TERMINAL RAILWAY POST OFFICES, clerks in, to be governed by Mailing of identical pieces without stamps affixed_ 452 441-455 What constitutes-- 435-438 TRAIN BAGGAGEMAN, shall handle second-class matter_. 1538 TRAINS, shall not depart leaving mail being loaded or trucked. 1294 1295-1309 Shall also be governed by instructions to railway postal 1575 TRAVEL ALLOWANCE, authority to pay--‒‒‒‒ Railway postal clerks. TRIP REPORT, instruction for making-. Partial duty to be noted on--- TWINE, economy in use of--. TYPEWRITTEN AND FACSIMILE COPIES, classification of 1304 1279 210 1480 1556 1556 1519 438 U UNCANCELED STAMP, not to be canceled in transit_ UNIFORM, not required. UNITED STATES COURT, when clerks are witnesses in-. UNITED STATES SERVICE, matter addressed to persons in_. UNITED STATES WAR VESSELS, postage on matter to and from. UNLAWFULLY, entering postal cars UNMAILABLE MATTER: List of--- Relating to; punishment for mailing-. What it includes UNSEALED MATTER, treatment of Sec. 560 1494 1497 575 502 1622 469 460 506 511 WATCHING MAIL ON WAGONS, at ferries and blockades. SENIORITY RULES The following rules apply to employees in the Railway Mail Service: SECTION 1. The relative seniority of substitutes is determined by the date of appointment as substitute. The date of substitute appointment for all substitutes on the rolls as such July 1, 1920, and all later appointees is the first day of service performed; the date of departmental selection is considered the date of substitute appointment for all clerks appointed regular on or before July 1, 1920. In case two or more substitutes are appointed on the same date, the order in which their names appear on the civil-service certificate governs. SEC. 2. The service seniority of clerks and substitutes shall be reckoned from the date of substitute appointment. In case two or more are appointed on the same date, the order in which their names appear on the civil-service certificate governs. 2. Substitutes accepting permanent appointment will not gain preference thereby over senior substitutes for appointment or transfer to other organizations. This applies only to appointments made on or after May 1, 1928. All regular clerks now in terminals and transfer offices or who may be appointed effective before May 1, 1928, will be given preference over substitutes according to the present rule for transfer to road duty, but in order to be considered when vacancies become available the regular clerks will necessarily have to keep applications on file for transfer to the lines they desire; otherwise vacancies will be filled with substitutes. When transferred to road duty the right of these regular clerks appointed to terminals and transfer offices before May 1, 1928, for transfer to other organizations ahead of substitutes senior in the service will cease. SEC. 3. The relative seniority of clerks for choice of assignments is determined by the date of appointment, reinstatement, promotion, or transfer to grade in the R. P. O. or office to which assigned, except as provided herein. 2. In order to safeguard the seniority rights of clerks appointed prior to January 1, 1925, who could not receive credit for their substitute service and who must be compared with clerks appointed on and after January 1, 1925, who did receive 137 such credit, the clerks appointed prior to January 1, 1925, will be theoretically credited with their substitute service and given theoretical promotions on the basis of the present law. The grades thus obtained will place this group of employees on a parity with the later appointees and make it equitable to apply the general rule-age in grade in the organization-when determining the relative standing of distributors. SEC. 4. The relative seniority of clerks in charge for choice of assignments is determined by date of appointment, reinstate ment, selection, or transfer to positions of equal rating or grade in the organization to which assigned, except as provided herein. 2. Clerks formerly designated as clerks in charge of one-car runs both ways, grade 9, and clerks in charge of two or more car runs both ways over the road, grade 10, are rated equal. Clerks in charge who worked one way over the road were junior to both-way clerks in charge prior to July 1, 1920, but no distinction has been made in the rating of one-way and both-way clerks in charge designated since that date. 3. Grade 5 clerk in charge position in class B terminals was rated up to grade 6 by the postal reclassification act of February 28, 1925. The clerks previously selected to fill such positions were automatically reclassified as grade 6 clerks in charge, effective January 1, 1925, and those eligible were promoted without competition to that grade. The seniority of clerks in charge so advanced for choice of grade 6 assignments dates from January 1, 1925. 4. A grade 7 clerk or a clerk officially designated as clerk in charge of all of the tours in a terminal is senior to all other clerks in charge in the terminal. The next in order are the clerks in charge of the other two tours ranking in the order selected clerks in charge of tours. They will still be senior to all clerks in charge of crews who, according to the reclassification act of February 28, 1925, are now also designated as clerks in charge of tours (crews). SEC. 5. When there is a vacancy or a reorganization, clerks in charge and clerks will be permitted in the order of seniority to select runs and tours. Preferential assignments in crews and tours will be made according to seniority, if in the superintendent's judgment the efficiency of the service will not be impaired or an unwarranted hardship, such as deadheading be tween termini, imposed thereby upon a junior clerk. When a clerk in charge or clerk has been allowed to choose an assignment, he will not be permitted to choose another assignment except in case of another vacancy or reorganization. |