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New RRECS Overview Slide Presentation and other RRECS Resources

The following Slide Presentation provides a brief overview of the history and development of the RRECS System and its importance to the future of rural carriers and the evaluated system. Further updates and explanatory presentations will be coming soon. Other RRECS resources: NRLCA RRECS MDD Activity Scan Entry Training NRLCA RRECS MDD Activity Scan Entry … Read more

RRECS mapping Information

Information shared in the Wisconsin State paper.  Great info and news we all need to know. https://www.ruralinfo.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/RRECS-Newsletter.pdf Full newsletter   Also: Delivery Point Manager User Guide: https://www.ruralinfo.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/RSD_DPM_User_Guide_1-1.pdf

Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System (RRECS) Update

February 10, 2020 The NRLCA and the USPS have agreed to move forward with the new mapping program that has been developed and tested. Pilot offices in eight different districts are being mapped now and the process will expand shortly with a goal of getting all rural routes mapped in the next few months. The … Read more

Important update on RRECS – Engineer Study

In January, rural carriers will start doing all of the RRECS scans and all information will start to be recorded with the scanners for 12 months.  All routes will also be mapped in 2020. This will involve the new Zebra scanners and a base hour change to all routes for additional scans. They still haven’t … Read more

Rural Route Digitization Program

On March 25, 2019, the NRLCA was notified that USPS will begin a 6-week “rural route digitization” program. Starting March 28, 2019, USPS will utilize the GPS “breadcrumb” information collected by the MDD (Scanner) to plot the line of travel for each rural route. The route mileage obtained from this information will be compared to … Read more

Update on Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System (RRECS)

Since the June 23rd, 2018 final report of the panel for the Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System (RRECS) the postal service has had teams developing the software and systems to support RRECS. As we move forward with implementing RRECS, the USPS will conduct an end to end test on 4,205 rural study routes to confirm … Read more

RRECS Q and A at the National Convention

  When will the evaluations and intern adjustment become effective? Discussion will be held between the union and the postal service.. Some of what your asking I cannot answer. (Dwyer) Panel laid out procedure that will track the changes and when you get the required bank time you will receive the new evaluation. (Mericle) Are … Read more