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RRECS Scans Revisited · United We Scan

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  Thank you. Now here are the hosts of the
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  United We Scan podcast. And welcome back everybody,
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  episode one O 7. As stated last week, we are
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  going to go over the Rex activity scans again today.
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  I know my background looks a little different.
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  I am actually visiting my parents this weekend.
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  So my childhood bedroom for everybody that watches this.
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  So on that note, we're going to make this quick a little.
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  How was your week, James? Oh, pretty normal week for the
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  post office. Of course lower packages, UPS
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  and Amazon were quite light this week, but did have a nice 45
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  minute conversation with the new postmaster, kind of feeling him
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  out, seeing where he stands on things and stuff like that.
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  But other than that, it was just, you know, the standard
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  fare for a rural carrier. I mean, after having three weeks
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  of having a day off in the middle of the week.
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  And it was different to go back for a straight five days.
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  But how was your week, Bill? It was fun.
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  I had lots of things not to do. I didn't do them.
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  So therefore I have lots of things not to do left to do that
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  I won't do. How was your week, Kristen?
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  Mine wasn't bad I ran my route on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
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  Thursday, Friday I trained a new RCA Friday ended up we were
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  going to go out on the route one more time because he was on his
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  own yesterday. I do not know how that went as I
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  was not there. I traveled 4 hours to my parents
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  house as I said here. But Friday we went to go start
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  the LLV to go out and it would not start.
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  We tried starting fluid. We noticed it was getting gas
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  because luckily this brand new RCA is a car guy.
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  And so they, they let the regular know that when he got
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  back, he'd have to take the other half of the route out.
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  And we went back into the break room for about, I don't know,
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  two hours or so and went through the OJT book and this check
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  sheet and had sample forms explaining everything.
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  So it was a good day to really just go through all the little
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  stuff that we may not have seen why we were out on the route for
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  the previous three days. So and then that my week wasn't
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  bad and decided last minute to come down and pay my parents a
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  visit. Ruby and little man.
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  So we didn't even tell them. Ruby called him when we got off
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  the exit to the highway. I said keep her talking for
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  three miles and she's like, OK, she was, well, grandma, I'm
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  going to headlight you go, 'cause we're getting ready to
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  pull into your driveway. She's like, what?
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  So yeah, other than that, it wasn't too bad.
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  It's going to be cold this next week, though.
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  I'm not looking forward to Tuesday's 7° high for myself.
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  And we have another RCA training, and since my Saab is
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  the other trainer in the office, well, he can have fun riding in
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  the LLV. With the single digit attempts
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  this week training that RCA, I'll be happy to run my route.
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  We'll see how that goes. But other than that guys, few
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  things you wanted to touch on 1st James before we dive into
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  the activities. Rex scans.
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  Well, I mean, we are coming up on a mini mail survey.
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  So that's, that's the, that's the big, big discussion going on
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  right now. And what are the dates, Kristen?
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  February 22nd through March 7th. So about this time is when we
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  start measuring, measuring the distances for everything that
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  you do during your office time, your office walk distances.
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  And the biggest things that you got to make sure you do is you
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  make sure that you're getting the proper footage for
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  everything on your on your office duties.
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  You know, and it starts immediately with your enter
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  storage area from the point where you retrieve your scanner
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  to the point where the carrier stands when casing mail.
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  That means you're in your case, acing your, your desk right
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  there. That is where you are measuring
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  this footage to. Now, I do know there are offices
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  where you have long walk distances to your locker and
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  things you come in that building, you are there to pick
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  up your scanner first thing. So if you have to go to a locker
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  room to hang up your coat before you go to your case.
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  James, we lost your sound. Oh, is it back now?
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  You are? Yep.
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  I don't know why, but OK. What did you what did you miss?
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  Where did I? Stop off if you have to go to a
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  locker room to hang up your coat.
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  If you have to go to a locker room to hang up your coat on
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  your way to your case, measure to there because you're going to
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  have to hang your OH somewhere else in some offices especially,
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  like SMD, CS, and places where they're micromanaging the hell
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  out of you. Now they may now, now if you're
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  going to do that, they may say you're not going to clock in
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  till you're ready for work. So they may have you come in and
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  hang your code up first and then go to retrieve your scanner.
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  Good point. That's a good point, but if
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  they're making if they're not allowing you to have your code
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  at the scanner, and you're spending that time in the office
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  to hang up your coat, you should be getting paid to hang up your
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  code in a place other than by your workstation.
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  Well and honest for for your scanner storage area.
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  You're measuring from your case to the scanner and back to your
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  case. No, if you actually look, I
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  just, I just sent it in the in the chat, it says from the point
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  where the carrier stands when retrieving the scanner to the
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  point where the carrier stands when casing mail.
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  Because it's like you walked in the door, grabbed your scanner,
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  and now you're going to do your. Stuff.
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  Yeah, that one is going to be, it's going to be, it's going to
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  depend on where the scanner storage is per office.
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  You got to think about that. Mine you walk in the door,
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  scanners are right there to your left.
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  Yep. And then?
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  The right in between, the right in between where the trucks
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  bring the stuff in and where the carriers walk out to the trucks
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  in my office and it's right there just inside the doors.
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  But each office is going to be different.
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  But that's what it says in the instructions.
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  Yeah, and. It's.
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  It's one way. It's from scanner doc to the
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  case. Right.
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  And you know, don't get caught up by the old heads.
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  You still follow the nearest edge of your case to wherever
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  it's to the center of your case where you case your mail.
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  Yes. So yeah, it it, it's only three,
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  four feet maybe, but hey, every foot counts.
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  And a reminder that these should be measured in the favor of the
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  carrier. So if you go brief, let's say
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  31.1 feet, they should give you 32 feet.
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  They shouldn't be. Oh well, it's .1, so it should
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  be 31. They should make it beneficial
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  to the carrier. A manager won't but.
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  Round up, not down. Yes.
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  The second one you're going to do is do the raw letter and flat
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  distribution case. And this is from where you're
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  casing the mail. So literally where you just
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  ended measurement from the scanners to where you pick up
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  your clerk, sorted letters and flats.
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  And whichever one of those is furthest is the one you get.
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  And if you take a cart to go get this stuff, like let's say you
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  get a lot of raw mail and you have to take a little buggy with
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  you to go get the mail, the distance to get that buggy is
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  also included in this measurement.
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  And that's from where you stand in the case to case mail to
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  there and back. And that one is a round trip.
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  And the next one is from where you case where your DPS letters
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  are distributed. Now in my office we have Apcs
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  that have shelving units in them for the DPS.
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  Other offices may have different methods for where your DPS is
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  set up for that, but measure from your case where your DPS is
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  and back and the same thing applies if you have a cart that
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  you take over there the distance to and to that cart and to put
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  the cart back. And that's if you are a
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  withdrawal office. You got to remember that if
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  you're not a withdrawal office and all your mail is brought to
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  you, you don't have certain walk distances.
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  Yes, if it's brought to you, you don't get the measurement for
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  it. But if anything is withdrawn,
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  whether it is just the DPS, whether it's just the letters or
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  it's just the flats, or it's just your bundled flats, you are
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  a withdrawal office. It is all or nothing, even if
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  you only do one. Yep, Yep, Yep, Yep.
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  The next, the next one is the carrier's parcel hamper, again
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  from where you case the mail to where the carrier normally gets
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  their parcel hamper, and it's where you grasp the handle to
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  transport it to your case. So if you have to walk around
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  the other cases to get behind the parcel hamper to push it,
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  that is the distance you measure, not just up to where
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  your case is parked and you have to pull it out from wherever it
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  is you walk around every day to go get it.
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  You need to measure that distance and then measure it all
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  the way back to your case. Or like our case of DSC and C,
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  you do your main hamper which is off the sorting line and then go
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  to the bullpen. And the the fact of the matter
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  is that when you're unloading, because our bullpen hampers are
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  locked together, so we can't pull them through our case.
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  So any time that you spend in the bullpen has to be timed when
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  you're unloading from the bullpen hamper into your hamper
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  for conveyance back to your case.
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  And then, then that instance you should be measured from your
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  case to where you get your conveyance hamper to where you
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  withdraw it back to your case where you pull the parcels out
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  of that bullpen into your hamper and back to the case.
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  The next one, number six is from your carrier case to the
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  assigned location or typical location of your government
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  vehicle. This is does not apply to POV
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  routes. POV routes you're supposed to
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  take care of your vehicle off duty, off the clock, on your own
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  time. But for government vehicles we
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  are required to go out and inspect them.
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  Every time you open up the scanner it and asks if you've
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  done the inspection of your vehicle.
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  You are agreeing that you have inspected your vehicle on that
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  scanner. So this measures from your case
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  to where you open the driver's door of the vehicle and back to
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  your case. Now this one, there are
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  arguments on both sides of this, but you should be coming out to
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  the vehicle and doing a loop around the vehicle to do a
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  visual inspection before you open the door of the truck.
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  Looking for things like oil leaks, flat tires, missing
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  pieces from the truck, mirrors, bumpers, lights, things like
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  that. Before you even open that door,
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  management will argue that you just walk to the door, that's
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  it. Get the footage that you
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  deserve. And the next, the next one is
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  for from the point where the carrier stands when casing the
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  mail to the BFS markup three M and centralized hold mail area
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  and make sure that you're getting the farthest distance to
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  there. Yes, whichever 1 is furthest
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  from you is the one you get. The next one is from where you
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  stand to the accountables distribution point, where they
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  give you the accountables, your registered mail, your express,
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  stuff like that. Arrow keys.
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  Arrow keys, anything that's pertinent that has has
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  accountability to it, your stamp stock, things like that.
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  Yeah, offices are different, James.
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  Like in our office, they call us over to get our arrow keys.
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  So yeah, bulls, we don't see accountables anymore.
