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How To Edit Book · United We Scan

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  Thank you. Now here are the hosts of the
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  United We Scan podcast. Hey guys, guess what?
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  It's edit book time. Yay finally, and you just have
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  me doing this so bear with me guys.
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  Since when you have your edit book and you have the edit book
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  how to pages that are in there, they are not Craft specific.
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  So some of it may beef just for city only in there or just rural
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  only, or it'll say something that really doesn't verify to or
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  coincide with what rural craft does.
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  So I'll kind of kind of go back and forth a little bit and
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  update it as it goes. The number one on the on that
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  front page or on that page. I know sometimes the edit book
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  how to's are either in the back of the edit book.
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  Mine were in the very front because I got a brand new edit
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  book this year. So AMS just sent me a brand new
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  edit book out of the blue. All I'd asked for was new edit
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  book pages and I got a whole brand new edit book.
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  So. But number one, most
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  importantly, all changes must be made in red ink.
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  And the rural care there is on the national website under the
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  student reference guide. If you go up under edit books,
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  hit E for edit books, there is a USPS document.
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  I'll kind of be flipping back and forth just to touch on stuff
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  that is rural carrier specific. Rural carrier guide to edit book
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  maintenance it's called. And basically edit book
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  maintenance is essential for capturing new deliveries,
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  correcting out of sequence deliveries.
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  This still was back when we still had the 4000 threes.
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  So matching the 4000 threes line of travel.
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  Now it would be your LTM print out when you have, when you do
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  your mapping each month and you get your Lt. your summary when
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  you print out the LTM that essentially that summary is what
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  you want to match would have been similar to that of the 4003
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  in the past. Also the very important with
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  managing active and vacant deliveries, non delivery day
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  customers AKA schools, businesses that are closed on a
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  specific day of the week and generating new case labels,
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  maintaining your edit book monthly is very, very, very
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  important. So as we continue, like I said,
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  don't forget must be done in red ink.
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  All right, you'll have an AMS route summary page.
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  This always comes with new edit sheets.
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  It's usually at the very back. And this is where you verify
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  your casing equipment configuration is correct by
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  making sure it has the right number of pieces, that you're in
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  the right order. Shelving your shelving is
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  correct whether it's your you're doing a four or five or six
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  shelves. My personally, I went from A5 to
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  A6 shelves. So that changed for me and this
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  is essential because this is how your case label, making sure
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  your case labels are printed correctly and reduce the time
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  spent cutting and taping new labels.
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  Whereas if you go back into your page, it says case labels should
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  not be cut or written on. Guess what rolls I can cut and
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  paste if we have to. I know happens every once in a
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  while and then you'll have your allocated case.
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  Cell section displays the cell utilization per shelf.
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  Each full shelf has 40 cells and the and a wing shelf has 20
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  cells. So depending on the equipment
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  and the number of shelves, the totals available will vary.
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  Each shelf should have the first cell designated for the cores or
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  the 3982 labels. You know your good old parsley,
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  your forwards 10 cells are reserved at the end for CFS, the
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  section delivery count section. This section provides a summary
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  of your active deliveries and they're split several ways.
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  They'll show residential versus business deliveries and then the
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  four types for each. The four types are your curb,
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  your CBU central and other. All right, let me jump to this
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  other one. All right, so our May comes in
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  with an adding St. deliveries and to add a street delivery, to
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  add a street, to add a delivery to an existing block, draw an
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  arrow between the two addresses where the new delivery will be
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  inserted and know all information necessary to create
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  the delivery. This includes the primary
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  address as well as a secondary abbreviation, unit number,
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  delivery type, usage code, no step, vacant indicator.
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  We actually don't use that one. That's a City side thing.
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  So you're going to verify. So when you come back in, you're
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  going to verify, definitely verify your delivery type.
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  And this curb is a traditional mailbox that you drive up to.
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  So even if you have hardships where you pull into their
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  driveway and you're still delivering the mail through the
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  window, that's still considered a curbside delivery.
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  Anything that you're still delivering from the truck and
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  not having to amount at all is a curbside.
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  Other is a delivery that is a dismount and the mail is brought
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  inside or to the door, such as school, business or your
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  hardships where you have to take the mail up to the door for the
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  mailbox that's affixed at the door.
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  Anytime you have to dismount on a daily basis to deliver it is
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  other. CB Us are the ones that are the
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  stand alone hosted on a pedestal.
