28 thoughts on “New Video On USPS Flats Sequencing System”
When will this hit the west coast? What will it do to the clerk hours???? Will our extra clerk who just cases up be let go, transferred?
This sounds like a mess to me. I am tired of using the “received in damaged condition” as it is, stamp.
We get letters in our flats, packages in our flats, and two tubs a day, of mail that is not ours, and we are a VERY small office, three carriers, three clerks.
The problem I see with this system is that the plant, or the FSS, will decide the volume you take to the street. No more curtailing Penney’s catalogs (or anything else)on heavy days. Will we be seeing 70 pound relays? Presently, carriers have some control over what they take out. It looks like that control will be gone. We will become mules.
At my post office, the letter carriers are getting tubs filled with letter size mail. The mail goes to DPS and if it clogs, don’t have time, whatever, they send it back to PDC who dumps it in tubs and off to the carriers. Since my post office relies on PDC mail counts, many times these letters by-pass being counted. Once one foot was 714 pieces (postcards: 1″ = 100 pieces) and wasn’t in the PDC counts. If we send the letter size mail back to DPS, it usually shows back two days later. If they are counted and we send them back, sometimes they are counted again so we get credit for the day we got them and the day we get them back in tubs – nice way to inflate counts. The problem is that we normally don’t send them back, the letters are counted as flats, and they are not included in the percentage DPS counts. No incentive for DPS to realign their equipment to sort them. I wonder how the FSS system will work? I bet I can inflate volume numbers for flats, too!
there are so many things the post office could do to speed things up that they overlook:
1) treat employees kindly (even DMV made a change and calls all employees customers. how mgmt treats employees trickles down to customers)
2) have regular carriers make chart of where to park truck for deliveries for when others do their route
3) have casers case mail with largest to right, smallest to left for ease in delivery
4) if casing 3rd bundle put to far right or far left of house number (depending on size as per above) for ease in delivery
5) have delivery sequence of route based on mail box location (dont keep corner houses on same street name if mailbox closer to side street)
6) enforce no exposure to cig smoke while at work – outside or in trucks – dont make non smokers smell any cig smoke – slows everyone down
7) ergonomics – no loading flat trays deep into hampers preventing proper knee bending lifting.
no using flimsy plastic trays for heavy flats.
better ergonomic grips for proper wrist alignmnent for when pushing heavy hampers
better wheels on hampers for wheeling in parking lot to load truck. easier to open and close vehicle windows and doors (front and back).
8) require cusomters to have proper mailboxes – no way down on the floor in doors, no flimsy ones, no dinky little ones, no hard to lift with one finger ones
9) no polyester uniform – 100% cotton ones for those who want it for more breathabilty. really comfortable shoes. pay for customized shoe inserts.
10) more clerks at lobbies
11) more automated postal machines in lobbies
gosh a lot of need for improvement.
guess its doomed especially if mccain president
they should first get dps right! so many missorts make delivery slower
I head is spinning WTF!
I just hope they get the flats to the right frickin’ town!
I tend to go with “beyond recognition” version.Who would attempt to repair something that F’ed up?
This is a great idea! Spend millions of dollars on these fss machines. Meanwhile mail volume is down remember. Now you have all these machines with little mail to run on them. Great brain storming on this one.
FUBAR = F’d Up Beyond Any Repairs
FUBAR means f—-d up beyong all recognition.
What a joke. Did anyone notice the flats they are running on these machines are already in carrier rte sequence? What a waste!
“Time to change craft over to maint-mechanic I guess.”
…well, they are preparing the installation of a few of these in part of our facility that was just emptied out. They have been spreading the word that 15 E.T. s will be needed to handle them.
From what I hear, there is no feedback from Letter Carriers taken into consideration, so items that are sequenced incorrectly will be forever.
“Time to change craft over to maint-mechanic I guess.”
…well, they are preparing the installation of a few of these in part of our facility that was just emptied out. They have been spreading the word that 15 E.T. s will be needed to handle them.
From what I hear, there is no feedback from Letter Carriers taken into consideration, so items that are sequenced incorrectly will be forever.
“Time to change craft over to maint-mechanic I guess.”
…well, they are preparing the installation of a few of these in part of our facility that was just emptied out. They have been spreading the word that 15 E.T. s will be needed to handle them.
