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Now, here are the host of The United.
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We scan podcast and welcome back.
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This is episode 28, take two. Now that we figured out the
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problems. Yeah, needless to say I am
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mobile tonight rather than on my computer.
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Yeah, had a good week this week at the office management.
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Did step aside for a training, a sit-down training.
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Actually we actually got moved into the conference room and had
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a 12-minute training and unscannable parcel and WSS.
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Which was really great because she actually mirrored the actual
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talking that we've been talking about what a parcel is.
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She actually said, yes, 5 inches or 18 inches or one and 9/16 is
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a parcel, as long as it's rigid, and she did specify that you
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lines that are rollable are not a parcel.
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If you wanted to make sure everybody knew that.
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And she also discussed the difference between WSS and
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everything else and letter, parcel box holder vs, W, SS
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scan. And of course somebody not me, I
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will specify it was not me. Somebody asked what about wsh?
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And she was kind of well and I turn around carrier discretion
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and she's like, yeah, carrier discretion sounds great.
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So, my postmaster actually said, carrier discretion on wsh for
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now, so that was great. Get in writing.
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I have 12 Witnesses. That's good enough for me and
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still get that in writing though you're easily swayed.
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Well it's a fact that she said she couldn't give a definitive
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answer so in toasty gives a definitive answer carry your
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discretion. Well that's how I look at it.
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We had the same situation within our office where a rural carrier
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specialist told us. Yes wsh get centered And they.
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Okay. And we took that to heart and
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then they started screaming about it and then somebody found
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out otherwise and rain on our parade.
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But I'm not going to tell you that because that's you carry
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discretion, of course, how was your week bill?
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I gotta, I gotta go to work tomorrow.
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Yeah. We moved into a new smaller town
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home, and God, you you'd have no idea how much shit you have in
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your house until you try to get into a smaller facility and it
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It's been a challenge. So we're still unpacking,
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probably 40% of the house. We got to 60 percent done and
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still don't have enough room. You know thank God for the
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basement. Yeah it's a lifesaver.
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What what? What's this my clothes at seven
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basement. You know my wife does have
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walk-in closet. I have a reach-in closet and
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then she has another walk-in closet.
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And then she has a double-sided Posit sound familiar, guys?
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It sounds about right. Yeah.
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Sounds about right. Yeah, let me guess 20 pairs of
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shoes in one closet. 20/20. What do you think she is on the
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poverty level? I mean, you do work for the Post
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Office. Yeah.
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But yeah, she she makes six figures though, you know, you
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know, if you started 80 and work your way up, you might get
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closer. I was saying just in one closet,
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I wasn't saying it all the closets, right?
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I'm saying in one closet, she's gonna say closet and just for
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the shoes. Well yeah, the shoes are all the
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way up. It's the walk-in closet and
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there's we have racks of shoes, all the way up to the bottom of
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the clothes hanging. Hang up.
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By attending, one of our listeners said, my wife has a
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walk-in closet. It's called the house.
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Love it, love it. The fourth bedroom was her
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walk-in bedroom closet. It was, I mean, I had, you know,
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the standard side by side, sliding closet doors.
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And then I had a 12 foot rail for clothes and then I, Had the
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shoe racks underneath there in the shoe racks in the closet and
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the shoe racks underneath the lounging chair.
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And then 2/3 of Closet in our master bedroom was herself.
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So when you guys go on vacation, to the Cayman Islands?
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Does she take a suitcase? Just a shoes?
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Usually, least six or seven pairs of shoes.
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I don't know, I think whatever I'm wearing my feet.
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I take my water shoes, my flippers my snorkel and my
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bathing suit and I'm happy anchor, pink thong.
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Oh, of course, I never take that off.
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Oh, yeah. I got things going on our
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fingers crossed. I can pick that up, Thursday.
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I'm only one running one. We're out tomorrow.
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I had to go in and case today that yeah, that's not get me
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started on that. What happened this morning?
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Yeah, I don't think I'll pass the episode 3 RCA's case two
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rounds. Each I case 31 case 11 case too
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and I still got all the packages that were sorted for tomorrow.
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The further out, I'm running taken care of.
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So yeah, that's the CliffsNotes version.
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Pretty good, pretty good. I like getting the phone call
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today. And somebody say Bill, how come
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the add rows are at three routes?
