December 2, 2022 APWU and USPS leadership have signed a groundbreaking Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the Postal Vehicle Operator (PVO) Position Pilot Program that will establish and fill a minimum of 125 PVO positions in the Oklahoma City, OK area. The region does not currently have APWU-represented Postal Vehicle Service (PVS) operators, and the…
June 16, 2022 The Motor Vehicle Division recently settled two national disputes that had significant impact on MVS members. USPS/APWU Case Q15V-4Q-C 19224673/HQTV20190130 addressed the pay anomalies that can occur when a Postal Support Employee (PSE) is hired with a salary exception for a higher salary rate than is authorized on the Article 9 Postal…
Objective Our objective was to assess the effectiveness of the U.S. Postal Serviceās management of Highway Contract Routes (HCR) and Postal Vehicle Service (PVS) trips operating more than four hours late. The 2020 Annual Compliance Determination Report defines Postal Service trips that arrive more than four hours late as critically late trips (CLT). The Postal…
June 11, 2021 In August 2016, National Arbitrator Shyam Das issued an arbitration decision sustaining APWUās case Q06-4Q-C 11182451. In November, the APWU invoked the arbitratorās retained jurisdiction, complaining that the USPS had not insourced the 110 HCRs into PVS assignments within 6 months (February 2017) as the Award as ordered. On June 4, 2021,…
When you buy a car, how long do you tend to keep it? A few years? Six or seven? Ten? For the U.S. Postal Service, itās a long, long time. The backbone of its delivery fleet ā more than 200,000 vehicles ā is the right-hand-drive Long Life Vehicle (LLV), which has an expected service life…
August 31, 2020 On August 28, the MVS craft initiated a National Step 4 Dispute contesting the Postal Serviceās unilateral implementation of work requirements related to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse. Click here to view the dispute initiation letter: APWU Case Number HQTV20200376 Re. Unilateral Implementation of FMCSA Clearinghouse…
Objective The objective of our audit was to evaluate the accuracy of Surface Visibility scans and reporting for Highway Contract Route (HCR) and Postal Vehicle Service (PVS) trips. This audit was requested by the Postal Serviceās Surface Logistics group. The U.S. Postal Serviceās surface transportation network is managed locally and transports mail and equipment to…
In mid-January, MVS APWU representatives attended the First Article Testing of the Mercedes Metris Right Hand Drive van resulting in several concerns. The main issue for the testers was visibility. On January 28, MVS Director Michael O. Foster sent a detailed list of issues that must be addressed by the USPS, per Article 39.3.B. The…
