Similar things are happening at my station, although the new hire\part time people are getting the worst of it. Two evening pup rts have been cut, plus DRA has been turned completely off. This has eliminated overflow routes from being created, so the mostly new hires who had been running them have little to do. And a bunch of new people were hired just a couple of months ago; I kinda feel bad for them.
At the courier level, we are a bit confused. Up until a month ago we were told the district was focusing on eliminating lates. They didn't care if we didn't make SPH, just don't have lates. Now it is the opposite. With no overflow P1 routes being created, many people left the building this past week with 40+ P1 stops.
My station is a focus station this month, so management is under a lot of pressure. Who knows what crazy ideas they may come up with before August is over.