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Thank you. Now here are the hosts of the
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United We Scan podcast. Welcome back, everybody.
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Episode 62. It's still a rut no matter what.
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Ain't that the truth? I yeah.
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Many mail surveys started yesterday.
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It was my K day, My first K day that I did not have to work so.
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What are these? What are these words you speak
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of? That's what I'm wondering
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because I took an X day Thursday and Friday for well, to let my
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new sub get better acquainted with the route and get out on
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his own. And then Saturday K day today,
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Sunday, Yeah, I don't know what to do myself for four days.
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It's been a while. Other than having to fight for
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time off, It's a yeah, it's been a while.
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It was kind of nice. So I worked.
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I worked Tuesday, the day after holiday.
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In fact, I walked in the door in my Subs there.
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I'm like, what are you doing here?
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Yes. Oh, didn't I have to work today?
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I was like, no, I wasn't going to do that to you right away,
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though I did think about going home.
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But. I did not have blamed you.
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But I did not. And because our management
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doesn't show up till 8:00 and start time was 730, I just say,
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well, just go ahead and finish case of mail.
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And they were forced to let him, let him have his two hours
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before going home. So I let him case the mail and
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then I know then he, well, he started to go put up the DPSI,
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said no, no, no, no, no. And so we're not going to sit
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here all day putting up 7 trays of DPS.
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So I'm taking that to the street.
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He's like oh OK, so yeah. And then Wednesday he did the
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route and I showed him how to use the load truck feature as I
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was training the other last day of training the other new RCA.
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And then yeah, I took decided to go ahead and take Thursday off
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and Yep, that was my week. I go back tomorrow and then I'm
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training again for another three days and then I'm off for
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another three day weekend. I'm not complaining right now.
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It's nice to have a sub who's getting it and finding his own
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way. And yeah, I'm I'm not going to
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complain about that one bit. How was your?
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Yeah, yeah. 7 trays. That's kind of.
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Heavy. That's it.
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Yeah, yeah, For my route. That's actually kind of heavy
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anymore. Of course, I do remember five
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years ago it would have been 12 trays, you know, but.
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Yeah, I had 1011 trees, I think. Yeah, but you get that one
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business alone that just gets. I'm.
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I don't even count their mail. They had four by themselves.
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Gotcha. You got more boxes than I do
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though. This is true.
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I've got about almost almost 1000 boxes.
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Yeah. And I'm sitting combined at
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about just under 800 combined, so that would be why as well.
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But how was your week, Josh? It was pretty good.
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Tuesday was rough. Not as horrible as some holidays
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or day after holidays. It was a little rough.
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Trying to think if I I did work Wednesday this week it was like
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nothing. Thursday I was off again because
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of appointments for the kid. Friday was just another day and
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then yesterday started count. I'm sorry, the survey mini mail
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survey which I had a pretty hearing from other people a
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pretty fruitful day, had over 100 upside down letters, so
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that's 25. Random had 150 roll letters I
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pulled from the hot case, like 60 flats out of the out of the
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flat rack hot case. So supervisor printed the radar
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report for the first time since September.
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I had which was Friday's numbers, 760, some DPS letters
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and like 25140 cased letters. So I had a pretty decent start
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to the survey. We'll see what tomorrow brings.
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James, how was your week? Very short, you know, doing the
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drive back from SWAC was a lot of fun, 16 hour drive from there
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to here. But I made it safe and sound and
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had two days of work Thursday and Friday and didn't work
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yesterday for the mini mail survey.
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So I don't know how that went. I guess I'll find out on Monday
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when I see the paper from my sub.
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But Swack was a lot of fun with Bill and everybody that was
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there from the podcast that recognized us by our voice still
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not used to that, people recognizing us by our voice
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alone. I recognized the voice but not
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the face, was the common theme that I heard.
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Bill has probably a better story about that than I do, but Swack
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was a lot of fun and people were saying I wasn't the one called
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out for it. But it's kind of funny that the
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only person live posting was that I could find was myself.
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So I challenge anybody that thinks that there were live
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postings from the rest of them to send them to me.
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Show me that somebody else was live posting during the actual
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proceedings. Because getting called out on
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stage after a break was quite interesting.
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And then shortly after that, I think it was after lunch that I
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got actually cornered by our president about it.
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So it was just a fun time down there, good time with friends,
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good time with the group, and good time giving my speech.
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I enjoyed the responses from everybody and we'll be using
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them to further utilize into my next speech that I make, which
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is going to be mid states. So those of you who are coming
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to mid states have a good speech to look forward to at least from
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me and Bill. So how about you, Bill?
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How was your week? Oh, let's see.
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Started with missing the flight from Charlotte to Oklahoma City.
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I almost ended up in Jamaica, which wouldn't have been so bad.
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My personal chauffeur to pick me up at almost midnight at the one
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AM, 1:00 AM And that was. 2:00 AM Eastern.
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Yeah. So yeah it was a long day for
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me. Mid states was interesting.
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We'll we'll we'll get into that a little bit later on.
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Like James said it it was funny how people recognize us by our
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voices and the one gentleman came up what was his, what was
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his name? Tim and he says to me, he says I
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thought you'd be stouter like doubter, you know, he goes,
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yeah, I try to imagine you and I thought you would be stouter.
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I said, you know, sorry to disappoint you, I'm taller.
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But you know, we we had at least 40 plus people come up to us,
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you know, in regards to the podcast and the situations that
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are going on in SWAC, you know, which is what Texas, Oklahoma,
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Arkansas. Louisiana.
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Yep. And you know, it was a it, it
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was a nice conference. It it, it was, you know, a
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little bit on the smallish side if you're used to a full state's
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participation. But good attendance you know
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good atmosphere and some good information we got out of there.
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Then you know I came back. I, I spent an extra day out
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there came back couldn't find my car at the damn airport because
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my battery ran out of my car locator.
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So I had to have my son come get me so we could drive the parking
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lots in Philadelphia to find my car.
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But it was, it was a good trip on and on and and it was nice to
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have, you know be around, you know, with your friends and Co
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workers and you know, let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen,
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all these stories you hear about and that you read on Facebook
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and other social media sites, they're all true.
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Some of the things that we heard out there, you know, you just,
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you just look at, you know people and say you you got to be
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making that up. No, they're not.
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All this stuff you read about is absolutely true about how
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horrible it is in some office. And God bless you, the the ones
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who have good postmasters and supervisors because they're few
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and far between. So yeah, like I said, it was a
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good trip, good, good learning experience, got information
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gathering and it it was very, very nice to see all the people
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that we ran into and we were well received.
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Kristen, how was your week? I just did that first.
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It was short. I worked too.
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Yeah, but you're you're you're you have to follow up.
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That's. OK.
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All right. Finish it off.
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Finish it. Off Monday was the holiday.
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Tuesday I worked, Wednesday I trained, I took the next day,
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Thursday, and Friday actually had my K day yesterday.
