, rural letter carriers have been surveilled and tracked for the time it takes to perform all of their tasks, not for a couple of weeks but for an entire year. Workers also had to …The web page reports on the latest updates to RRECS, a controversial system that evaluates rural letter carriers' routes and compensation based on data collected by …But while there have been a series of delays, RRECS is mandated under a memorandum of understanding between the NRLCA and USPS. To put RRECS together, rural letter carriers have been surveilled and tracked for the time it takes to perform all of their tasks, not for a couple of weeks but for an entire year. Workers also had to …The U.S. Postal Service intended to begin implementing the new system, known as the Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System, or RRECS, on Saturday, despite a grievance filed by the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association union (NRLCA) seeking a 60-day delay and a release of the data that went into it.Several USPS workers have taken to social media recently to share how the new RRECS rules are resulting in a significant pay reduction for them. "I'm a postal worker. I took a 25 percent pay cut today," a Reddit user wrote on April 1. 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As of today, we have successfully mapped over 97% of our rural routes in the new RRECS system. As we are working to implement RRECS with a mini mail survey in September, we are now at a point where we need to pause work on rural route adjustments and overburdened routes. Every time we adjust a route,. Ar9 price
Under the current Eval system: We get 30 minutes a week (5 min a day) of "personal" time. Many people use this time as a short break. Under RRECS: We get about 4.5 minutes a week. And this time is strictly defined: 0.491 min/day to fill out Form 4240. 0.2643 min/day to move trays.USPS says many of the more than 50,000 impacted rural carriers have been made whole, and that, “with limited exceptions,” it paid carriers what they were owed within one or two pay periods. ... (RRECS) went into effect. “Overall, from what I have seen and heard morale is at an all-time low due to payroll issues and pay cuts,” the ...WE ARE NOT AFFILIATED WITH THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE - ALL MODERATORS ARE HERE OF THEIR OWN VOLITION FOR UNPAID FORUM MODERATION. IF NEEDED, OFFICIALS MAY SEND MODMAIL WITH QUESTIONS. This is an unofficial forum for USPS employees, customers, and anyone else to discuss the …Under the current Eval system: We get 30 minutes a week (5 min a day) of "personal" time. Many people use this time as a short break. Under RRECS: We get about 4.5 minutes a week. And this time is strictly defined: 0.491 min/day to fill out Form 4240. 0.2643 min/day to move trays.RRECS Mini Mail Survey to Be Held February 25-March 10. The first RRECS Mini Mail Survey will take place beginning February 25 and will run through March 10, 2023. The Mini Mail Survey is only documenting four (4) items and comprises approximately six (6) percent of your route’s evaluation. The other 94 percent is based on the data ...The Postal Service is postponing the launch of RRECS, a system that could lead to pay cuts for many rural letter carriers. The union and the carriers are demanding …That said, reading through the RRECS guide this morning raised some questions with me. We’ve been told extensively by local management that FlatsWSS was for addressed EDDM’s only, and FlatsBoxHolder was for unaddressed box holders only. And that neither entry was to be used for any flats outside of mass mailers because “bundled flats, DPS ...PRELIMINARY RRECS EVALUATION RESULTS via NRLCA. The National Board has been given preliminary results for the first RRECS evaluation. As you can see based on the graph that we were given, approximately 66% of all routes lost in evaluation and 6% stayed the same, and 28% gained in evaluation. As you can see the USPS has not provided to us ...This will ensure proper compensation when RRECS is implemented. In addition, 2 nd trips are to continue to be compensated per Handbook F-21 563 and documented on the PS Form 4240. Please see attached steps to take when carrier is performing a Second Trip on their route: PMCASING. PMCASING “stops the clock for end of shift activities”.This page contains many USPS handbooks in PDF format. While we make every effort to keep this page up to date, the Postal Service updates their handbooks and manuals constantly. Therefore, some of these may not be the most recent published edition. Always check the USPS Publication 223 - Directives and Forms Catalog to be sure you are …Additional Time to Familiarize With New RRECS Activity Scans. Log into NRLCA and download a copy of the Quick Guide. WEBSITE STATEMENT COPYRIGHT© 2012 – 2019 NORTH CAROLINA RURAL LETTER CARRIERS’ ASSOCIATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED NOTICE: The information on this site may not be copied or …iStock. Several USPS workers have taken to social media recently to share how the new RRECS rules are resulting in a significant pay reduction for them. "I'm a postal worker. I took a 25 percent pay cut today," a Reddit user wrote on April 1. The carrier revealed that their pay is going down from $65,000 to $47,000, and that they're hardly the ...RRECS Office Walking Distances: Data Collection Form. RRECS Office Walking Distances: Data Collection Form. V2022.1.2. Segment Number From To Distance (Footage) Instructions. 01. Scanner. Storage Area. Carrier’s Case. From the point the where the carrier stands when retrieving the scanner to the point where the carrier stands when casing mail.If you’ve ever sent or received a package through the United States Postal Service (USPS), chances are you’ve come across a tracking number. USPS tracking numbers are generated aut....