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  I mean, you know, you never sign for them at all.
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  They just, they just show up on your case and your DPS.
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  It's just a fiasco. I mean, they're saying such an
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  organized system, you know it, it sucks.
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  Well, they're saying that certified are not accountable
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  anymore, that we don't because they run through the DPS.
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  They're tracked that way. You know, they're they're
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  accountable in the DPS, but but registered, you know, those very
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  important ones where people pay a crap ton of money to get
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  there. I mean expressed especially the
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  big one. But stuff like that, you know,
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  if they bring them to you, you get the distance.
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  Like somebody said, anything you get the distance from your
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  casing point out to where the clerk or manager comes by and
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  brings the accountable to you. It could be 5 feet from your
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  case, but you still get that footage.
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  Yeah. Post is due.
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  Any cods? Yeah.
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  Yep, we've, we've had Cods or parcels, they're an accountable
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  item. Next one is from where you case
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  your hot case, unless you do it during load time, which I don't
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  know of any anybody that does pick up their hot case during
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  load time, but it's listed on there.
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  So I'm putting it out there because obviously there's
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  probably 10% of carriers that may do that, but we know that
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  anything less than 30% is important to certain people at
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  66%. The next one is from where you
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  case to obtain additional pieces of equipment rolling stock like
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  carts and things like that prior to loading.
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  And it only applies if you need to use an additional piece of
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  equipment for loading or like my office, we keep all of our
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  steals or U carts, whatever you want to call them over in one
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  spot because we have a limited number of them.
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  So we would measure to where those carts are to bring them
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  back to our case to load our packages.
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  And I will tell you that those are the best thing for a loading
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  parcels out of any other piece of equipment we have because you
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  can just slide them and they're almost level with the back of
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  the LOV from the sidewalk. But other people may have other
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  conveyances that they prefer, but I prefer my steel.
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  You have from the point where you stand when you're casing to
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  the point where excess trays and tubs are stored after the mail
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  has been loaded for conveyance to the vehicle.
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  So you're if you take your DPSDPS and case it or you flip
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  flop it into a different half tray or something like that.
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  The location where you put those trays after you're done with
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  them is where you measure to. You go for the farthest
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  distance. So if they have the trays in one
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  spot and the tubs on the other side of the building and the
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  tubs are the furthest thing you measure to where the tubs are.
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  The next one is from the point where the carrier stands when
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  casing mail to the designated safety service talk location.
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  So this this one I have in my office, we don't measure to
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  where we stand for the oral service talks.
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  We measure where we stand for the videos, which is at the
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  supervisor's desk, which is way further away than where we stand
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  for a standard service talk, which is at our buggies where
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  they sort our parcels. That's in the center of the
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  building, basically. But we measure from our case the
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  supervisor's desk, because we go over there for video sometime.
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  Preempted by the little man. And anything you do outside of
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  that for walking distances or something like that, that would
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  have to be under miscellaneous time if it's not on this list.
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  There's a little man. There, there he is.
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  Woke up to hey Mama, I'm going to just head by grandma here.
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  Yeah, there he is, just for you. Oh, make sure you're make sure
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  you're going through these businesses with your manager or
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  supervisor or postmaster, something like that.
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  The other, the other thing I wanted to talk about is a
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  distance or CB US and centralized boxes.
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  So there has been confusion over the centralized and CBU
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  measuring that they're supposed to do.
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  What you're supposed to do is measure from where you park the
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  truck to the first EBU in the mail stop across all the CB US
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  and then back to your truck. That is considered one dismount
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  of that CBU raft. If you have multiple CB US in
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  there, you're going to be walking back and forth with mail
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  sometime. I know some carriers bring out a
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  little cart for them to carry the mail over there so they
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  don't have to keep going back to the truck.
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  Stuff like that. Or a managers give you a
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  satchel. If you're doing it that way, you
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  need to have miscellaneous time to load that cart up or load
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  that satchel up at each stop. Otherwise you're doing it by
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  hand and getting those extra authorized dismount.
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  That's a good. Point because we are required to
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  use the satchel. You know, a lot of people don't
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  realize that, you know, we can be required to use that satchel.
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  If you do, make sure you get time for loading the satchel,
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  retrieving the satchel, and then loading the satchel.
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  Yes, retrieving it, putting it on and loading it and taking it
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  off. Let's not forget that too and
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  putting it back. Yep.
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  Yep, there's even more than that.
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  And even more than that because there are no measurements to go
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  retrieve that satchel in the morning.
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  You need miscellaneous time to go retrieve it from where it is
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  stored in the building. A miscellaneous time after you
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  when you go to load your vehicle, you are to load that
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  satchel for your first up on start load vehicle.
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  You have everything organized for it.
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  You start load vehicle you load your first stop into that
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  satchel. While on that load vehicle time
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  put it on your conveyance, take it out from the vehicle.
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  Then when you get your stop miscellaneous time to put it on
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  and stop the clock. After you get out of the truck
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  go do your loading. Your emptying of your satchel
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  when you get back to the door of the truck are the clock as you
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  take the satchel off or where it's in a safe location where it
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  won't fly around the cab and stop the clock.
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  Then when you get to your next stop are the clock, load the
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  satchel, get out of the truck, put the satchel on, stop the
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  clock. Game process continues to repeat
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  itself throughout the day. That is your miscellaneous time
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  for using the satchel. Anything else on the the e-mail
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  survey you guys want to talk about this week?
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  Because I think we'll do another episode on the specifics of the
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  mini meal survey ulcer to the time of it.
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  Yeah, You guys agree with that? We'll probably cover the walk
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  distances again too, just we wanted to put that out there.
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  There's been a lot of talk of rumblings about it lately, so
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  but we'll get started in on this Rex activities guide and under
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  the daily activities on the first section.
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  So this was the newest one that came out and 531 of 2024.
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  So under the daily activities. These are your 6.
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  Absolutely. You better do them every single
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  day. Scans, plain and simple.
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  And as we all know, when this all first started, that's what
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  management pushed was the six scans.
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  That's what some management still is pushing is the six
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  scans. They don't tell you about the
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  rest of them. We're going to tell you about
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  the rest of them as well. So #1 obviously is clock in.
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  Select Clock in. Upon arriving at work,
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  immediately retrieve and log into the scanner.
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  The clock in selection records the start of the work day for
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  the carrier. The clock in time's the time
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  that you record as your start time on your 4240 start load.
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  Select Start Load when moving loaded conveyance from work area
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  to begin loading vehicle for delivery.
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  Carriers may have multiple Start load selections in a day.
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  If additional trips to load are required, ensure this keystroke
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  is followed by End Load once loading is complete.
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  There is no change to previously established loading procedures.
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  If your parcels are sorted to the floor at your case and you
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  have to to pick them up off the floor and load them onto your
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  conveyance, that is when you would start your start load for
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  that. Putting them up off the floor
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  onto your conveyance is your, it's starting your start load in
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  those situations. Not everybody does, not all
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  offices do that. Not all routes do that.
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  We have one route that does it in our office.
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  Further, Amazon, specifically the rest of us are thrown in our
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  pumpkins. And there's more, there's more.
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  So one of the things a lot of carriers are doing now is the
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  load truck feature. It is still optional for
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  carriers who are on evaluation. This still optional but if you
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  are using load truck when you are out loading your vehicle,
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  especially with the cold temperatures coming in this
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  week, you can sort your parcels with the low truck feature like
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  you are throwing them in the truck inside the building and a
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  Schmidt will argue otherwise. You just ask them what's the
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  difference of me doing it this way here versus me doing it
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  outside at the truck other than the air temperature that I'm
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  working in. If you're just sorting them,
• 27:19
  like for me, I put 6 tubs down on the floor and I sort my
• 27:22
  parcels into those six tubs, which almost coincidentally
• 27:27
  match up with the section numbers on the load truck
• 27:30
  feature. So I could sit there and as I'm
• 27:33
  sorting the parcels be scanning them with the load truck feature
• 27:37
  under start load vehicle inside the building.
• 27:41
  But remember, carrier discretion, if you want to fight
• 27:45
  that battle as something you could do, because you're going
• 27:49
  to do the same thing out of the truck, you can do it inside in
• 27:52
  the warmth of the of the building.
• 27:54
  Yes, and if when you hit start load, the screen will
• 27:59
  automatically revert to end load.
• 28:02
  However, if you hit Escape, the only two options that you're
• 28:06
  going to have under Start load is End Load and the Load Truck
• 28:10
  feature. Trucks, activities and a load
• 28:14
  truck feature. Yeah.
• 28:20
  Oh you can use load truck during our load vehicle.
• 28:24
  It's the only option you have because you're on a timed event.
• 28:27
  They decided that it was important for them to remove any
• 28:30
  other inputs on the scanner to prevent you from doing anything
• 28:34
  else other than loading your vehicle.
• 28:40
  And then of course, you're in load vehicle, which is the next
• 28:44
  one. And obviously you're going to
• 28:46
  select end load when returning empty conveyance to designated
• 28:50
  location after vehicle loading is complete.
• 28:53
  Carrier may have multiple end load selections in a day if
• 28:57
  additional trips to load are required.
• 28:59
  So you can have multiple start loads and end loads.
• 29:06
  All right. The next 1 depart to route.
• 29:13
  I definitely need new glasses. Select the part to route.
• 29:20
  Select the part to Yeah it can be for some Select the part to
• 29:24
  route. When starting the vehicle to
• 29:26
  depart delivery unit to service route, the depart to route
• 29:30
  selection begins the route delivery time.
• 29:36
  So when you start the vehicle you hit depart to route.
• 29:44
  Plain and simple. Unless you're warming up the
• 29:46
  vehicle. Unless you're warming up the
• 29:47
  vehicle. When you're leaving to leave for
• 29:51
  the route you hit, depart to route return.
• 29:57
  You guys have the barcode for that?
