Management advised the Local CUPW, at a meeting on new SLB clearance procedures on Friday afternoon June 11, that they would be starting a volume sampling of Street Letter Boxes across the city on Monday June 14. They said this would allow them to “rationalize” their network.
Can anyone remember the last time boxes were added in heavy volume areas??!! To any postie this “sampling”, as we move toward the “Modern Post” restructures, is a clear danger of reduction of mailboxes, meaning service and jobs!
They provide lists of boxes to be sampled, both for the 17:00 MSC clearance and the A.M. MLC clearance. The 17:00 MSC list includes 79 boxes, with sampling scheduled over 2 weeks June 14-25.
The Letter Carrier list includes almost every box in the city, 205 in all!! No time frame is provided.
Canada Post Must Not Be Allowed to Reduce Jobs & Service in Edmonton and Sherwood Park !
CUPW Edmonton President Bev Ray has conducted the draw for the earings previously offered as a draw prize to celebrate the launch of "The President's Blog". The WINNER is Sister Joanne Banack, a long-time CUPW Shop Steward in Camrose. Congratulations Joanne!!
And as one potentially-disgruntled contestant from the EMPP Parcel Hub put it, "Well if I can't win at least it's a Shop Steward!"
Canada Post held an initial information meeting with the Local Union January 26. Their local planning is only in the initial stages and so most of their information was either very general, tentative, or not yet available. As in Winnipeg the project will be phased in, starting with the Plant, looking to be completed in 2012. They expect at least 6 new MLOCRs, an upgraded FSM, with all of City Finals returning to the EMPP. They plan a centralized computer system, integrating processing and delivery data.
Letter Carrier restructures will then be phased in, to reflect machine-sequenced mail and the shifting of parcels, customer pick-ups and SLB/RPO clearances from the Parcel Hub to Motorized Letter Carriers. They are looking at completing this in 2013.
They have not yet decided if mail will be sequenced for urban RSMCs. The project is, so far at least, “urban only” and so they say that outlying offices should not be affected; e.g. Letter Carriers and RRs in Camrose would not have their mail arriving sequenced.
The Union raised concerns about management personnel spreading alarmist rumours. Official communications on this project will come from a designated management group, to be unveiled shortly, and of course from the Union. Full detailed information on the effects must be provided through National Notice to the Union, under Article 29 Tech. Change.
We also raised the need for ergonomic studies on new equipment and involvement of the Local Joint Health & Safety Committees at all affected facilities; Maintenance facility shop space & Automotive Services; contracting-in Highway Services to MSCs; dedicated flyer collating; accommodation of modified employees and massive staff re-deployment affecting PO4s, PO5s, Tech Services, MSCs and Letter Carriers (Article 53 Job Security), and Temporary Employees.
PARCEL HUB MSC RESTRUCTURE UNDERWAY
The MSC Restructure of Parcel Hub routes is continuing at Delivery Services by CPC Route Measurement Officer(s), with our Union Observer Todd Brooks. After the results of the delivery rate sampling were produced, a preparatory meeting was held with the Local on January 12 2010.
The parcel volume base for 2009, excluding July, August and December, is UP from 14,239 per week to 14,882 per week, and needs further adjustment up to account for late Priorities and Xpresspost (TPS).
Delivery rates (Stops per hour) will change as follows:
Route Type Old New
Res (RSD) 16.2 15.43
Hi-Rise (RHR) 13.53 14.78
Res-Comb 15.78 15.96
Bus (WEM) 14.52 10.71
Res-Bus 12.32 12.42
Volumes appear to have flattened out after Mondays, so they are looking at the same start times Tuesday to Friday. Mondays may be able to be reduced somewhat but will still be over 8 hours.
Operations Management have declared they want to eliminate weekend MSC work completely. Moving parcel delivery to weekdays should gain us more Full Time routes, but elimination of weekend clearances would raise issues of service and security of the mail, plus overfilling RPOs and overburdening Motorized Letter Carriers and/or MSCs clearing RPOs on Monday.
