He then comes to me and says here's the paperwork ill pay you to come in on Saturday to train the reliefs on it since you're the oji. So he paid me to hand them a cheat sheet and say good luck cause I don't know anything about it either. I do now due to reddit and Facebook but damn! [deleted] • 2 yr. ago. 111K subscribers in the USPS community.The first rural route evaluations under RRECS were implemented on May 6, 2023, and the second rural route evaluations will be effective October 7, 2023, utilizing volume data collected during the 52-week period (September 9, 2022, through September 8, 2023), along with mini mail survey data collected August 25 through September 8, 2023. …The RRECS is a system that calculates the pay for rural mail carriers based on the time they spend on their routes. It affects the pay of part-time and full-time carriers, as well as the benefits they receive. The postal service plans to modify the RRECS system due to lower mail volume and may affect the pay of many carriers.participate in the USPS Plan for self, self plus one, or family coverage, regardless of years of employment. • Article 10.5 . o All RCAs will earn annual leave at 1 hour for every 20 hours worked, regardless of assignment. o Maximum of 4 hours earned per pay period o Designation 74 and 79 will continue to also earn sick leave at the same rate forUSPS Vehicle Used LTM Mapping DPM & LTM Mapping DPM Mapping LTM Mapping DPM Mapping Yearly Average Volumes LTM Mapping Breadcrumbs & Mail Volume RMSS Verify Mail Reload Reg & Cert Accepted M.O. Applications Contact Rural Reach Stamp Stock Activity Scans RRECS Standard based on mail volume RRECS Standard based on mail volume RRECS Standard based ...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. Similarly, many carriers have coverage in the 70- 80 percent. That doesn't seem right. We aren't skipping a fifth of our boxes daily. I suspect many of these routes I see tanking, at least part of the problem is the mapping. If you didn't do the mapping yourself as a regular and don't like your evaluation, fill out a grievance. 1) no additional trips. 2) 20 foot distance per dismount (likely a lowball estimate. These distances should be actually measured and on your 4003) So a gain of roughly 3+ hours in RRECS. In general routes will gain on authorized dismounts. The old standard of 6 seconds is pretty unrealistic. Click to expand...Thousands of rural carriers are collecting signatures to leave the National Rural Letter Carriers Association, which they blame for the new RRECS pay system …Mar 7, 2022. #3. Total screw job to the rural carriers. For our new evaluations only 3 months of boxholders, loadtime, end of shift, rawmail, etc will be averaged in for the 52 week period. Then 6 months, then 9 months, then 12 months for the following evaluations. Thanks usps and especially to Ronnie Stutts. The provisions set forth in the MOU do not restrict the parties from negotiating changes to RRECS should opportunities arise based on future advancements in technology. _____ _____ Thomas J. Blum Ronnie Stutts . Vice President President . Labor Relations National Rural Letter Carriers’ United States Postal Service Association IF NEEDED, OFFICIALS MAY SEND MODMAIL WITH QUESTIONS. 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 …True, according to the arbitration, RRECS was supposed to be implemented no later than 2015, but USPS kept dragging their feet because they wanted that Amazon delivered cheap. Reply reply ... This is what’s going to kill the post office, lack of standards and loss of costumer trust. Mail volume going down, less pay and more work so employees ...RRECS - Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System . REECS Facilitator Training Video. Thread starter ... David/Ronnie (I forget who) said it was USPS’s and they would have to ask for permission to use but they didn’t see why not. Reactions: Oi veh., Voglio-il mio and Dumbassclerksyndrome. MildlyInfuriated Well-known member.The only exception is that it only lets you scan 5 packages. You need to scan anything over 5 as prepaid acceptance. 3. ruthlessnoodle. • 1 yr. ago. Always do carrier PU, on any packages if in the box or at the door, with or without pickup request. Anything over 5 scans, prepaid acceptance. 2. true.You will note that the USPS intends to implement the RRECS effective April 22, 2023. As you are aware the NRLCA filed a step 4 grievance requesting data and a 60-day time- period from the date of receipt of data that we requested, to analyze the data prior to implementation of RRECS. The USPS has refused our request.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 Distances-Data Collection FormThe U.S. Postal Service must pay a sculptor more than $3.5 million for accidentally basing stamps off his Statue of Liberty replica. By clicking "TRY IT", I agree to receive newsle...