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  We all know what those are for the most part.
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  And then you're centralized are technically like a CBU that are
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  recessed into a wall. I can think of like apartment
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  complexes in the old style where you put the key in and you pull
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  them down and feed them from the top.
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  That would be a centralized unit.
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  I know of some of them that have like mail rooms where the where
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  the boxes are into the wall. So anytime it's not a stand
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  alone unit is and it's built into a wall, it is a centralized
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  box. So it'd be this sent under the
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  delivery type your usage codes code section R for residential,
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  B for business. There are some that have more
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  than one. If you have something that would
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  be a residential slash business or business slash residential,
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  there is a couple different codes for those depending on
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  what they are the most. So if it's a business that
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  happens to also be residential or is it residential that has a
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  business, two different codes for that.
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  I have a lot of businesses that are as well residential and just
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  because I live in one of those areas where I have a lot of mom
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  and pop places that have the little cottages along the lake
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  that they rent out. So that would be a joint
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  residential business, business residential Big one is the no
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  stat section on your edit pages. This is where you want to verify
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  that your deliveries are definitely coded.
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  Because if they're, you know, if they're blank, then they're
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  occupied. It's an active delivery.
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  If it is AC, that means it's vacant over 90 days only.
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  For rural, we use the the C for the no stat to be vacant.
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  We don't deliver there at the moment.
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  Y is the same as C, but it's met first city delivery for the most
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  part. Or if you have an address that's
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  not developed yet, but at the address is in the book, it's not
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  developed. There's no mailbox, there's no
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  house, there's no structure. Then it would be AY again guys,
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  I am not a professional. I'm just another carrier who
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  digs and and likes to read and make sure that I'm doing my
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  stuff. So then you have the next line
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  on your edit book pages is your vacant indicator section.
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  That's not something we do anything with.
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  That's only for city delivery. Seasonal indicator section.
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  We don't do anything with that as well.
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  And then drop section, for most cases, this is going to be
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  blank. Obviously the drop section means
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  so if you have more than one family at an address and they
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  get mail into one box. So it would be for example a
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  drop 2 is a home with one mailbox but has two families the
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  notified mailers to increase. Putting in A2 under a drop would
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  notify the mailers to increase the box holders by one.
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  So the address would get a second ADVO or second box holder
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  or whatnot. I actually have a drop 3 on my
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  routes and I think I have a couple drop too so not very many
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  as a lot of people have gone and started to do it.
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  Individual boxes but there's still a few out there.
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  The next section is your non delivery day section.
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  Each day of the week is a choice.
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  The mail will be pulled from the DPS on the designated day just
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  right in the day of the week to have the mail pulled from the
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  DPS. This is not for holds.
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  This is only for businesses that are closed on the same day of
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  the week for like an S for Saturday for business or school.
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  My whole industrial park is an S, my Township office and my
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  chamber is an S because they're closed on Saturdays and I don't
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  deliver there. And so their mail is then held
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  out and it comes in my raw mail on Saturdays and I just case it
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  up for it to go out on Monday. So, but if you have a business
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  that is closed on Fridays or Mondays or whatever that may be,
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  you would put that letter in to signify which day that would be
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  okay. Next section is going to be the
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  address marker section. This is where you would have an
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  H if it's an approved hardship, which would also be listed on
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  the dismount worksheet and renewed each year, blah blah
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  blah. So if you have an approved
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  hardship under the address marker, you would put an H, even
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  if that is a curb box, put curbside box because you service
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  it, but it is a hardship because they had approved to move it
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  closer to the house rather than out of the road.
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  You can also have a DNA, which is a door not accessible.
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  I actually have three addresses that are a DNA.
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  They do not want packages brought to the house.
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  So they're listed as that and they get left to notice.
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  You can also have an NSL, which is a no secure location.
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  We can access the door but will not leave a package due to
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  security concerns. So if there's nobody there,
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  you're not going to leave it like some businesses would be in
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  NSL? Possibly.
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  I would have to double check mine.
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  I don't think I have any NSLSI do have some Dnas is the address
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  where we cannot knock on a door to deliver situation where we
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  cannot physically get to the residence or building driveways
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  exceeding the half mile rule. Gated residence such that
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  whatever reason we cannot get to the door.
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  Doors not accessible then yes, that's under the address marker
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  DNA side. That will cover your behind to
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  manage, especially if you get a change of management.
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  Why do you keep leaving package notice for these packages?