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And if you all didn't notice, we put out a bonus episode on what
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was that Thursday night? Thursday night, Yoohoo.
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Uh, huh. With Mr. Corey Waltons.
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And. Future stuff with him.
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And I know a lot of people said about the audio, I listened back
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and heard the audio issues. We are trying to get that
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corrected as best we. Can and the episode before that
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I did put the right in the show notes that the audio was going
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to be. I apologize for it.
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It's just, you know, we had James on the road and Bill was
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in the hotel and yeah, it was just a lot of everything and I
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there wasn't much easy way of cleaning that up.
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That's, you know, like I said, I apologize for for last Sunday
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nights and Thursdays where hopefully we can get that
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remastered a little bit and get it updated.
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Yeah, Thursday was literally a last minute thing that we knew
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it was going to happen. We've been trying to get that to
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go together for what, almost a year at this point is when I
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first reached out to Corey to try and get him to come over and
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it's just our schedule or his schedule has been hectic.
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And when he said, Yep, give me 10 minutes, I know I let Kristen
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know. Oh, I asked Kristen if she was
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available. I reached out to him.
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He said give me at least 10 minutes and I let the rest of
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the guys know that we were going to do it.
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So, and we didn't get a chance to get out to our other editor
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to see if he was available, but apparently he would not have
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been because he was in the middle of something else.
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Yeah, but we will try and get that fixed if possible so the
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audio will be much better on it. Yeah, I think a lot of times I
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think when I'm doing the editing, I really need to turn
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the volume down on my earphones and then that way I can adjust
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the volume accordingly because it's I have the volume up all
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the way on my earphone, so I don't notice it as.
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We know that there have been a lot of posts on Facebook of
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people who are getting mixed answers from management.
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What they're supposed to be counting, what they're not
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supposed to be counting, what counts as this, what doesn't
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count as that, things like that. So what I wanted to do is I
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wanted to go over again the things you're supposed to be
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doing in the count for the mini mail survey, what is supposed to
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be counted, what you need to keep track of things like that.
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So the very, very first thing that I want to talk about on
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that is the DPS. Seen so many people asking
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questions on what is counted out of DPS and what is not.
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So I'm going to ask you guys give me your answer, each of
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what you think is counted out of the DPS and what is not.
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Start with you, Josh. I say anything in the DPS that
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you cannot deliver for any reason at the point of the DPS
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you're in. For example, you're at 123 Main
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and you have a letter for 276 Walnut, and that's not the next
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address that gets counted as Adps error.
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Bob Smith at 123 Main no longer lives there, so that's either
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UUTFANK or Ford that gets counted. 276.
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Walnut is a vacant address. You have mail for that address.
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It's not getting delivered because it's vacant.
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Regardless of if it's an Anka, Ford or UBBM.
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It is Adps error. You have mail in there that's
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not for your route or not for your station.
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The three M miss, sort miss sent miss sequence.
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It is a error in your DPSD PS:, is delivery point sequence,
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which means in the perfect world it is 100% in order.
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Nothing in that in those trays should be for any route other
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than yours, and it should be all deliverable.
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Bill or Kristen? Well, let's see.
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Let's start with the obvious ones.
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Let's take the inverted. OK, let's get the IA's
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insufficient address. Let's get the no such numbers.
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Let's get the FO ES slash UTF. Let's get.
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You know everything and anything that doesn't belong in the line
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of progression of your DPS, Pull it out.
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Pull your holds out. That gets counted, OK?
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Everything that you don't deliver in sequence along the
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line of travel gets pulled out. Now one of the things that you
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know I always suggest for carrier discretion is that you
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pull those items out, you have them counted and then you leave
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them rubber band with a little tab note on there for the end of
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day so that you can actually disperse them for end of shift
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duty. That's what I suggest you do.
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I'm not recommending it, I'm just just same thing with the
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flats. If if it's not yours, bang.
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You know folks, when they miss throw parcels, I scan a miss
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thrown parcel because you put it in my hamper and I have to
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handle it. I'm getting credit for it.
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Everything and anything that's not in DPS order for your line
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of travel gets pulled out. If it's inverted, pull it out.
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If it's holds, then you know, I mean if you don't have at least
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100 a day, there's something wrong with with your DPS because
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nothing, it doesn't come perfectly anymore.
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At all. Ever.
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Yeah, but these two weeks we'll see some clean DPS maybe.
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I I didn't pull anything. I I had permission to go in
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yesterday morning just to explain.
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I showed my RCA the sheet. I showed him what he was looking
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for. I just kind of flipped through
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the DPS really quick, just so I had a rough idea on what I had
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in there. That way I can make compared to
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what he counted to what I counted just to see if he was on
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his game. I let him do all that.
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I just kind of did a quick little glance through and then
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well, here's your DPS. And he actually is starting to
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take it to the street rather than casing it from what he told
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me. So I think he's realizing it's a
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little quicker of getting out of our office and not having to
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deal with the boss. She approached him and told him
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she'd be more than happy to retrain him.
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He said, Nah, I'm good, there you go.
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But, but so now I'll, I'll, I'll see you tomorrow when I get
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there, you know. And I was actually kind of good
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glad I did go in because the other RCA that was working, the
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kid, he had no clue either what was going on.
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So I told him I showed him, I said you take your DPS to the
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street. He's like, yeah, I showed him my
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tap counter app on my phone that I use during the mini mail
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survey because I do take my DPS to the street.
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So when I'm out there and I have my inverted, I just hit on my
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tap counter. And then, you know, when I get
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back to the office at the end of the day, I just divide that
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number by 4 for my inverted count.
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But, you know, so I just kind of showed him that he's like, oh
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OK, cool. I just described, I said guys
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you said don't pull any of the raw mail till it's been counted.
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You know you can touch the pre sorted, that's fine.
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It's just giving them the idea you know letting them know what
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they were looking for and what they were doing when they got
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back. As to how to handle this stuff,
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oh they think, they both seem to understand.
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So they said I'll see when I get there tomorrow.
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Oh that's that's a good thing. I do.
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I did want to add we're you guys usually take your man out of the
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street. I case it.
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It doesn't matter if you case it or take it to the street.
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You get the same credit for that DP for those DPS errors.
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You know they like to you know a lot of people take it to the
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street because they want to get out of the office earlier.
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Personally, I'd rather work work it all in the climate control,
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but that's just a personal choice, yeah.
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Casing in that case, take it to the street, for the most part,
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is a personal choice. I like to get out of the office
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to get on my route, but I also am just as quick with not casing
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my DPS and working it as a street as as if as if I had to
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case it and then work it back down.
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And yeah, I just skipped that stuff.
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But like I said, I've gotten accustomed to it over the years,
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but I'm just as quick out on the street, not casing it anymore.
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It's personally I think it takes me a lot longer, at least 1 1/2
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times longer working the DPS on the street than it does casing
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it, but I don't do it unless I absolutely have to.
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Yeah, my route gets a ton of junk too.
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So it's, you know, I I said I'm used to it.
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When you're a newbie, you know, he does really good.
