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Episode 85, proactive versus reactive.
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This may turn into a doozy. We'll see how it goes.
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How was your week, James? Well.
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It was heavy this week. For some odd reason I could not
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make my evaluation at all. Lots of packages, lots of mail
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box holders. We had our monthly shopper come
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in too. It was just a mess of things.
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And even at one point I had a bit of my DPS missing and it was
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actually a godsend because I actually got back just before
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the truck was going to leave and made the truck for it.
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But twice I didn't make the truck at all.
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So it was pretty bad week overall.
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And then sat during the week I got news that my train station
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that I volunteered at is selling everything off they can before
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the demolition team comes in to tear everything out of the
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building. So it's kind of a sad weekend
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for me. However, did go and see the new
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Twisters movie yesterday. I give it about 5.6 out of 10.
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Could have been better, but I won't give any spoilers for
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those that haven't seen it as all at all.
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So, but it was good for what it was for the entertainment value.
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I will give it that. I and then today I took the day
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to get working on my speeches for National Convention and
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getting everything squared away and put together for that,
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getting finances finalized before I head out for National
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Convention. So other than that, pretty much
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just a heavier but normal week at the post office.
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How about you, Bill? Oh, I had another exciting week
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of recuperating, except for Thursday, which was our
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standard, our annual presidents and secretary treasurer's
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training date, the file RLM 4 reports, and it's amazing.
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We we used to spend almost the whole day doing these reports.
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The number of participating counties at each training
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seminar. And now, now we get it done, you
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know, by 12/30, 1:00 go to have lunch and then apart from our,
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you know, eating location because everybody has it done.
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And I'm going to take a little credit for that because explain
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to people how to do this and, and, and make it easy on
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themselves. Of course, one office had to
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show up with the president there at the secretary treasurer
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because they haven't started it yet.
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Even though your LM4 report, you ought to be making the entries
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into your books on July 1st. And it's just like folks, you
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don't put the effort into it. You're just going to make it
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more difficult to, you know, for yourself.
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At the end, everybody there blew right through it.
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There's about seven or eight people that have been there for
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the last 4-5 years. They've taken my advice using
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zip drives, brought laptops. You get it done, you know, easy
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peasy in in less than 3 minutes. You can get through it of
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signing in, validating, saving pages and then you know your
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signatures on there and it it's just it's it's a bit of work,
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but if you do it every month, it's not any work at all when it
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comes to actually filing a report because you have
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everything done already. Just go right off your checkbook
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for your entry. So I don't know, it was good
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seeing some people there and a couple people have commented and
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says, Oh my God, Bill, you have hair.
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I said not for long. I'm going back to work.
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So, you know, two months of growth and my wife's, you know,
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having a ball going around and grabbing a handful and yanking
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me. But you know, that'll that'll
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end tomorrow morning. How about yourself, Kristen?
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Are are we on the baby clock? How was your week?
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We are my week was emotional to start off the week as you all
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know from last week and I had lost my friend and Monday.
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Monday evening was the visitation and I picked up
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another friend 'cause she lived in the same town where the
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church was for where the services were and she needed a
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ride. So I picked her up and we go and
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you know, we, the emotions, let me tell you.
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So a lot of people I haven't seen in many, many, many, many
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years. Lots of hugs, lots of tears.
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And so we decided, and then it, it kind of started raining a
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little bit. And this gentleman, I don't know
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who he was, wasn't somebody that I had known for the past, but
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they come up to us and ask if somebody had a red Jeep with the
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cargo Topper on there. And I was like, yeah, he goes,
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OK, I just want to let you know because it's raining out.
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And I noticed your window was down a little bit.
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I'm like, oh, OK, thank you. So then her and I decided we'll
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we'll go out and have a smoke. So we went out to the car.
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It was raining. It had lightened up a little
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bit, sprinkling still. We go out to the car.
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I'm like, oh, we'll turn the air on, roll the windows up.
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And as soon as I switched the radio on, the Shinedown song
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came on of a dead don't die. And I kind of I nudged her and I
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said, look. And she looked at me.
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She's like, oh, my. And then we just started
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laughing. And then it just broke out in
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rain hard. And I like, I guess we're
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sitting here till the song's over with and we're like, we
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hear you, Michelle. We, we, we see the note.
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We just, we laughed and laughed and laughed and laughed.
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And as soon as the song got over, the rain lightened up
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lightly enough for us to make a dash back into the church.
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And so we hung out and then it just downpoured even more.
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And so eventually when it finally let up, we we left.
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And then as many people were leaving shortly after us, this
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big huge rainbow came out across the street from the church, from
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the doors. And so, so it was just, you
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know, it was good seeing people. It was hard to say goodbye to
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this dear friend. But so Wednesday with the
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funeral, we I get in and say friends like have you heard that
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song Since I said, no, I haven't.
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She goes me neither. So we do the services and I did
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the procession 'cause it was probably about an 8 mile drive
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to the cemetery for a graveside services.
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And we went right past my parents house and my daughter
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was staying at my parents, my youngest.
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And she came out and I asked her, I said record the
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procession for me because I knew it was a big one.
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Mom counted 55 cars and did that.
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And then we went to luncheon and saw some more friends that I
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hadn't seen before in years and went home and got stuff for went
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back to my parents, got stuff around and drove home.
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We got back into town. I stopped at the ice cream shop
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to grab an ice cream cone since my daughter was working.
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Sophia and I get back in the car to three last three blocks home.
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And what's that song that came on right after we got back in
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the car? The exact same song, the
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Shinedown song. Didn't hear it all the way home.
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The four hour drive home. Didn't hear it.
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But as I'm at my last three blocks and at that point, I just
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started laughing and crying at the same time.
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It was just one of those things that just.
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Yeah. And so then I went back to work
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on Wednesday. Wednesday was actually pretty
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late. I only had 73 scans, Thursday at
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110, Friday had 132. So it got heavier towards the
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end of the week and I was off on my K day yesterday and I took
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Monday through. Well, I'm off this whole next
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week, let's put it that way. Ruby's appointment for
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everybody's has kind of been follow along knowing that he's
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been measuring small. Thursday he went from the last
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growth scan at 32 weeks, so a month ago it was up to the 12th
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percentile, estimated at 5 lbs seven oz.
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Her normal doctor wasn't in there to get an adduction date,
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so they scheduled her Monday with the doctor tomorrow at
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11:00 AM. So I told her to bring a
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hospital bag in case she doesn't let her go home.
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So I scheduled the whole week off and just to say since about
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3:00 PM this afternoon and she started having contractions and
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back pain and since she's been home about 5:30, they're going
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on about every half hour now. So I'm on Baby Watch tonight, so
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if we abruptly in this episode, we'll know that they're coming a
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lot sooner than every half hour. But yeah, so we'll find out if
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we don't end up going up tonight.
