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I don't see how a maintenance escrow of some sort ...... that is fully funded by the beneficiaries could be detrimental beyond the administration costs of same.

Well lemme see if I can shed some light on the maintenance account aspect .... are you really sure that you want someone hanging onto your money ? .... which you then have to go thru to access said monies ? Why not just set it aside yourself ?

Home Delivery contractors are required to escrow several accounts for each contracted route - I think there are two that are required - claims and maintenance - and I think there is a third which is optional. It's kinda like a savings account - and FHD contributes to it if you keep it at a certain level.

One is also qualfied for bonuses (monthly or quarterly) if the maintenence account is kept at a certain level - don't meet the level - and no bonus (and it's not chump change either.)

So let's say you need some maintenence work done and you ask for payroll to advance you "X" dollars out of the maintence escrow account "Y" But when you recieve the next weeks settlement you notice that instead of taking it out of "Y" it was taken out "Z" - which drops "Z" below the level required to earn a bonus for that route for the month/quarter.

After more than month, the senior terminal manager and payroll in PGH (Home Delivery's HQ) had still been unable to resolve this matter by crediting the incorrect account and debiting the correct one - and paying my son his bonus.

Quite frankly, for better than the last two months more, often than not my son's settlements have been wrong ..... and I'll give ya a hint - they haven't been over what he should be getting paid - it's always short. Trying dealing with that and having to pay 5 drivers on a week in, week out basis.

Be careful what you ask for ..... you just might get it.