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If he cases it up, he gets out on the street.
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You know, he's just bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.
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But I think he's really trying to get out of the office, 'cause
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I guess the boss should say something to him about what time
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he should be out of the office by.
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And I was like, well, technically, yeah, you should be
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out. If you can get out between 10:00
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and 10:30, you're doing all right.
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Once you hit 11:00, you're at the point of no return.
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It's hard to make up time on that route if you don't, if you
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get out of the office after 11:00.
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So, Oh no, he's he's doing good for, you know, being a weekend
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on his own, so. Or you can pull a bill and say
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I'll be glad to leave now if you want.
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All right. But I will tell you, when I
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walked in Tuesday morning and he was in their case and I'm like,
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what are you doing here? And oh, I don't work.
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No, I was really tempted to be like, yeah, go ahead and take
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it. But then he, he was actually
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glad at the end of the day that I didn't do that to him just
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because I ended up with 215 parcels that day and I didn't
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get back until 6:30. So I was like, see, you know,
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not we all have these days. Is it No big deal to me?
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How about you, James? Do you want to add anything to
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that? You guys covered most of it, but
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the one that I did not hear any of you actually say was
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apartment mailings that don't have an apartment number on
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them. Insufficient address.
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Yeah. Bill said IA.
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Well, besides insufficient address, because I know a lot of
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people, when they take the DPS to the street especially, will
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look at the name and throw it in the right slot.
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Those should also be counted for your random letters, your DPS
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errors, whatever you wish to call them.
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The rest of the stuff you guys covered pretty well on that.
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So the next part I want to go on to is unscannable parcels.
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A big contention. Some management wants carriers
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to stop everything they're doing and bring all their, quote, UN
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quote unscannable parcels to the management for them to decide
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what is or is not. They want carriers to not mark
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them as unscannable parcels, even though we have no
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definition of what an obvious parcel is.
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But I want to get your guys's take on what's going on with
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that. I don't have that issue in my
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office. Honestly.
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I thankfully we don't have that unscanable parcel issue in my
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office at all. I mean, if so, you know, I
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really can't say. Luckily we're not micromanaged
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on that part. You know if obviously if it's a
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parcel, it's a parcel whether it has a scan code on it or not for
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me. I as far as I know, in my
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station there is not an issue. I can tell you they personally
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have not said anything to me about what I scan is
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unscannable. No one.
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None of the other carriers have mentioned anything to me about
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them say, you know, being told something.
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So I'm presuming at least in my station I can't speak for the
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whole office, but in my station that's not not an issue.
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Well. I guess that leaves me.
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Yeah, it does. In my office we have a, I'll say
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a limit, OK, that of 6 unscanned parcels per day.
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Now at WAC we ran into a gentleman who had 39 unscanned
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parcels in one day and was called into the office and he
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gave a detailed explanation of what the ants unscanned parcels
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were. Several of them were diplomas.
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A lot of them were the Snapfish photos.
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And you know, he elaborated on and on what you know all 39
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were. If you can't fit it into your
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case without manipulating it like a flat or a letter, OK, and
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it sticks out to me. That's carrier discretion and
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it's an unscanned parcel. If I have to manipulate it to
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get it in the mailbox, or if I have to take it to the door
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because it won't fit in the mailbox without being damaged,
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that's an unscanned parcel and I document that on my 4240 every
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day. So it's one of those things
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where carrier discretion is the thought of the moment.
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Not that you get away with it, but can you justify it?
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And you say in all honesty that this should be a parcel and I
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see where somebody says the thick Ass U line?
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Well, a lot of people will tell you no, EU lines don't count.
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But if U lines don't fit into the case with the mail, that
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should be an unscanned parcel. And they have several sizes of
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EU line. So you know, the, the you're
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you're you're dancing on thin ice there.
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But if you're getting this standard one inch U line and you
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have a one inch separation, somebody tell me how you're
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getting the mail in there. With the flats and EU line it
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becomes a unscanned parcel for me and I'll document that on my
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40 to 40. I get, well, I've got my one
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person on my route that gets, you know, three to four to five
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inches of mail a day. Yes, I am not exaggerating.
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And what? And then he tends to get at
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least once or twice a month from whatever charities trying to get
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money he gets. Like the tubes.
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Yeah, that got something rolled up in them or the triangular
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ones and it's just, you know, it's just pre sorted standard
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stuff. But it's a parcel, it's not
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going to fit in the case obviously and you handle it just
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like a parcel. So yeah, those are unscannable
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parcels. I've got you know churches that
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get their their guideposts or whatever sent to them that is
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metered that and it's in a big but heavy box that's an
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unscanned parcel. You know crossword puzzle
27:58
players that order by the case is metered mail for the most
28:02
most of them that are sent that I've seen, that's an unscanned
28:07
parcel. And and I I do, I do like the
28:13
fact that management turns around and says, well, it
28:16
depends on the amount of posts paid.
28:19
No, it doesn't. I I have a coin vendor out of
28:26
Rhode Island I believe that sends to 1 customer of my route
28:30
all the time. He sends it pre sorted standard
28:34
but on the front of it and the back in three inch big letters
28:38
says do not bend because it's a collectible coin in the acetate
28:47
sheet to be inserted into a book where you collect the coin and
28:50
if you bend that up that customer will call the post
28:53
office and ring. Yes, yes.
28:56
Yes, they will. Brand new so oh.
29:02
Yes, they will. Guess what?
29:04
Personal experience. Customer service Unscanned
29:06
parcel. It it goes to, you know, the
29:08
closest point of delivery. You know, free matter for the
29:12
blind and deaf. I've got one house that gets the
29:16
big boxes, you know, two to three of them.
29:19
They, they get them for one for each kid.
29:22
And you know, they're big size boxes.
29:26
Yeah, that's an unscalable parcel.
29:28
If I have to, especially if I have to deliver that to the door
29:31
because it doesn't fit in a mailbox, you know, there is some
29:36
pretty obvious ones out there. And don't forget the media
29:41
shipping too. People get discounted, you know,
29:44
shipping for, you know, media. So therefore you know you can
29:48
have a an entire catalog system or a book.
29:51
You know anything and you know they're paying dirt cheap rates
29:55
on it. And you still got to take that
29:57
up to the door because of the fact it's not fitting in the
30:00
mailbox. Yep, Yep.
30:04
Yeah. I mean there are some really
30:07
good ones out there that are unscannable parcels and I'll you
30:11
know be going through the bend and even with the other Subs I
30:13
train and help them out and be like, hey look, unscannable
30:17
parcel. And if I, you know, when I'm
30:19
training and I'm finding one, you know, I'll put a little
30:22
sticky note on it so they know what to do when they go to
30:25
deliver it. I love the comments the coconuts
30:30
because my son went to Hawaii with his wife and mailed me a
30:34
coconut. Yes, that's an unscannable
30:38
parcel. Oh oh, that is so true.
30:46
Yeah. So there are some, you know,
30:50
unscannable parcels that are obvious parcels.