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I don't know, ask management. The thing that this is fun day,
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right? It is Monday right now.
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It feels like a Sunday because we're actually recording and
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they do go out and Thursdays right?
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Well ours, go out on Monday. I was going on Tuesdays.
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Arzo Thursday. Okay well each office is
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different. Yeah the betting on the printer
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you know and the supermarkets in the whoever else.
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Yep but yeah it's just yeah Neverending Story.
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You have anybody else participating today?
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Or we just us three like we got Micah on here unless he's going
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to be quiet. Mike, you joining us, are you
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sitting what sitting pretty Guess he said I'm going to be
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sitting pretty for right now. Josh won't be with us tonight,
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State Convention going on right now and Papas and one now.
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So, yeah, so the topic we were talking about yesterday and
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we'll talk about today is we've seen it on social media, and
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we've seen the emails going around and stuff like that of
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management, being told to have conversations with carriers
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about their excessive scanning. And we talked about this in the
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Previous episode as well about how there is an email going
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around that if you have eight weeks prior to the mini mail
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survey of data is what they're using to determine whether
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you're over scanning or not. And the problem with that is the
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eight weeks prior to the mini meal survey, 99% of carriers
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were only doing at most the six cans and they weren't trained on
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the rest of them and now Carriers are going.
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Oh, fudge. I need to start doing these
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scans. And these carriers are actually
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being honest about them. They're being accurate.
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They're doing what they're supposed to be doing with the
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scans. And now management is coming
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down on it, because as we've seen, some people have said,
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they've heard talks from upper management on conference calls,
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that carriers are over scanning supposedly and one some of the
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routes are getting 30, plus h above what they're currently
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evaluated at. Now, this is the big problem.
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You have management deciding to turn around and police people
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who are over scanning. But yet, they're ignoring the
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people who aren't doing any scams at all who basically
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aren't doing their job either. So reason why?
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Because it saves the post office money, there you go.
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They don't care about, they don't care if you're turning
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around and doing absolutely nothing, but the sixth and the
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six cans is the only thing. They're worried about 100%
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across-the-board, literally you clock in.
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And when you start road truck, five seconds later, you hit in
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boat truck depart to Ralph. Come back from your route return
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to you. And clock out five seconds later
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they'd be completely happy even though even though it's not
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accurate. That's what management really
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wants because that saves them money overall.
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But your postmaster in your office, his budget for his
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office his or her budget is 100% based on the mail that's going
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through that office. Whether it's the city carriers,
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the rural character, couriers or even the PO Boxes step mail
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going through that office is tied to the budget of that
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office because the more mail it flows through the more money
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they get the bigger, the routes are the More your, the budget on
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your office gets that could mean more clerks.
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That could mean custodian. That could mean even more routes
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for Rural more rounds per City? It could mean a lot for it and
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they can have more supervisors to.
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You could have Morales means more supervisors.
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Overall, are you guys think? That's what we do.
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I need to management. I think like we do we before we
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got dumped that the bigger the office to bigger to paycheck for
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the postmaster for too long. Long as he's maintaining his
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cost. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Because he can go from, you know, easa 18 to a 20 21, 22,
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and make beaucoup bucks right now.
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We have City. Tires making more than the
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postmaster, we have clerks, making more in the postmaster
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because of all the hours are putting in.
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Yeah, it's a sad fact that a lot of these postmasters don't
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actually realize exactly what goes into their budget, over the
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stuff, they aren't trained on this stuff.
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Just like, they weren't trained on the wreck scans.
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We proved that image stage when I asked the guy why he didn't
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make it mandatory. We proved that the regional reps
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weren't willing to train the district reps in the district
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reps without training, can't train the postmasters.
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And these post manager tool for bees aren't getting the The
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training on, even their own personal jobs.
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So when you get management like you said that would log into the
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zoom training and then walk away from the desk.
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Yeah. Or minimize it and go on what do
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and what they're doing instead of actually learning this stuff
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and it being mandatory Maybe a test at the end but the other,
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the other one is definitely the WSS.
