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<blockquote data-quote="Maui" data-source="post: 1109598" data-attributes="member: 45037"><p>I would not recommend an Express courier job to someone that has a family and needs the income to support them. It is nigh impossible to start as a full-timer and make decent money. There are constant campaigns to limit the hours of PT to under 30 hours and restrictions on delivering P2. Of course, most new hires will have not know this going in.</p><p></p><p>DRA is much further than a year out for full implementation. The dates are constatnly pushed back because of some error. And as far as I know it still will not work for AM delivery areas. So all those routes would have to utilize SRA. Also, it makes it difficult to take AA P1 on the way out to an AM area route. DRA does not allow for mixed service commitments, and many stations have routes with combined service areas. You then have to exclude a large number of routes from DRA.</p><p></p><p>Pickup routes already have manifests and you can't just through a new person on a pup route and expect it to get done. No different for DRA. What DRA gives you is a significant time savings on fine sort and LBT. It also pretty easily manages volume fluctuations. It is a long way from being perfected and still hasn't been implemented in most places. </p><p></p><p>It is a little alarmist to say that there is no time left for organizing. It is hard now and will remain hard in the future. The cost associated with organizing the huge number of couriers for vote is staggering in money and time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Maui, post: 1109598, member: 45037"] I would not recommend an Express courier job to someone that has a family and needs the income to support them. It is nigh impossible to start as a full-timer and make decent money. There are constant campaigns to limit the hours of PT to under 30 hours and restrictions on delivering P2. Of course, most new hires will have not know this going in. DRA is much further than a year out for full implementation. The dates are constatnly pushed back because of some error. And as far as I know it still will not work for AM delivery areas. So all those routes would have to utilize SRA. Also, it makes it difficult to take AA P1 on the way out to an AM area route. DRA does not allow for mixed service commitments, and many stations have routes with combined service areas. You then have to exclude a large number of routes from DRA. Pickup routes already have manifests and you can't just through a new person on a pup route and expect it to get done. No different for DRA. What DRA gives you is a significant time savings on fine sort and LBT. It also pretty easily manages volume fluctuations. It is a long way from being perfected and still hasn't been implemented in most places. It is a little alarmist to say that there is no time left for organizing. It is hard now and will remain hard in the future. The cost associated with organizing the huge number of couriers for vote is staggering in money and time. [/QUOTE]
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