30:52
I think it's always been the biggest thing has been the ones
30:55
that are questionable. And and again, it's carrier
30:59
discretion, you know. Absolutely, Until something is
31:03
black and white and concrete on that.
31:05
That is carrier discretion. Well, it really can be at this
31:11
point. What's another good one, James?
31:17
Got some? Authorized Dismounts.
31:19
Oh yeah, authorized. Dismounts.
31:22
People are arguing about when do you actually input authorized
31:26
dismounts because is it the first time?
31:29
Is it the second time? How many trips can you do and
31:34
how do you deal with that kind of stuff?
31:37
So we'll go with that now. Authorized.
31:41
Dismounts if it takes me. I would say if it takes me more
31:48
than one time from the truck to my delivery point as an
31:52
authorized dismount entry open. For example when I didn't have
31:59
my hand truck at my apartments where I usually can put
32:03
everything on the on the cart and roll it over.
32:06
So now I have to take each tub one at a time.
32:11
That's 234 trips. So that's authorized dismount 2,
32:17
three, four times. Yeah, I luckily don't have.
32:25
I don't think I've ever had any extra authorized dismounts on my
32:28
route yet, even with like I said over all my CB US only to
32:38
different setups. Do I actually have to dismount
32:40
the truck to service the CB US And they don't get a ton of mail
32:44
anyways. And all the parcels because they
32:46
don't have CB US, all the parcels go to the door.
32:50
So yeah, my and my even with all my hardships, they don't have
32:53
enough for more than one trip. Maybe once in a great while will
32:58
they order, You know, quite a few packages that require more
33:01
than one trip, but in general they don't, so that's not one
33:06
that I have experience with, so to say, on my route.
33:12
So you have the CB US, you have businesses, you have schools,
33:16
You have some gated communities where you're required to
33:19
dismount for a key code or such because you're on the wrong side
33:23
of the vehicle. Hardship cases that you know are
33:27
authorized and you know they're in your system and you know make
33:32
sure they are because of the fact that you won't be getting
33:35
credit even though you're doing a service per SE to the
33:39
customer. And anything above, over and
33:43
above 1 discount per CBU because my CB US are all offset 8 feet
33:50
from the curb. And they have multiple parcel
33:55
locker too of which not all parcels will fit in there which
33:59
and they'll go to the door, but the ones that do I have to make
34:02
several trips just for this. The packages and spurs that go
34:06
in there and won't fit into you know the I guess they're about
34:10
an inch and a half three quarter high shelves, shelves that are
34:14
you know in the CB US I have some of the newer ones that have
34:18
the flat shelving in there instead of the square box.
34:21
So make sure you get all that in there.
34:29
Same for trip to door. Yes, same with trip to door.
34:33
Because like I have one on my route that lately has been
34:38
getting a ton of packages. They're planning for a wedding,
34:42
getting all the stuff in for the wedding.
34:45
So every day practically I'm going there with three to 25
34:49
pack packages, and sometimes I have to take 234 trips.
34:58
If it only takes one, I don't put it in.
35:00
But if it takes more than one, I do trip the door because that
35:04
gives you the credit for the extra walking you've been doing
35:07
to deliver those parcels to the door.
35:10
You have to make sure that you count them and you put them in.
35:14
I forgot one day and I had four trips that day.
35:16
It really made me mad. But you got to make sure that
35:21
you are tracking everything that you do because that's how you
35:25
get paid. If you're not tracking what you
35:27
do, you're not getting paid for it.
35:31
And door Miscellaneous is only used for hold mail or if you
35:38
have to go to the door for any other reason other than a scan.
35:45
So if you have to go to the door to pick up parcels, I do Door
35:51
Miscellaneous because that then records that I went to the door
35:55
to pick up those parcels instead of picking them up at the
35:58
mailbox, things like that. You guys agree?
36:05
I'm going to say I use, I use trip to door for parcel pick up
36:09
at the door. You know for carrier pick up,
36:15
I'll do the carrier pick up process and then do trip to door
36:18
one for that. Well, I don't do that with.
36:24
I have several customers that will put in the parcel pick up
36:29
into the system. When you have the the sheet with
36:32
you, would you scan the barcode on certain times they don't put
36:37
that sheet in that request in so you have no barcode but you can
36:41
still enter carrier pick up without the sheet and it'll
36:46
prompt you through there. OK, door miscellaneous.
36:51
It could seem like you're double dipping.
36:53
If you do that and you're you're doing a a parcel pick up because
37:01
you're basically getting the parcel pick up credit and if
37:06
it's in the system like a customer leaves it in the
37:10
mailbox a note saying please pick up a parcel at the door
37:13
then I would agree with that. But more times than not if
37:17
you're going to the door for any any other reason for door
37:20
miscellaneous like hold mail or an unscannable parcel or what
37:24
you know, I you know, I I try to stay off of the door
37:27
miscellaneous not for unscannable parcels but for you
37:30
know door miscellaneous. I stay off of that except for
37:34
the extreme issue of you know, the mailbox is full and I'll
37:39
bring it up there and give you know bring it to their attention
37:42
and all that. I have one customer who has a
37:45
Half Moon driveway and they're restricted to a wheelchair.
37:48
So I have an authorized door miscellaneous every day at that
37:52
address, but I wouldn't use that, you know, in any other
37:58
case for myself. That's just my personal opinion.
38:02
It's nothing written in stone, It's just that, you know, it
38:05
doesn't have a scan. I'm not doing using door
38:09
miscellaneous. Strip the door.
38:11
That's, you know, for picking up stuff with the scan.
38:15
Yeah, door miscellaneous stuff without scan.
38:17
I use a door miscellaneous. I have a few my CBU condos that
38:23
are the old CB US, the little square boxes and no parcel
38:28
lockers and you know when they get their kids school photos
38:32
just in the regular life touch envelope, you know that type of
38:36
stuff. When I as a courtesy will take
38:38
that to dorks I'm not going to bend their kids pictures up
38:41
obviously and I'll I'll door miscellaneous that outside of
38:45
that if it's for a pickup and it requires me more than one trip
38:50
for that pick up because I'll scan that sheet right at the
38:53
door where it says pick up at porch.
38:54
I'm scanning that sheet at the porch.
38:57
Only if it's more than one trip do I put in an additional trip
39:01
to door for that. But when it comes to my people
39:05
who like ordering their three mattresses at a time along with
39:08
six other large boxes you know that stuff.
39:12
Yeah, I my trip to doors are definitely on top of that with
39:18
my ordering ones that are order the big stuff all the time.
39:26
Well, my one, my one business in the industrial park, I know for
39:31
a fact Monday, 'cause they they're closed on Saturdays.
39:34
They had six very large heavy packages waiting for Monday to
39:38
go out. So plus whatever else they get
39:40
in on Monday. Yeah, that's probably one of my
39:43
biggest ones right? There is 3-4 trips in the land
39:46
receiving dock door with their stuff, but yeah.
