Holiday overtime

Saturday is the beginning of holiday pay.

Overtime is not allowed in our office. We are fine with that. Help is welcome. It gives the RCAs a little extra Holiday money.

Lack of opportunity for extra pay is not my complaint. Rather it is the scrutiny of letter and flat mail verses time on the route. This is the conversation. “The mail is light today, you should get back under your evaluation.” No mention of parcels.

For this reason, I am writing the number of dismounts I have each day in the comments section of the 4240, time sheet during the Holiday season. This would include large packages, accountable mail, and hardships.

Here is an example of how this affected my route. Monday, the mail was fairly normal but there were loads of packages, many too large for the box. Tuesday, we had essentially the same amount of mail but far fewer packages. I finished the route exactly one hour earlier Tuesday.

At least I will have some documentation for daily delivery time verses volume of mail.