• 29:59
  Kristen what you have barcodes outside?
• 30:02
  You have barcodes at your office for depart to route so you can
• 30:06
  earn mileage on the Gov. Most of we do have one, there is
• 30:12
  a set primarily for the city carriers on the side of the door
• 30:17
  as you're walking out to the trucks and then there's one next
• 30:22
  to the door as you're walking back into the office for a
• 30:25
  return to unit. Most of the rural trucks with a
• 30:30
  couple of exceptions have the barcode stickers inside the
• 30:36
  trucks. Both of them.
• 30:38
  Couple of our trucks only have the return to DU and I did
• 30:41
  notice having to drive the city route truck a few days my mine.
• 30:46
  When mine was at the shop they didn't have the depart to route
• 30:50
  but they had the return to unit scan in there.
• 30:54
  But those barcodes are not for wreck, they are for DMF.
• 31:01
  Yes, DMF. Yeah.
• 31:03
  And those are only. Government.
• 31:05
  Vehicles. That's not for POV drivers, only
• 31:10
  for government vehicles. All right, return to DU after
• 31:19
  returning to the office, stopping the vehicle by turning
• 31:22
  off the key after all route delivery is complete.
• 31:25
  This begins the timing of end of shift duties.
• 31:31
  This is a big one for a lot of reasons.
• 31:34
  Yes, it is you. You park your truck where you
• 31:38
  park it and you hit your end of shift duties.
• 31:42
  Now if you unload your truck in a different spot from where it
• 31:46
  is parked, you're going to hit that return to unit prior to
• 31:53
  unloading your truck. You're going to hit the return
• 31:55
  to unit when you park it where you unload it and then you're
• 32:02
  returning that vehicle to where it goes upon unloading.
• 32:07
  It is all done under end of shift in those cases.
• 32:12
  In my office it is not where part of the same spot where we
• 32:16
  load and unload so. And you want to make sure, you
• 32:23
  want to make sure you are doing all of your end of shift duties.
• 32:28
  It has been spread around Facebook quite extensively on
• 32:32
  what the RE endo shift duties are, but there is an entire list
• 32:37
  of endo shift duties on a single sheet of paper that's going
• 32:40
  around. Every single one of those on
• 32:44
  that sheet comes directly out of the PO6O3 except the DPM and LTM
• 32:51
  updating because that is newer than the latest version of the
• 32:55
  PO6O3 which was updated in 2011 I believe and well still before
• 33:02
  Rex was actually fully conceived.
• 33:06
  So we, we got to make sure that you are doing all of these tasks
• 33:12
  on Return to DEU before you hit PM casing or clock out, you've
• 33:20
  got to do these duties. It adds time to your route.
• 33:23
  Return to DU is a timed event. This goes for everybody.
• 33:29
  It doesn't matter if you are a regular carrier, APTF, an RCA or
• 33:35
  an ARC running Saturdays delivering the mail, which is a
• 33:38
  possibility out there. You've got to do every single
• 33:43
  one of these and every one of these duties because that is
• 33:48
  money in your pocket. Bill said it before.
• 33:52
  What goes in the scanner goes where, Bill.
• 33:56
  In the wallet. Exactly.
• 33:58
  It goes into your wallet, so if you're not putting it in the
• 34:01
  scanner, it's not going in your wallet.
• 34:05
  The routes don't push to go to other routes.
• 34:08
  And guess what, carriers that are taking another route with
• 34:11
  them are only hurting the route evaluations doing that.
• 34:17
  And when they hurt the route evaluations, they hurt
• 34:19
  themselves. It's hard to explain that to
• 34:23
  them, but you know if you beat them enough, they catch on.
• 34:27
  And what we mean by that is, you know, if especially for Subs or
• 34:31
  even the regulars who are still helping out under Mous with
• 34:34
  additional routes and duties is do the end of shift duties, all
• 34:40
  of the end of shift duties that you need to do that day for that
• 34:45
  particular main route. Whether you're a regular for
• 34:48
  your assigned route, If you're a sub running a primary or
• 34:51
  something else on the matrix or APTF running one of them on your
• 34:56
  string or whatever that main route that you are doing the
• 34:59
  complete route of you're going to complete the call in end of
• 35:03
  shift duties prior to doing the additional work.
• 35:12
  All right. And then under the six main ones
• 35:17
  also is the clock out. You're going to clock out upon
• 35:21
  returning the scanner to the cradle and departing the
• 35:24
  delivery unit for the day after all work activities are complete
• 35:31
  between the return DU and the clock out.
• 35:35
  If you want to see what your Rex activity scan summary was for
• 35:39
  the day, that's when that option will be available.
• 35:43
  Under the return to route, you'll have that activity
• 35:46
  summary. So clocking out when you're
• 35:52
  leaving for the day, obviously those are the six main ones that
• 35:58
  you have to do every single day. Your clock out, your start load,
• 36:02
  your end load, your depart to route, return to delivery unit,
• 36:07
  and your clock out. All right, your additional
• 36:11
  activities. If you take a lunch, you have
• 36:16
  your out to lunch, return to lunch.
• 36:20
  Remember lunch. You can do these more than once.
• 36:25
  So you have up to 30 minutes available on the rural side.
• 36:30
  If you take 10 minutes here for one cigarette, you take 10
• 36:33
  minutes later for another one. You know, you can break that up
• 36:36
  as long as it adds up to 30 minutes.
• 36:41
  And no, you are not required to take a lunch break.
• 36:46
  That has been another hot topic. And if management is docking you
• 36:52
  and putting down a 30 minute lunch and you didn't take one,
• 36:56
  there's a form for that. So on that note, that is
• 37:02
  falsifying time. You do not have you.
• 37:04
  We are not required to take a lunch if you are taking a lunch
• 37:08
  or taking a break, smoke break a quick you know you're going to
• 37:13
  stop on the side of the road to eat a sandwich that's considered
• 37:16
  a break. If you are stopping somewhere to
• 37:19
  use the restroom, restroom is not a lunch break.
• 37:25
  Stopping on this where a safe place aside to reload, move your
• 37:29
  parcels around is not a. Break as reload.
• 37:37
  And that's supposed to be built in based on your volume.
• 37:40
  So oh, as a test study office we used to have a reload scan back
• 37:46
  when we were still testing. Yeah.
• 37:49
  Oh yeah. Yeah, Bill members, that one.
• 37:52
  All right, start, start deviation and in deviation, I'm
• 37:57
  going to do these two together just for this fact that they go
• 38:00
  hand in hand. And this is only for Priority
• 38:04
  Mail Express expresses only and those rare circumstances,
• 38:10
  especially with some of these overburdened routes.
• 38:12
  Still, if that express is not, you're not going to get there by
• 38:15
  6:00 PM, then that's is where you would use the start
• 38:19
  deviation and end deviation upon leaving the official line of
• 38:23
  travel to deliver Priority Mail Express.
• 38:27
  This is used only when required to deviate to make committed
• 38:32
  delivery time for Priority Mail Express.
• 38:35
  No other types of deviation are covered under the selection.
• 38:40
  Again, it's a six PM cut off now for all expresses unlike in the
• 38:44
  past. So situations may vary when it
• 38:48
  comes to if it's going to have to be used depending on the
• 38:53
  route and the day and the everything else.
• 38:57
  Upon returning to the official line of travel from delivering a
• 39:01
  Priority Mail Express, This is used only when required to
• 39:06
  deviate to make a committed delivery time for Priority Mail
• 39:09
  Express. No other types of deviation are
• 39:11
  covered under the selection. All right.
• 39:16
  And this go ahead. That means specifically you are
• 39:19
  leaving the very mailbox you are at and that our deviation starts
• 39:26
  as soon as you are done with that box before you start
• 39:29
  heading to your express delivery location or you're going to the
• 39:34
  office to go get the express. Although you shouldn't be
• 39:37
  answering your phone on the route and they should not be
• 39:40
  sending you a scanner message. Get it?
• 39:43
  We can file grievances on both of those.
• 39:45
  They are not. They don't pay your cell phone
• 39:47
  bill. You're not required to answer
• 39:49
  it. X messaging is not a proper form
• 39:52
  of communication and sending you a scanner messages only in
• 39:56
  emergency situations and management's lack of preparation
• 40:02
  is not your emergency, so it should only be if you have to.
• 40:09
  If management brings it out to you, that's perfectly fine.
• 40:13
  You have to go back to an address that's behind you.
• 40:16
  That is a deviation. If you have to go ahead of your
• 40:21
  route to deliver it before 6:00 PM, that is a deviation and
• 40:26
  until you return to that mailbox you left, do not hit that in
• 40:30
  deviation. Once you return to that mailbox
• 40:33
  and stop the truck you hit in deviation, continue delivering
• 40:38
  your route. All right, PM casing.
• 40:46
  I wish they changed the name of this one at this point.
• 40:50
  Make it. Under there are still there are
• 40:52
  still offices and 2:00 PM. Yes, there is use after
• 40:58
  completion of all under other end of shift duties before
• 41:05
  beginning to case mail for the next delivery day.
• 41:08
  May also be used if directed to perform additional trips after
• 41:13
  completion of end of shift duties.
• 41:16
  Record second trips is done on the day on the 4240.
• 41:22
  Can you read that very first part of that again?
• 41:26
  Use. And say it louder for those in
• 41:29
  the back. Use after the after completion
• 41:34
  of all other end of shift duties before beginning two case mail
• 41:42
  or you're also going to use PM casing if you are assisting on
• 41:47
  other routes, Rcas, PTFS and regulars under the current MOU.
• 41:57
  That volunteer? That volunteer, yes, when you
• 42:01
  complete your end of shift duties for that main primary
• 42:07
  route that you're running that day, the whole route, once that
• 42:11
  is done, you're going to hit PM casing and then move to the next
• 42:16
  one. Yeah.