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  Well, you can pull up their edit book, see they're a DNA under
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  the additional info. This is where you would update
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  customers names that would display on the case labels.
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  I know a lot of places don't do that anymore.
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  Some offices do. That's where it would go also,
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  or I know I have a lot of businesses on my route.
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  CBUSI do at least like to put the business names on some of
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  them, especially if they're long term businesses.
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  Kind of helps with especially with our CAS casing, they could
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  see, oh, that OK, so McDonald's is that one OK McDonald's,
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  Burger King, you know, stuff like that, Subway, whatever it
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  may be, grocery store name, something like that.
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  The space is limited on that section, so you got to
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  prioritize what you put on there.
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  It again, it says updated case levels are great resource for
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  newer RCA's. I think it's a great resource
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  for RCA's it in general, whether they're new or it's just
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  somebody that's new to running that route.
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  It definitely helps them. I don't put names on mine.
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  I know some of the routes in my office still have names on
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  there. They never took them off and
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  those people are gone forever. To me, I mean especially if you
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  have a route that has a high turnover or your office doesn't
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  do names anymore, I wouldn't worry about it anyways.
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  And then the cell size section, that one where would be 1-2, you
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  see those numbers on there. That's for the size of the cell
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  that you would want. Most addresses or a cell one or
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  two for spacing can be more or less based on the specific
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  route, the volume or space of the office.
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  If you're going to do a half a cell, then the next address also
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  has to be 1/2 a cell. I do have some of mine.
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  Like I said I have 6 shelves in my case. 3 cases, 6 shelves.
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  I am told I couldn't get a wing so that's why I had to add the
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  six shelves whenever I did my case because everything was like
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  almost half inch for almost all of them.
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  I can't no no no no I can't handle that at all.
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  But I do still have some addresses that I keep in like if
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  I have one address that has unit 1 unit 2, they don't get a ton
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  of mail. I keep those at half cells for
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  those specific addresses or a couple of businesses like that.
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  They don't get a ton of mail, but they're right there together
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  anyways. So and then so you want to make
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  sure every delivery point has a designated cell size.
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  Also, if you want to take addresses off of your labels
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  under that cell size, you would cross off that cell size and you
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  would put a pound symbol or what do the kids call it now, hashtag
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  type symbol. Yes, tic tac toe, however you
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  want to call it. And that will take you across
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  that off and that would actually take that address off of your
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  labels. I like to keep my case pretty
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  clean. So if I have had an address
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  that's was no step vacant and nobody's moving in there or the
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  people that decided they don't want to get mail anymore there I
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  went to APO box. Or it may just be a secondary
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  home sees a summer home for them.
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  I don't I will take them off the case if they're not getting
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  mail. If they're not getting mail I
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  don't put them on the case because I can always re add them
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  later if need be. That way it keeps me with enough
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  space for my active boxes and whatnot.
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  Designation. So the additional cell size info
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  designation means the address is vacant well over 90 days.
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  You know what the address unlabeled.
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  Yep, that would be your past, your how your little # symbol
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  hashtag, whatever you guys call it now.
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  Tic tac toe, you know the 2 lines up and down to lines
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  across and let me see what else to cover.
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  So, yeah, so basically, if you're going to if you're
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  activating a box, So when you're going in your edit book and
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  under your your no stat and it has AC on there.
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  And so because it's it's it's vacant and people, new people
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  move in or whatever they decide to get mail.
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  So to change that, you're just going to take your red ink pen
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  and you're going to cross wake one strike through that C.
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  If it's a box that is that you are vacating, making it vacant
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  and there's nothing there. You're going to take your red
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  ink pen and you're going to write C in there.
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  So that's how to activate and deactivate the box basically.
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  And of course, when you activate, especially when you
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  activate, you want to go over to your cell size and make sure it
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  doesn't have the little symbol on there to take so that you
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  can. And if it does, then of course
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  you're going to cross that off with your reading pen and put in
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  the desired cell size, whether it's one or if it's somebody
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  that gets a ton of mail and you're going to use a double
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  cell as a 2. That's what you you do do all
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  the changes do in the red ink pen.
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  Plain and simple. Let me see if there's anything
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  else I need to touch on. If you need to add a delivery as
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  in an address that is not part that is not currently in your
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  edit book, then what you're going to do is you're going to
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  to add a delivery to an existing block.
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  You're going to add an arrow between the two addresses with a
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  new delivery will be inserted. And then you're going to note
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  all the necessary information to create the delivery.
