Effective December 1, 2011, the Administrative Support Manual (ASM) is revised to clarify that a postmaster relief/leave replacement or other designee may be scheduled to provide service during hours of the service week when a postmaster is scheduled to work or is working at another Post Office™, in addition to other circumstances specified in ASM 122.1.
Administrative Support Manual (ASM)
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1 Postal Organization
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12 Post Office Functions
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122 Hours of Duty
122.1 Full-Time Offices
[Revise text of 122.1 as follows:]
Postmasters of full-time offices (EAS-11 and above) are scheduled to work a 40-hour workweek. A typical schedule is set at 8 hours, 5 days a week, Monday through Friday. A postmaster relief/leave replacement or other designee is scheduled to relieve the postmaster and to provide service as necessary on the sixth day. However, these postmasters may request from their district managers that they be assigned to a permanent schedule that includes not less than 4 hours on Saturday with equivalent time off on one of the workdays Monday through Friday in the same service week. A postmaster relief/replacement or other designee may also be scheduled to relieve a postmaster and to provide service as necessary during hours of the service week when the postmaster is scheduled to work or is working at another Post Office.
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We will incorporate this revision into the next printed version of the ASM and also into the online update, available on the Postal Service™ PolicyNet website:
n Go to http://blue.usps.gov.
n In the left-hand column under “Essential Links”, click PolicyNet.
n Click Manuals.
(The direct URL for the Postal Service PolicyNet website is http://blue.usps.gov/cpim.)
— Customer Service Operations,
Delivery and Post Office Operations, 12-1-11