39:55
Christy, you were saying that with the package pick up and
40:00
Bill with the you get the the sheet of paper the print out.
40:04
Yeah, saying there's a pick up at.
40:07
I say even if I have that sheet, I'm still going to put that trip
40:12
door in because it even though it says it's at.
40:15
The front door porch. I don't know that the system's
40:19
giving me credit other than the actual pickup.
40:26
Regardless of where you're picking it up, right, Yeah.
40:29
Exactly. It could be on the porch.
40:31
They they could meet me halfway. That falls underneath carrier
40:38
discretion. Exactly.
40:45
Everything you do that is flexible in regards to picking
40:50
it up from halfway down the driveway at the at the garage at
40:54
the front door. Ladies and gentlemen, that's
40:58
carrier discretion on how you want to enter it.
41:01
But be ready to answer that question when they when they
41:04
confront you about it, OK? And you better be positive and
41:08
you better be forthright in regards why you're doing it now.
41:12
They can test it later and you you can contest their
41:15
contestation, but you know, protect yourself in regards to
41:21
how you do things and be able to justify it.
41:27
Exactly. You know, definitely carry your
41:30
discretion on anything, but make sure you're ready to answer it
41:33
if your questions about it. Luckily we don't get question
41:37
about it in my office. Yes.
41:41
And then the last bit of contention that we've had in in
41:46
scans, even though I'm sure there's been more for the rest
41:50
of them, was out to lunch, the out to lunch scan.
41:58
And management is telling them not only that they have to go
42:03
out to lunch to go to the bathroom, but also that they
42:08
cannot deviate from their route to go to the bathroom.
42:14
Discuss. My.
42:21
Bathroom breaks are not out to lunch.
42:27
Now if you live on your row and you stop at home to use the
42:30
bathroom and that's all you do, you do not need to clock out.
42:35
If you stop at home and go to the bathroom, then make yourself
42:38
a sandwich before heading back out, then yes, you would take a
42:41
lunch break for anything outside of going to the restroom.
42:47
Going to the restroom is not an is is not a lunch break.
42:53
Even if you have to deviate to use just the restroom.
42:59
You do not have to clock out for lunch break.
43:02
Not everybody has a place that they can go on their route.
43:07
You know, I'm lucky enough. I have a Township hall and every
43:13
fast food restaurant in town and all the gas stations in town,
43:17
and I drive past the post office from one end to the other, plus
43:22
several bars. So I mean, I have places I could
43:26
stop if need be, but you know, not everybody has that.
43:31
I've worked many routes that that there really isn't any
43:35
place to stop and there's not even a thick of trees that you
43:38
could go find a place to go use behind a tree somewhere.
43:41
Not everybody has that. So yeah, there are times when
43:44
you're going to have to deviate and just.
43:48
Yeah. And another one that I've seen,
43:51
it was even as far as taking a sip of water.
43:54
I'm sorry I'm not clocking out to lunch to take it when I take
43:59
a drink of anything, because normally I am still working.
44:02
When I take a drink of something I don't, I don't get it.
44:10
I don't get it at all. Don't forget, federal law says
44:16
that they have to allow you restroom breaks while on the job
44:22
and you don't have to punch out to break for them.
44:27
In fact, Amazon has gotten in trouble for not allowing people
44:33
to go to the bathroom on the line.
44:37
I have seen them get in trouble for carriers having to go to the
44:44
bathroom in a pop bottle because they won't let them leave their
44:49
route to go to the bathroom. The same thing with your
44:55
drinking of water to punch out. Didn't they just start making us
45:00
all watch the heat illness prevention training where it
45:04
says stay hydrated and they're telling us now to punch out to
45:08
hydrate like they tell us to in our training?
45:13
I don't think so. Now, if they're stopping and
45:19
eating food, you know, taking a break and eating food, that is a
45:23
lunch. Now, if you're eating while
45:27
driving, which is dangerous but allowed, that's not a punch
45:34
audible thing because you're continuing to do your route
45:36
while doing so. But if you're stopped parked,
45:42
parking brakes, set wheels curbed and eating lunch, you
45:48
have to go out to lunch for that.
45:51
And it's the same for smoke breaks.
45:55
It's a contentious issue in a lot of places, but you should be
45:58
on a break when you go out for smoke.
46:01
And even that includes when you're still in the office or
46:06
out on the route you should be clocked out for.
46:09
You should be clocked out for smoke breaks.
46:14
And ladies and gentlemen, don't ever let anybody in management
46:19
tell you you have to clock out to go to the bathroom in the
46:22
office. It's not allowed.
46:26
You're you are totally free to go to the bathroom without
46:30
clocking out for lunch and. That's.
46:34
And. That's included in your wash up
46:36
time when you come back from the route at end of shift duties.
46:40
You're right. Now I I seem to remember, and
46:43
somebody correct me if I'm wrong, you are allowed up to 1/2
46:47
mile deviation off your route without prior authorization for
46:52
you know, you know, the stop for lunch or to visit the restroom
46:57
facility. Is that still correct?
47:00
I believe, I'll say you have to have prior authorization.
47:03
There's wording on both sides of it, so carrier discretion.
47:09
Yes. Well, here's the thing.
47:12
In the past we had a carrier who would deviate off the route at
47:19
his particular spot on the route and customer called about it
47:26
because the worker. So the supervisor at the time
47:31
wanted to all jump his crap and he got it cleared up because
47:37
number one, he said I'm on a water pill.
47:40
There is not a place to go on that route without having to
47:44
deviate slightly off the route and in into the trees, into, you
47:49
know, where there's in a wooded area because that's all I'm
47:53
doing is relieving myself halfway through the route.
47:56
And after that they they couldn't touch him and it wasn't
48:01
even that far, honestly, maybe 1/4 of a mile back off of the
48:05
main road. So yeah, you know, they don't
48:11
want to. If you got to use the restroom,
48:13
you got to use the restroom. I know of another one that
48:16
management was getting on him because he was, you know, not
48:21
even a quarter of a mile off the route.
48:23
It was like literally just meters away from his turn around
48:28
spot to use the restroom and they wanted to go off because he
48:32
deviated off of the route. No, it's perfectly acceptable
48:35
when using the restroom. So yeah, I don't know.
48:42
It's, I would fight that one every tooth and nail.
48:46
When you got to go, you got to go.
48:48
And it's not a clock out and you got to go where there's some
48:51
place safe for you to go. Regardless if that's a thicket
48:54
of trees or back to the office or your local Township hall,
48:59
VFW, American Legion lounge bar, whatever that's open that you
49:06
can thankfully use their restroom fast food joint though.
49:09
That's what you do. Your mother in law's house, your
49:13
your Co worker's house, whatever you know.
49:17
Isn't it ironic that they want to micromanage our time?
49:21
You know, so badly? But yet they can't do something
49:26
as simple as get your time sheets entered on a daily basis?
49:31
They can't get the radar reports up.