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Well, we've got an appointment tomorrow and I'm pretty sure
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we'll end up staying. That's been my week in a
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nutshell. Everybody's had a relatively
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good week except for James. Yeah, yeah.
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Well, for once I've got to complain about a week, I guess.
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I'd say usually it's a good week for me usually because I usually
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it's calm and cool and collected.
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But yeah, the very first thing that I want to talk about today
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is there was somebody that asked this question in somewhere and I
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saw it and I wanted to put this out there because their
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management is telling them that they have to do if they're under
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400 letters. It has to be an average through
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the week or through the 52 weeks or whatever.
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But if you go in the 99 page guide, it's both under sector
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segment letters and casing DPS letters.
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It says the standard for casing DPS is only credited in two
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circumstances. When the route receives fewer
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than 400 PCs pieces PCs pieces of DPS letters in a day, the
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quantity is automatically defaulted to this casing
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standard. The second application of the
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DPS letter casing standard is when the route receives more
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than one run of DPS in a day. In this case, the standard would
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be applied to the smaller run of DPS with the fewest pieces.
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Again, this is an automatic default in the system.
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This person filed a dispute because there were days they had
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under 400 pieces of DPS. So our system here in this 99
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page guide tells us that it's supposed to be automatically
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applied and they disputed it and no action was taken.
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That's your national steward system and national board
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leadership standing behind you. How hard is that to figure out,
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James? How hard, how difficult is it
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for you to say 400 twice in the same program?
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Yeah, they actually said it like four times in those.
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Those two sections talk about 404 hundred pieces or less, less
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than 400 pieces. So we'll say 399 or less because
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it says less than 400. So anything less than 400, so
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399 or less, you should be credited a casing standard for
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your DPS. And yet we have district
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representatives right now who are saying no action needed.
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We have managers that don't understand it's supposed to be
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automatically applied. This was supposed to be in the
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system. Carriers are reacting to the
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very stuff you put in this 99 page guide.
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They're disputing things that are put in this 99 page guide
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that was given out by our national board on the website.
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I actually just pulled the comprehensive guide up that was
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revised 3/22 of 24. This isn't the first iteration,
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this is the current iteration of it and it still says it.
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I'm sure it'll disappear down the road, but.
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And, and no, Bridget, this is not anybody giving out false
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information. This is James quoting the Rex
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program. A 99 page guide, you can
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actually look it up yourself and anything that is said on this
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podcast or told you by a district Rep, your local Rep,
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national board, anybody, you need to do your research on it.
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You need to make sure that everything is correct on that.
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This is your job, your responsibility, that you are
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protected to have this knowledge.
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So go ahead, pull up the 99 page guide.
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I will tell you it is on page #67 and the comprehensive guide,
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and you find it on the national website underneath the home
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page, the tab that says Rex Resources, and you'll find it
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there. No, you can't make this shit up.
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No, that was the that's just the small little little thing for
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today's episode. It's a small little thing for
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today's episode. The very next thing I did do a
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breakdown of our President's article in the newsletter this
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week on both our podcast group and on Royal Mail Carriers
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United group, but I just wanted to do a couple of quotes out of
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this edition here. The very first quote, I want to
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go out and say we are confident that the adjustment tool is
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accurate and is fairly calculating route adjustment
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data. We will continue to push the
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Postal Service to implement it on a large enough scale, large
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enough to address this historic backlog.
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Speaking of the routes that are overburdened, they said 5600
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routes were identified in the first phase.
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But previously, he said nearly 25% of all rural routes are in
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an overburdened status, 25%, that's 1/4 of the routes, 1/4.
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But he's confident the Postal Service is working on it.
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And they're doing a proper job with it with the same kind of
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level of training that they did on the Rex program to their
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managers and the mapping program to their managers and the ROW
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route optimization program to their managers.
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I did talk to I, I well, go ahead, Bill.
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Go ahead. I, I just, I, I don't understand
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James, you know, he, he's attacking our president for, on,
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on the grounds of, you know, maybe implausibility in regards
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to what he's actually doing for us in regards to the other
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bullshit he's feeding us. You're, you're pushing this for,
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you still don't have transparency, transparency and
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clarity in the Rex program, but you are, you do have confidence
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in this adjustment program, which you don't have information
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in regards to how the algorithm is working on top of them
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dumping the, the rural route optimization program right
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behind it. And it's causing people to make
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dangerous turns on their routes that is causing them to drive
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across lawns to get to a mailbox, skipping across a river
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where there's no bridge. He has confidence in the post
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office. I'm sorry, you, you, you have to
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be some kind of Jim Jones convert to make a statement like
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that and, and just follow blindly the postal program as
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they force feed it down our throats, Grant.
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I talked to a carrier this week that their route wasn't cut, but
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they did have some territory swap due to other routes being
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cut in the office. And from what I am finding out
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is when they're doing this, the volume factor isn't the volume
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factor for each box, they're going by the volume factor for
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the route in general. So across the board.
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So what happened to this carrier was they took off the lightest
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part of their route and took a piece of another route that
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happened to be the heaviest and put it in that place.
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And now this carrier who was a 46 K and now has had adjustments
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because of the other cuts going in the office is no longer able
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to make their valuation daily by an hour to three hours a day
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because it's going by the volume factor for the route and not the
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volume factor by the box. Which is what it was supposed to
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be. Yeah, I talked with talked with
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a carrier that has a 46 K also hasn't been adjusted or anything
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changed like that. Has begged for a route cut is
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finally grieving it at my suggestion to grieve for them
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not cutting the route. But they are out there most
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times running a second trip on their route.
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They have so many packages that even if they had an LLV, they
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would be running a second trip on their route.
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And it's not a small route, it's a little high.
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It's a pretty high mileage route.
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It's like almost 100 miles. And they they're finally
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grieving that. But that's another instance
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where the evaluated system has failed us, the REC system has
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failed us. The routes that are long but
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have a lower mail volume level but may have a higher package
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volume level are still getting hurt by this evaluated system.
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But here's another comment he made on the evaluated system.
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We find ourselves where we are today for several reasons.
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We did not have mail counts for several years while the new REC
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system was in the final stages of development.
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During that time, there were very few route adjustments.
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In far too many cases, the route evaluations were and are still
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not representative of the work being completed by many rural
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carriers since the standard hours for payment stopped at
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5736 or K48. What about the ones that are
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under evaluated for what they have?
