New Minor Route Adjustments for Letter Carriers?

According the the Metro Letter Carrier, NALC Branch 132's newsletter, "parties at the national level are close to an agreement that would continue the joint process to evaluate routes."

According to the newsletter, President Rolando has been listening to branch leaders, and will address their concerns within the new agreement, to include:

1. Mechanism in place for the union to verify data
2. Comprehensive training
3. Decisions made jointly as to which routes will be evaluated and adjusted
4. Option to utilize proven alternative processes
5. More input from letter carriers
6. All routes not put in place before MIARAP expiration to be put in place before new MIARAP.

Hopefully, Rolando will listen to a few rank and file letter carriers also before agreeing to a new process. For example:

1. There was NO input, beyond the initial consultation, from carriers at my station during the last process.
2. For some carriers, the route adjustments weren't minor and the carriers had almost entirely new routes. Yet, there were no bidding rights for many of these affected carriers. Does seniority matter anymore?
3. Routes out of adjustment is not the reason the USPS is in dire straits. And it's not the volume either. Enough volume is coming back, and the USPS has made enough cuts, so that route adjustments are not the problem or solution. The prefunding of retiree benefits is almost the sole reason now the USPS is in the red.
4. Local management in some cases used the prior minor route adjustment process to "punish" injured carriers (who could still carry all or part of their routes) and carriers they didn't like by moving undesirable route territory to their routes or eliminating their routes altogether. How can the union safeguard against that?
5. Adjust routes, and adjust them again, and then again, and each time you do it, you'll still have exactly the same number of employees delivering to the same number of delivery points. Same payroll! The carriers that worked overtime on their old routes will probably find a way to work overtime on their new routes and the carriers that worked to make it in eight on their old routes will probably find a way to make it in eight on their new routes. Overall, the entire minor route adjustment process seems to be a wash.