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932.11
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
924.319
Enter all articles cased, routed, and
marked up during A.M., in the A.M.
portion of the worksheet.
924.4
Return from Street
Delivery
Turn in accountable and signature items
and keys. Markups left from A.M.
duties must be forwarded. The totals of
these markups must be entered in
the P.M. portion of the
worksheet.
924.5
P.M. Duties
924.51
Office Functions
924.511
Withdraw (if required), count, case,
and route all available mail for next day
delivery.
924.512
Complete all markups of mail received
for P.M. duties.
924.513
Enter all functions on P.M. duties in
the P.M. portion of the worksheet.
924.514
On the last day of the count period,
record P.M. volume and all time
allowances for functions
performed.
924.6
Markup Mail
Follow instructions in 242.
931
931.1
The count of mail for parcel post or
combination services routes shall be
conducted for 5 scheduled delivery days
during a basic workweek.
(Exception -- in offices with 6-day
delivery, a 6-day count is made.) The
count data shall be recorded daily on
Forms 1838-A and 1838-B and
summarized on Form 1840-A.
931.2
A physical inspection of the route
shall be made on one or more days during
the count week by a route examiner who
accompanies the carrier during
his/her full tour. No separate form is
used in making a physical inspection of a
parcel post route.
931.3
On days other than inspection day, a
manager makes a selected check of
mail count time entries made by the
carrier on Form 1838-A.
932
932.1
Regular Routes
932.11
Except on the day of inspection, the
carrier makes the count and records it in
duplicate (using carbon paper) both on
the worksheet side of Form 1838-A
and on Form 1838-B (see exhibit 932.11
(p. 1, 2, and 3)).