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  Obviously the primary address, the if there's a secondary
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  abbreviation like an apartment or unit number.
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  And then obviously the apartment unit number, whether it's a
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  curbside, a central other, the usage code, whether it's a
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  business or residential. And then of course, obviously
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  active or inactive, all right. To make a change of correction,
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  you're going to draw a line through the old information.
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  Do not obliterate it. Just just a clear line in your
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  red ink pen and clearly indicate the correct information next to
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  it. You want to be as accurate and
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  legible using the proper codes from the key section at the end
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  of the booklet. And that is the booklet that is
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  in your edit book. To change the start of a row,
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  you're going to draw a line between the sequence numbers and
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  and print begin row number. But the little number sign
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  hashtag # sign, whatever you guys want to call it.
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  And then the cells must fit in the casing equipment or ROW will
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  not start there. If there's any hanging half
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  cells or all one to two cells must be in sets of two.
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  Are all one? Yeah, they'll be changed by AMS
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  Special. You know they'll be changed
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  automatically if it's not done correctly.
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  To delete a delivery point, draw a line through the entire
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  address to be deleted, write the word delete to the left of the
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  sequence number. If only a portion of the address
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  is incorrect, such as the secondary address or additional
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  information, draw a line through the incorrect portion.
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  Only addresses should be deleted when the structures partially
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  are completely destroyed with no obvious intention to renovate or
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  rebuild. Do not use add delete to move
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  addresses. If you wish to move an address,
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  see moving reverse tab. All these instructions are in
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  your edit book, guys. So really honestly.
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  And if it's not, ask for them because they're right there,
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  right? Just if taking that extra minute
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  on your end of shift duties and you know, read it, just kind of,
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  you know, read it through, especially if you have
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  questions. I mean, everything for the most
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  part is right there. If you need to move a delivery
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  point on the route, depending on how far the delivery points are
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  being moved and how complex the moves are, you're not going to
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  use an add or delete. So do not mark out or rewrite
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  the numbers in a different sequence on the route listing.
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  For simple moves, really what you're going to do is you're
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  going to draw a circle around the address to be moved and then
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  draw a line to where the address should be moved to, and then
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  print the word move near that line.
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  If it's something that's going to be on more than one page,
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  then definitely there is a worksheet that you can ask.
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  I make a note on a sticky note for my supervisors, the one that
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  does all the changes for us in our office, so I kind of let her
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  know. Right now I do have an.
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  It's not an active address, but it is way out of sequence and I
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  haven't bothered moving it yet. One of these days I'll think
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  about it when I'm doing my edit book and actually move it to
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  where it should go correctly. To reverse deliveries, draw an
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  arc or a bracket around the the addresses to be very reversed
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  and right reverse to the side. To move the delivery points to a
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  different location on the route listing, you're going to draw an
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  arc or a bracket around the addresses to be moved and
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  indicate the line number to that those deliveries should follow.
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  So if it's going to have to move to a totally different.
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  So if you're like on page 4 and it's something that needs to go
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  on page three, you're going to draw a bracket around it and
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  then you're going to write the where it should go to the left
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  of that. And towards the end of that
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  little, your edit book is your edit book key.
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  So that just kind of tells you what everything is.
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  Your sequence number is the AMS computer assigned sequence
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  number of the route may be used to adjust the route.
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  That sequence number is also what you see on your load truck
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  feature as well that coincides with the edit book sequence
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  numbers. So if you did not know that, now
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  you know. So RCA's that use a load truck
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  feature, when you have a sequence number on an address
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  for that package, that's the sequence number in the edit book
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  for that address, primary address.
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  The street number or roll route box number which we really don't
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  use anymore could be blank if the previous delivery point uses
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  the same number or they share the same letter cell.
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  Complete street name. The street name including any
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  pre directional suffices or post directionals.
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  We don't use rural route box numbers anymore unless there
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  might be some out there that still do, but I think that went
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  away when we did the 911 address system.
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  That was before my time, so don't quote me on any of that
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  please. And then your abbreviate your
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  SECY abbreviations is used to identify the type of secondary
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  address, such as an apartment, a building, a department, a floor,
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  lobby, penthouse, room, space, suite, trailer.
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  There could be anything like that that would set it apart
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  from the primary address, your delivery point attributes,
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  obviously delivery type, your other, your centralized, your
• 23:10
  CBU curb line, internal drop address.