49:32
You know, micromanage yourself before you try micromanaging the
49:37
office, OK? When you learn to do your job
49:40
properly every day, day in and day out, then come over and talk
49:45
to me. Until then, shut the front door.
49:52
Yeah, and don't forget the ones that want to micromanage can't
49:56
even get their carriers paid on time.
50:00
Oh, I know. Oh wait, we've got a, we've got
50:02
a step four. They put in on that, right?
50:05
Yeah, they got the step 4IN on that.
50:06
So we have the one in 2018. They still have to solve, but
50:11
we'll get to that one in about 5 years.
50:13
But you still see every week where there's carriers that got
50:17
a zero paycheck. Every freaking pay period.
50:23
How? Why?
50:25
I mean, it's just atrocious. It's either number one,
50:30
management not doing their job, which is the number one reason,
50:35
or, you know, it's the outdated systems that and even my
50:40
supervisor's like, I don't understand why we have to put it
50:43
in your system and then your system transfers it to tax.
50:45
Why can't we just enter your stuff into tax?
50:50
Because that would make sense. I wouldn't have though.
50:55
When has anything that management has done made sense?
50:59
That's right. It's federal government.
51:01
If it makes sense, they do the opposite first.
51:02
I was just going to say I'm going to throw 2 words out at
51:06
you, Military intelligence. Yeah.
51:13
And what I don't understand is why they keep trying to
51:16
micromanage us to be more like the city instead of the other
51:21
way around, trying to make city more like us because.
51:25
They tried that. They tried that, Josh.
51:29
They're trying right now, they. They rejected that real quick.
51:35
Yeah. They're trying that again now
51:36
they've got, they've got their new evaluation system for city
51:40
carriers and city carrier routes that they're running with.
51:43
I mean you heard Corey talk about it on from 8 arbitration
51:47
that they're they're evaluating their yeah wrecks, they're
51:51
getting wrecks. But it's it's a better version
51:55
of wrecks than the 1:00 we have, and there's their documentation
51:58
on it is less redacted than ours, which is quite amazing to
52:03
think about. Yeah, there's not much to read
52:06
in ours, that's for sure. Yeah, well, I mean, unless you
52:11
can read black, because that's most of the pages.
52:15
You can read the the report title and then the half of the
52:19
signatures. Yeah, and not.
52:22
Not to mention that you can you can read the definition of Rex,
52:27
but anything that pertains to how they calculate it, how it
52:30
gets put together, what programs are used for it, how they came
52:34
up with these formulas and all that stuff is behind black bars
52:39
because they think that it's a national security issue to know
52:44
how carrier routes are evaluated.
52:48
How? They still don't even know how
52:50
to evaluate us properly. So what's the big secret?
52:53
It ain't working. You still have issues with CBU
52:58
routes, you still have major issues with the parent child
53:02
routes, you have issues across the board with almost everything
53:06
of one nature or another. And not to mention the fact that
53:11
we cannot verify in a timely manner our numbers without
53:17
counting every single pre sorted bundle piece that we get and
53:23
then waiting for a radar report to catch up to figure out.
53:26
Oh yeah, that was that days, if it's even right, there's we.
53:31
We still can't verify our numbers completely.
53:35
It's ridiculous. Kristen, Kristen, I take offense
53:39
to the fact that you're assuming that all of the bundles are
53:45
coming in on the same day's radar report.
53:48
I'm not saying that, I said. And then having to wait until
53:52
the radar report catches up, or I did not say you're coming in
53:57
on the same day, I said. You're having to keep track of
54:01
and then wait until you can find the day that it comes in on and
54:05
then hopefully it's right then and hope 'cause there's no way
54:08
to know for sure. And and don't forget, ladies and
54:12
gentlemen, in September 2022, Ronnie Stutz put off the mini
54:16
Mail survey because there was still no transparency of the rec
54:23
system. And yet we went ahead and did it
54:26
that spring, the following spring with no transparency.
54:31
I I don't know why we are even negotiating with the post office
54:36
until they get this cleared up, until these engineers are held
54:39
accountable for the hundreds of thousands of dollars they've
54:42
been paid for a system that right now they're going to tell
54:47
us they're going to make adjustments in April and become
54:49
effective in May. I'm sorry, Yeah, I I I'm not
54:54
buying it. My question is why?
54:58
I mean, I get why they're waiting till after this next
55:02
mini mail survey, but at the same time, it's still not going
55:09
to be, it's still going to be another full year after they
55:13
make adjustments before that route.
55:15
It has its actual evaluation. Am I right?
55:21
Yeah. Or or.
55:22
Or the fact that every six months your paycheck's going to
55:25
change. Potentially, yes.
55:28
Yeah. Oh, let's let's throw this.
55:31
Let's throw this in the mix. What What scares me the most
55:34
about victory adjustments, Josh. Hold on, Josh, What's even worse
55:42
about this is all these carriers that are being pulled into these
55:46
S&D fees who are going to spend at least a year on the
55:52
evaluations out of their old office before their evaluations
55:56
even reach what their evaluations are going to be at
55:59
the SNDC. Yeah.
56:08
And I've I've talked to a few carriers that have already moved
56:11
to an SNDC, some of them are having to drive 15/20/30 or 45
56:18
minutes to their route that they're not going to be paid for
56:25
for almost a year. Now supposedly they were going
56:30
to be adjusting that that mileage thing was already when
56:34
they go over there, but I I I don't know.
56:37
I don't hold a grain of salt to that one bet.
56:43
No clue. I have AI have a friend of mine
56:46
who just started their first day at the new SN at their new SNDC
56:50
was this past Saturday. She she's going to try and get
56:54
the gumption to join us and tell us how it's going.
56:59
But yeah, you know it. It's it's just crazy.
57:03
But when you're having to drive that and that, and not to
57:06
mention not only that, not only you having to drive that extra
57:09
further distance to your routes, but then you got to think of
57:12
that extra further distance to drive into work and driving home
57:16
to work, plus that additional round trip during your route
57:19
that makes some really long days.
57:23
It does. And hopefully because it's
57:27
mileage factor, they'll be able to incorporate it quickly that
57:32
there shouldn't be any adjustment in regards to, you
57:35
know, waiting a year for the full adjustment to your route
57:40
because mileage can can be, you know, computed quickly, should
57:45
be able to. I'm saying should be.
57:47
I'm not saying it will be, but it should be, you know, an
57:50
automatic adjustment. Yeah.
57:54
But this is the post office. Exactly, yeah.
57:58
They'll probably, they'll probably milk the shorter
57:59
mileage up until they actually get to the full evaluation in in
58:04
a year. Because we've known that as long
58:07
as carriers aren't paid what they're working or aren't paid
58:11
at all, the post office wins in that situation.
58:15
Because even if we grieve it, they're just going to settle for
58:19
language, pay the carrier and call it good.
58:22
That's it. There's going to be no incentive
58:28
for management to fix it because they don't add a financial
58:33
incentive for them to do it. OK, and now I have an update
58:38
from my friend who just started at the SMDC yesterday.