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 …A USPS employee works outside post office in Wheeling, Illinois December 3, 2021. [AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh] ... (RRECS), already caused massive pay cuts of up to $20,000 a year.RRECS has required a lot of innovation and effort by all of the teams involved in its development. In its current form, RRECS provides the foundation for an excellent system. While USPS and NRLCA should take pride in what has been accomplished, it should be clearly understood that significant effort is required to complete, maintain,NRLCA HAS MADE AVAILABLE A QUICK GUIDE FOR RRECS SCANNING. Log into NRLCA and download a copy of the Quick Guide. Additional Time to Familiarize With New RRECS Activity Scans Log into NRLCA and download a copy of the Quick Guide.The latest changes to RRECS have provided rural carriers with an updated “alternate” dispute resolution process. Detailed in a late-September MOU between USPS and the NRLCA, using the “Rural Route Evaluation Dispute Process,” rural carriers can contest the latest changes as long as they file by October 20, 2023.The letter added that "at a time when USPS is struggling to deliver mail to rural areas, due in part to an inability to recruit rural letter carriers, we fear that RRECS’ impact on working ...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 ...Thousands of rural carriers are collecting signatures to leave the National Rural Letter Carriers Association, which they blame for the new RRECS pay system …The RRECS Mini Mail Survey is to be conducted from September 10-23, 2022. Only Random Letters and Flats, Walking Distances, PARS Labels and recurring Miscellaneous Activity not captured by the automated standards, will be measured or counted. Click here for more information and links to useful resources. RRECS Mini Mail …More employees are working from home, and the lines can blur between their personal and professional lives. Here are expert tips to avoid burnout. By clicking "TRY IT", I agree to ...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...The RRECS is a system that calculates the pay for rural mail carriers based on the time they spend on their routes. It affects the pay of part-time and full-time carriers, as well as the benefits they receive. The postal service plans to modify the RRECS system due to lower mail volume and may affect the pay of many carriers.May 5, 2023 · The letter added that "at a time when USPS is struggling to deliver mail to rural areas, due in part to an inability to recruit rural letter carriers, we fear that RRECS’ impact on working ... 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 ...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: ...Feb 25, 2022. #6. LLVnoise said: Did my mapping this week. Took 9 hours. 580 stops. Question for all those who have done it so far. We had errors we had to fix when we submitted the route. The big one was for stops that have very long driveways. We would map the stop and box and then the park would be in the driveway near the house then …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.WASHINGTON, May 5 (Reuters) - Six U.S. senators on Friday urged the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to delay implementing a new compensation system that they said would cut pay for tens of...WASHINGTON, May 5 (Reuters) - Six U.S. senators on Friday urged the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to delay implementing a new compensation system that they said would cut pay for tens of...The Department of Labor has opened an investigation into an alleged payroll "glitch" that caused 50,000 United States Postal Service (USPS) rural carriers to go without paychecks at the start of ...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.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 volume adjustment is calculated by multiplying the change in the number of addresses by the route volume factor. In each period in which a change in one or more of the ten factors occurs, Tracker calculates the AF incremental change equal to the net change resulting from the sum of the ten calculations.Find Postal Jobs (PSE) SALES & SVCS/DISTRIBUTION ASSOC – GREENLEAF WI -$20.48/HR APPLY @ USPS.COM/CAREERS – United States Postal Service – Greenleaf, WI 05/02/2024; RURAL CARRIER -Career Job w/Benefits – LIHUE HI – United States Postal Service – Lihue, HI 05/02/2024As we move forward with implementing RRECS, the USPS will conduct an end to end test on 4,205 rural study routes to confirm functionality of the system. A critical component of testing the functionality of internal systems necessary for the implementation of RRECS is Rural Street Database (RSD) mapping and certification. The postal service …Apr 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.Electronic lockers should have been inputted as misc time during the survey. There are effectively three different "credits" for what you can a parcel as. Mailbox is worth a little under 30 seconds. Parcel Locker is worth a little over 30 seconds. Everything else counts the same as Front Door, which is at least 1:45 for the first package and an ...