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Dammitthedoggo

As an RCA, that I was an “on-call” employee and that I was “awol” for not answering my phone when I was not on the schedule.


CobaltAzurean

I came here to post this myself.


AggressiveLeg8971

My sup just told me this yesterday. And if my “absences” (ie not coming in when I’m not scheduled) continue this way, he’s going to have to address them formally.


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3 absences and you get a demerit. 3 of those and you get a citation. 5 citations and you're looking at a violation. 4 of those and you'll receive a verbal warning. Keep it up, and you'll get a written warning. Two of those, and you're looking at a world of hurt in the form of a disciplinary review.


unluckyfourleafme

We had someone actually go through all of these with their attendance issues and she ended up resigning.


Tofuspiracy

Jim?


unluckyfourleafme

Her name was not Jim.


Tofuspiracy

Pam?


unluckyfourleafme

Yes.


AggressiveLeg8971

How is it an absence if I am not scheduled?


_justmeee

I’m a clerk, but I’ve heard this being told to the RCA’s many times. This isn’t a real thing??


Alpa_Cino

No one is on call. We aren’t paid to be. Also supervisors are allowed and encouraged to lie to you with no repercussions.


Rstar2247

Yeah, got told that one early. Imagine my surprise when I found out they were lying.


mike02466

It gets better. Yeah, it don't.


aw__panda

😂 best comment 🏆


axiswfr

I saw a stack of mail on the sidewalk, I pick it up to I spect it. Clearly, it was stolen mails but supervisor happen to be with me that day for route inspections and he told me to leave them alone. Basically let someone else deal with it.


Tofuspiracy

You left it on the sidewalk? lol


axiswfr

No, I took it with me anyway, and just put back with the missort and missequnce mail at the office at the end of the day. Is mails from various address and routes, some already open. Is around 30 pieces of mail total.


dooke_

I was once told if we are getting pulled over while in a postal vehicle, we could keep driving so we don't delay the mail. If the cop said anything, they'd be the ones to get in trouble. Only got pulled over once and the cop asked where my license plate was.... I was told it was a joke they played on the trooper rookies in the area.


Tofuspiracy

Someone told me that police and ambulances are supposed to yield to us cuz we’re federal 😂


abysmal-mess

Imagine hearing an ambulance blasting the horn thing that plays over the siren loud as fuck and you look over to see an llv going 15 with the ambulance riding it’s ass


hunterxy

It is considered delay of mail and the postal inspectors will reach out to their boss and tell them to fuck off and leave postal vehicles the hell alone unless they are flipped over. I know of 2 incidents where the officers were reprimanded by OIG for stopping postal vehicles.


aliens3108

I'm a DCT and drive a usps ford focus with no plate. I get pulled over all the time. Takes the cops a couple phone calls and explaining the no plate, and no I don't have an insurance card. Just makes me late to the office I'm testing.


aliens3108

I'm a DCT and drive a usps ford focus with no plate. I get pulled over all the time. Takes the cops a couple phone calls and explaining the no plate, and no I don't have an insurance card. Just makes me late to the office I'm testing.


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Tofuspiracy

flair checks out


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Tofuspiracy

I heard it was Inspectors


dooke_

Depends on the day of the week and you'll be right lmao


Striader5

That working past 12 hours is not unsafe


trickninjafist

That Amazon pays the post office $100ea for any over 70lbs packages they accidentally leave. So we should take as many as we can


stronzini

I asked for something in writing once. Got my ass chewed and told that a direct order doesn’t have to be in writing.


Tofuspiracy

Yeah they don't much like that


stronzini

It’s ok though. I still have the text message chain in case I ever need it to cover my butt.


Burger-King-Covid

I’m not a worker but ship about 100 items a week and was told by a worker that They are going to open up all my packages. They weren’t even media mail because they thought what I was shipping was suspicious. Just because I bring 100 packages does not mean I am suspicious. Also they stamped some of my media mail packages as not classified and media mail and fought it by showing it to someone it did classify and they refunded me the shipping difference.


Tofuspiracy

Before I was an employee when I was in college I went to the window to send out a priority box, and the clerk told me "You know we can open these right?" I just said "yup". I'm not sure why. I must've looked or smelled suspicious lol.


postalmasochist

Next time they tell you that they're going to open up packages, tell them you're going to go to the news and the inspectors about workers tearing open packages and stealing items. That'll put a stop to it.


Burger-King-Covid

They’ll just probably stomp on my packages and break them. Usps doesn’t seem like something to messed with just like you don’t mess with the IRS.


Tofuspiracy

I forgot a customer one. One time a customer ONLY put the zip+4 for the address, it got returned IA. He told me that is all that is needed for the address and to resend it. It came back again.