From what I hear, there is no feedback from Letter Carriers taken into consideration, so items that are sequenced incorrectly will be forever.
“Time to change craft over to maint-mechanic I guess.”
…well, they are preparing the installation of a few of these in part of our facility that was just emptied out. They have been spreading the word that 15 E.T. s will be needed to handle them.
From what I hear, there is no feedback from Letter Carriers taken into consideration, so items that are sequenced incorrectly will be forever.
Retirement? I can’t recover from the day before after 8hrs sleep! Take this job and shove it! 50 years of mental and physical work compounded into 20 years!
Sure they can sequence flats but can they reproduce the whining that only a postal employee can do with such skill?
where will all the hardworking clerks go..
I’m sure FUBAR stands for F-cked up, backwards and retarted right? FSS system is going to cause us to have a huge increase in O/T. More time on the street to fix all the problems!
For more information on FSS, go to the FSS page at letter carrier connection dot com. Photos, first-hand accounts, and projected withholding of carrier routes.
Time to change craft over to maint-mechanic I guess. This technological marvel is gonna shred so much stuff and dump the contents from here to kingdom come. Carriers get ready to deliver 10x the number of “We’re sorry!” bodybags.
I’m a recent hire, and during interview they told me they want a bunch of older employees to retire. so come you over 50 somethings, RETIRE!
The better for us
Sounds like we can reduce the ‘pencil pushers” since things will be so simple now…but as always…If ONLY Mgmt were to show up NO MAIL would go out….If ONLY Carriers showed up…ALL THE MAIL would go out!
The sooner its up and running the sooner the
buy out and then I’m out. Good luck with any
future 30 career employee’s.
USPS Engineering = FUBAR
Just like with DPS. Claims that virtually no mail will need to be cased. Lets see this machine case those thin flimsy sales papers and single page flats. Its all a bunch of yip yap. They will tell everyboby that you only need 30 min in the office to case the residual mail which will still include non dps letters and the non fss flats, while you got 4 ft of thin crappy stuck together mail going ever which way.
that looks sweet.
I hate being in the office for 2 hours. More time on street and less time listening to these clown chit chat while sorting is good news
When will this hit the west coast? What will it do to the clerk hours???? Will our extra clerk who just cases up be let go, transferred?
This sounds like a mess to me. I am tired of using the “received in damaged condition” as it is, stamp.
We get letters in our flats, packages in our flats, and two tubs a day, of mail that is not ours, and we are a VERY small office, three carriers, three clerks.
The problem I see with this system is that the plant, or the FSS, will decide the volume you take to the street. No more curtailing Penney’s catalogs (or anything else)on heavy days. Will we be seeing 70 pound relays? Presently, carriers have some control over what they take out. It looks like that control will be gone. We will become mules.
At my post office, the letter carriers are getting tubs filled with letter size mail. The mail goes to DPS and if it clogs, don’t have time, whatever, they send it back to PDC who dumps it in tubs and off to the carriers. Since my post office relies on PDC mail counts, many times these letters by-pass being counted. Once one foot was 714 pieces (postcards: 1″ = 100 pieces) and wasn’t in the PDC counts. If we send the letter size mail back to DPS, it usually shows back two days later. If they are counted and we send them back, sometimes they are counted again so we get credit for the day we got them and the day we get them back in tubs – nice way to inflate counts. The problem is that we normally don’t send them back, the letters are counted as flats, and they are not included in the percentage DPS counts. No incentive for DPS to realign their equipment to sort them. I wonder how the FSS system will work? I bet I can inflate volume numbers for flats, too!
there are so many things the post office could do to speed things up that they overlook:
1) treat employees kindly (even DMV made a change and calls all employees customers. how mgmt treats employees trickles down to customers)
2) have regular carriers make chart of where to park truck for deliveries for when others do their route
3) have casers case mail with largest to right, smallest to left for ease in delivery
4) if casing 3rd bundle put to far right or far left of house number (depending on size as per above) for ease in delivery
5) have delivery sequence of route based on mail box location (dont keep corner houses on same street name if mailbox closer to side street)
6) enforce no exposure to cig smoke while at work – outside or in trucks – dont make non smokers smell any cig smoke – slows everyone down
7) ergonomics – no loading flat trays deep into hampers preventing proper knee bending lifting.
no using flimsy plastic trays for heavy flats.
better ergonomic grips for proper wrist alignmnent for when pushing heavy hampers
better wheels on hampers for wheeling in parking lot to load truck. easier to open and close vehicle windows and doors (front and back).
