Very interesting Rural Craft Stats from 2008
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 Hierofont News reported some time ago that the 2008 mail count impact represented a net total loss of 154,377 hours for a route average of -2:01hours from Pay period 9-09 through pay period 10-08 representing the 2008 National Mail Count. Since that time, a total of 234,000 boxes/deliveries have been added to rural routes nationwide in March and through April (some as corrections that should have been credited during the mail count or boxes added when route inputs were frozen or from route growth. The additional 234,000 boxes /deliveries makes the average per route impact of the 2008 National Mail Count -2:13 per route. As an average, 50% of routes did better and 50% of routes had a more serious impact. A Little Recent Rural Route Evaluation History THE BUMP The Bump is simply the difference in time between rural carrier actual hours on average and rural carrier average evaluated hours. In all of the statistics, rural carrier average hours are annually below rural carrier average evaluated hours both currently and historically. Beginning in 2001 and 2002 Rural carriers actual work hours were a total of approximately 37,500 hours below evaluated time. Following the Wells arbitration, rural carriers actual total work hours were only about 20,000 hours below evaluated hours on rural routes. The Wells arbitration introduced new time standards that reduced the time standards previously. In 2004, Reloading time was introduced and rural carrier actual work hours increased to 26,000 hours below rural route evaluations. In 2005, the actual work hours amounted to approximately 27,000 total work hours below evaluated rural carrier route hours. In 2006 the total actual work hours was approximately 30,000 total hours under the total evaluated hours. In 2007, total actual work hours was 39,000 hours below rural route evaluated hours. There is one other difference in that from 2001-2005 non-L routes were more below average than were L routes as might be expected. But beginning in 2006 and especially in 2007, it was L routes that were significantly different from non-L routes and considerably below totals for non-L routes. This was and is a dangerous precedent and it raised the interest of Delivery at USPS headquarters and was raised a number of times in discussions with National Officers. In the 2008 mail count, what routes took the brunt of the impact in reduced route evaluations? High density L routes in metro areas. It is exactly the routes that were identified in the 2007 volume statistics as having the largest “bump”. Could it be a coincidence? The routes that suffered minimal impact, stayed the same or actually increased were the high mileage, low volume routes primarily non-L routes. In 2008, 54% of all routes in the country are L routes and rural delivery is one of the few employee categories where there are significant increases in added deliveries, added miles, added full time employees, added relief employees, added wages and benefits and added expense. In 2005 1856 routes were added to rural delivery. In 2006, an additional 2279 rural routes were added. In 2007 1453 additional rural routes were added and so far this year in 2008 292 routes have been added. For an organization seeking to reduce employee expenses and number of employees and enjoying considerable success in reducing the work force in the clerk craft, the city carrier craft and in the number of managers and support personnel; efforts to reduce employees and employee costs has been a miserable failure every single year in the rural carrier craft which has posted gains in routes, miles, employees and costs every single year. This information was taken from the May 9th, 2008 issue of Hierofont Rural/Postal News Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has..
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by Postaltexan
I'd love to see the figures for the 2009 count. I'm sure the ASSn will be getting them out to us very soon. LOL
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Sure, mano, ya think?? lmao
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:39 PM, manOman (via Nabble) <[hidden email]> wrote: I'd love to see the figures for the 2009 count. I'm sure the ASSn will be getting them out to us very soon. LOL Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has..
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would love to see someone figure those percentages and stuff for this current count...and just offer a projection based on the past history for the next year? lets say take an average of the lose of the last 2 counts...use a estimate and take that off for the next one...SOMEBODY BETTER BE LOOKING at these projections...cause it continues to fall at the same rate...we will ALL BE unemployeed by 2012!!!
i aint even good at math..and i can see that in our future...why cant the leaders of the NRLCA? To err is human...to blame it on someone else shows management potential!
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Wait, but not liking and liking the NRLCA is a mathematical impossible!!!!!!!!!!!
You could be accused of molestation or something.....I don't know, I can't do crazy as good as Noppie.  |
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