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921.13

Mail Count and Route Inspection

 

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.
         
  • 92 Letter Routes
     
    • 921 Basic Requirements
       
      • 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