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What about the ones? What about the ones that were
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under evaluated for all those years you were on the National
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Board the whole time? Yet you didn't fight hard to
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make sure that these carriers were properly compensated fair
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wages for Fair Work. And then they get the new
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evaluation and automatically are a 48 but still working well
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above 56 hours in five days before we even got the 56 hour
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rule down from above at arbitration.
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But now they're finally getting close to what they should have
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been getting before Rex was even implemented.
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And now they're getting cut back to a 43, which is actually
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probably for a lot of them is below where they were before Rex
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was implemented because a lot of them were already 45 KS before.
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Hey James. So they're.
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What I just want to correct you, the 56 hours is under the Fair
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Labor Standards Act. I am.
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I'm aware, but it had it. We weren't getting that on until
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the arbitration ruling. We had to have an arbitration
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ruling come down and say that that's how it has to be and
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that's why management started paying the 56 hour rule.
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Basically you're saying they weren't paying it because of the
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fact that they were just violating it and they had to go
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go press the matter to get people paid for it even though
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it's already locked. Yes, which again, through
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management violates the law, management violates the
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contract, management doesn't care that the union doesn't like
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what they're doing unless we actually take it to the law,
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which arbitration is law. But so many carriers are have
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been hurt over the past three years of wrecks over the past
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five years. Yeah, and three and three years
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of not having anything. Yeah, it was 2002 thousand. 18
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with the last count, yes. It.
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Was so six years, now six years and so that.
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That now we went through two years of COVID working our asses
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off under extreme conditions for, you know, mentally,
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physically, you know, for our health, you know, physical,
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physical health, you know, propping up the post office,
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propping up the the entire economy in the United States
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because people weren't allowed to go out and do do anything.
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And our reward was Rex. Yep, Yep.
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OK. I I just wanted to make sure I
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had that clear. And my last quote that you're
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probably going to go off on Bill, not me.
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Oh yes, this, this one, maybe Kristen might.
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I mean, we're talking. This is going to bring back
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Orlando 2022 for you. Again.
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Our National Convention is a time for your voices to be
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heard, to ask questions, make comments and share the issues
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you are elected to raise from the convention floor.
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It is this exercise in participation and democracy that
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makes our union special and why it is an honor to serve as
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President of the NRLCA. Kristen, you start this one off
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1st. I don't know if I have anything
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nice to say at all, but. Take a breath, compose yourself,
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and hopefully come off without the no.
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Well, we're not going to confuse passion with anger.
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No, I really, I really don't have anything to say to it in
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general, honestly. I mean, I, I'm looking forward
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to national, it will be interesting, but I, I really
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obviously don't have any words for that little portion.
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All right, Bill. Oh, democracy.
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Isn't that where everybody has a voice?
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Isn't that where you have freedom of speech?
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Is that where, you know, you're allowed to help people without
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being penalized or decertified because some antiquated rules
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that you have that really aren't written anywhere, just kind of
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implied because of the fact that you might give out the wrong
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information? Which, you know, it is funny
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because when I saw a quote in the magazine for Don, Don said,
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you know, hey, you know, it's tough being on call seven days a
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week while maintaining apov. I'm sitting there going when do
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we go on tell on call, because I I don't remember that being in
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the in the contract. Do you the democracy my ass.
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Isn't that where, you know, you are the spokesperson for the
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people, AKA the craft, not just yourself and the rest of the
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board members? Isn't that where you represent
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everybody's, you know, ideas? They're, they're resolutions
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that are passed through state, the national constitutions in
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regards to what carriers want instead of the 20 or 30 that
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they, they feel if it's the the majority of the craft.
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And like I said before, I mean, you could have, you know, a
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resolution representing 6% of the craft, which we'll consider,
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but three resolutions that represent 80% of the craft.
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We're not going to because three, we'd have to argue, not
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just one. This man infuriates me with his
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entitlement with oh God, I can't say it.
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I can't say it. Maintain, Bill, maintain,
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maintain, maintain. I just really, really, I'm
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looking forward to Reno. I am so static about the fact
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that we get to go there and blow this convention up.
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Not literally folks, but I mean it in regards to starting
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turmoil on the floor because of this man's arrogance.
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He, he just has no clue and he doesn't care, James, that's the
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worst part. He doesn't care that there isn't
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one aspect of his being where he has any consideration for union
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members. Oh, I represent the craft.
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You don't you, you represent the people that support you.
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You represent the people that kind of control the voting blocs
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for the delegates at the GOO, go to the legislative seminars.
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You get to press the flesh with their House of Representatives
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and their senators. They're the people you represent
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and you're depending on them to re elect you.
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But boy, I'm going to put the onus on everybody at that
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convention this year in regards to their integrity, voting for
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an individual like this or a narcissistic, arrogant,
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inconsiderate person. I had to change.
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I had to change my mind on the last word.
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But person because of the fact that he is not a leader.
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And he has demonstrated that time and time again.
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And I hope you all wake up at Reno this year because this guy
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wouldn't run an outhouse if you spotted him.
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A turd and a pint of pee and a ramp.
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Well, you hit the nail on the head and this is this is a long
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time coming. We are repeating history again
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and we're being a reactive agency again.
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The history shows it. We go through these ebb and
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flows where we get people in that are actually proactive,
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stepping up, taking care of problems and issues and having
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them face on before they become a problem.
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And then slowly over time, we wane into a reactive system
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where we only react when it's absolutely necessary, when it
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behooves those at the top to actually do something to solve
27:58
the problem, you know, and it's disheartening to a lot of
28:04
people. I have a carrier in my office
28:07
who after rural route optimization the I have to call
28:13
this out. My postmaster said well they
28:15
paid big money in this program and we have to do this.
28:18
Even though he's arguing that doing all those left turns in AU
28:23
turn on a 55 mile an hour Rd. that's three lanes wide is not
28:27
very safe. It's not impossible, but it's
28:30
not very safe. They're pushing it through
28:33
anyway. They already changed his BPS.
28:36
They already changed the case labels and his may have changed
28:39
the case labels. He's doing all that stuff.
28:42
He's grieved it, but he doesn't trust the process because he
28:45
doesn't believe the union will have his back in this.
28:49
Even though I've been pushing for him to do it right.
28:54
Stay the course, stay strong. There's no trust in the system.
28:58
And at this very point in juncture when we are on the edge
29:03
of losing everything, losing it all, because my next thing I'm
29:09
going to talk about is going to tell you exactly how we are
29:13
going to lose it all. Our national board is sitting on
29:16
their hands over this, telling us it won't affect our
29:20
evaluations, telling us we'll be OK.
29:23
It's just a test. It's not.
29:25
It's not. It's just a pilot program.
29:27
It's nothing important. It's not going to affect your
29:29
evaluations. Well, guess what?