• 23:15
  I actually do have some of those, one of those one, a
• 23:18
  couple of those, it's my used to be like vacation cottages or
• 23:25
  housing and now it's just low income transient housing type
• 23:29
  thing. All the mail goes into one box.
• 23:33
  So it's an internal drop address and then your no stat which is
• 23:38
  first for the rural side is C&Y is for non delivered addresses.
• 23:45
  Other non delivered addresses are city.
• 23:47
  City uses the Y for vacant addresses.
• 23:49
  We use the C for vacant addresses on this rural side.
• 23:53
  And then your additional would be your hardship or like I said
• 23:58
  or AT for APO box throwback the do not deliver.
• 24:04
  Like I mentioned a little bit ago, the LF cell is the letter
• 24:08
  in flat size, cell size, the number of inches of the carrier
• 24:11
  case label to consider the following to predict the outcome
• 24:16
  of the labels. No unpaired half cells, each
• 24:19
  half must be paired with another to make a full cell.
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  No mixing streets. No2 streets can share 1 cell,
• 24:28
  one 1/2 to 10. The highest number cells allowed
• 24:31
  is 10, which is indicated by an FI.
• 24:34
  Don't know of anything. We don't quote UN quote jackpot
• 24:38
  on the rural side. So I can't think of anybody that
• 24:41
  would need a 10 cell address obviously, especially with the
• 24:46
  fact how the mail has dropped over the years.
• 24:50
  I know I'm I've taken some of my my 2 cell addresses and put them
• 24:55
  down to 1 already just because the mail volume has dropped.
• 24:59
  We don't have to worry about the seasonal delivery or educational
• 25:03
  facility under the SI. Obviously the drop count
• 25:07
  indicates the number of businesses or families served by
• 25:09
  a drop delivery or other multi service delivery point.
• 25:13
  The nandao the day of the week non delivery, which again, I
• 25:18
  described that as businesses or something that don't have don't.
• 25:21
  If they don't get delivery on Saturdays, you'd put an S in
• 25:24
  there or if it's a Mondays or Fridays, whatever day.
• 25:27
  If it's the same day every week that they're closed and do not
• 25:31
  want their mail delivered. The relay number is used to
• 25:34
  break up a route and separate relays also generates the bundle
• 25:38
  break cards for DPS. That one's new.
• 25:41
  I don't think that's anything. Again, this stuff is back from
• 25:44
  2006. I really wish they would learn
• 25:46
  to update some stuff, but hey, I don't make the rules.
• 25:51
  And then the additional information, the amount of
• 25:53
  additional information is displayed on a carrier.
• 25:55
  Case labels determined by the letter size up to 8 characters
• 25:59
  per half inch and 17 characters per inch maximum of 30
• 26:03
  characters. If the secondary address numbers
• 26:06
  are not in this column, they will not print on the case
• 26:08
  labels. I do have, like I said, I have
• 26:10
  some of those that I, you know, for example, 123 Smith lane #1
• 26:17
  and #2 so you would put one in two, one or two under the
• 26:22
  additional info depending on which one that would be.
• 26:25
  Then it would print on your case labels. 123 Smith Lane, number
• 26:29
  1123 Smith lane #2 But yeah, my, my thing is, is definitely, you
• 26:34
  know, like there are like 3 different things on the national
• 26:38
  website under the Steward Reference Guide, under E under
• 26:41
  Edit Books, there's three different things that, you know,
• 26:44
  help you with edit book wise when it comes to doing this
• 26:48
  stuff guys, I, you know, research it.
• 26:51
  It's really edit books are not that difficult to do.
• 26:55
  It's just paying attention for the most part and making sure
• 27:00
  you use that red ink pen to make any changes.
• 27:04
  I do my, I have a very high maintenance route.
• 27:08
  I, I don't think there's a month goes by that I don't have some
• 27:13
  sort of change going on. So I usually myself, I ask for
• 27:19
  new edit pages probably about once every couple months or so.
• 27:25
  I have a lot of seasonals on my route or what would used to be
• 27:29
  considered seasonals. I have a lot of snowbirds, so I
• 27:33
  and they all leave at different times.
• 27:35
  They all come back at different times.
• 27:37
  That fluctuates. So I still like to keep a clean
• 27:39
  edit book. So I'm not trying to make
• 27:41
  changes on top of changes on top of changes.