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 ... Find Postal Jobs (PSE) SALES & SVCS/DISTRIBUTION ASSOC – GREENLEAF WI -$20.48/HR APPLY @ USPS.COM/CAREERS – United States Postal Service – Greenleaf, WI 05/02/2024; RURAL CARRIER -Career Job w/Benefits – LIHUE HI – United States Postal Service – Lihue, HI 05/02/2024; Rural Carrier Associate (RCA) …May 5, 2023 · The letter added that "at a time when USPS is struggling to deliver mail to rural areas, due in part to an inability to recruit rural letter carriers, we fear that RRECS’ impact on working ... The next section is "USPS Vehicle." Current Eval System: Daily mileage * (6/100 * 4.5) + 24. which really means: 4.5 minutes to refuel every 100 miles. 24 minutes weekly to inspect the vehicle. Under RRECS. 3.1421 minutes to refuel every 100 miles. 11.2296 minutes weekly to inspect the vehicle.--> USPS savings $270 Million per year. With those kinds of saving, short of a court order, there is no way the USPS does not implement RRECS. Actual saving will be even greater, some high paid table 1 will walk. 'Will the mail still get delivered?' is an entirely different question. And not one, ironically, the USPS seems too concerned about ...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.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 ...Documentation Required for RRECS Disputes. The Rural Route Evaluation Dispute Process will be used to address disputes where the assigned carrier has identified potential errors. The new Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System (RRECS) evaluations will become effective Saturday, October 7, 2023. The associated PS Form 4241-A is expected….The current incarnation of the evaluation system is a catch-22. 1) Not making eval: why are you so slow, work faster! 2) Beating eval: the standards are too lax, need to tighten them up. This *should* be fixed by RRECS. The standards will be based on engineering principles, so they shouldn't be changed all willy-nilly.Office of Inspector General report."Return on Investment" 23-036-R27 dated Sept 5th spilled some big beans.. Page 8 and Page 11. Page 8 cost of rrecs $73,657,201 and it says RRECS was completed 12/31/21..Now there is a joke.. Page 11 lists why they chose these investments to look at.."two...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 …A. USPS has a plan to have all rural routes mapped by the carrier by late fall, 2022. Routes not mapped by the time the evaluation is calculated will use the alternative method developed by our Engineering Panel member, Ken Mericle. The alternative method actually results in a time advantage to the carrier, so USPS has an incentive to get the …USPS-NRLCA Joint Rural Contract Administration Manual. 0.00 star(s) 0 ratings Downloads 12 Updated Apr 7, 2024. Resource icon. RRECS Parcel Credit 2024-01-02. Ruralinfo; ... RRECS Q&A. 0.00 star(s) 0 ratings Downloads 70 Updated Jan 19, 2023. Featured; COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO THE RURAL ROUTE EVALUATED …The RRECS Mini Mail Survey is to be conducted from September 10-23, 2022. Only Random Letters and Flats, Walking Distances, PARS Labels and recurring Miscellaneous Activity not captured by the automated standards, will be measured or counted. Click here for more information and links to useful resources. RRECS Mini 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 …Similarly, many carriers have coverage in the 70- 80 percent. That doesn't seem right. We aren't skipping a fifth of our boxes daily. I suspect many of these routes I see tanking, at least part of the problem is the mapping. If you didn't do the mapping yourself as a regular and don't like your evaluation, fill out a grievance.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 ...“At a time when USPS is struggling to deliver mail to rural areas, due in part to an inability to recruit rural letter carriers, we fear that RRECS’ impact on working conditions and pay will ...Mar 14, 2024 · Everyone, please help make our jobs easier and choose the correct category. Thank you Mar 13, 2022. #5. Postm@n said: When mapping the route, the carrier will indicate each Locked Pouch (Inter‐unit delivery) stop and place it in the proper category of low or high volume. If the stop is serviced regularly with one trip into the office, it would be classified as low volume. If the stop requires a trip to retrieve a conveyance to ...He then comes to me and says here's the paperwork ill pay you to come in on Saturday to train the reliefs on it since you're the oji. So he paid me to hand them a cheat sheet and say good luck cause I don't know anything about it either. I do now due to reddit and Facebook but damn! [deleted] • 2 yr. ago. 111K subscribers in the USPS community.