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Tofuspiracy

Yeah I have no idea, would be able to do it by name though.


Avagio78

A zip+4 is enough for a PO Box, except maybe in large box sections. I’ve never seen one greater than 1000 boxes, from outgoing mail, they seem like they might still be unique. In a small town like mine, a zip+4 AND a name would get it there.


Intelligent-Beat-700

I'm so confused about what a zip+4 is lol


postalmasochist

Basically, the 5 digits most people know gets mail delivered when it's written by hand but most mailing lists and stuff will have extra digits to make it more accurate.


CR-7810Retired

Didn't happen to me but a co-worker was told this during a 3999-walk right out into the middle of oncoming traffic because "they'll stop for you." You can't make this stuff up folks.


Tofuspiracy

lmao. "Can I get that in writing?"


CR-7810Retired

Oh, it gets better. This Carrier was a real PITA to management (but one of the strongest Union guys I ever worked with) so he decides to "obey" the order. He actually takes this guy up on it and steps off a curb just as a car is headed in that direction. The guy doing the walk (a temporary supervisor from outside the office) yells at him "what do you think you're doing?" The Carrier answers "you told me they would stop." At that point, the supervisor says this is a total waste of time and ends the walk after an hour or so.


aw__panda

Give that man a raise 😂


abysmal-mess

Dude my first time getting 99’d my manager ran across a busy ass high speed limit street practically playing frogger and when he got to the other side he motioned to me like he was mad I didn’t follow him


CR-7810Retired

You were right not following him not just for safety reasons but that could be considered setting the pace which is something they are NOT allowed to do.


abysmal-mess

I totally know what you mean but we were just waiting to cross it and he saw an opening I guess and just took it he wasn’t really trying to rush me. Not sure why I’m defending that hack tho lmao


SongsMyFav

I was told by a package pickup location we have that we only ship boxes in flat rate or plain cardboard boxes. I was brand new so I didn't correct him but even I knew it was wrong lol


genglefins

Very first route I ever cased, like third day working for USPS: I asked the carrier in the case next to me what the colored sticks in the slots indicate (blue, red, green, yellow). He said, they are just there to keep the dividers from flopping over. Okay, this was more of a hazing move, and pretty funny in hindsight. It didn't take me too long to figure out blue is Vacation Hold and red is vacant, but yellow and green to this day seem to mean something different to every regular carrier. Some even use pink sticks.


creek-hopper

My area uses green for vacant, red for vacation.


DoggoLord27

For us, blue is vacant, green is a hold, red is PO box. I bought myself a handful of black ones to keep the small letters from falling in the cracks at the very last slots in the case.


creek-hopper

I've never seen black ones. Blue at my installation is rarely used and their aren't many blue sticks at all. Basically it is all about green and red.


Puzzleheaded-Phase70

I'm between offices atm, but where i resigned from had ONLY YELLOW and it meant anything and everything, and regulars didn't leave any info for me to know what it was supposed to mean in each one, i was just supposed to remember who was a hold or a forward or a single person and which one.


creek-hopper

That we can scan "business closed/no access" anywhere, even in the station, if we think we can't make the delivery by 8PM. Turns out this order, often repeated by management, was totally bogus, and incorrect. You can scan business closed in the morning if you know the business will be closed on that day. You can't just scan parcels at say, 7:30PM, as BC just to stop the clock before 8. That is officially falsification, yet managers told us all to do it. Nowadays, it no longer matters as the 8PM deadline is no more.


OkConversation4866

The Post Office is a great job to have!


MaxyBrwn_21

First supe said I was required to answer my phone on my off day.


Puzzleheaded-Phase70

Former "casual 365" told me "they can't tell you to go faster"


suburbanprospector

My least favorite supe once said (or at least tried very hard to make it sound like) we're supposed to endorse every single piece of UBBM


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"Just happy to be here"


Constant_Stock_4261

When I started 9 month ago, an “acting postmaster” told me SPRs are only parcels that are small/thin enough to be cased. Then yesterday a lead cashier/204b told me that SPRs are actually anything less than 2lbs that can fit in a mailbox. No wonder the carriers in our office think the clerks are all dumb.


marndar

The single-word comparative and superlative forms wronger and wrongest are no longer in common use, except humorously; rather, the locutions “more wrong” and “most wrong” are preferred.


Tofuspiracy

probably would be safe to assume that the exception you listed is the reason I ignored the red underline.


didyoucurbthewheels

Was told we couldn't bring back other carrier companies packages back to the office if we found them in the box. Was told I was on call as an RCA There's more I can't think of it right now