8) require cusomters to have proper mailboxes – no way down on the floor in doors, no flimsy ones, no dinky little ones, no hard to lift with one finger ones
9) no polyester uniform – 100% cotton ones for those who want it for more breathabilty. really comfortable shoes. pay for customized shoe inserts.
10) more clerks at lobbies
11) more automated postal machines in lobbies
gosh a lot of need for improvement.
guess its doomed especially if mccain president
they should first get dps right! so many missorts make delivery slower
I head is spinning WTF!
I just hope they get the flats to the right frickin’ town!
I tend to go with “beyond recognition” version.Who would attempt to repair something that F’ed up?
This is a great idea! Spend millions of dollars on these fss machines. Meanwhile mail volume is down remember. Now you have all these machines with little mail to run on them. Great brain storming on this one.
FUBAR = F’d Up Beyond Any Repairs
FUBAR means f—-d up beyong all recognition.
What a joke. Did anyone notice the flats they are running on these machines are already in carrier rte sequence? What a waste!
“Time to change craft over to maint-mechanic I guess.”
…well, they are preparing the installation of a few of these in part of our facility that was just emptied out. They have been spreading the word that 15 E.T. s will be needed to handle them.
From what I hear, there is no feedback from Letter Carriers taken into consideration, so items that are sequenced incorrectly will be forever.
“Time to change craft over to maint-mechanic I guess.”
…well, they are preparing the installation of a few of these in part of our facility that was just emptied out. They have been spreading the word that 15 E.T. s will be needed to handle them.
From what I hear, there is no feedback from Letter Carriers taken into consideration, so items that are sequenced incorrectly will be forever.
“Time to change craft over to maint-mechanic I guess.”
…well, they are preparing the installation of a few of these in part of our facility that was just emptied out. They have been spreading the word that 15 E.T. s will be needed to handle them.
From what I hear, there is no feedback from Letter Carriers taken into consideration, so items that are sequenced incorrectly will be forever.
“Time to change craft over to maint-mechanic I guess.”
…well, they are preparing the installation of a few of these in part of our facility that was just emptied out. They have been spreading the word that 15 E.T. s will be needed to handle them.
From what I hear, there is no feedback from Letter Carriers taken into consideration, so items that are sequenced incorrectly will be forever.
Retirement? I can’t recover from the day before after 8hrs sleep! Take this job and shove it! 50 years of mental and physical work compounded into 20 years!
Sure they can sequence flats but can they reproduce the whining that only a postal employee can do with such skill?
where will all the hardworking clerks go..
I’m sure FUBAR stands for F-cked up, backwards and retarted right? FSS system is going to cause us to have a huge increase in O/T. More time on the street to fix all the problems!
For more information on FSS, go to the FSS page at letter carrier connection dot com. Photos, first-hand accounts, and projected withholding of carrier routes.
Time to change craft over to maint-mechanic I guess. This technological marvel is gonna shred so much stuff and dump the contents from here to kingdom come. Carriers get ready to deliver 10x the number of “We’re sorry!” bodybags.
I’m a recent hire, and during interview they told me they want a bunch of older employees to retire. so come you over 50 somethings, RETIRE!
The better for us
Sounds like we can reduce the ‘pencil pushers” since things will be so simple now…but as always…If ONLY Mgmt were to show up NO MAIL would go out….If ONLY Carriers showed up…ALL THE MAIL would go out!
The sooner its up and running the sooner the
buy out and then I’m out. Good luck with any
future 30 career employee’s.
USPS Engineering = FUBAR
Just like with DPS. Claims that virtually no mail will need to be cased. Lets see this machine case those thin flimsy sales papers and single page flats. Its all a bunch of yip yap. They will tell everyboby that you only need 30 min in the office to case the residual mail which will still include non dps letters and the non fss flats, while you got 4 ft of thin crappy stuck together mail going ever which way.
that looks sweet.
I hate being in the office for 2 hours. More time on street and less time listening to these clown chit chat while sorting is good news