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You know, a lot of people get confused on that WSS. is
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addressed flats or letters WSS is addressed decoration, male
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covers, most of both not all of the route As a mailing, it says,
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WSS on it, but if it does not have an address, it will still
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say WSS because that's the rate that the shipper is being
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charged to mail that out. That's why it says WSS, even
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though it says, local customer or Postal customers or something
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along those lines are being charged that WSS rate for that
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mailing but it's box holder. If it's not a Dressed just want
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to clarify that as well. So let me get this straight.
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The post office is charging the mail or WSS raised as in.
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It's being addressed the mail, or as actually pretty it up as a
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box holder and we're being paid for a box holder, but the post
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office getting paid as WSS. Lori or you can look at it that
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the people that are putting the addresses on it, for the Post
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Office are paying the same rate as the people who don't put an
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address on it. But either way it's about the
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same count for the. You're going to get the same
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number of mailers whether they have addresses on them or not.
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That's the way it's supposed to be at least.
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Yeah. So if you guys are concerned on
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your scans and management pulls you in to talk about your scans,
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first thing you want to do is you definitely want to have your
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designated union rep with you as a witness.
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They can say, oh, you don't need your union rep because this is
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not discipline, that's not going to lead to discipline.
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Blah blah blah. No.
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I want him there for a witness. anytime management wants to talk
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to you, you can take somebody in as a witness And you can choose
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who your witness is. And when you go in there, ask
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management. Well, how are you determining
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this? Well, you came up on a report.
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All is there other carriers that are on this report?
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Can I see the other what the other carriers are doing?
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So I can get an idea of how they're doing it so I can do it
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right? and see that list because if
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there's carriers on there that aren't doing the scans, Help
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your brother or sister out and go talk with them and be like,
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hey, I noticed from this report because I got called out for
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over scanning that you're not doing the scans, is there
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anything I can help you to help you learn how to do this.
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So you don't leave money on the table.
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Do something for your fellow carriers on that.
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Isn't that really the stewards job to do that?
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Just just storage job. Yes, but it's also on us to help
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our brothers and sisters out if we can, because there are a lot
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of offices that don't have to do everything awful.
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Yeah. There are a lot of offices that
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don't have a steward in it. If you're in an office, that
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doesn't have a steward, you can step up and be a steward.
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You know there's a whole Clara for people reach out to us and
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say that they have taken that dive.
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Yeah, there's and it's awesome. Yeah it takes it takes somebody
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willing to sacrifice their time and energy to become a steward.
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And we applaud that, because it's a way to give back to your
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fellow carriers in a meaningful way.
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Well, what are the things you were talking about?
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In regards to the six cans that most people barely did.
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Now, they're coming up on reports for Des mounts because
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they never put them in And I saw this on social media because of
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the fact that now it's a flag popping up that they're actually
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putting the Dismounts in when they're making more than one and
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this is the problem of not doing it for the last two years,
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folks. Yes, is the information that's
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where they set their base levels.
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Based on the last two years, particularly the last year of
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made to May 22, 23 and said, this is your base level.
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If you go above that, it's going to get flagged.
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And now that people are catching on to the fact that they have to
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do these cans and make the entries for the Dismounts.
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It's catching up to them and Management's asking why?
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Yeah, and your dis Mouse, you know, is It's each CPU set you
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have. So if you have 1 C, bu 9, CB
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use, or even 21 CPUs, and one section.
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That's one Dismount. So if you have to go back and
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get mail, that's an additional authorized Dismount at that CPU
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and the key to it is, if you take the amount of mail, you can
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safely carry to that, CB you And Management's going to get on you
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for that they're going to be like well what can we do to get
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you to carry more male to it? I'm taking as much as I safely
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can. So the only other option you
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would have is to give me a satchel credit for it.
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And I explained this before a satchel credit you get, firstly,
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you get the credit of a miscellaneous.
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Time to go from your case to where the Satchel is stored.
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Back to your case, then you case all your stuff, get everything
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ready to go, and then you pull down your mail, pull down your
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first CB, you set that you're going to last.
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Save that to the end. Once you've pulled it down onto
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your desk, then you do a start load vehicle and you load that
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Satchel during your start load vehicle time.
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Then put the Satchel in your cart.
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Go load your truck, finish your duties.
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Go out. You go to your first see.
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BU you time the time, it takes you to go and grab your Satchel.
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Bring it out to the door of your truck and put it on to carry it
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to that. Bu stop the timer right?
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That time down go to your CPU, load the mail.
