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In April the Postal Service and NALC signed a route evaluation and adjustment agreement (the Joint Alternate Route Adjustment Process, or JARAP) that provides for evaluation and adjustment of any city route that either party determines should be evaluated. All route evaluation and adjustment decisions are made jointly by teams composed of NALC and postal representatives, following a review of selected data and input from the carrier assigned to the route. JARAP builds on previous agreements that were successful in helping adapt routes to rapid changes in workload. About 73,700 routes were identified for evaluation, resulting in the elimination of 1,108 city routes. By consolidating routes and absorbing growth in the number of new delivery points, the Postal Service was able to increase the average amount of deliveries on city and rural routes, from 554 to 571.1
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