29:32
I have received the training slideshow from management on the
29:40
MDD activity editing timeline. So right now they began live
29:47
testing all rural sites and then on July 29th Solver received the
29:53
edit from the live test period. The Solver program is going to
29:58
calculate exactly how many hours they have saved by editing
30:05
carrier scan. And then September 9th through
30:10
the 20th training of all managers for national deployment
30:16
of Rex activity editing. And on September 21st, every
30:23
single postmaster, supervisor, 2O4B, district manager, regional
30:30
manager and national manager will have the ability to edit
30:35
every single entry you put into your scanner.
30:39
Whether you put in a flat WSS, flat box holder, stamp, stock
30:45
sale, rural reach, the times you take to load your truck, they
30:50
will be able to edit them all. They will be able to make it
30:55
look like you didn't do it, make it look like you didn't earn
31:01
those credits, make it look like you took 10 minutes to load your
31:04
truck instead of 30 minutes that it normally takes.
31:07
Now I've calculated this out and especially those people in the
31:11
SNDC's that have to walk half a mile to their truck with their
31:17
cart of packages and mail. It's going to take them seven to
31:22
10 minutes to push that cart out to their truck safely.
31:27
Then the time it takes for them to load their truck, which could
31:30
be 10/15/20 minutes, and then another 10 minutes back into the
31:34
office. That's 40 minutes.
31:36
Well, on the City side, they want them to have 22 minute load
31:39
times. What's the time frame you think
31:41
they're going to edit your load time to when they get the
31:46
opportunity 20? 2222.
31:49
Or less. The question is how?
31:51
How did we allow this? Well, our national board allowed
31:57
this because there's that stipulation that the carrier has
32:00
to sign off on the adjustment, but as we all know how
32:04
management is, they'll forge that too.
32:08
The only reason that I could see why anybody should be editing
32:15
the Rex scans is if oops, I accidentally hit this where the
32:20
carrier comes to management to say I need this taken off.
32:26
Because we all know if we forget to enter in a box holder or
32:31
something that's under the office menu right now, we can go
32:34
to the little hamburger menu up the top and pull the whole thing
32:37
up and put it in later in the day.
32:40
We all know we can do that. So here's the thing.
32:44
The only way I feel that this should be done is if the carrier
32:50
comes to management saying I accidentally hit something.
32:54
I know the spacing's wider now between the selections, which is
32:58
great. A little bit less error, but
33:00
error can still happen. You know, you could be scrolling
33:03
up to hit something and you accidentally hit something else.
33:06
That's where I can see where editing main me needed is.
33:10
If the carrier themselves goes to management and says hey, I
33:14
need this taken out. Outside of that, management
33:18
should not be touching those. But we all know how management
33:21
is. So now that's just one more
33:24
thing that we have to be vigil of as carriers is are they
33:29
editing our scans let. Me point out the obvious here,
33:33
James. When?
33:34
When's the implementation of this?
33:36
Supposed to be? September?
33:37
What? September 21st, which is just
33:41
test, which is right around the time they're right around the
33:44
time that they're going to be calculating out our evaluation.
33:51
On the mini male survey, right after the mini male survey, how
33:55
convened, You don't think they sat there and plotted this to go
33:59
into effect at that specific time?
34:03
You don't think that they've been sitting there drooling,
34:05
saying damn, we're going to make a shit load of money off these
34:09
bastards, they're not going to know what's going to hit them.
34:12
Exactly. And this is just another step to
34:15
us going hourly because we're going to be up in arms that
34:18
we're underpaid for all the work we're doing and we want to go
34:21
hourly to get paid what we're actually working.
34:24
And then we turn into city carriers.
34:26
This is what management wants. This is what it is about being
34:29
proactive versus reactive. You have to anticipate what your
34:35
enemy and management is the enemy here because they're going
34:40
to do anything and everything to milk every penny they can out of
34:45
the carriers they're saving. They're spending dollars to save
34:50
Dimes off the carriers backs. In the meantime, they're hiring
34:54
more and more managers, spending more and more money on
34:57
management and abusing carriers left and right.
35:02
It's not. New and and let me take you back
35:06
to to the FSS machines if anybody has any question of the
35:11
post office doing anything to save a dime.
35:15
FSS machines are one of the greatest examples of ripping off
35:20
the rule craft because of the fact that in my area, the
35:24
Pennsylvania two district FSS machine installed at the cost of
35:31
$100 million whatever paid for itself in two years, 100,
35:39
$1,000,000 between the rule carriers and the city carriers.
35:43
The hours they were cutting off for the clerks machine paid for
35:47
itself in two years. Now, if you don't think that
35:52
they're not, you know, following the same paradigm in regards to
35:56
taking more money off of you. Look at Rex, look at the rule
36:00
route optimization program, look at the new scanner, you know,
36:05
adjustments where they can go in and manipulate the scans.
36:07
Now they're they're testing out and they're now going to turn
36:10
around and implement in September.
36:12
This is all designed to kind of turn us into city carriers like
36:16
James said, because the more they manipulate this, the more
36:20
that the carrier craft itself, the rule craft is going to sit
36:25
there and say, oh, well, the hell with this evaluation shit,
36:28
just pay us hourly. And when that happens, they win.
36:32
Yep, they will have one. And there are several people on
36:38
that national board right now that were involved in this
36:43
entire system, from the arbitration ruling that created
36:48
it all the way to its implementation now they've been
36:52
on the national board. And we're not going to mention
36:54
names like Don Matson, Jeanette Dwyer.
36:58
He's been involved more or less. Patrick Pitts.
37:01
Yep. You know, they are the ones
37:03
who've been involved. Ronnie Stutz.
37:06
Right. Well, Ronnie's not on the board
37:08
right now, so. Not on the board right now, but
37:10
he was involved. Yes, we have to.
37:13
We have to include the people who were involved in this.
37:17
Oh yeah, then then you go all the way back to Joey Johnson and
37:21
and you know, David Heather and you know, all the way back that
37:25
far means damn, you probably go back all the way back to Gus.
37:30
But you know, I, I don't think it would go that's that far back
37:33
since Jeannette actually started sold discussion with the Rex
37:36
program in 2012. But the issue of being proactive
37:41
versus reactive goes back even into the 80s, from the 80s on,
37:48
after we had the Wildcat strike in the 70s and we got every
37:52
contract benefit we could get because of how they were
37:55
treating US. History repeating itself.
37:58
It's was calm for a little bit, but then management went right
38:03
back to their old tactics. And we have evidence over that.
38:08
We have evidence all the way back.
38:10
We can prove that management has not changed their tactics.