• 42:19
  And you don't and or Rcas and PTFS, you can clock out because
• 42:27
  you're going on green card time. You don't have to be on PM
• 42:32
  casing, just regulars have to use PM casing because our time
• 42:37
  on our 4240 which the scanner is creating an electronic 4240 has
• 42:44
  to be that entire time because they're actually tracking your
• 42:49
  work hours even that overtime you make on those routes.
• 42:54
  All right, we have our saturation sets.
• 42:58
  This is our WSS and our box holders, the flats WSS.
• 43:06
  Little man's talking to us back there.
• 43:09
  If a flat saturation mailing has an has an address and has not
• 43:15
  been processed on automation equipment, use this keystroke
• 43:21
  once to record each set. Select either one residence only
• 43:29
  or two all deliveries. If cased the afternoon before
• 43:35
  the delivery day, record, record on the record on.
• 43:41
  If cased the afternoon before the delivery day, record on the
• 43:45
  delivery day. OK, So if you have a box holder
• 43:48
  that came in the night before and you or a flat WSS, we're
• 43:52
  talking about SWSS right now and it's there and they're going to
• 43:56
  allow you to use PM casing to case that up prior to you
• 44:01
  leaving. You are not going to record it
• 44:05
  under the flats WSS until the day you're delivering the next
• 44:11
  the following morning. Credit it when you deliver it.
• 44:18
  A set delivered over several days should be recorded only
• 44:22
  once on first day of delivery. Only one entry is required per
• 44:27
  set, so if they allow you to split it that day and finish the
• 44:32
  next day, you're only going to record it on that first day.
• 44:36
  Or in my case when I had a box holder, I'm going to jump to
• 44:40
  that in a minute. Last week I had half of it show
• 44:44
  up one day, the other half showed up the next day.
• 44:48
  I only recorded on the first day.
• 44:51
  Speaking of half and half, Kristen, this one's for our
• 44:55
  parent child routes out there. Let's say you get the box holder
• 44:59
  for one zip code that one day you get the same box holder for
• 45:03
  the other zip code the next day. How do you record that?
• 45:08
  It's 1 recording because it goes for the whole route.
• 45:12
  You record it the first day you deliver.
• 45:15
  And then if you get one for just one zip code but don't get one
• 45:18
  for the other. You record it once and your
• 45:21
  whole route gets credit for it. Letters WSS if a if a saturation
• 45:34
  mailing has an address and has if a letter saturating mailing
• 45:41
  has an address and has not been processed on automation
• 45:45
  equipment, which means it's not coming in your DPS.
• 45:50
  Use this keystroke once to record each set.
• 45:54
  Select either one residence only or two all deliveries if case,
• 46:00
  the afternoon before the delivery day.
• 46:02
  Record on delivery day. A set delivered over several
• 46:05
  days should recorded only once on the first day of delivery.
• 46:08
  Only one entry required per set, so that's your WSS flats box box
• 46:16
  holders. If a flat saturation mailing
• 46:20
  does not have an address, use this keystroke once to record
• 46:25
  each set of box holders. Select either one residence only
• 46:29
  or two all deliveries if case, the afternoon before the
• 46:33
  delivery day, record on on the delivery day.
• 46:37
  A set delivered over several days should be recorded only
• 46:40
  once on the first day of delivery.
• 46:41
  Only one entry is required per set.
• 46:45
  Letter box holder is the same. If a letter situation mailing
• 46:49
  does not have an address, use the keystroke once.
• 46:52
  And I'm not going to repeat that again for the 4th time.
• 46:55
  The rest of it. Thank you.
• 46:59
  WSS has an address. It is not in your DPS.
• 47:04
  Box holders do not have an address and usually are not in
• 47:09
  your DPS. Though I have seen postal
• 47:11
  customer in the DPS but it's true.
• 47:15
  Now you have. You have to remember a box
• 47:19
  holder will still sometimes say ECRWSS.
• 47:25
  That does not mean you enter the east.
• 47:27
  The WSS version it has to have an address or doesn't have an
• 47:32
  address. If it doesn't, box holder.
• 47:34
  If it does, WSS. Oh, you're freaking out over
• 47:38
  there having a seizure? Oh no, no, no, no.
• 47:42
  It was just WSSI. Should I should put it in as WSS
• 47:45
  and then when I get caught I can sit there and say well it said
• 47:49
  WSS on there. But it says specifically in the
• 47:55
  scan guide if it has an address. I I'm ignorant, please send an
• 48:01
  incontinent guide. And then?
• 48:03
  Leave replacements and you're running a route that gets a WSS
• 48:09
  or a box holder. Please put those scans in now.
• 48:13
  I'm I, once we complete this, I'm going to talk a little bit
• 48:16
  more about leave replacements with these, so go ahead.
• 48:20
  I saw that. 111 more thing you know the argument you could have
• 48:25
  on that is when did management train me on that scan?
• 48:30
  Exactly. And, and I'll say, you know, and
• 48:36
  show me where you documented that training.
• 48:42
  Anyway, could that speed? Up 150 somewhere, shouldn't it?
• 48:46
  In our training on the light blue.
• 48:50
  Yeah, I was potty trained. OK Trip to Door This is under
• 49:00
  your delivery activities Trip to door.
• 49:04
  Use Trip to Door when you have two or more trips are required
• 49:08
  to deliver or or collect parcels or items to or from the
• 49:15
  customer. The first trip is automatically
• 49:18
  credited based on the delivery scans to that address only.
• 49:24
  If additional trips are required to use use trip to door, enter
• 49:28
  the total number of trips, initial trip plus a number of
• 49:32
  additional trips to the delivery location.
• 49:35
  This does not include authorized dismount locations.
• 49:40
  So what this is saying is somebody orders 8 mattresses and
• 49:46
  obviously you can't carry more than one mattress at a time.
• 49:50
  Sounds like you're speaking from experience.
• 49:58
  I believe she is. Yeah, yeah.
• 49:59
  You know, you carry one mattress up to the door.
• 50:03
  You go back to the you scan it at the door.
• 50:06
  You go back to the truck, you reach a retrieve the next
• 50:09
  parcel. You go back up to the door.
• 50:11
  You scan it at the door so however many trips it takes you
• 50:16
  to complete and you scan each parcel at the door when you get
• 50:21
  it to the door the first time please and back and forth.
• 50:25
  So if it takes you 8 trips, when you get back to the truck from
• 50:30
  completing your delivery scan, you're going to go into R9, trip
• 50:36
  to door and you're going to hit 8 for eight trips to the door.
• 50:40
  If that's what it took you or two trips or three trips or
• 50:43
  whatever it is. Why do we scan the parcel at the
• 50:49
  door? Because that is it pinpoints it
• 50:54
  and that will cover your behind. Trust me, I and I tell every
• 50:59
  every leave replacement that I train scan it where you stand.
• 51:04
  I mean, I know they talk about it a little bit in Academy, but
• 51:09
  this is a shout out to every, every carrier out there.
• 51:13
  Scan it where you leave it. Why?
• 51:17
  Because if a customer calls and says they did not get it,
• 51:21
  management can pull it up and say it was scanned at your door
• 51:25
  and you can see exactly where you scanned it at.
• 51:28
  It covered my butt one time I was still a sub.
• 51:32
  I scanned that package at the door where I delivered it.
• 51:35
  Customers called but called later, said they never received
• 51:39
  it. Pulled it right up.
• 51:40
  They looked, they said yeah, it was scanned right at the door.
• 51:46
  And that also can prevent management saying you could have
• 51:49
  stolen the package because if you scan it in the truck,
• 51:53
  there's a possibility you kept it in the truck and took it home
• 51:56
  with you when you got back to the office.
• 51:58
  You don't want to give management that ability to make
• 52:01
  up a story like that. The less chances management has
• 52:06
  a finding some loophole bury you with, the better off you are.
• 52:13
  Exactly, that's why you know, it's a lot of preached on scan,
• 52:17
  where scan, where you stand, where you drop it because it's
• 52:20
  going to basically that's a big CYA.
• 52:24
  In all honesty it is. And I from personal experience,
• 52:27
  that's a big CYA. I have actually a problem with
• 52:32
  the wording they put on that trip to door, but I'll do it
• 52:34
  after you do the next one. Well, I want to talk just a
• 52:37
  quick This also goes for customer pickups.
• 52:41
  If you have to make more than one trip to the door for a
• 52:44
  customer pickup, you're going to enter in the how many trips to
• 52:48
  the door it took you. That's the one I have a problem
• 52:54
  with, so go ahead, on to the next one.
• 52:58
  All right, Door Miscellaneous. Use door miscellaneous only.
• 53:05
  All right, miscellaneous. I'm sorry.
• 53:08
  I yes, I pronounced the CEI. Gave it a hard C I've already
• 53:12
  gotten crud for that in the past.
• 53:15
  Bill's laughing. Why are we laughing?
• 53:17
  Yep. Yeah, Ruby's giving me a thumb
• 53:20
  sound. Thanks for so long.
• 53:22
  Let me. Know.
• 53:23
  For so many years. All right, the door.
• 53:26
  Miss Bill's got a tissue. He's laughing so hard.
• 53:32
  Guys, if you're not watching us, you can watch us on YouTube and
• 53:36
  Spotify. But all right, door
• 53:41
  miscellaneous. Use door miscellaneous only
• 53:45
  after delivering hold mail, letters and flats that will not
• 53:48
  fit into the mailbox or postal supplies requested by customer.
• 53:56
  That's what it says. If you have to.
• 54:01
  Take the mail to the door 'cause it's too much to fit in the box
• 54:05
  from a hold. Or if you are delivering postal
• 54:09
  supplies that they requested that's comes from your clerk so
• 54:13
  there's a print out sheet. They bring you a box, an
• 54:16
  envelope or whatever. That's what they're saying.
