![]() ![]() ![]() It is a tool that postal management uses to redistribute and eliminate overtime costs, based on consultation with the carrier about his/her estimated workload for the day and mail volume projections from the DOIS (Delivery Operations Information System) computer program. ![]() When a carrier's assigned route will take less than 8 hours to complete, management may "pivot" the said carrier to work on another route to fill that carrier up to 8 hours. Letter carriers are also subject to "pivoting" on a daily basis. Letter carriers are paid hourly with the potential for overtime. While union membership is voluntary, city carriers are organized nearly 70 percent nationally. In the United States, there are three types of mail carriers: City Letter Carriers, who are represented by the National Association of Letter Carriers Rural Carriers, who are represented by the National Rural Letter Carriers' Association and Highway Contract Route carriers, who are independent contractors. In the Royal Mail, the official name changed from "letter carrier" to "postman" in 1883, and "postwoman" has also been used for many years. The term "mail carrier" came to be used as a gender-neutral substitute for "mailman" soon after women began performing the job. 21st-century postman in London delivering mail from a modern mail cartĪ mail carrier, mailman, mailwoman, postal carrier, postman, postwoman, or letter carrier (in American English), sometimes colloquially known as a postie (in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom ), is an employee of a post office or postal service, who delivers mail and parcel post to residences and businesses. ![]()
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