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When you empty the Satchel go back refill time, the refill
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time, you get time to reload that Satchel on miscellaneous
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time. And you free fill it for the
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next CPU set. Whether it's three pieces of
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mail or 3,000 pieces of mail whatever fits in that Satchel
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safely and does not damage the mail and you get that time
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credit under miscellaneous time that will actually give you more
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time on your evaluation then would the authorized Dismount
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going back and forth. Management does not want to do
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that. It'll cost them a lot more that
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way. But that's the key.
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If you are told to yeah, plus they have to provide you a
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satchel So that's another option for CBU routes to gain more time
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on their routes. But the other thing too that
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I've been told on unauthorized Dismounts is you have to
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Dismount with mail in your hand. You if you get out to open your
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CB you that you if you if you Dismount to open your CB you to
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check and see like the see if your parcel lockers or full or
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whatever but you don't have any mail in your hand.
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You can't. Count that as a dismount.
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You have to be dismounted with with something in your hand to
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deliver. Are your discretion?
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Yeah, yeah, that was put out at our state.
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So, okay. That was put out an adventure.
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Yeah, I didn't hear that in mind yet, but doesn't mean it's not
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out there, but this actual credit opinion, you should speak
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with your designated union. Rep on that.
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It's just my personal opinion on that.
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Well, the base levels for the eight weeks prior to the survey,
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not the year prior for the Scandia.
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Anyway, we went back to them in email server, but I was going to
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say it's the same way with your Lea, your load vehicle function.
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I mean, on average I have a A plus of parcels early will have
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to unload one. Yeah, the sword arm out and then
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reload reload, you know, into the other, you know, the empty
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one once I get that done with the others so that I can, you
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know, segregate them and kind of staged them whenever you're
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reloading, you know, you taking that stuff out, you know, that's
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loading time. If you got to pick them up off
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the floor that's loading time. If it's clerk comes over and
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drops, you know, three or four Parcels off, you know the
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knocker at your case that's loading.
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Time your ad Bose if you're loading them into your hamper,
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that's loading time and if you haven't been doing that for the
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past year or so then, you know, guess what?
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Folks, that's going to trigger an alert on their part.
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They have not come to me yet because I averaged, at least 15
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minutes loading time every day. if not more because we're my
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truck is versus the amount of mail and parcels give you a
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point. I've been doing my scans
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correctly for the last year, and even with that, I'm still
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getting flagged. For the eight weeks prior.
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Because, who knows what happened?
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The eight weeks prior. I really don't remember what
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happened back in back. In February, January, February
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March of this year. I can't remember how many
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unscanned Parcels I had, I can't remember how many walk sequence
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I had. I can't remember any of that
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stuff. So what I have now may be
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different especially this time of year when you have diplomas
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and and picture senior pictures and things like that.
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You know, coming out in the mail, those are do not Bend and
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if their parcel size there are no scan parcel because you can't
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bend them to fit them in a box or a rigid article.
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So you're getting a higher count of unscanned parcels just
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because there are more of them. Hmm.
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And I guarantee most carriers and I will say most, I can't say
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for certain all carriers but most carriers are doing the
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proper scans but they're supposed to be doing.
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Because I trust my brothers and sisters on the real crafts.
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I don't trust management. We're hoping they're doing the
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scans properly again that comes down from management and
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management responsibility for training and we all know how
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well they did on that. Oh, that's such a laugh.
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Oh my God, if I, if I didn't know nothing.
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Same, same for me in my office, I had to train my postmaster on
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it. Because district and Regional
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were doing it for sure. But that's the key.
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Is this is this is your money. This is your paycheck and you've
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got to think about what your paycheck is worth to you.
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And you also have to remember that your subs, in your office
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are part of your paycheck. And it's not always going to be
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your primary Subs. It runs your route.
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So step up and help your your RCA's out.
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Help them. Learn these scans help them
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understand what it means for them because they're the next
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people to run your route. The next people that are going
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to be regular carriers, they should know how to do this
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stuff, you're o.j. I in your office should be
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teaching them this stuff, but you should also be stepping up
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and making, making them feel proud to know how to do this
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stuff. Make them feel proud in the job
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because they're going to be the ones that if you're out on
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leave. Like for Kristen.
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And I were going to be up at our State Convention.