38:15
You know, I'm reminded of a quote that our good president
38:19
said at one of our conferences. Change is going to happen
38:23
whether you like it or not. Well, I wonder when management's
38:26
going to get that memo that change is going to happen and
38:31
carriers are going to be protected, carriers are going to
38:34
be defended, and carriers are not going to stand for
38:38
management doing this to us anymore.
38:41
And then we're going to use any and all legal means to
38:45
accomplish that. Now, I know that I know that the
38:50
city carriers right now are in their National Convention this
38:54
week and I wish them the best of luck because they're dealing
38:58
with the exact same problems we are with their national board.
39:02
But they currently aren't in an election phase for their
39:07
national officers. The only, the only thing they
39:11
could do is possibly do a removal during National
39:15
Convention. That's about it.
39:17
But then the order of succession takes over.
39:21
So it's not an election. They still have two years for
39:24
that. So we're lucky we have the
39:29
yearly elections in our national officers.
39:34
Now, granted, that doesn't allow our entire body to vote for who
39:40
runs the union yet, but it's one of those things that we are
39:46
lucky that if we have a problem with our national leadership, we
39:50
could vote them out every year. The only exception to that is
39:57
the executive committee men cuz that is a four year term.
40:02
Yes, but they get voted every year too.
40:04
It just rotates through which position gets voted.
40:09
Somebody asked how do we get, how do we get the retirees and
40:12
loyalists to understand this? I cannot give you my honest
40:17
opinion on how to handle that. But in being politically
40:22
correct, I would have to say that you have to sit down and
40:25
talk to them and and explain to them that they do not understand
40:30
the conditions which we work under versus where they had
40:34
stronger union representation in offices in districts that we do
40:39
now. And we continue to have problems
40:43
with stewards AD Rs and D Rs throughout this country in
40:48
regards to their response to the time.
40:50
Like you said, no action required on, you know, 400
40:53
letters or less. How can that not be?
40:55
It's right there in the Rex resources.
40:59
Yet you don't pursue that. I, I, I've got to make this
41:02
remark, James, about you saying proactive versus reactive, OK.
41:06
Because this is this whole situation that we're being
41:12
turned into. I mean, like butter, we're being
41:14
churned, just turned over and folded over and folded over.
41:18
This is probably the post office greatest effort to get us to go
41:25
hourly so that we can be handled just like city carriers and
41:29
pivot on routes and therefore solve the shortage of Subs.
41:35
So I think this is their end game in regards to the hiring
41:38
and retentions of substitute carriers by having us go hourly.
41:43
And that's why they keep extending that MOU, which is set
41:46
to expire on the 23rd of August. We'll see if they renew it.
41:51
I wouldn't doubt it, honestly, if it came out on the 21st or
41:56
22nd that it was being renewed. And yeah.
42:01
And then the, the and then when the board is replaced by other
42:06
candidates, that MOU will still be enforceable because it was
42:11
negotiated in good faith with the current elected
42:15
representatives of the craft. Oh, James.
42:18
James, It was put into effect because many people need that
42:24
extra money to to pay their bills or make their enemy.
42:28
Or they want that extra money so they can save up from that
42:31
vacation or buy a new car. James, don't you understand that
42:36
the president told you this? It's not that they're on table
42:40
too and can't afford groceries. It's because they want the extra
42:45
money. I will admit I have taken
42:48
advantage of that Mou my myself personally just for, for helping
42:53
my, helping my postmaster out. I love my postmaster.
42:57
My postmaster is one of those unicorns, you know, So I will
43:01
help my postmaster out if I can in situations like that.
43:04
It was an emergency and I didn't have to, but I was also helping
43:10
out the RCA that day that, that were scrambling to cover that
43:14
route. So I took a bit of it to help
43:17
them out because that's what we do.
43:19
We help each other out. I I've taken advantage of it
43:22
since I went regular to help out the new RRCAS because they were,
43:27
you know, the couple that we had in the office were brand new
43:30
and, you know, their first few times out on that route.
43:33
Yeah, I have no problems going out to help them for the fact
43:36
that I'm going to help them because we all know what it was
43:39
like on our first few times out, especially our first day out by
43:43
ourselves with the whole route. It it, it's a shit show.
43:46
We know that. And so, you know, not as even as
43:50
a new regular, I didn't have to be a brand new regular.
43:52
I could have just done it as to get, you know, I, I get it.
43:56
We've all been there. Let's go out and do this, you
43:59
know, I, you know, give them a call.
44:01
Hey, where are you at? I'm on my way.
44:03
You know, I don't I even to this day, I don't have a problem
44:06
doing that. Wouldn't need it, but it's.
44:09
And it. It's funny because I was in the
44:11
same boat. I, I would help out initially
44:15
when the MOU first came out, OK. And if someone was having a
44:18
problem or if there was, you know, a couple vacant routes and
44:21
I knew it, I would, I would, you know, volunteer to help because
44:26
of the fact that I didn't want everything being burdened on to
44:29
the Subs who are already working a route and a half and coming
44:33
back to the office to think, oh, we have more.
44:36
But then I started to notice that the supervisor kept coming
44:40
to me before going to junior people and asking for anybody
44:45
else because they knew that I would help volunteer.
44:49
And finally I said to myself, one day, I said, hold it.
44:53
Why am I the only one being singled out to assist?
44:57
Why aren't you asking anybody else?
45:00
And they're like, well, we get the same answer.
45:01
Well, it doesn't matter. You should be asking everybody,
45:05
not just the people who have helped in the past.
45:08
Therefore, the abuse gets heaped on to the people who have helped
45:11
in the past because it's assumed that you're going to help every
45:14
time. No, just because you're calling
45:17
the cessful doesn't mean I'm going to help you out every
45:19
time. Well, Bill, haven't you heard
45:21
the adage Hard work gets rewarded with more work?
45:24
Yes it does. I have AT shirt with that on
45:27
there. We had one commenter say I have
45:31
to be on the RDWL to make my ordinary bills as a single
45:35
income table one. Yeah.
45:38
Yeah, yeah. This, this is, you know, we are
45:42
sitting at a precipice in this country right now and in our in
45:47
our line of in our craft because Amtrak, a government agency just
45:54
like we are just got a 36% pay raise from their union in
46:02
negotiations. Our supervisors are going to get
46:07
a up to a 21% pay raise. But James, Amtrak doesn't
46:12
doesn't actually make enough money to cover their expenses
46:16
either, do they? No, they just like some
46:20
government subsidies too. Yeah.
46:23
On top of that, they on top of that, most of most of Amtrak's
46:28
running is on private company rail.
46:33
They don't even have to maintain the rail.
46:35
There are sections that they own the Northeast Corridor, for
46:38
instance, the Michigan line, so on.
46:42
But most, most of their travels are actually on the freight
46:45
railroads line. So they don't have those
46:47
maintenance costs of those places.
