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921.13
Mail Count and Route
Inspection
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Handbook M-41, TL-4, 03-01-98
Updated With Postal Bulletin Revisions
Through April 5, 2001
a.
Consistent use of overtime or
auxiliary assistance. (When X-Route
concept is utilized and routes may be
"built up" to no more than 8 hours
and 20 minutes during interim period,
see Memorandum of
Understanding dated September 17,
1992.)
b.
Excessive undertime.
c.
New construction or demolition which
has resulted in an appreciable
change in the route.
d.
A simple adjustment to a route cannot
be made.
e.
A carrier requests a special inspection
and it is warranted.
f.
Carrier consistently leaves and/or
returns late.
g.
If over any 6 consecutive week period
(where work performance is
otherwise satisfactory) a route shows
over 30 minutes of overtime or
auxiliary assistance on each of 3 days
or more in each week during this
period, the regular carrier assigned to
such route shall upon request,
receive a special mail count and
inspection to be completed within 4
weeks of the request. The month of
December must be excluded from
consideration when determining a 6
consecutive week period. However,
if a period of overtime and/or
auxiliary assistance begins in November
and continues into January, then
January is considered as a
consecutive period even though December
is omitted. A new 6
consecutive week period is not
begun.
h.
Mail shall not be curtailed for the
sole purpose of avoiding the need for
special mail counts and
inspections.
918.2
Manner in Which Conducted
When special inspections are made
because of conditions mentioned in
918.1, they shall be conducted in the
same manner as the annual count and
inspection.
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921.1
Coverage
921.11
For the purpose of mail counts, all
classes of mail available to the carrier (see
section 921.13) must be routed and
delivered every day of the count period.
921.12
Each replacement carrier assigned to
regular, full, and part-time routes shall
count the mail and enter the data on
the prescribed forms in the same way as
the full-time carrier.
921.13
The mail of all classes available to
the carrier is (a) that mail distributed and
placed on carrier case ledges, in
hampers, trays, or on the floor beneath the
carrier case, and (b) that mail which
is in distribution cases up to the cut-off or
final withdrawal time prior to
departure to serve the last delivery trip of the