• 54:18
  You're supposed to be using under door miscellaneous or
• 54:24
  taking tubs for a carrier pick up as well, yes.
• 54:29
  And, and the thing about it for me is when you do a carrier
• 54:35
  pickup, let's say you have nothing else to deliver to this
• 54:38
  house, you're doing a carrier pickup.
• 54:40
  You only have the one trip to the door.
• 54:45
  You don't use trip to door because if you put one in the
• 54:48
  trip to door, it deletes it and the first trip to door is
• 54:51
  included in your trip to door and the system automatically
• 54:55
  removes 1. So you would have to put do in
• 54:58
  the trip to door which would be falsifying it.
• 55:01
  Me personally, I use the door miscellaneous for one trip and
• 55:05
  guess what? I'm only doing one trip to the
• 55:07
  door and it's for something that is not a not a delivery that
• 55:12
  would be covered under trip to door.
• 55:14
  And so that's where my confusion lies in that specific thing,
• 55:17
  because I want that credit for going to that door one time and
• 55:22
  trip to door automatically removes a credit per the 99 page
• 55:27
  guide. Now also with permission from my
• 55:31
  management as I'm waiting on the hardship paperwork to go through
• 55:35
  on my new one and knowing that it is very difficult for her to
• 55:40
  get to her mailbox, I do. If it hasn't been picked up, I
• 55:45
  will collect the mail and I will go to her door to give her her
• 55:50
  mail right now until it becomes an official hardship and I will
• 55:54
  put in a door miscellaneous. So I am getting that credit for
• 55:58
  going to that door. And yes, my management is aware
• 56:01
  of it and it is OK at this time. All right, now we're going to go
• 56:07
  into authorized dismount. This is another one that gets.
• 56:14
  You just talked about 1. You just talked about one.
• 56:17
  Yes, but it's not an official hardship.
• 56:19
  So it's still. Yeah, but it will be eventually.
• 56:24
  Authorized Dismount. You're going to use Authorized
• 56:26
  Dismount when two or more trips are required to complete
• 56:30
  delivery at an Authorized Dismount location.
• 56:34
  Only applies to Authorized Dismount locations designated in
• 56:39
  Delivery Point Manager in your DPM such as businesses, schools,
• 56:45
  central delivery, including parcel lockers, etcetera.
• 56:50
  If you are, if you are having to dismount for a hardship, that is
• 56:54
  an authorized dismount. If they went on an ordering
• 56:58
  spree and you're delivering, it's going to take more than one
• 57:01
  trip to deliver everything or for a pick up at an authorized
• 57:07
  dismount location too. So if you have businesses that
• 57:10
  don't have a curbside box that you have to go in and deliver
• 57:14
  the mail. I know I had a school, my old
• 57:17
  office that was an authorized dismount.
• 57:19
  We had to go and buzzed in, drop their mail off, grab their
• 57:21
  outgoing and come and then return.
• 57:25
  Centralized units whether they're CBU stand alone, CBU
• 57:29
  centralized boxes. If you and this includes going
• 57:32
  for your parcel lockers. If it is taking you more than
• 57:35
  one trip now you will have management.
• 57:38
  If it is taking you 3451012 trips a day, management does
• 57:45
  have the right to go in and and double or triple your footage to
• 57:50
  accommodate that. Now if they do go in and they
• 57:54
  double your footage for that dismount that you've had a lot
• 57:57
  of authorized dismounts on. So now you're going to, it's now
• 58:01
  going to go, it's been doubled. So if you're doing more than
• 58:04
  what you're already have measurement for, then yet then
• 58:09
  that would still apply. So if you're measured out and
• 58:12
  doubled for two trips on a daily basis under your measurements
• 58:17
  and it takes you 3 or 4, that's where you're going to go in and
• 58:21
  say it took those additional trips.
• 58:27
  I hope that makes. Sense and on top and you got to
• 58:30
  think this, especially with the CBU units, you know we've got
• 58:34
  all these places that are putting in a giant cluster of
• 58:38
  all of these CB us and I've seen a picture where there's one
• 58:42
  place that has a hundred of them in a row for a giant
• 58:46
  neighborhood and you're going in there and you're going around
• 58:52
  this entire thing. You're going to have to go back
• 58:54
  to the truck for more mail. It doesn't matter if you have a
• 58:56
  satchel, if you have a cart or anything like that, you're going
• 58:59
  to end up going back to your truck.
• 59:02
  And so talk with, talk with your local management and see if they
• 59:07
  can extend your footage or how many times you have to go back
• 59:11
  to that truck. If you have to go back five
• 59:15
  times for the truck, they should add five times the distance for
• 59:19
  your, for your authorized dismount.
• 59:22
  You know, so don't, don't be afraid of that.
• 59:24
  And if they aren't willing to, then you're authorized dismount
• 59:26
  number is going to be through the roof.
• 59:28
  And if it's through the roof and they're complaining about how
• 59:31
  many you're doing, that's benchmarking and you can
• 59:34
  actually file agreement on that. There's, there is a set
• 59:37
  grievance out there. You could talk with your DRS and
• 59:40
  ADR that was sent out a couple years ago that they can get that
• 59:44
  paperwork to file a benchmarking grievance on them trying to
• 59:49
  lower your numbers for your Rex evaluation.
• 59:53
  We actually have that situation in our office that has 86
• 59:58
  dismounts a day. Wow and.
• 1:00:01
  The post office is like, you know, well, that can't be OK.
• 1:00:06
  I have 1200 and four boxes, you know, delivery addresses.
• 1:00:10
  They're all CE us and he says, you know, and they're they're
• 1:00:15
  spaced out too, to the point where you know, there's no way
• 1:00:18
  you can't do that. And they said, you know, well,
• 1:00:21
  you know, what do you think these are the old ones that are
• 1:00:24
  just the square units either about this damn big.
• 1:00:30
  There's there's twelve of them per you per cluster box.
• 1:00:34
  So 12 into 1200 pieces. It's like, you know, folks,
• 1:00:40
  you're not going to get out there and carry two or three of
• 1:00:42
  them at a time. So well, yeah, you got to do it
• 1:00:45
  by tub, you got to do it by satchel.
• 1:00:46
  You got to every time they tried to turn around and get it, it
• 1:00:49
  just doesn't work out. And then he then he has to turn
• 1:00:52
  around and deliver every damn parcel to the door but 8686 a
• 1:00:57
  day. Wow.
• 1:00:58
  All right, how the next fun one is the unscanned parcel.
• 1:01:08
  Use Use unscanned parcel when an obvious parcel, not a letter or
• 1:01:17
  flat, is delivered and the barcode is missing or completely
• 1:01:22
  unreadable. Includes small parcels boxes
• 1:01:26
  delivered to a mailbox or parcel locker.
• 1:01:30
  Does not include flats, letters, oversized letters, flats or
• 1:01:35
  catalogs. Do not use if barcode is
• 1:01:38
  manually entered when delivered. Yeah.
• 1:01:45
  This is my favorite one. Oh, I we know it is.
• 1:01:48
  We know it is. I mean, I you know, I've had
• 1:01:51
  carrier call me. Hey, you know, I used to run the
• 1:01:53
  route. You know that they have no when
• 1:01:55
  I was a sub, but with that resident gets her crossword
• 1:02:00
  puzzles, Sudoku puzzles, they come and it's a metered mailbox.
• 1:02:05
  There's no scan. It's metered mail.
• 1:02:07
  It's an obvious parcel. It's an unscanned parcel.
• 1:02:12
  I get stuff for my churches that are unscanned parcels.
• 1:02:16
  It's obviously a parcel size. So, you know, this one is I'm
• 1:02:22
  going to say use your best judgment.
• 1:02:26
  Always carry your discretion. Yes, always carry your
• 1:02:30
  discretion. But so I've gone through this
• 1:02:35
  I've, I tried to file a resolution in 2023 at Michigan
• 1:02:41
  State convention. It actually passed up to
• 1:02:43
  Michigan State convention and we got interrupted on the floor by,
• 1:02:48
  at the time, Director of Labor Relations Bridget Boziak, where
• 1:02:52
  she said to vote it down because the union and management are in
• 1:02:55
  discussions of what an unscanned parcel is in 2023.
• 1:03:00
  Here we are 2025. They don't have a definition,
• 1:03:03
  but what we do have is documentation that specifically
• 1:03:09
  states what and and cannot be construed as a parcel.
• 1:03:14
  We do not have the definition in the PO6O3 anymore.
• 1:03:19
  That was deleted with the last contract that we had that no
• 1:03:24
  longer exists or applies. It is just paper in the book
• 1:03:28
  right now. It does.
• 1:03:29
  We cannot use that and so the definitions that we have on tap
• 1:03:36
  right now are in the parcel cart is one of them.
• 1:03:41
  However, use your best judgement.
• 1:03:43
  If they're throwing a random flat here and there in there,
• 1:03:46
  don't don't all that in unscanned parcel.
• 1:03:49
  But we are required a minimum one inch flat casing and the
• 1:03:58
  definition of a parcel it's it cannot fit in the case.
• 1:04:04
  So if it's wider than one inch and it cannot fit in the case
• 1:04:08
  without damaging the article, it should be considered an
• 1:04:12
  unscanned parcel. But remember it is carrier
• 1:04:16
  discretion. Use your best judgment and
• 1:04:20
  always remember management has to prove you didn't have the
• 1:04:26
  unscanned parcel. You don't have to prove you had
• 1:04:29
  an unscanned parcel. And it does say in writing on
• 1:04:33
  this guide, and I will read it again, includes small parcels
• 1:04:41
  and boxes delivered to a mailbox or parcel locker.
• 1:04:45
  That was a bigger. Another big contention was
• 1:04:47
  management. Well, it's not an unscanned
• 1:04:49
  parcel if you're putting in the mailbox wrong.
