Learning how to case mail in the USPS

I stopped by my PO this morning to pick up my check from orientation and shadow day (attend the academy on the 25th), and I asked my PM for a route map and a few mins to create case maps for our 3 city routes "No, they don't want you in here before training"...so ya, I wanted to speed my ability to understand what I'm looking at on my own routes when I had the downtime this entire week to study, but was denied.

David you are so nice, I learned a lot from you. Because you always smile, make a new CCA relax.

This was EXTREMELY helpful. So many tips & tricks I haven't heard or seen anywhere else before. I'm just a week in now after Academy & after my 1st day of OJI as a PTF, casing seems very daughting to me. This is gonna make my job so much easier. THANK YOU

The best way to learn the case is to take 3 hours failing miserably, leaving the office 12 pm and running through the route until help arrives at 1600. Don't forget to get yelled at by the supe, respond always with "I did my best." Clock out. Congrats! You now have the motivation and some information to case a little faster tomorrow. Repeat after me! Tomorrow will be better! 😅🤣😇

I feel like this would make more sense if I were actually in the post office in front of the case itself.

I'm still on the At the Job training portion of my career as a CCA, but soon they're going to have me come in AFTER the regulars case 1/2 a route for me, and they're nice enough to let me do that until I'm comfortable with casing an entire route on my own the case map idea is BRILLIANT (I'm going to take every opportunity to make a case map of EACH of our 20 routes that we have) because as a rookie it's fairly overwhelming, this is going to be HIGHLY beneficial for me; thanks so much for this!

DUDE, DAVID YOU THE MAN! I just had my carrier academy and we practiced casing and the names are soo small and some times on different selves. This video is a GEM! Thanks for explaining everything in details!

Love the parcel sheet idea. Thankyou!

Nice job! I really appreciate your help David!. I have day one academy for CCA today and it was very helpful. Thank you!

Excellent video with tons of tips and helpful content for the new RCA/CCAs . Thank you and God bless.

Great video! I’m on my 3rd day of orientation. This info will be helpful once I do start to case mail

Love this video! So informative and detail oriented. Thank you for your time!

thanks for all your helpful videos! i’m still hanging in there. we come in an hour and a half early now to just deliver big packages and i’ve been using a parcel sheet, very helpful! going to try to sort packages as i put them in the truck instead of in the office and see how that goes!

These videos are helpful!! I’m in my second day of academy we case today!!!

This was helpful. Thank you!

You give some great tips for people. Your wisdom is clearly developed thru trial and error. At the very least, you allow someone to start building some familiarization with terminology who may not have yet begun their training. Well spoken, patient, and a very positive influence on future generations of USPS employees. Thank you.

@David Thank you for the video ! I’m about 4 days in and will be making a cheat for my route. I have over 500 stops and heavy parcel load

Thxs for all the videos!! The regulars I met at my office says I came to a good office postmaster is ok.. and all mounted routes lil walking.. I wanted a walking route but it’s ok I will walk strip malls and businesses

I used to write the streets on a cheat of paper and try to memorize as much as I could the night before. I always saw some carriers case their sprs. but I never did. I just broke my route down into tubs. Also, I cased my FSS in EVERY DAY and it made my job a lot easier. Retired 3/26/2021 on a 100% mounted route. In my office we were never allowed to case DPS or FSS because the morning office time. Life is really easy for me.

mixed flats are usually in bucket(s). Would love to have the flats and raws to be DPS'd 9:45 depending on the PO, sometimes the supervisor would get upset at that ... All in all, appreciate the tips. Will make a Case Map, great idea!!! My "Primary Regular" never takes off, so I'm tossed around to new routes, at new POs, in new towns every 2-3 days. Casing is the most frustrating thing at the USPS. That, and also bent locks on Cluster Boxes that don't want to close. Last but not least. Could you be the new Supervisor at my main office? That demeanor could go a long way to lift morale.