• 27:43
  There you can ask for new edit pages every month if you want
• 27:46
  labels. I, you know, you hear so much
• 27:49
  different things. I myself like to do my labels at
• 27:53
  least quarterly if I've had a lot of changes like new
• 27:59
  addresses become active that weren't active before.
• 28:03
  And so they're not on my labels. I mean, I've got yeah, I am
• 28:08
  constantly making changes. So I probably do my labels at
• 28:12
  least 4 * a year. I would suggest minimum twice a
• 28:17
  year if you know you have a brand new RCA coming in or
• 28:22
  that's going to be running your route and you haven't updated
• 28:25
  your labels in forever. And I get it now as a regular.
• 28:28
  I mean, I was in RCA for, you know, almost nine years, ran
• 28:31
  mini routes and saw some pretty horrid cases that weren't kept
• 28:36
  up. As a regular, I get it because
• 28:38
  we know our routes. We do.
• 28:41
  And but if you know you're in a short staffed office, so you
• 28:44
  don't know what PTF or RCA or anybody's that's going to be
• 28:49
  running your route, it's going to help them to have clean case
• 28:55
  labels for the most part, you know, keep it, you know it
• 28:59
  active addresses. I have very few inactive
• 29:04
  addresses on my case, but all that comes with proper edit book
• 29:09
  update. Proper edit book update again
• 29:12
  goes back to our evaluations. Are we making sure that all of
• 29:17
  our active deliveries are active in our active book?
• 29:21
  Are we vacating our boxes after, you know, 90 days once they're
• 29:29
  either gone for the season or somebody's moved, whatever.
• 29:33
  I mean, I had quite a few mailboxes that were taken out
• 29:36
  this past winter and I knew some of them were seasonal and some
• 29:40
  of them not and they would just didn't get a ton of mail.
• 29:43
  So I was really waiting, I was giving them that, that 90 days,
• 29:47
  maybe even a little bit more for some of them before because I
• 29:51
  was like, oh, I'm going to have to deactivate this one and this
• 29:54
  one. And then I come back through and
• 29:56
  guess what? Their mailboxes are back up
• 29:57
  because they, Oh yeah, we got to put that back up before we want
• 30:02
  our packages, why we're here or whatnot.
• 30:04
  Guys, I'm not a professional. I'm not an AMS technician nor do
• 30:08
  I ever want to be. But you know, a lot of people
• 30:12
  have been asking and stuff for edit books.
• 30:15
  So like I said, most of the most of the stuff that you see out
• 30:18
  there for edit books in general pertain to both city and rural.
• 30:23
  And they are different when it comes to how we handle.
• 30:27
  And yes, we can write and we can cut and tape our labels if need
• 30:33
  be. On the rural side.
• 30:35
  I prefer not to if I don't have to.
• 30:37
  But once in a while I'll be like, oops, I should have took
• 30:39
  that one off, or oops, I forgot to put that one on there and I
• 30:43
  insert 1, whether it's an address I had to write on a
• 30:46
  blank one and tape it together to make sure it was on the case
• 30:49
  before I got the labels the next time, or oops, I forgot to take
• 30:53
  that one off, so I just cut it off and slide it down and tape
• 30:58
  it together. You know, we try not to do that,
• 31:02
  but it does happen once in a while.
• 31:04
  We just don't want to make it look really bad.
• 31:06
  I've seen some really, really bad cases.
• 31:10
  And then a lot of that, like I said, your case labels come
• 31:12
  directly from what you have in your edit book.
• 31:15
  So keeping your edit book clean up to date when I that's what I
• 31:20
  mean by clean, keeping it up to date, taking off the addresses
• 31:24
  that don't need be making sure addresses are in the right
• 31:27
  sequence. You know, if you've got
• 31:29
  somebody. So if you like, let's say you
• 31:31
  have a road that you go down one way, all the boxes are on the
• 31:34
  one side, but you come back up the road and it's still in your
• 31:37
  line of travel. And a customer wants for, you
• 31:41
  know, they don't necessarily need a hardship, but they don't
• 31:44
  want to cross that road because, you know, maybe they're getting
• 31:47
  older, they've got little kids and they don't want to cross the
• 31:50
  road. As long as it's still in your
• 31:51
  line of travel, it shouldn't be an issue for them to move their
• 31:55
  box to the other side. So yeah, you want to make sure
• 31:58
  that you do and they get approved to move it and make
• 32:02
  sure you double check with management to make sure it's
• 32:04
  approvable to move it because as long as it's still in your line
• 32:06
  of travel, it should be good. But you want to update that in
• 32:09
  your edit book so you can update that on your case label.
