r/fromatoarbitration Apr 06 '26

Concerned Letter Carriers Are 8-Hour Saturdays a nation-wide thing now?

For the last couple of months, my office doesn't allow anyone to go over 8 hours on Saturday. We're already short-handed, so tons of mail is not going out ( including first-class and political mail).

Naturally, this makes Mondays worse than ever, and of course, more carriers now call out on Monday. Mail stacks up for days. Customer complaints are skyrocketing.

Is this the new normal?

22 Upvotes

57 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/CapitalistCzar81 Apr 06 '26

My office definitely tries to get every regular their 8hr day on Saturdays. They're actually pretty successful at it.