The U.S. Postal Service and the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association (NRLCA) have agreed to an alternate dispute resolution process to resolve disputes, outside the formal grievance procedure, following the implementation of rural route evaluations effective April 5, 2025.
The next RRECS Mini Mail Survey (MMS) will be held February 22 to March 7, 2025. Route Evaluations will go into effect on Saturday, April 5, 2025. Click here to download the Important Dates. Mini Mail Survey Resources will be updated here as they are available: www.nrlca.org/Content/MiniMailSurvey2025
The National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association and the United States Postal Service entered into a Letter of Understanding that will credit PARS Label time for each route utilizing the previous 52 weeks of data.
Attention Rural Carriers: The USPS has announced that the next Mini Mail Survey (MMS) will be held August 23-September 6, 2024.
The NRLCA was notified by the Postal Service of their intent to conduct two (2) isolated pilot tests involving RRECS Activity Editing. One in the CO-WY district involving 233 routes and one in the TX-2 district involving 565 routes. There will be NO CHANGE to RRECS evaluations as a result of the pilot tests. The … Read more
Updated documents are now available under the RRECS Resources tab on our website concerning Route Resequencing: What to Look for in a Route Adjustment or Realignment.
Note: You will have to Log in to NRLCA website Below, please find two Labor Relations presentations that you may find helpful: The PS Form 4241-A and 4241-M: Their Relationship and Their Role in RRECS NRLCA Excessing Overview xxx
Stand up talk on route adjustments
The coverage factor established for a rural route has a direct impact on the RRECS evaluation of the route.
The Rural Route Evaluation Dispute Process will be used to address disputes where the assigned carrier has identified potential errors. Local management and the carrier should discuss and work together to submit the necessary documentation needed to resolve the issue. Listed on the attached pages are some common issues being disputed and the recommended documentation … Read more
Mark your calendars! The next RRECS Mini Mail Survey will be held February 24-March 8, 2024. Additional details and updated forms will be added as soon as they are received. Check out the 2024 Mini Mail Survey page under the RRECS Resources tab on the NRLCA website for more information.
Attention Carriers: REMINDER: Everyone should be making sure that their Edit Book is up to date and the DPM-LTM systems have been updated with the most current data. This needs to be done now, prior to the beginning of the next Mini Mail Survey (February 24-March 8). We need to be proactive to make sure the … Read more
The Postal Service requested that the PRC initiate a rulemaking proceeding to consider a change to rural carrier costing on November 21. The proposed revisions update the methodology for the calculation of rural carrier attributable costs to account for the new rural carrier route evaluation system. The proposal reduces unit Periodicals costs by ~1 cent per piece … Read more
On November 18, 2023, “Rural Activity Scans” will change to “RRECS Activities” on the mobile delivery device (MDD). Additional features will be introduced including: a guided menu, a comprehensive menu, and a summary for RRECS Activities. These enhancements are intended to help reduce errors when making selections on the MDD.
The article posted last week on the World Socialist Web Site on the results of the latest route evaluations at the US Postal Service has evoked a wide response from rural letter carriers. The evaluations, which ended last week, confirmed massive cuts in pay for the vast majority of rural carriers, many of whom lost over $10,000 in annual … Read more
The United States Postal Service (USPS) completed its second round of route counts under its new Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System (RRECS) last week. The hated compensation system was first launched this spring to disastrous effects for rural letter carriers, resulting in massive pay cuts for around two-thirds of the rural workforce, in some cases … Read more