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Several days off our routes for our subs, don't know the scans.
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We're going to lose money on our Rex stuff, right?
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Kristen. Yeah, even my little baby ox, So
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it's like if you take care of yourselves and teach them, the
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importance of these scans and what it means for them, just as
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much as it means for you. Yeah, one of our pts is learning
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that firsthand because he's getting set to go.
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We have a carrier retiring soon and I don't think anyone's going
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to bid on her route because it went down due to RX To, I think
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a 40K. And you know, he's going to take
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a pretty major pay cut when he you know, when he becomes
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regular within the next month or two, if not the funniest thing
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you're going to become regular and you lose money.
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Yeah. It's not unheard of sadly.
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It's not a group of, that's true for a lot of Subs, especially if
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they're the primary sub of the office.
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The seat, most senior sub because they're working six days
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a week as a sub. Bob work in 10 to 12 hours a day
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actually, getting real overtime with it and they turn around and
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they get the lowest evaluated route in the office.
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Or the worst drought in the office and then they have to
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build it up themselves because especially if the carrier really
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doesn't care because oh, I'm so close to retirement, I don't
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care. Then they're really screwed and
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then they have to spend to Surrey and then email surveys
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before they get the actual full evaluation of that route.
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I'm going to take that long. The route that I will
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potentially be getting here. Come, I don't know, October some
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time without finally goes up for bid and awarded that, you know,
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she would she gain three hours? She went from a 42 to a 45k and
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that's because, you know, but since then we've got a newer RC
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on there and she likes to not be in the office as much as
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possible. So how was, you know, that six
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months Of four months of not getting.
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Probably all the scans that should be getting.
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How's that going to affect it when I take it over after the
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next survey? You know, is it going to be
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enough to bring it back down or, you know, am I I'm just going to
29:31
have, you know, work with the subs even more to make sure
29:33
they're getting the proper scans.
29:38
Yeah, and like I said, it's going to take, if, in these
29:42
instances, you know, we got our evaluations, a month and a half
29:46
after the mini mail survey. So that's a month and a half.
29:51
After the survey that are not really fully scanned in.
29:57
So you're literally looking at a 3 Min email, surveys before we
30:01
get the full evaluation of these routes.
30:04
But the biggest thing is, is those Those surveys, are they
30:10
defining Factor when we get our evaluations, and our next one is
30:14
not till September, and we won't get a new evaluation until
30:19
October. But the carriers that started
30:24
doing their scans after the men email survey are not going to
30:27
have a full six months yet because they didn't know.
30:30
Oh, my route went down from a 42k to of 40, 41, H or 36h.
30:39
They're not going to know exactly how high their route can
30:41
be. For at least another two men,
30:44
email surveys if they're doing their of their scans correctly.
30:50
so, you have to think about that when you get up there, because,
30:58
Everything you do now affects you a year down the road.
31:05
Right. Bill, you're right.
31:08
And, and people keep thinking that this is going to be
31:10
happening every 6 months. It's not.
31:12
It's going to be a yearly thing. It's 52 weeks everage.
31:19
Yeah, it's a really 52 weeks with too many mail servers a
31:22
year. The good news is we've gotten
31:27
rid of quote-unquote, special counts where the Postal Service
31:30
can say, oh, we're not counting this month of God, like the last
31:37
five years. The list glass special count,
31:41
they had, they pulled pulled around out, combined it with two
31:45
other routes, overburden them to the point where, you know, they
31:48
were in the 70s know Jesus, then had to read the item and And
31:55
then all of a sudden 38 routes became K routes and the other
31:59
two still stayed High. Ches.
32:02
Yeah. And we have a rural carrier,
32:04
specialist working in our office,
32:18
that's the worst part. You know, the first couple of
32:21
years, I would tell my wife stories and and she just shook
32:24
her head. No, it's not true.
32:26
You talk to your customers and they they ask questions and you
32:29
tell them what's going on and they shake their heads at.