58:41
They did add mileage into their route evals and it started on
58:45
the first day. She gained 4 hours just in
58:48
mileage and traffic control points.
58:51
Good 4. Hours.
58:52
Good. Four hours.
58:58
And that's what's going to save them money, James, from sending
59:01
a truck to the old Office 1 carrier. 4 hours.
59:06
You know you you can't make this shit up.
59:09
You really can't. That's 20 minutes each way added
59:14
to her route each day. Yep, Yep.
59:22
Added four hours to her route. What she's happy about, don't
59:25
get me wrong, but. She.
59:28
Got screwed on those first, Yep. Plus the extra fuel currently at
59:37
10 miles to the gallon in an LLV.
59:40
You getting 10 miles? Mr. Johnson, it's 4 hours in
59:44
mileage and traffic control points.
59:47
Combination of both, not just traffic control points.
59:51
That's why I said 20 minutes per day.
59:56
Yeah. What I was going to say was what
1:00:00
scares me about what I'm doing the adjustments in the next
1:00:03
couple months is. It's not going to be a team.
1:00:07
These teams are going to teach local management how to do the
1:00:11
adjustments. So local management's the one
1:00:14
that's actually going to do the cuts.
1:00:18
That's scary and if you if you have a good manager, they'll sit
1:00:22
down with you and and work out what can be cut from your route.
1:00:26
To the benefit of the office, of course, but hopefully in a way
1:00:30
that benefits both the carrier and the route if you have good
1:00:33
management. If you have bad management,
1:00:34
they'll just turn around and take a pair of scissors to your
1:00:37
route and figure out what they want to cut off of there.
1:00:40
Yeah, I mean if if our one, our biggest route in our office, it
1:00:47
went down to a 46 this last time.
1:00:50
But if it was to go back up to a 40 or 7 or 48, she's looking at
1:00:54
the possibility of getting cut and you know it with that route,
1:01:00
especially taking I think the carrier's word on where to cut
1:01:05
would be good because that's not a route that you can just whack
1:01:08
up. There is no additional route you
1:01:10
can put that on because it's its own zip code.
1:01:13
You know you would have to create another aux route off of
1:01:15
it. So you know.
1:01:22
The question is, is he going to be high enough to make an aux
1:01:27
route? Which was part of the problem of
1:01:31
why I didn't get cut before Rex started is because I didn't have
1:01:38
enough for them to cut off to create an aux route, and there
1:01:44
wasn't really anywhere else to put it without me taking more
1:01:49
away from me and giving me a little bit from one of the
1:01:51
other. Routes note Note to the editor
1:01:56
Please cut where Josh says he didn't have enough to cut off.
1:02:10
Bad joke, bad joke. If you're a 46, KS are not
1:02:17
considered overburdened. 4740 eights are considered
1:02:21
overburdened, 46 or not. So if you're still a 46, you're
1:02:25
still safe for now. For now I am currently at 45, so
1:02:33
we'll see. Now the post office is
1:02:36
effectively going to send these teams out to train local
1:02:41
management how to make these cuts correct?
1:02:44
That's the understanding I have. The the the same management that
1:02:48
can't get payroll entered correctly right?
1:02:51
That would be correct. The same management that can't
1:02:55
schedule correctly. Yep.
1:03:00
In theory, yes. The same management, yes.
1:03:04
The same management that didn't bother training the carriers and
1:03:08
wrecks as they were contractually required to.
1:03:11
Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding. We have a winner.
1:03:19
Yep. The same management that was
1:03:21
supposed to go out and train management on Rex.
1:03:28
Yeah, the same management where half of US carriers were
1:03:31
training management on Rex. Ding, Ding.
1:03:35
Bonus round, Bonus round. You win a giant prize.
1:03:43
And I'm teaching my my RCA trainees, when we're out on the
1:03:46
road and there's a special circumstance like a postage due
1:03:50
letter or an unscanned parcel or extra trips to the door, I am
1:03:56
getting out of the truck with them and walking them through
1:04:00
step by step how to do it and what they need to do.
1:04:06
All right, we made three trips to the door for all of their
1:04:09
bags of dog food, Kitty litter, mattresses, who knows?
1:04:12
Convection ovens seem to be popular lately, you know?
1:04:18
Yeah, I haven't had any of those lately.
1:04:20
I've had a couple of convection ovens though.
1:04:22
But you know, I'm, I'm getting right out with them and showing
1:04:26
them, you know, after we complete it, how to do it.
1:04:30
You know, what else can I do? I mean, that's what I'm trying
1:04:32
to do is get them all doing it across the board.
1:04:36
And if it's, you know, it's something that maybe like if I'm
1:04:39
training another RCA and my RCA is running the route and he
1:04:42
comes across something he hasn't dealt with before.
1:04:45
Well we had a package pick up slip.
1:04:47
He hadn't dealt with it before so I explained it to him at the
1:04:51
case of what he would do with it and everything.
1:04:53
So he got it after that. But you know, there's other
1:04:56
things like, well he had a postage due letter that I saw
1:05:00
yesterday. So I just took a sticky note and
1:05:02
I told him what to do with it. I just wrote it down.
1:05:05
Rex activity postage due short paid when he got there.
1:05:09
So he knew what to do. And it's that simple.
1:05:12
When you're working with newbies, you you, you teach them
1:05:14
right? As you teach them along as the
1:05:16
circumstances come up. And don't forget that this is
1:05:21
the last time that you're going to lose any accrued time for FSS
1:05:25
flat. This will be the the final
1:05:28
period where they remove all time that's been attributed to
1:05:32
your route for FSS flat if you had it.
1:05:36
Yes. Oh yeah, 'cause it's been AI
1:05:39
can't believe it's been a year already.
1:05:42
Yep. I'm surprised they haven't taken
1:05:44
it off the distance measurement sheet yet.
1:05:48
We have. Well, yeah, we don't put
1:05:51
anything in it. Yeah, we just drew a line
1:05:54
through it. So.
1:05:58
Which which brings me back to another point in regards to your
1:06:03
pre trip inspection. Because of the fact that the SO
1:06:08
132 which is for your truck inspection on the sheet they're
1:06:13
using in the office they are. There's a comment section off to
1:06:17
the right that says they're only measuring to the truck door.
1:06:21
But if you go through the entire SO32 from the engineers, they
1:06:26
are giving you 8 point 1.8716 minutes to actually do the walk
1:06:33
around that's already built in to your time factor on top of
1:06:38
your walk time to the door of your vehicle.
1:06:41
Now I've been around long enough that when somebody says it's
1:06:45
already built in, that's like somebody saying, oh, I wouldn't
1:06:50
lie to you, I don't believe any of it.
1:06:54
Really don't. Yeah, I've heard that so many
1:06:57
times. Oh, that's, that's been factored
1:06:58
in. That's been built in.
1:07:00
That's ladies and gentlemen, make sure you get those times,
1:07:04
you know your walk time and make sure that's added in there to to
1:07:07
verify the actual amount of time that you're getting for your pre
1:07:11
trip inspections on your government vehicles.