• 1:04:53
  Eyeglasses. How many times do we see
• 1:04:55
  eyeglass packages that come in that don't have scans?
• 1:04:58
  That's a parcel. It's an obvious parcel.
• 1:05:02
  Something like that as well. Photos.
• 1:05:05
  Yeah, if you're photos. If it's something, yeah,
• 1:05:09
  exactly. I don't put if you have photos
• 1:05:13
  and you have a normal to smaller mailbox and I take those to the
• 1:05:17
  door because I am not, that is an unscanned parcel.
• 1:05:20
  If you have a big mailbox that it fits in, it's a flat, plain
• 1:05:24
  and simple. If you, if it wouldn't fit in
• 1:05:29
  your case, it should be an unscammed parcel per our own
• 1:05:34
  paperwork that we have on the union website on the definition
• 1:05:38
  of a parcel. So if you're going to bend that
• 1:05:41
  photo to put it in your case, it's an unscammed parcel.
• 1:05:45
  It doesn't matter the size of the mailbox.
• 1:05:47
  What matters is the definitions that we have in the paperwork.
• 1:05:51
  Well, if it's like me, I have I have 6 shelves in my case, so it
• 1:05:58
  wouldn't fit in a six shelf case without bending it and possibly
• 1:06:02
  damaging it. But somebody who has five or 4/4
• 1:06:06
  shelves may be able to fit it in their case.
• 1:06:10
  So again, it's carrier discretion.
• 1:06:15
  Yeah, it. Could be, it could be.
• 1:06:19
  And this was brought up too. I'm going to say if you have
• 1:06:23
  like a, a letter or a card that was sent at a parcel rate so it
• 1:06:31
  has a scan code on it. I've, you know, even the little
• 1:06:36
  envelopes for the priority or I've seen birthday cards come
• 1:06:41
  with scans on them and that barcode is unreadable for some
• 1:06:45
  reason. It got ripped, it got wet, it
• 1:06:47
  got smudged or whatever it is, but it was clear that it had a
• 1:06:51
  barcode at one time. You can't enter it in because
• 1:06:55
  you can't read it and it doesn't scan.
• 1:06:57
  Then yes, that would count as an unscanable parcel.
• 1:07:04
  My favorite argument was, you know when you're at the your
• 1:07:07
  case, you take a flat and I slide it in.
• 1:07:10
  Because I use the five shelf unit, I can slide it in, I can
• 1:07:14
  take a letter, I can slide it in.
• 1:07:16
  If I can't take this thing and slide it in with the same speed
• 1:07:19
  and efficiency that I do a letter or flat, if I have to
• 1:07:22
  manipulate that in any fashion it takes more time than the
• 1:07:26
  flatter letter, then that's an unscanned parcel.
• 1:07:31
  Use it at carrier discretion. Yeah.
• 1:07:34
  Does not include flats, letters, oversized flat, letters, flats
• 1:07:38
  or catalogs. U lions are another big
• 1:07:42
  contention on that as well. I I'm just going to say this is
• 1:07:48
  just what it reads in the black and white.
• 1:07:50
  Does not include flats, letters, oversized letters, flats or
• 1:07:54
  catalogs that may not that if they didn't have a barcode to
• 1:07:59
  begin with. Let's put it that way.
• 1:08:01
  Because I have seen catalogs come in with barcodes.
• 1:08:04
  I have seen letters come in with barcodes.
• 1:08:06
  I, you know it. Yeah.
• 1:08:10
  All right. We're going to move on from that
• 1:08:12
  one. I.
• 1:08:15
  Got to have a rest of the night. Yeah, exactly.
• 1:08:18
  We could all argue different points and everything else and.
• 1:08:23
  Anything. With a barcode on it is
• 1:08:25
  considered a parcel. So yeah I have businesses that
• 1:08:32
  get four to five U lines at once as well.
• 1:08:37
  Carry your pick up. Use carrier PU when performing a
• 1:08:43
  carrier pickup or accepting a prepaid parcel over 2 lbs.
• 1:08:50
  Enter the total number of parcels Containers picked up.
• 1:08:54
  Up to five parcels may be scanned under the hotkey O for
• 1:08:59
  prepaid for the prepaid acceptance scan.
• 1:09:03
  So O is the carrier pickup. You can scan up to five under
• 1:09:07
  that one if a manifest 5630 or the My PO pickup form is present
• 1:09:13
  or directed to scan all items accepted.
• 1:09:17
  Scan the barcodes using the prepaid acceptance on the from
• 1:09:22
  the on street menu which is letter H Also I had ADR tell us
• 1:09:31
  besides the 2 lbs priority as well as return service.
• 1:09:41
  So if it's somebody that's returning something that's also
• 1:09:45
  what I was told by an ADR. But you know in black and white
• 1:09:50
  me as £2 or more. I personally don't recall
• 1:09:55
  specifically the number of parcels I have by counting them
• 1:10:00
  by hand. So I scanned them with the
• 1:10:03
  carrier a prepaid acceptance to get the number of parcels I have
• 1:10:08
  and then that's the number I input into my carrier pickup.
• 1:10:12
  That way I know I have that many parcels.
• 1:10:15
  Plus it's an accountability thing for me to make sure my my
• 1:10:19
  customers are getting the best service.
• 1:10:21
  All parcels are scanned so they know that they've been picked up
• 1:10:24
  by me and if they're missing one or something like that they know
• 1:10:28
  hey, he didn't pick that parcel up so I must not have given it
• 1:10:31
  to him kind of thing. Also, if you have a scan sheet
• 1:10:37
  that the customer prints out because they have multiple
• 1:10:40
  packages and so they have them all linked under that one scan
• 1:10:44
  sheet to scan them all at once, scan the 1st 5 under the O and
• 1:10:50
  then you have to go back to the main menu to scan barcode to
• 1:10:53
  scan that that other sheet. OK, sales, we're almost done
• 1:11:04
  folks. We're getting there.
• 1:11:06
  Postage due customs, which I can say I honestly have never seen
• 1:11:10
  one of these when collecting or attempting to collect funds for
• 1:11:14
  customs duty tax from the customer.
• 1:11:18
  Self-explanatory really. Postage due short paid.
• 1:11:23
  Now these ones we have quite often in our office for some
• 1:11:27
  reason when collecting or attempting to collect funds for
• 1:11:31
  a postage due short paid mail from customer.
• 1:11:35
  This is not a customs duty tax collection.
• 1:11:38
  So somebody didn't pay enough postage, it got through the
• 1:11:43
  system, didn't get returned to sender, it comes down now on the
• 1:11:46
  person receiving it and yeah, you put it under the postage do.
• 1:11:52
  There's another one out there too, those people that ask for
• 1:11:57
  address service or change address notifications.
• 1:12:02
  You'll get a little card with a picture of the letter that they
• 1:12:07
  sent out with the change service requested on it and it will be
• 1:12:11
  like $0.90 that they owe the Postal Service for that service.
• 1:12:16
  That is a postage due short paid.
• 1:12:18
  Make sure you're inputting that in the scanner.
• 1:12:24
  Never saw one of those. I've had two this week.
• 1:12:30
  Well, they're supposed to actually be taken to the person
• 1:12:33
  that they're going to and you're supposed to collect that fee for
• 1:12:37
  the postage due and and invite the clerks that that is what
• 1:12:42
  it's for. All right.
• 1:12:45
  And then Rural Reach when engaging a customer to generate
• 1:12:50
  a lead for the Rural Reach program.
• 1:12:58
  They used to get paid for this under the mini mail survey.
• 1:13:01
  Everybody got the same credit for it.
• 1:13:04
  Now they want us to input leads into the scanner for the
• 1:13:10
  customer, the name, address, phone number, e-mail, all the
• 1:13:15
  pertinent information for them to actually reach out and do a
• 1:13:20
  sales lead. Now whether they actually do do
• 1:13:23
  that or not is up to question. I've heard both sides of it.
• 1:13:28
  I have submitted quite a few leads and I've actually gotten
• 1:13:32
  lead returns on them as well. And there is a lead book of
• 1:13:38
  Pearl Reach booklet out there you can get for the customers
• 1:13:42
  and you can fill out a card that's associated with that
• 1:13:44
  booklet so that you can actually get that lead as well.
• 1:13:51
  Good luck for a lot of people. I want to go back to the
• 1:13:54
  carrier, pick up one real quick because it happens, but it's not
• 1:13:59
  very often. The customer may generate a
• 1:14:03
  carrier pickup form for us to go.
• 1:14:06
  We get there, there's no packages to pick up.
• 1:14:08
  This could be one that's a standing one that they have
• 1:14:11
  every day, or it could be maybe they just decided that they
• 1:14:16
  after they generated that or received it, hey, they're
• 1:14:18
  heading into town. They just decided to drop the
• 1:14:21
  packages off at the office. We get there, there's no
• 1:14:24
  packages, but we have that form. Yes, you're still going to do
• 1:14:28
  the carrier pickup. You're just going to enter 0 in
• 1:14:31
  for the packages that just still let us know that we went through
• 1:14:35
  to attempt that pickup that we received the sheet for, but
• 1:14:38
  you're going to enter in zero under that carrier pickup.
• 1:14:42
  And make sure you hit no. Either Yes or no clears that
• 1:14:48
  pickup sheet from your manager's program.
• 1:14:50
  I just actually talked about this with my postmaster the
• 1:14:53
  other day. Whether you click yes or no, you
• 1:14:58
  have done your job with that sheet.
• 1:15:00
  Now if you click no you have to notate on that sheet Y and give
• 1:15:04
  it to your manager so that way they know why but make sure you
• 1:15:08
  do actually select yes or no. All right.
• 1:15:14
  The last one is stamp stock sales.
• 1:15:17
  When completing a sale of stamps while servicing the route, use
• 1:15:21
  only once per address per day. You sell a stamp, you sell a
• 1:15:26
  book of stamps. You sell a roll.