46:50
And then the train stations, a lot of them are actually
46:52
maintained by the cities that they stop at versus Amtrak
46:57
themselves. They don't have as much overhead
47:00
as the post office does, but they still run in the negative,
47:05
just like the post office. But they still are going to pay
47:11
their employees a living wage, especially in this economy.
47:16
But yet we have the city carriers haven't negotiated a
47:20
contract. They're supposed they've got an
47:23
arbitrator picked back a long time ago, but they still haven't
47:26
scheduled an arbitration. Where are we in our
47:30
negotiations? We got the comment from Mastin
47:35
that they've negotiated most of the hard stuff and they're just
47:39
working out the finer details. I'd love to know what those are,
47:43
but with closed door negotiations, that doesn't help
47:46
things either. You know, we're in the day and
47:48
age of information. We're in the information age
47:53
where everybody gets information as quickly as possible.
47:57
And yet we have negotiations that where we could step up and
48:02
protest to get this to happen. We could contact our
48:05
legislators, we could get the public involved if we actually
48:10
knew what we were negotiating. And it's one of those things
48:14
that. Hold on, hold on, you said.
48:17
Most of the hard stuff is settled.
48:19
So we're going to get rid of table.
48:20
Yeah. We're going to get rid of table
48:22
two and table four and we're going to have a, we're going to
48:25
have a step program for Rcas based on longevity and we're
48:29
going to get time and a half on Sundays and holidays for the
48:32
Rcas and Arcs. So those those things are
48:34
resolved. Well, when I made those
48:37
statements to Mast and at mid states, he said that's not going
48:40
to happen. I thought you said they had this
48:42
arch stuff settled. Doesn't mean it's settled in our
48:45
favor. That's what he put in the put in
48:48
the magazine. I, I said, I said we'd get, I, I
48:53
said we get a $10.00 an hour increase.
48:55
We had get rid of table two and four.
48:59
We get better benefits across the board, better insurance
49:02
rates and things like that. And he said that's not going to
49:05
happen. And Michael Gann was sitting
49:07
right next to him when he said that.
49:09
And after he said that, Michael Gann tapped him on the leg and
49:12
he said, Oh well, I got to go. It was nice chatting with you.
49:20
Lord. I pay attention to a lot of
49:23
things, especially the actions of others, especially the way
49:27
they talk about things. And that's the attitude that we
49:31
have it at our national board right now.
49:34
That's not going to happen. It's not.
49:36
It's not to the benefit of the Postal Service.
49:41
All I can say is if we don't change this board in Reno this
49:46
year, we go down the path that we've been going down the last
49:49
15 years at least, and the same shit just gets regurgitated.
49:56
There's going to be a lot of people out there saying, you
49:59
know, Angry Bill was right. But guess what?
50:03
It'll be too late then folks, because you'll be stuck for
50:06
another year this week. Leadership that has no concern
50:11
whatsoever, whatsoever your conditions, your situations, and
50:16
the toxic work environment we're exposed to.
50:19
You have to remember these national board members are only
50:23
reactive 3 months for them to file a Step 4 grievance on non
50:29
payment of carriers. It took us bringing out the fact
50:34
they were adding the activity editing to management for our
50:39
board to put out any information on it and say it's not going to
50:44
be a problem. Well, we've just proven it's
50:46
going to be a problem. We know it's going to be a
50:49
problem. We know the names of several
50:52
managers, supervisors, postmasters that will abuse the
50:57
system already. But it's not like we can go to
51:00
management and say, hey, you can implement this in some of the
51:04
offices where we actually trust the management, but you can't
51:07
implement it in these offices because those managers will
51:09
falsify it left and right. And Rex has proven that
51:14
management is incompetent, incapable of actually
51:18
understanding the system, let alone implementing it.
51:22
So this is just going to be another situation where the
51:26
abuse is going to be off the charts.
51:29
Whatever doesn't fit their metrics in regards to their
51:32
standards, guess what? They'll adjust them.
51:36
They will establish thresholds and say about to meet these and
51:41
if they're not met, go in there and adjust the scans.
51:45
You said the wrong word. It's benchmarked.
51:49
Oh, benchmark, yeah, benchmarking is, is the term,
51:53
but you know, it's, it's the same metrics.
51:55
I mean, you know, it is they, they are setting a, a, A level
52:00
of acceptance in regards to their perception of what we're
52:04
entitled to, not what we're doing, what we're entitled to.
52:08
They won't be happy until everyone is an H route.
52:11
In her comments. Yeah, everybody's a six hour H
52:14
route and they have to take a second six hour H route to
52:18
fulfill the day because they're so shorthanded.
52:21
Because everybody will have quit by then.
52:23
All the all the people that can walk away will walk away.
52:28
Frequency. I'm not waiting for the first
52:30
accident, I'm waiting for the first accident after the RRO in
52:35
regards to somebody making a dangerous U-turn left, turn
52:38
backing up. That will set the craft on fire.
52:42
Oh, trust me, they'll just blame the carrier for it.
52:47
By the way, I already talked to the carrier that actually had
52:50
management clocked them out. They had gone back to the office
52:55
and we're about to switch to PM casing to do their second trip
53:01
and just happened to check their Rex activity scanning and it
53:04
said they had already clocked out and the management didn't
53:07
have didn't have the ability to edit their scan.
53:10
So what that tells me is management scanned in under
53:14
their barcode and clocked them out.
53:17
Yeah, I'd have been in trouble because I'd have walked right
53:20
over to whoever's there. They asked them what the fudge
53:23
was going on. Oh the the manager already left
53:25
at 3:00 PM and the person's in an RMPO.
53:29
Oh my God. Oh.
53:31
Dear shit, me not at all. The the audacity.
53:37
Oh, was this manager's last name Matson?
53:40
No, I will not. I will not give away the
53:42
specific details, but that person does.
53:44
I know contacts and and will. I recommend to be able to call
53:47
out on this. I, I, I will.
53:50
I was being sarcastic. I know, I know.
53:54
It's. I'm so much unlike me, OK?
53:56
I mean, oh God. You know, and any, any accident,
54:04
we've proven that anytime a carrier is involved in
54:08
something, they won't blame the manager for making the carrier
54:11
do that, They'll blame the carrier for doing it.
54:13
Everything is the carrier's fault.
54:15
Even if management made them do it, even if management
54:18
threatened to fire them if they didn't, it's still the carrier's
54:21
fault under management's eyes. Ask the postal inspectors during
54:25
the Memphis series who was at fault for the situation.
54:28
I mean you can go back and listen to Corey's podcast.
54:30
He has the actual recording of what the post the postal
54:33
inspector said about who's at fault for it.
