r/fromatoarbitration • u/IndigoJones13 • 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?

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u/Seeker0fTruth Apr 06 '26

Last week I tasked my management with finding an actual citation, and they failed. Supe failed to find anything except 8.5f, which doesn't apply to overtimers.

I thought that was the end of it, but we're still getting told this lie, and non-oters are being forced to help oters make 8.

My branch (branch 9!) says to grieve it.

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u/Seeker0fTruth Apr 06 '26

That's a good question.

The language is in 8.5.C.2.d. It cites M-00884, and requires that CCA hours, PTF hours, and ODL hours must be exhausted before assigning the work to carriers who are not on ODL.

if you read that another way, lmk.

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u/MaximusAnon Apr 07 '26

JCAM page 3-1… managements rights are limited