u/RuralRangerMA

New MOU started today. When you return to office and do RETURN2DU, you have 10 minutes before your scanner starts beeping at you, “ARE YOU STILL WORKING?” And if you hit yes, it’ll go off every 5 minutes after that. I have a business route. On Mondays, It can take 10 minutes just to unload my truck with all I pick up. And edit book time is end of day duties. They are literally trying to force us out. No one in DC has ever delivered mail and knows what we do. It’s all about the numbers.

So I figured out how to put a GPS alert for a customer hold on the scanner. And how to get rid of it.

It requires a clerk scanner, (our old big blues) option 0-hold mail. You then will take a picture using the scanner of the hold form or sheet. It will upload and digitize the information and you go step by step making sure it is correct. WARNING, if you opt for customer pickup and do not enter an end date, it automatically enters 30 days. After all is done, it should show on the day it starts, on the top of your scan screen, you have active holds. Tap it and it shows you the addresses. When you arrive at the address, you are given an alert everyday day it’s active.

ENDING THE HOLD, if the date was entered correctly, it will delete automatically, but if it needs to be removed or edited, these are the steps a manager will have to do. RIMMS, SPECIAL, MISCELLANEOUS, HOLDS, edit or delete from there.

For a regular carrier, the holds alert seem annoying, but for the subs that aren’t familiar with the route, when they arrive at the address, it helps prevent from delivering mail and packages.