Postal Employees at the Republic, MO, Post Office get ready to make Sunday package deliveries.
The Postal Service is delivering more holiday packages on Sundays than ever.
USPS, which offers year-round Sunday deliveries in several cities, expands the service during the holidays.
Since this year’s expanded morning and afternoon deliveries began Nov. 29, package volumes have spiked by about 50 percent. The increases are expected to continue through Dec. 20, the last Sunday before Christmas.
“I really like working Sundays. It seems like more people are home and appreciate receiving their packages in person,” said Orange, CA, City Carrier Assistant Anthony Salazar.
The Postal Service expects to deliver 600 million packages between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve, up 10.5 percent from last year’s record-setting performance.
To better serve package customers, USPS now offers recipients text and email alerts within minutes after a parcel is scanned for delivery.
Some Post Offices also are opening Sundays to accommodate package recipients — a move applauded by customers like Natalie Jewell, an Indiana resident.
She visited the Nora, IN, Post Office Dec. 6 to retrieve a parcel. “I had a very important item to pick up, and I was able to get it on my way to work. This is very convenient,” Jewell said.
Being a union steward, I have read the contract- several times in fact. PTF’s also had a path to career status. The cca position was agreed upon before the contract ever got to arbitration. I have spoken with our regional office about this issue. When I asked them if Rolando fought to keep PTF’s, the answer I got on the phone was 10 seconds of pure silence……. then the regional rep told me “no”. If you read between the lines, Rolando was promised 30,000 new cca’s- aka potential union members. That’s why he never fought for the PTF position. I have contacted our state president, as well as Rolando himself, about this. The response I got from him was…. and I quote…..” I urge you to not question the leadership of this union.” The response I got from the state was to give to (at the time was colpce) now whatever they want to call it. We continue to do more and more- especially with the increase in parcels, and the union continues to drive that point home. Yet, I also pressed the regional rep to tell me what the union is asking for in this next contract, and I was told that it will probably go to arbitration, and not be much different from the last one. So if you want to continue to drink the union koolaid, then by all means do so. However, the only way we will get more than our 1% contractual increase, and benefits for the cca’s is to make your voice heard to your state branch, or even Rolando. If everyone just sits back, and won’t look at the whole picture, or think for themselves, then nothing will change for us. I rest my case.
You will have the blues till you pay your dues, at least that’s what they told me when I started 30 years ago!
They benefits and a path to a career that did not exist when they were TE’s carrier chuck. Try reading the contract and posting the truth…
Working the cca’s 7 days/ week with no benefits. …… awesome nalc
Remember Chuck, the contract was given to us by an arbitrator. The NALC didn’t want the lower wage, no benefit settlement. The next contract is likely to be an arbitration settlement too, as the USPS wants further cuts.