Strange and Profound Truths

 By Carolyn Pierce, President

Don’t forget your rights…

You have a bid job with a principle assignment area…right? That’s your job and I personally do not believe that “allied duties” means driving 20 miles to help another office. I realize this has happened for years and maybe it’s listed on your job but a steward should be checking on this.  If you have someone who comes to your office to help with your mail in the mornings, please, contact a steward or this office so that we can make sure that the overtime desired list has been properly paid. Please, do not take your own car when you are sent to another office. Management orders you to go they must provide transportation to and from the office. Remember that is you have an accident it’s on you not them.

Changes in the way we handle things…

The postal service has filed a case with the Postal Rate Commission on changing the way we process and transport our mail. This could cause a consolidation of facilities and change the type of facilities we have. Their plan is to replace the nine facilities we currently use with five. The proposed new facility-types will be:

1. Regional Distribution Centers that will process all types of mail and be used as transfer centers.
2. Local Processing Centers, which will process single piece mail and cancel mail.
3. Destination Processing Centers which will process only single-piece mail
4. Airport Transfer Centers which will only transfer mail
5. Remote Encoding Centers

This will take a few years to complete and the postal service and your national APWU have already met to discuss the issues that will come into play when these changes happen.

Peace, CJP

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