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2002 Mail Count Info
4/4/2002 - New
NEWS.....
Rural
carriers deliver mail-count protest
By ANDI ATWATER
atwater@news-press.com
03/24/2002 - News FLASH
(for real)...
Go to: www.nbc-2.com
Letter
carriers complain pay survey was inaccurate
By Tom Grayson
Follow-up story - 03/38/2002
Letter
carriers fear postal conspiracy
By Tom Grayson
This page contains information and links to
information relevant to the 2002 National Mail Count mandated by the Wells
arbitration decision. If ANYONE knows of anything else relevant, please
email me (TexasMailLady@aol.com)
ASAP. The membership MUST be informed!
(All links are set to open in a new window. I recommend
that you close each window as you are finished viewing or printing it
to return to this page.)
Now is the time to stand together, Brother and Sister Rural
Carriers! The USPS is pulling out all the stops with this mail count.
In many areas, loading times and Column R times are being scrutinized
and limited to bare minimums. They are looking at everything. The
USPS is insisting that we "go by the book" so we should,
in turn, make sure they they do too.
They are also counting on US to NOT stand up for our rights.
They expect us to just take the scraps that they may throw our way
and be content with that. They expect rural carriers to NOT challenge
what they are allowing us during this count. They are expecting
us to NOT follow up after the count is over and they return to expecting
us to handle customer telephone calls, etc. They are counting on
us to do nothing.
We must stand firm! As I was told earlier, DON'T
GIVE IT TO THEM...
MAKE THEM TAKE IT!
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Carriers
Respond!
Interesting information on "Free
Saturdays"
for those dropping to J or H status.
Dallas District Mail Count Instructions
Forwarded Message:
Subj: dispute instructions
Date: 3/12/2002 9:07:49 PM Central Standard Time
Any carriers that are not signing their count forms MUST include a
letter explaining why they are not signing. They MUST have documentation
to support the reasons for not signing. If they have issues that are
the same as the issues that are already at Step 4, they still have to
document distance, # of pieces of mail, dates etc.
When the count forms are received in John Glancy's office, the information
will be input, then the route file will be set aside for Mike Holder
and I to review. If your documentation supports your reason for not
signing, your mail count form will be changed and you will be notified.
If your documentation does not support your reason for not signing,
I will make the determination if you would be successful if you filed
a grievance and you will be notified. If your reason for not signing
cannot be settled by Mike Holder and I, you will be advised and you
will then have 14 days to file a grievance. It is possible the NRLCA
at the national level will issue instructions on how to handle grievances
that pertain to the issues awaiting Step 4 decisions.
Please remember that for us to make an accurate determination, you must
be specific.
Please pass this information on to other rural carriers.
Good Luck.
Patsy
NRLCA files Step 4 Grievances 03/08/2002
- Overview
of grievances
- Grievance
1
- Grievance
2
- Grievance
3
- Continue to document, document, document! The fact
that National has filed Step 4s on our behalf should not change anything
that we are already doing. If there are disputes, continue to document
them. If you don't agree with your count sheets, don't sign them. Attach
the disgreement letter detailing why you are not signing the forms.
Perhaps even attach copies of the Step 4 grievances. Let an arbitrator
try to justify that Rural Carriers are content when 100,000 carriers
are disputing the validity of this count!
The National Board is asking all State Stewards to compile specific
information that could be used in the 2 mail count step 4 grievances.
Be sure the information is accurate and very specific. They will need:
offices, carrier's names, supervisor and postmaster names, and detailed
documentation of the violations.
Other examples of documentation: cc:mail, letters to Postmasters,
letters to or from Districts or Areas with the instructions or interpretations,
mail count disagreement letters, PS Form 4240's with disputed items
listed, a carriers log of all disputed items, communications of
any form that would support our case.
ALL WRITTEN STATEMENTS MUST BE SIGNED AND DATED.
Get your documentation in to your state steward.
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Letter posted on the Unofficial TNRLCA web site
Letter from the National Office about this Count:
2002 Mail Count Guide
Arizona QWL/EI Rural Management
Mail Count Information:
Useful Worksheets:
Links to Handbooks
The Wells Arbitration Decision
Rural Carrier Forums
Many of the above links are to Debbie Atwell's *new*
Unofficial VA RLC web site. Visit Deb's site at www.varlca.org.
And be sure to send her a big Texas THANK YOU for all her hard work. Email
Deb!
Also check out Sweetie's Mail
Count page on the Unofficial OR RLC web site!
www.ruralcount.com
Bill Pelham's Count Subscription
Service
To address the issue of the free programs of a similar nature available
in some places, the old saying that "you get what you pay for"
has some validity or it would not have stuck around so long. Yes
there are a few thrown in on some other sites with all their other
stuff that they concentrate upon, but none offering all the things
that you will find here, this site is specifically dedicated and
focused entirely upon the Rural mail count, route adjustments, and
related issues!. We offer unparalled support and added value through
our Subscriber message board as well as the usual support you would
normally expect,products and services not found anywhere else like
the Daily count worksheets, help buttons on our worksheets, a number
of free features not offered anywhere else, all assembled in one
convenient and easily accessable location. Yes, we do charge a small
fee for annual subscriptions to three of our interactive worksheet
programs, which is necessary in order to be able to make them available
to the many folks who need them. Therefore if any feel that it is
a "bargain" to hunt up and use a free program lacking
the support and other things we offer in order to save a few bucks
at a crucial time like we are in right now, by all means go for
it!
Bill :^)
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