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 ScanTrue, according to the arbitration, RRECS was supposed to be implemented no later than 2015, but USPS kept dragging their feet because they wanted that Amazon delivered cheap. Reply reply ... This is what’s going to kill the post office, lack of standards and loss of costumer trust. Mail volume going down, less pay and more work so employees ...Find Postal Jobs (PSE) SALES & SVCS/DISTRIBUTION ASSOC – GREENLEAF WI -$20.48/HR APPLY @ USPS.COM/CAREERS – United States Postal Service – Greenleaf, WI 05/02/2024; RURAL CARRIER -Career Job w/Benefits – LIHUE HI – United States Postal Service – Lihue, HI 05/02/2024; Rural Carrier Associate (RCA) …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 ...On November 18, 2023, “Rural Activity Scans” will change to “RRECS Activities” on the mobile delivery device (MDD). Additional features will be introduced including: a guided menu, a comprehensive menu, and a summary for RRECS Activities. These enhancements are intended to help reduce errors when making selections on the MDD. SourceNew 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.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.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: ...Summary. RCS, despite being an industry standard, faces challenges in gaining popularity and fighting against encrypted messengers like WhatsApp. Scammers have started sending spam texts to people ...USPS wants to micromanage our deliveries, then we have to have our micro questions answered. ... Yes, part of it is customer tracking but, the gps integration with rrecs provides footage dependant upon gps location for left at door for barcode items. Reactions: Oi veh. and Deleted member 1955. Tank Well-known member. Apr 21, 2023 #8It 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 …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 …
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A. According to the PO-603, Section 481 there should be a process in place to clear accountables in the afternoon, even if no clerk or manager is available. If applicable, the additional clearance activities would be completed the following day and entered as Miscellaneous Time during the mini-mail survey. 342.The reality is that in the decade since RRECS was approved in 2012 and was slated to launch in 2022, USPS enjoyed unabated annual revenue growth from $65 to nearly $79 billion, as falling mail ...WASHINGTON, May 5 (Reuters) - Six U.S. senators on Friday urged the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to delay implementing a new compensation system that they said would cut pay for tens of...Documentation Required for RRECS Disputes. The Rural Route Evaluation Dispute Process will be used to address disputes where the assigned carrier has identified potential errors. The new Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System (RRECS) evaluations will become effective Saturday, October 7, 2023. The associated PS Form 4241-A is expected…. Welcome to the RRECSulator! This site is designed to help USPS rural mail carriers calculate their route evaluations under the Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System (RRECS) Questions, comments, concerns, family recipes, etc. feel free to email: [email protected]. 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. 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.The first rural route evaluations under RRECS were implemented on May 6, 2023, and the second rural route evaluations will be effective October 7, 2023, utilizing volume data collected during the 52-week period (September 9, 2022, through September 8, 2023), along with mini mail survey data collected August 25 through September 8, 2023. …If anything, RRECS’ relentless tracking makes it even harder to take breaks to hydrate and cool down, despite the USPS’s messaging that doing so is critical to avoiding heat stroke.The first rural route evaluations under RRECS were implemented on May 6, 2023, and the second rural route evaluations will be effective October 7, 2023, utilizing volume data …participate in the USPS Plan for self, self plus one, or family coverage, regardless of years of employment. • Article 10.5 . o All RCAs will earn annual leave at 1 hour for every 20 hours worked, regardless of assignment. o Maximum of 4 hours earned per pay period o Designation 74 and 79 will continue to also earn sick leave at the same rate forIf 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...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. 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 Distances-Data Collection Form 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. The Honorable Louis DeJoy Postmaster General United States Postal Service 475 L’Enfant Plaza SW Washington, DC 20260. Postmaster General DeJoy: We urge the United States Postal Service (USPS) to delay implementation of the Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System (RRECS), an automated system that will determine rural letter carrier pay ... Rural Carrier Discussion. If anyone is willing to share how did they evaluation went it would be great ( I will post mine when I get it ). In my office the disputes came back and people already went up because of it so there is hope. Archived post. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. 30..