• 32:12
  So you're not playing trying to it all coincides guys.
• 32:16
  So yeah, making sure that they're correctly under the
• 32:20
  usage code. Residential or business C is
• 32:23
  vacant over 90 days only for rural and making sure again, not
• 32:30
  going to stress it enough. Red ink pen for any changes and
• 32:34
  your cell size, you know, making sure your cell sizes are
• 32:39
  appropriate. If you got boxes that have been
• 32:42
  vacant for quite a while and it doesn't look like anybody's
• 32:45
  going to be moving in any time zone, just take them off the
• 32:47
  labels, put in that little number sign # sign, hashtag,
• 32:51
  whatever people want to call it. That's what it does takes it off
• 32:54
  the takes it off your labels because you can always put it
• 32:57
  back on next time if you have to.
• 32:59
  So I hope that really helps guys.
• 33:01
  I'm going to try and get this stuff.
• 33:03
  So it's kind of like on a video format so you can see what I'm
• 33:07
  looking at and reading just in general.
• 33:10
  Obviously I'm not putting my own edit book stuff up there.
• 33:13
  It's just the general information that anybody can
• 33:17
  look up or request or whatnot. So I hope this helps.
• 33:22
  I really do. And I do apologize for the
• 33:24
  delay. But yeah, edit books are very
• 33:26
  important. Go through them every month.
• 33:29
  I personally, if I know I got somebody that needs to, you
• 33:33
  know, they're coming up on that 90 days or I know somebody that
• 33:38
  you know, oh, new in a mailbox, new delivery has started, they
• 33:41
  got their mail, they're getting their packages.
• 33:43
  I'll go in and make those changes in my edit book as they
• 33:46
  happen. That way.
• 33:48
  I'm not trying to like today I had already turned my edit book
• 33:52
  in and I got back from the route and my supervisor should be
• 33:57
  like, hey, I got a couple questions on this because I had
• 34:01
  a couple of them that were just listed at businesses and I
• 34:03
  wanted them as business residences.
• 34:06
  And she just had a couple questions on a couple of the
• 34:08
  things in there. And I'm like, Oh yeah, I got to
• 34:11
  go and vacate, you know, this one box.
• 34:14
  And because I didn't think about it until I got back and I was
• 34:17
  like, did I do that in my edit book or not?
• 34:19
  Because it's been 90 days or more I need to do that.
• 34:23
  So luckily she had questions, so I remembered to do it.
• 34:26
  So yeah, even though you're turning in your edit books
• 34:28
  between the 1st and the 10th of each month, if you could try,
• 34:32
  you know, if you do those changes as they occur, your edit
• 34:36
  book will pretty much be ready to go when it comes time to turn
• 34:39
  it in by the 10th. I just always do a quick glance
• 34:43
  through, double check everything before I hand it in for the
• 34:46
  month and then when I get it back, all right.
• 34:49
  And like I said, I usually ask for new edit sheets.
• 34:53
  I don't know, every two to three months or so, just depends on
• 34:56
  how many changes I've had. I haven't had a lot of changes.
• 35:00
  One here, one there, couple here, couple there.
• 35:03
  No, I don't need new edit pages right away, but the following
• 35:06
  month I've got 3-4, five. Oh yeah, let's go ahead and do
• 35:10
  it because now I've got a whole bunch in there.
• 35:13
  Labels. I like I said, if I don't have a
• 35:16
  lot of, if I don't have any changes that require taking
• 35:20
  addresses off for putting addresses on my labels, I'll let
• 35:24
  them go for a few months. But I do at least try.
• 35:27
  I said I have a high maintenance route, so I do try and do my
• 35:31
  labels at least every three to four months.
• 35:35
  End of shift duties guys gets built in.
• 35:37
  That's how we're paid for them. Do not do the PM casing that
• 35:41
  stops the end of shift duties clock obviously.
• 35:44
  So when you're doing your labels preferably on end of shift
• 35:47
  duties like it's explained to be done.
• 35:49
  So you know, management gives you hassle about it.
• 35:53
  Well, contact, you know who you have to contact.
• 35:56
  So not me, but that's the basics of edit books and I hope it
• 36:05
  helps you guys. But on that note, this is over
• 36:09
  and out for me. Take care guys.