54:36
You'll hear it. The disdain in his voice for
54:38
carriers. I'm just, I, I, I'm anticipating
54:44
Reno, I, I, I'm hopeful and, and, and, and still a little bit
54:49
scared. God, I I hope people are going
54:52
to come to their senses because of the fact that this just can't
54:55
keep going on, ladies and gentlemen.
54:57
And yeah, we're not going to have a contract before the
55:01
convention. They, you know, they're, they're
55:02
still, you know, negotiating with the NALC.
55:06
We're not going to get ours done.
55:08
And hopefully, yeah, if I'm not mistaken, I believe they're
55:12
waiting on the APWU first because the APWU is the one
55:16
that's actually losing a lot of memberships because of the SMD
55:20
CS. So they're probably going to try
55:24
and base everything off the APWU because I believe management is
55:28
thinking that because they're struggling to bring in
55:31
membership, that the APWU is most likely to be the first one
55:34
to roll over and give a crappy contract.
55:37
But considering the statement that their president put out,
55:42
which was probably the best statement a president has put
55:45
out in a while for a postal union about their negotiations,
55:50
I don't think they're going down without a fight.
55:52
And they oh, let's, let's hope. They and they just started their
55:55
negotiations so. Yeah.
55:58
Well, I, I hope they're better than what the current
56:01
representation is in Westchester for the APWU because that,
56:05
that's so lame there that, you know, they, they don't even
56:09
bother. I mean, they, they really don't
56:12
even bother when when you're working at 2:30 in the morning,
56:16
you're coming in at 2:30 in the morning and at 8:00, they're
56:20
sending you out for two hours so you can come back for two more
56:22
hours later on. It's like, are you kidding?
56:25
And I understand they have these weird hour contracts with them
56:28
like that, but God, that doesn't make any sense.
56:31
It really doesn't. You can't schedule better than
56:34
that. But in my office that the APWU
56:37
has no backbone whatsoever except they step over them like,
56:41
you know, dogs swat in the middle of the sidewalk.
56:45
So I, I, I hope their leadership is better what I've seen in my
56:50
office. No, it's, it's the same in any,
56:53
any union out there with this stuff, because you have some
56:57
that are proactive, want to take care of their their membership.
57:02
And there are some that either have gotten into it under the
57:06
good old boy club or have burned out too.
57:11
Some of them have burned out because they've been fighting so
57:14
hard for so long and not gotten the support they need from above
57:18
them that they get burned out by it too.
57:23
You know, it's, it's crazy to think about how far we've come
57:28
as a society, yet how held back we are as a craft by our current
57:36
leadership. We could solve this, we could
57:41
get proactive to what's going on, but we have people who are
57:46
begging for help, I said. I brought up Orlando 2022.
57:51
Person on the floor crying begging for help and not getting
57:56
it 2023. Grapevine in 2019 as well.
58:02
They've been begging for help for years.
58:05
For years from our national board and not gotten it.
58:10
What's it going? No, no.
58:11
No, no, James, you're wrong. DRNNRO went to Hawaii to help
58:17
out. You know the carriers there.
58:19
But. Wasn't responding to, you know,
58:21
try for help throwing in a very nice vacation.
58:25
But you have people here who have lost so much because of
58:30
Rex, because of managerial harassment, because of map
58:35
editing that management does without the carrier.
58:39
You have people who aren't making enough money to make ends
58:42
meet anymore, especially those on table two and Table 4.
58:47
Hell, even those on one and three are not making ends meet
58:51
anymore. It's time for our national board
58:56
to step up or ship out. But at this point, since they
59:01
haven't stepped up, they might as well ship out because these
59:04
carriers need a proactive national leadership, not a
59:10
reactive national board. All right, James, you got
59:14
anything else for tonight? That's pretty much it.
59:18
Got anything to add, Bill? Yeah, but I can't make those
59:22
comments while you're still still recording so all.
59:26
Right. I'm going to say we're going to
59:28
wind this down for tonight so I can get her edited and posted
59:34
and then go take a nap. I just I went to go check on my
59:37
daughter's. She's still doing good.
59:40
Yeah, it's lightened up a little bit, but she can't keep
59:42
anything. OK, Well, all right, final
59:48
thoughts for me. You know, we definitely need
59:53
proactive people now. We need people who are thinking
59:58
what will management do next to screw over the craft.
1:00:04
We have offices that are still turning off the AC in the fans
1:00:08
in the morning and in the afternoon when carriers come
1:00:12
back. I have it from multiple people
1:00:15
in multiple offices across the country and management is still
1:00:18
doing this stuff. We have carriers who are
1:00:22
overworked, underpaid and under appreciated by management.
1:00:28
We have pooms who think they can direct management to do whatever
1:00:33
to these carriers with impunity. It's time to be proactive and
1:00:39
put people in the positions that are going to think ahead of the
1:00:44
bell curve, are going to think ahead of the next management
1:00:48
choices, are going to be stepping up and saying, hey,
1:00:53
this is coming down the pipeline.
1:00:55
We need to be prepared. Instead of posting about it two
1:00:59
days after a podcast puts it out.
1:01:02
The time for carriers to step up is now because it's time for us
1:01:08
all to stand up together and show management.
1:01:12
We're all in this together, Bill.
1:01:15
Well, all I can say is that our delegate selection is is process
1:01:20
itself has been completed. So everybody who's going to
1:01:24
represent you at the National Convention is already on the
1:01:28
list and you need to get a hold of them and you need to convey
1:01:34
your concerns, you need to convey the situation in your
1:01:39
individual offices. There's no way that I can
1:01:43
believe that there are more than, you know, maybe 5% of the
1:01:48
offices in this country that have unicorns because there's
1:01:53
just too much on social media in regards to situations that break
1:01:58
your heart. And I know people in my office
1:02:04
that get snap and Wick so that they can feed their families.
1:02:09
That should never happen. And when they turn around and
1:02:12
say, well, this was forced on to us by the arbitrator, no, let it
1:02:18
get forced on to you by the arbitrator because you let it
1:02:21
get to arbitration. You didn't have a prepared
1:02:25
battlefront in regards to how to approach the situation.
1:02:30
And the 90s, two extra tables in our pay scale just folded in
1:02:35
there with the city carriers. And all you did was screw the
1:02:39
craft. It's time to have some real
1:02:41
leadership. It's time to have somebody who's
1:02:43
going to stand up there and not just hold the sign on the picket
1:02:47
line saying enough is enough, Put their face out there and
1:02:51
saying that only is enough, not enough.
1:02:54
We're coming after you. That means we have to start
1:02:57
going after management. If they're supposed to be
1:02:59
training people with Rex and they fail to do it, then we file
1:03:03
against them. They fail to get the people you
1:03:06
know a voice in their route adjustments.