32:32
Yeah, you know why do you have a third eye ball you middle of
32:34
your forehead? Like he was saying you know we
32:37
talk to our customers and they don't know what's going on
32:40
behind the scenes. Yeah it's our customers don't
32:43
even know what's going on you know they only see the back end
32:47
of it while we're out there sitting in vehicles delivering
32:49
the mail. They don't see all the work that
32:52
we have to put in to get to putting the The mail in their
32:55
boxes and stuff like that. But as rural carrier, it's our
33:00
job to take care of our routes. Take care of our customers and
33:04
take care of ourselves. And the the biggest, the other
33:09
big one that people are talking about is the rural reach and the
33:16
stamp stock sales. now, a lot of people have been talking about
33:22
these and especially stamp stock sales, And they're talking about
33:28
how they have to stop doing them because they don't get stamped
33:31
stock from management. But in the PO, 603 is still
33:38
calls. Us a post office on wheels.
33:42
And there are some carriers, that still even carry scales and
33:46
their trucks to move to weigh packages and things like that to
33:49
make sure the people are actually putting the right
33:51
postage on there. But if you are carrying stamps
33:55
on yourself with the intention to sell them to customers, And
34:00
you get changed in a box, to put on a stamp on a card, that's a
34:05
stamp stock sale. You deserve that credit because
34:09
you're going to go in your little pouch, or your wallet, or
34:12
wherever you keep your stamps, you're going to take one of your
34:15
stamps, put it on that envelope and you're going to put the
34:17
change decide to replenish your stamp stock out of your own
34:21
pocket. And I know carriers that know
34:24
their routes well enough and that's being customer service.
34:28
We know our routes that carry enough stamps to cover the sales
34:33
on their route that they're going to have right Kristin.
34:38
Yep, absolutely. I've heard of some management
34:43
saying that they're going to no no longer allow stamp stock and
34:48
whatnot night, you know, that's just wrong.
34:52
Yeah and I mean right here in the p&l 603 it says that we can
34:57
carry stamp stock and it doesn't have to be stamped chakra
35:00
management. We can buy our own stamp stock
35:04
in the PO, 603 Which is the duties and responsibilities for
35:10
rural carriers. That is our Manual of how to do
35:14
our job. You should have one at your case
35:17
and if you don't give a management and if Management's
35:20
not willing to provide one, get with your designated union, rep
35:23
about it because you should have the manual on how to do your job
35:28
at your case. So when you finally do mapping
35:32
with the LTM and the DPM and your Dismounts boxes and cbos,
35:36
do you get a form 50 saying? We went up and evaluation.
35:41
When do we see a difference in our paycheck?
35:44
Honestly, if there is enough, what the threshold is now for
35:49
adding boxes and correcting it all, nobody knows.
35:54
Unfortunately, that's you'll get an.
35:57
I don't know from everybody. If it is enough to trigger
36:01
something then it should trigger the 4241 a shortly after Did you
36:07
forget a new for you to for you on a and a new form, 50 and your
36:12
4240 could also change? It should also be listed on your
36:20
4240 and that's another what those but what those thresholds
36:24
are nobody knows. It's another know what it used
36:30
to because I know in the past you going oh I only need three
36:33
more boxes to go up. Our I need 12 boxes or 30 boxes,
36:37
you know, you knew what you needed before in the past and
36:41
now you don't, nobody has a clue.
36:44
Yeah, and then you turn around and, you know, the 4240 is a big
36:50
12 is management, is now using your scans on your scanner to
36:55
input your times for the day that's a No-No.
37:00
I've had, I've had discussions with Union leaders on this.
37:05
We've had discussions with this and it should be the times you
37:09
input on your 4240. The contract per management
37:15
contract per the upper GI union leaders is the 4240 is still
37:22
your time record. And if management is using your
37:26
scan times and not your 40 to 40 times, give it here designated
37:31
union, rep because it should be or 42. 40 times on your time
37:36
card. Yep, and they can change the
37:40
times. That's the only thing, local
37:42
management can touches the X. Not your start loading log
37:46
times, but your clock in and your depart to Route return to
37:50
unit and clock out that you can still adjust those as needed.
37:55
His mind is always a mess anyways, lot of them aren't
37:59
willing to they're lazy. They don't want to read already
38:01
auto-populates from the scanners, so they just go ahead
38:05
and submit it, but that's important for Or your 2080 and
38:10
20 to 40 times. Especially if you're
38:14
volunteering to cover other out, or you're on the overtime list,
38:18
things like that. It's important for that.