• 1:15:30
  You sell a roll, You sell postage of any type during your
• 1:15:34
  route. Use the stamp stock sale.
• 1:15:39
  You're picking up from Save the Amish and they give you cash do
• 1:15:43
  the postage handling. That cash for them is still a
• 1:15:48
  post stamp stock sale. Even if you are going back to
• 1:15:52
  the office on your end of shift duties, having the clerk figure
• 1:15:56
  out the postage and stuff like that, you are paid to bring that
• 1:15:59
  postage back. Bring the money back or take the
• 1:16:03
  change back to the customer. That is your only way to do
• 1:16:07
  that. And if you have to replenish
• 1:16:09
  your stamp stock, that is an end of shift duty and.
• 1:16:16
  What if? What if the homies pay you in
• 1:16:18
  butter or eggs? And you better have cash on you
• 1:16:23
  to pay for the for what you're getting from them.
• 1:16:28
  It takes 2 chickens to mail a quilt.
• 1:16:37
  So that is the RX Activities guide and scans.
• 1:16:45
  Some of them are left up to carrier discretion at this
• 1:16:49
  point, but that is the language. Now I am going to say again, any
• 1:16:56
  and all of the Rex information from the activity guide sheet to
• 1:17:03
  the Q&A to everything R Rex related, The comprehensive
• 1:17:09
  guide, I think I just said out of my mind is gone right now is
• 1:17:13
  all available on the Union website and it's right on the
• 1:17:18
  front page. You have R Rex resources, you
• 1:17:21
  have R Rex training. It's all right there.
• 1:17:26
  If you have management that is bugging you because, well, you
• 1:17:30
  could only have 5 minutes, 10 minutes of into shift duties,
• 1:17:33
  Nope, that's benchmarking. You have that in writing.
• 1:17:37
  All you have to do is get a copy of that and say, Nope, this says
• 1:17:42
  this. If they want to argue with it,
• 1:17:43
  well, there's another form for that as well.
• 1:17:49
  There's always a form for that. And I do believe there's a
• 1:17:51
  template for that form as well for when it comes to
• 1:17:54
  benchmarking. Yes, there is there.
• 1:17:56
  Yes. What do we say, Bill?
• 1:17:59
  File, file, file and smile. All right.
• 1:18:05
  What I want to talk about for all you leave replacements,
• 1:18:08
  newer, older, however long you've been here, you're a leave
• 1:18:13
  replacement. Your duty is to do these scans
• 1:18:19
  for every route, every piece of a route that you run.
• 1:18:23
  Even if you're taking a split and you're making multiple trips
• 1:18:27
  to the door on that split, your scanner's logged into that other
• 1:18:31
  route. You're still gonna date.
• 1:18:32
  I took three trips to that door for those 3 mattresses or
• 1:18:36
  whatever it is that it took you 3 trips to deliver to that door.
• 1:18:41
  Why? I'm saying this is as important
• 1:18:43
  as leave replacements and regular carriers alone, but re
• 1:18:49
  leave replacements too. Number one, for leave
• 1:18:52
  replacements that work under 40 hours a week, there are some out
• 1:18:56
  there and there are many that work more.
• 1:19:01
  This all calculates for evaluation.
• 1:19:04
  You're working under 40 hours, You're getting paid evaluation.
• 1:19:07
  That's your pay too. Also why it's important.
• 1:19:12
  If you had somebody that was close to retirement or is close
• 1:19:15
  to retirement, or they just don't care, they do the six
• 1:19:19
  that's required to do and that's all they do because they know
• 1:19:23
  they're getting out of there. Well, you know what?
• 1:19:25
  You're going to take that route over and that route may not be
• 1:19:30
  evaluated properly because these scans weren't done correctly
• 1:19:35
  every day, every time. That's why especially leave
• 1:19:40
  replacements. Get in the habit of doing it
• 1:19:42
  from the day you walk in the door.
• 1:19:45
  I know when I'm out was out training this week care, you
• 1:19:48
  know, he took two packages, 2 trips to the door for some
• 1:19:51
  packages. Every time he came back, I said,
• 1:19:53
  all right, now don't forget we're going to go back under the
• 1:19:56
  wrecks and we're going to hit trip to door and we're going to
• 1:19:58
  enter those in. How many trips you made?
• 1:20:02
  Anything like that right down when I'm training, I'm walking
• 1:20:05
  them through every single rec set scan that is applicable that
• 1:20:09
  day. So yes, it is very important
• 1:20:15
  this is this is the route evaluation.
• 1:20:18
  You know, some of those routes that may have tanked maybe
• 1:20:20
  because or keep going down, maybe because a carrier isn't
• 1:20:24
  doing it. It could be a carrier, it could
• 1:20:27
  be a route where a carrier is off that route for an extended
• 1:20:30
  prior time. So it is a leave replacement
• 1:20:32
  that's running that route every day.
• 1:20:34
  What's going to happen if that carrier, if that was a carrier
• 1:20:37
  who is busting their behind to make sure that their route was
• 1:20:40
  evaluated properly And unfortunately, maybe they got
• 1:20:44
  hurt on the job and they're out on OWCP and there's they're
• 1:20:48
  waiting to come back. And it may be an extended amount
• 1:20:52
  of time to where enough of this, It could be a year, it could be
• 1:20:55
  more. And if you're not doing those
• 1:20:57
  scans and that carrier comes back and that route dropped
• 1:21:01
  because you know they got it, you know it.
• 1:21:06
  Treat every route that you run as if it's your own route that
• 1:21:11
  you run every day like a regular carrier.
• 1:21:15
  You know, I was trained to do that.
• 1:21:17
  I and then I and I took that all the way through.
• 1:21:20
  It didn't matter what route I was running that day or what
• 1:21:23
  piece of a route on top of a route or on top of a route or
• 1:21:26
  whatever. I treated each one of those
• 1:21:29
  routes as if that was my very own route.
• 1:21:31
  Whether that came down to the customer service guarantee that
• 1:21:34
  the rec scans were done, that's the part of the job.
• 1:21:38
  Because as a leave replacement, you're going to be that next
• 1:21:42
  carrier to go. You know, you're eventually
• 1:21:44
  going to go full time if that's what you're looking to do and
• 1:21:47
  you want to make sure that you're doing everything
• 1:21:49
  correctly from the very first time out.
• 1:21:53
  Unfortunately, yes, you can lead a horse to water and you can't
• 1:21:55
  make them drink. And I agree, it drives me nuts
• 1:21:58
  as well, especially when it comes to this.
• 1:22:02
  And I know, I know, leave replacements.
• 1:22:04
  The biggest thing they want to do is just go home at the end of
• 1:22:07
  the day. And I know that they are work, a
• 1:22:11
  lot of them are working their backsides off just to get stuff
• 1:22:16
  done because we're so short staffed in so many places.
• 1:22:19
  You know, we have offices that don't even have leave
• 1:22:21
  replacements, you know, but we have to make sure we're doing
• 1:22:25
  everything we can to make sure we are maximizing the money not
• 1:22:29
  only for the regular carriers, but for the leave replacements
• 1:22:32
  too. You know what goes in here, goes
• 1:22:36
  in here. Which I thought of that.
• 1:22:42
  I had the image, so I had to pull it up.
• 1:22:44
  You know the scanner kind of thing.
• 1:22:46
  You know you. Don't just walk in the door, hit
• 1:22:48
  cut. You know and you don't as you're
• 1:22:50
  walking out, hit the clock in and the start load and load with
• 1:22:54
  barely a minute between the two and you whip them all out and
• 1:22:58
  there's like a 5 minutes difference from clocking the
• 1:23:01
  clock out. No, you don't do that.
• 1:23:04
  Do it properly, we're going to go.
• 1:23:08
  Over, we're going to go over an RCA specific episode coming up.
• 1:23:17
  We need to make sure our Rcas know what's really going on.
• 1:23:21
  And just like Made Arbitration has with CCA Corner, we won an
• 1:23:26
  RCA corner on this podcast. So if you're RCA that knows a
• 1:23:32
  little bit about the job, we're looking for your help.
• 1:23:36
  All right, leave replacement in general, this will fall under
• 1:23:39
  PTFS as well. I will stress if you are a leave
• 1:23:46
  replacement and you are a local steward, we're going to have to
• 1:23:50
  say no now. Plain and simple, we will not.
• 1:23:54
  Put you. In that position at all to lose
• 1:23:57
  that we we want you as a local steward, plain and simple.
• 1:24:02
  If you don't want to come up, but you want to e-mail us some
• 1:24:06
  info that you wish you would have learned at the beginning or
• 1:24:11
  some good advice, please e-mail us.
• 1:24:13
  We'll be happy to share that we won't mention names, locations.
• 1:24:18
  Oh, I will. I will not.
• 1:24:20
  You can. Message, message any of us if
• 1:24:23
  you want to help us and advise us on things that you see as a
• 1:24:26
  relief carrier that we may not know about what we appreciate
• 1:24:30
  that as well. I'm here to learn.
• 1:24:33
  I, I'm barely, just over a year out of being a leave
• 1:24:37
  replacement. So a lot of it is still fairly
• 1:24:40
  fresh with me. But at the same time it has
• 1:24:43
  been, I have been a regular for just over a year.
• 1:24:47
  So some of that does fall away, you know, and that's the one
• 1:24:51
  thing you know, And I, I tell all of them in my office, if you
• 1:24:54
  have any questions about anything, please ask, please
• 1:25:00
  ask. You know, I and as a, and as an
• 1:25:05
  RCA, I did experience a lot of things, almost every scenario,
• 1:25:10
  not quite everyone, but I, you know, I was one of those that
• 1:25:13
  worked one day a week and I worked seven days a week.
• 1:25:17
  I worked in an office that was fully staffed.