1:07:15
That's what you're saying, Bill. It's like my daddy always told
1:07:18
me never trust a man that says trust me.
1:07:23
And all your distance measurements are a round trip.
1:07:29
I I had somebody reach out to me 'cause the supervisor that was
1:07:33
doing the measurements saying, no, it's just to there.
1:07:35
No, it's round trip. It says right on there.
1:07:38
I highlighted it on the sheet and then he's like, thank you,
1:07:41
we got that corrected. But yeah, all your distance
1:07:44
measurements are round trip. Don't let them do a one way
1:07:50
it's. Round trip they.
1:07:51
Should be measuring it with the wheel with you round trip
1:07:54
measurement. I.
1:07:56
Think the only one that's not is grabbing your scanner in the
1:07:59
morning because you're on and to shift duties to walk it back to
1:08:03
the cradle. I actually it is round trip.
1:08:08
Yes. And for those who who aren't
1:08:15
aware, yes O 32 that I was quoting is actually Article 41
1:08:21
in the Rex guide. The SO32 is a number assigned by
1:08:28
the engineers that they've done that up and down the board in
1:08:31
regards to their time specifications.
1:08:34
So it's not like it's something new, it's just you know, I I use
1:08:37
the actual, you know, whatever they want to assign that to to
1:08:43
show that you know they are doing this in a sequence and
1:08:46
assigning, you know, abstract times to your account.
1:08:50
Oh, my SMDC friend also said that all their route
1:08:54
measurements, we'll definitely have to try and get her on and
1:09:00
she'll definitely be able to explain it better in person.
1:09:03
But she's like this place is massive, our walking distances
1:09:07
are going up, are going to up our routes more, her Dr. told
1:09:12
her. In other SNDC offices, some
1:09:14
carriers have an in office walking distance over a mile
1:09:19
long. Holy shit.
1:09:24
Yeah. Well, and that's daily.
1:09:28
Yeah, just their in office walking distances between
1:09:32
everything. Well, I hope.
1:09:35
I. Hope they upgraded the the
1:09:37
bathrooms because when we moved from Gay Street and Westchester
1:09:41
Airport Rd., you had to know 20 minutes before you had to go to
1:09:46
the bathroom that you had to go to the bathroom.
1:09:49
Yeah. It was 2 football fields away
1:09:52
through everybody. I mean, you you had to go
1:09:55
through the clerks, the city carriers, the supervisors, the
1:09:58
swing room. It's like by the time I got to
1:10:01
the bathroom, I was doing the pee pee dance.
1:10:05
Yeah, you know, it's pretty crazy.
1:10:12
So you guys want to wrap it up then for this evening?
1:10:15
We can do that. All right.
1:10:18
Josh, your final commentary for tonight, please.
1:10:23
Mini mail survey. It's two weeks.
1:10:26
They're counting minimal things, but make sure you're getting
1:10:29
credit for everything you can get credit for.
1:10:32
It may not take make much of your evaluation, but it could be
1:10:37
the difference between a 43 or 44.
1:10:44
Yeah, the next evaluated hour up.
1:10:47
Or down. Be Yep.
1:10:51
Be safe out there. Don't get yourself overwhelmed.
1:10:56
If you do, take a step back, take a deep breath, and step
1:11:01
back in. Have a good week.
1:11:03
We'll catch you next time, James.
1:11:07
Don't. Get yourself dressed out over
1:11:10
this stuff, even though it is your paycheck.
1:11:13
Even though management's going to do anything and everything
1:11:16
they can to cut your numbers down.
1:11:19
Because that's what they're told to do by their management and
1:11:22
their management's told that by their management.
1:11:25
Just do the job the best you can and know that no matter what.
1:11:30
We're all in this together, Bill.
1:11:35
Well, here we are again at that critical time of year, twice a
1:11:41
year now where management's trying to browbeat, manipulate
1:11:46
whatever they can that the basically rob you and you know
1:11:51
an educated carrier is the most dangerous carrier to management.
1:11:56
And if you don't educate yourself for the sake of your
1:11:58
own paycheck then I don't know what will motivate you.
1:12:02
Ladies and gentlemen, we just completed this, the SWAC
1:12:05
conference. The mid states is coming up that
1:12:09
I'll be attending Eastern States and then Western states also not
1:12:14
attending the last two, but you know mid states.
1:12:17
I really looking forward to getting together with my cohorts
1:12:20
here and you know, stirring the pot up because of the fact that
1:12:24
after SWAC, we've found that there's a lot of dissent out
1:12:28
there. And we, we have the opportunity
1:12:31
of changing the direction of this union.
1:12:34
We have the opportunity to actually educate, promote and
1:12:39
protect the craft like they should be.
1:12:42
The people at the national board level are your employees, Your
1:12:47
dues pay for their paycheck, their housing, their travel.
1:12:52
So, you know, when we come to the National Convention this
1:12:54
year, let's have a whole boatload of new delegates in
1:12:58
there that want to vote for change.
1:13:00
I'm not telling you how to change or vote.
1:13:03
I'm telling you that we need to change and you're the only
1:13:06
people that can do it. The delegates that attend the
1:13:09
National Convention, As always, be safe, you know, do the job,
1:13:15
the best of your ability, exercise carrier discretion and
1:13:22
be nice to people, OK? There's so much bitterness and
1:13:25
anger in the world nowadays, it's it's so hard to even
1:13:29
comprehend that you know you should be nice to people even if
1:13:33
you don't know them. Not just your customers, but
1:13:36
people you encounter at the supermarket, at the bar, the VFW
1:13:40
and all that. Kristen visit while she's on a
1:13:42
route, but do your job the best you can be, be professional and
1:13:48
courteous about it and get home safe because you are the most
1:13:52
important delivery of the day and you need to get home to your
1:13:55
loved one. God bless.
1:13:58
Thank you, gentlemen. I can't disagree with any one of
1:14:03
them. Yep or I.
1:14:06
What is it? We do them twice a year now.
1:14:09
Mini mail survey just got underway and you know we're just
1:14:14
kind of repeating what everybody else has said, you know, get get
1:14:18
the credit where you can get it, you know, every little thing.
1:14:21
Yes, it's only 6%. But again, that could be a
1:14:25
deciding percentage between whether you go up an hour or
1:14:28
down an hour. You know, that's whether you're
1:14:31
right at that cusp of going from AJ to AK route or an H to AJ.
1:14:37
You know, do what you can and count everything that you can
1:14:41
'cause, you know, like I said, they the smallest number, if
1:14:44
you're right at that border, will send you in either
1:14:47
direction. So stay safe, everybody.
1:14:50
It looks like we're into a secondary fault.
1:14:52
Spring again around at least my neck of the woods.
1:14:56
Enjoy the weather all through while you can.
1:14:57
Stay safe and we will see you next week.
1:15:14
I say that every week and I still screw it up sometimes.