1:03:09
They turn around and they cut them severely while they bring
1:03:14
people that they are friendly with in the office AKA
1:03:17
Westchester Pennsylvania. Then you need to file if they
1:03:21
turn around and they do the RR OS and put you in a dangerous
1:03:25
position for turning around just to cut a couple miles off your
1:03:29
route. You need to file if if somebody
1:03:33
is representing you from the union and they don't pursue the
1:03:39
articles of Rex, the Constitution, our contract, the
1:03:44
Elm, the PO6O3, the M38, you need to go above them.
1:03:50
We need in this, but in my particular case, we need the NR
1:03:54
OS to look over the shoulders of the DRS for your district to
1:03:59
find out why grievances are sitting at Step 2 for over 2
1:04:03
years. What are you supposed to be
1:04:05
doing if not overseeing the DRS? I I'm kind of confused.
1:04:09
I mean, you're getting paid $140,000 a year then.
1:04:13
Then let's earn it, folks. OK, in national board, you're
1:04:17
making over $180,000 a year. Earn it.
1:04:20
But right now all you're doing is maintaining the status quo so
1:04:23
that you can get to your padded retirement.
1:04:26
Enough of the bullshit, OK, Like I said, the delegates are
1:04:30
selected, but put your lips to their ears.
1:04:34
Get involved, stand up, have a voice so that they can be
1:04:38
influenced to make a better decision at the convention, and
1:04:41
replace this leadership with people who are on the front
1:04:45
lines and willing to put the time and effort in there to
1:04:49
represent the entire union. Remember, the National Board
1:04:54
works for you. Shouldn't be the disdain that
1:04:58
almost intolerance for our crying and our gripes.
1:05:03
Well, guess what? They're legitimate.
1:05:06
You're paid to to address them. So either shit or get off the
1:05:10
pot because we're coming after you in Reno.
1:05:13
Everybody have a good week, the heat's still with us.
1:05:17
Hydrate, be safe, and make sure you get home to your loved ones
1:05:21
because you're the most important delivery of the day.
1:05:24
Kristen. Thank you guys.
1:05:26
Yes, for everything that they have both said is definitely,
1:05:30
you know, the board is elected by the delegates, they are
1:05:35
elected to work for the craft for every single member and
1:05:40
remember that. And definitely, you know reach
1:05:42
out to your delegates if you know who they are, let them know
1:05:45
how you're feeling and hopefully their delegates that are willing
1:05:49
to listen to your concerns and take those into consideration
1:05:53
when they are voting at National.
1:05:56
Reno is just a few weeks upon us.
1:05:59
It's coming up fast guys, and I am looking forward to it.
1:06:05
However it may go. It will definitely be an
1:06:07
interesting one, let's put it that way.
1:06:11
And Yep, heat is still with us. Stay hydrated, take care.
1:06:17
I will not be posting on Facebook when the grandbaby
1:06:20
arrives per my daughter's request.
1:06:22
So if you're in Discord, you may update and put that out there.
1:06:26
So everybody, take care, stay safe this week.
1:06:29
Remember, you know, we have to come together in order to be the
1:06:33
change. That's just how it has to be.
1:06:37
And there's just been way too much division over the years and
1:06:41
it's getting worse. I mean, I see it all the time,
1:06:44
but I also see a lot of people coming together, a lot of people
1:06:48
stepping up into positions they never thought that they would
1:06:50
step up into because they are just tired of it.
1:06:53
And we applaud those, each and every one of you that are
1:06:56
stepping up, whether it's to be a local steward or higher up in
1:07:01
the NSS or your state boards, your local boards, or just
1:07:06
stepping up in your office to fight for yourselves and your
1:07:10
fellow carriers as a carrier. We commend all of you that do
1:07:14
that. And you know, I appreciate
1:07:16
everybody that's reached out to us.
1:07:18
I do believe I have gotten back in one form or another to
1:07:22
everybody that's reached out to me in the last couple weeks with
1:07:24
everything I've had going on and stay safe out there this week
1:07:29
and we will be back next week. Guys, take care.
1:07:33
Hang on, Kristen, I have an announcement to make.
1:07:36
OK? I got this information through
1:07:41
reliable sources, namely our secretary of our state.
1:07:46
If you want to walk with a delegate, your delegate at
1:07:51
large, who's usually a state president, should allow you to
1:07:55
walk with the delegate of your choice.
1:07:58
You do not have to tell them which delegate you want to walk
1:08:00
to. Just make sure they're informed
1:08:02
that you are going wanting to walk with a delegate.
1:08:04
During caucus, they are supposed to allow you to walk with a
1:08:08
delegate. Now that means you have to walk
1:08:10
with a delegate. You can't go up and say I want
1:08:13
to walk with a delegate and then go off and get Subway or
1:08:16
McDonald's or whatever. You have to actually actively
1:08:19
participate by walking with that delegate.
1:08:22
Yes you will. Will have to be seen by your
1:08:26
delegate at large in whatever caucus room that your state is
1:08:30
in. But yes, you do have to get
1:08:32
permission. We are.
1:08:33
I know some of us are still looking for walkers, so if
1:08:36
you're interested, please let us know.
1:08:37
I do have T-shirts that will be coming out.
1:08:41
I have a limited supply, but for those that do volunteer to walk
1:08:45
with me, I will make sure that I put those aside for you
1:08:48
specifically if you wish to have one.
1:08:50
And yes, so please reach out. I know we've had several that
1:08:54
says they want to help any which way they can.
1:08:56
So we will be contacting those accordingly as it goes.
1:09:01
Go ahead, James. Anything else?
1:09:03
Yes. And if they do not allow you to
1:09:05
walk, that is actually a violation of the Department of
1:09:11
Labor or the National Labor Relations Act in terms of
1:09:16
electing, in terms of elections. So that would have to actually
1:09:20
go to the board to the floor of the the convention if they
1:09:24
actually violate that and they could actually be held liable
1:09:27
for doing so. So just take that with take that
1:09:31
with whatever grain of salt you want to take, but you should be
1:09:34
able to tell your delegate at large you're walking with
1:09:36
candidate and they should allow you to do so.
1:09:40
So just putting that out there as a final thing.
1:09:43
Thank you, James. We appreciate that.
1:09:44
OK. OK, I I apologize.
1:09:47
I made a mistake. I was saying delegate the whole
1:09:49
time it's with the candidate to walk with the candidate.
1:09:53
So much stuff going on these these past weeks with people
1:09:56
having issues that my mind is going 1,000,000 miles a minute.
1:10:00
And on that note, now we're wrapping it up for tonight and
1:10:03
we'll be back next week.