July 09, 2015 C-31979: National Arbitrator Shyam Das issued an award on July 2, 2015, upholding the Postal Service’s position that former City Carrier Assistants must complete a 90-day qualifying period following their conversion to career status before they may be credited with or take annual leave. The Award interprets section 512.313(a) of the ELM,…
The NALC and USPS have agreed to renew three Memorandums of Understanding: Re: Full-time Regular Opportunities – City Letter Carrier Craft (M-01856), Re: Sunday Delivery – City Carrier Assistant Staffing (M-01857), and Re: Signing Overtime Lists (M-01858). The MOUs remain largely unchanged except for one significant change in M-01857, where the parties agreed that city…
The U.S. Postal Service is pushing its ability to hire low-paid City Carrier Assistants to the limit – and apparently beyond the limit. The 2011 contract that created the non-career position capped the number of CCAs in each district at 15% of the total number of full-time career city carriers — plus another 8,000 nationwide…
In Phx it has become a little more clear on the use of the new 2 tons. All 2 tons that came into Phx have gone out to surrounding cities. The collectors (regulars) driving older non a/c 2 tons have been told CCA’s are using the new ones for parcels only and I believe that…
Postal Tsunami by Mel Carriere – April 11, 2015 Excerpts: “Speeding and not wearing a seat belt were admittedly both very poor decisions on the part of this letter carrier, who is paying the price for his recklessness. But it is not surprising to me that he did it, because we see this sort of…
The following was sent to www.21cpw.com for informational purposes. It is from an APWU MVS member (verified) who wishes to remain anonymous: There is a big difference between the 2 offices that are doing the Amazon Fresh in our district. First off, Orange, Ca., is only averaging 250 orders a day, while Irvine Ca., is averaging…
The following was sent to www.21cpw.com for informational purposes. It is from an APWU MVS member (verified) who wishes to remain anonymous: This situation with the new Amazon Fresh is really beginning to mushroom. Postal management is bending over backwards for these people, to the extent that they have ordered a whole fleet of new 2 ton trucks…
(March 15, 2015) A former postal worker in Greensboro, North Carolina, named Paul Barbot has written two excellent articles for Alternet about his experiences dealing with Amazon deliveries as a City Carrier Assistant (CCA). The first of them — “The Horrific New Marriage Between Your Post Office and Amazon Sunday” — was published in February,…
