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Parcel Post

Handbook M-41, TL-4, 03-01-98
Update With Postal Bulletin Revisions Through April 5, 2001

• 612 Form 1234, Utility Card
   
• 612.1 Recording Time for Each Trip
   

• 612.2 Recording Type of Service Enter the type of service performed, such as C for collection, R for relays, RC for relay and collection, and PP for parcel post. (When more than one collection run is made or the tour consists of a series of collection runs and there is little or no office time before or after each run, only two recordings -- leaving and returning -- are necessary for each run.)
   
• 613 Form 4570, Vehicle Time Record (See part 833.)
   
• 62 Office Procedures Before Leaving
   
• 621 Obtaining and Inspecting Truck
   
• 621.1 The manager in charge or the dispatcher will indicate the vehicle to be used when he/she assigns the route to be served (see part 831).
   
• 621.2 Check trucks for defects. See part 832 for inspection procedures and part 842 for reporting defects.
   
• 622 Systems Used
   
• 622.1 Hamper System Parcels are distributed into hampers. Each hamper covers a prescribed area. The delivery employee sets up the parcels in order of delivery as he/she loads the truck.
   
• 622.2 Sack System
   
• 622.21 Sacks are numbered consecutively in order of delivery, and each sack contains all sackable parcels for a prescribed area.