• 1:25:19
  I worked in an office where I was the only RCA.
• 1:25:23
  So, you know, I've experienced a lot of it, So I have a lot of my
• 1:25:29
  own I can put in there. But I want to hear from those
• 1:25:32
  that are out there now, whether it's a fully staffed office, a
• 1:25:37
  short staffed office, you know, somebody I hate.
• 1:25:40
  I really wish somebody would have taught me this when I first
• 1:25:43
  started or as I was coming up and learning or hey, you know,
• 1:25:47
  this is a great piece of advice that could be something totally
• 1:25:50
  different that none of us had experienced before.
• 1:25:53
  So definitely, I really, I mean, that was what I wanted to do in
• 1:25:57
  the beginning when I was still in RCA.
• 1:25:59
  I wanted to do more on the RCA experience and bring people in
• 1:26:05
  or at least communicate with us when it comes to that.
• 1:26:08
  And it kind of fell off the the wagon there.
• 1:26:11
  But we're bringing that back up and we'll definitely take all
• 1:26:19
  the leave replacements out there that want to assist, to assist.
• 1:26:22
  Like I said, whether it's by e-mail, direct message or, you
• 1:26:26
  know, coming on, as long as you're not a certified local
• 1:26:30
  steward or not a newly elected steward waiting for
• 1:26:34
  certification, we will not. Put you in.
• 1:26:38
  That position at all. And you don't even have to be on
• 1:26:42
  camera either if you're camera shy.
• 1:26:44
  No, we come on camera because we're not camera shy.
• 1:26:47
  You don't even have to use your real name if you don't want to.
• 1:26:51
  We won't. You know we won't.
• 1:26:53
  You don't have to give us your location.
• 1:26:55
  You know, it is all that. My biggest thing is I would
• 1:27:00
  rather keep you if you were one of those leave replacements
• 1:27:03
  again that has stepped up to be a steward in your office.
• 1:27:05
  I want you to keep that stewardship so I will not put
• 1:27:09
  you at risk on coming on the air.
• 1:27:14
  Agreed. OK.
• 1:27:19
  Was there anything else tonight, guys?
• 1:27:22
  No, because I'm getting ready to bail.
• 1:27:27
  Oh, he's getting that old man thing.
• 1:27:29
  Got to be in bed by 10. All.
• 1:27:31
  Right this head, this head cold is really whacked me.
• 1:27:34
  I got a pile of tissues here that yeah, you can see me dive
• 1:27:38
  off the screen because I'm sneezing and oh, it's just, it's
• 1:27:42
  nasty, you know all. Right, Bill, we'll let you do
• 1:27:44
  your closing comments first. OK, closing comments.
• 1:27:48
  OK, we got a little bit of weather here in Pennsylvania
• 1:27:51
  today. Thankfully, tomorrow's a holiday
• 1:27:54
  for y'all, so you know they get a chance for a reprieve.
• 1:27:58
  The only problem is you in Michigan, the temperatures are
• 1:28:03
  not going anywhere. We're we're looking at a high of
• 1:28:07
  17 and 18 with a feels like average of 10 below.
• 1:28:13
  So this stuff is not going anywhere any anytime soon.
• 1:28:17
  Be. Safe take your time.
• 1:28:19
  We just had a carrier in in our SC and C had an accident on a
• 1:28:23
  road at everybody else was travelling fine, but he hit a
• 1:28:26
  certain patch and you know, hey, gone, he's out of work for a
• 1:28:32
  while and you know, he's out on connection protocol per SE.
• 1:28:38
  Be safe out there. You know, in this weather, you
• 1:28:40
  know, it's not about keeping warm and frostbite and
• 1:28:43
  everything else. It's about building the road
• 1:28:46
  surface, you know, giving you extra distance and pay attention
• 1:28:50
  to the people behind you because they're the ones that always
• 1:28:53
  seem to tag you. You know, the guy who's falling
• 1:28:57
  too close too fast without any notifications.
• 1:29:00
  So drag your feet a little, let them pass you, whatever.
• 1:29:03
  But let's say take care of yourselves.
• 1:29:06
  I always tell you, and I mean it, you're the most important
• 1:29:09
  delivery of the day. Get home to your loved ones.
• 1:29:12
  Be safe, games. Yeah, as Bill said, it's going
• 1:29:17
  to get really cold out there. You know, there's a lot of
• 1:29:20
  places that the wind chills are going to be super negative down
• 1:29:24
  up places, maybe in 40-50 below wind chills.
• 1:29:28
  You know, the only places that aren't really going to be
• 1:29:31
  dealing with this deep cold are California, Hawaii, and Alaska.
• 1:29:36
  It's going to be warmer in Alaska than many places down
• 1:29:40
  here in the lower 48. So enjoy it, Alaskan carriers,
• 1:29:45
  enjoy it, but take care of yourself.
• 1:29:49
  Make sure you're putting everything you can into your
• 1:29:52
  scanner that you can back up yourself.
• 1:29:55
  You believe you deserve it, put it in the scanner.
• 1:30:00
  Because if you don't, you're saying you don't deserve that
• 1:30:03
  credit. You don't deserve that extra
• 1:30:06
  minute or 30 seconds or whatever that input gives.
• 1:30:10
  You want to make sure you're doing everything you can
• 1:30:14
  maximize your evaluation legitimately.
• 1:30:17
  This doesn't mean oh I got 5 packs of box holders, I'm going
• 1:30:21
  to input it five times to get the credit.
• 1:30:24
  You only need to input it once. And the other thing is if
• 1:30:28
  there's a barcode on that box holder, you scan the barcode to
• 1:30:32
  say you're delivering it. It tells the customer you
• 1:30:34
  delivered it. It doesn't give you credit.
• 1:30:37
  If you just scan the barcode. You still need to input it under
• 1:30:40
  the rec scan to make sure you're taking care of your evaluations.
• 1:30:45
  And if management starts trying to benchmark you or starts
• 1:30:49
  trying to tell you, hey, you got to limit your time on office
• 1:30:54
  duties or end of shift duties or anything like that, it's
• 1:30:58
  benchmarking, you can file a grievance.
• 1:31:02
  The only way management stops harassing us for the tasks that
• 1:31:06
  we're doing legitimately is if we stand up to show management.
• 1:31:12
  We're all in this together, Kristin.
• 1:31:15
  Thank you guys. Yes, definitely with the cold, I
• 1:31:19
  know Tuesday is going to be a long day for me.
• 1:31:22
  Tomorrow's going to be a cold one.
• 1:31:23
  I'm going to be traveling home. For those of you that are going
• 1:31:27
  to be attending SAC coming up soon and want a magnet key chain
• 1:31:34
  or button for the podcast. I will be meeting up with James
• 1:31:37
  tomorrow night or tomorrow, late morning, early afternoon with
• 1:31:43
  the bag of buttons that I happened to grab with me before
• 1:31:46
  I left the house. So I'll be meeting up with him
• 1:31:49
  to give those to him to take down to sack with him and
• 1:31:53
  anywhere else he may be going as well.
• 1:31:56
  I still have a few left with me, but he'll have the bulk of them.
• 1:32:00
  So you can get with him outside of the conference floor.
• 1:32:04
  OK. We don't do it while the
• 1:32:07
  conference is is going break time before, after, not while
• 1:32:14
  you're on the conference floor, plain and simple.
• 1:32:17
  Going to put that out there. So he'll have those for those
• 1:32:19
  that want. We got to be paying attention.
• 1:32:21
  Yes, find James at SAC for for your free goodies.
• 1:32:29
  So on that note guys, please stay safe out there this week.
• 1:32:33
  Take precautions for the cold. Remember, safety is your number
• 1:32:38
  one choice. When you leave that office for
• 1:32:41
  that route, make that attempt. If you are not feeling safe for
• 1:32:45
  whatever reason, that is your call.
• 1:32:47
  When you come back to the office, make sure you are
• 1:32:49
  filling out a 1767 to CYA because that's what you got to
• 1:32:55
  do to cover your behind, you know, dress in layers, hand
• 1:33:00
  warmers. I just ordered another pair of
• 1:33:03
  heated socks. So hopefully I'll those actually
• 1:33:07
  arrived in my house today. So I'll have those for Tuesday.
• 1:33:11
  But remember guys, you know, safety is your number one.
• 1:33:15
  Dress warm, dress in layers, drive with caution.
• 1:33:21
  If it's not safe, that's your call once you hit that street.
• 1:33:24
  So and that note, guys, we will be back next week and what are
• 1:33:29
  we going to do next week? Any idea?
• 1:33:33
  Or we'll just leave it random? We'll figure it out during the
• 1:33:36
  carriers. I got a carrier that's
• 1:33:39
  interested in us addressing pregnant carriers and their
• 1:33:43
  limited duties. And I'm going to be all set.
• 1:33:47
  Oh, that is next weekend. Isn't it?
• 1:33:49
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:33:51
  So maybe I'll get a opening day in as they're going through
• 1:33:57
  Saturday, Sunday and Monday at SAC, so I have a small report on
• 1:34:02
  Sunday for that. That'll be good.
• 1:34:04
  Yeah, James will be at SAC next weekend.
• 1:34:07
  So on that note and if anybody wants to join him, that's there.
• 1:34:12
  Again, please, no stewards with. That's all we ask.
• 1:34:15
  And yeah, but I'm sure, you know, if you ask nicely, he may
• 1:34:21
  let you join him to come on and say hi to everybody, even if
• 1:34:26
  it's just pre show, post show, whatever.
• 1:34:28
  You don't have to be on, but that'd be cool.
• 1:34:30
  But on the note guys. He's a really sick leash
• 1:34:34
  underneath his right arm here. OK guys, have a good.
• 1:34:40
  Week. Stay safe out there, stay warm,
• 1:34:43
  and we'll be back next week.