38:27
There's a lot that needs to be adjusted and fixed when it comes
38:31
to the system. But Bill you were talking about
38:36
this the other day about how this rexes is important for
38:40
rural carriers. You remember yesterday, was it
38:46
yesterday? Got it seemed like a week ago.
38:52
No. It's the difference between the
38:55
old male count and the new Rec system, you know, and four
39:00
years, 20, plus years, we cried about we're not getting paid for
39:04
everything. We do now with these scanners.
39:07
The, you know, they can track everything that you do, but
39:10
you're getting paid for it now. That's the difference.
39:14
You know what? It's not perfect, it doesn't
39:17
cover everything. I mean, there's not a system out
39:20
there, they could possibly cover.
39:22
What? Ends in Alaska versus what
39:24
happens in Miami versus what happens in Arkansas, okay?
39:29
But the thing of it is it's pretty close to, you know,
39:33
giving you credit for everything that you do.
39:37
But if you don't input it, if you don't put it in your
39:40
scanner, it doesn't go into your wallet, folks.
39:44
That's your paycheck that scanner is your paycheck, the
39:48
the same way. You know, I feel sorry for
39:51
women, because Cuz they don't have belt.
39:55
So more times than not, they'll scan something at the back of
39:59
the truck, put the scanner down of, walk it up, you know, to the
40:02
door. And then, you know, go back and
40:04
hit, you know, delivered to the garage or front door whatever,
40:07
where's the men with their holsters and belts and all
40:09
wheat? We can carry them with us and a
40:12
package at the same time. If you don't take it to the door
40:16
and scan it there, it's tracking you.
40:18
I mean, folks, I mean, when the scan can tell within one foot,
40:24
whether you delivered it to the right, mailbox on a crossbar,
40:28
guess what? That's accuracy.
40:33
Oh, I mean I think I've actually had that situation happen where
40:37
somebody put it in the wrong, mailbox on a crossbar.
40:41
And guess what? They tracked it, right to the
40:43
mailbox. And I've had those, I had those
40:48
scans saved my behind a Christmas time.
40:51
Customer said, I didn't get my package and like, I left it on
40:55
the porch. I didn't get my package.
40:57
We pulled up or I scanned it, and it where I scanned it, right
41:01
on the porch, where I left it and that saved my behind because
41:05
they were saying they never got it.
41:08
You know, half of that I've heard rumors this is just
41:12
rumors. I've heard that people have gone
41:14
in for mapping and because they were scanning at the door in the
41:18
truck. The mapping program moved their
41:21
door spot to where their truck was parked to deliver it to the
41:25
door. So you got to be careful with
41:27
that too, because it will adjust your spot.
41:30
Depending on where you scan, there is a little Geo fence
41:36
around your pinpoint. Weeks.
41:38
So if you are close to those pinpoints, it will give you that
41:41
pinpoint. So, you got to make sure you're
41:45
scanning where you say you're scanning it.
41:50
Well, and talking about the geofence, it's the same way when
41:54
management says, oh you have a package that you know, was Miss,
41:58
Roan take, take it and drive it down the street and scan it as
42:02
you know, address blocked or whatever.
42:04
So they want you to falsify the information so they can use it
42:07
off their scan reports and that geofence is real because of the
42:11
fact that for our property if you're within 100 yards of it it
42:15
shows you're still at the post office and that's what they call
42:19
it. Tegra T scans and there's no
42:21
Integrity taking them out and scanning them like that.
42:24
Yep. You tell them if they're
42:26
watching if they want you to falsify a scan like that you
42:29
tell them you want it in writing that they want you to falsify a
42:33
scam because F falsifying a government document by doing
42:37
that. If you'd like to go out and it's
42:43
a second trip, three minutes per mile plus load time.
42:50
We all know slow down or no. Well yes, low time on the
42:55
scanner for your evaluation but you get three minutes per mile
42:58
to go to live, right? Yeah.
43:02
We're you do what bill says. I'm not falsifying the
43:06
information. You do what you want?
43:11
Yeah, I don't want to know how many packages have been
43:13
delivered to a mailbox from the eye doctors office on the other
43:17
side of our parking lot. Yeah, I'm sorry.
43:22
I really I don't I don't want to know not going to I'm not going
43:25
to assist management committing a felony.
43:27
Nope I'm sorry. I'm not I'm not going to risk my
43:31
job for your integrity scans. I'm not going to risk jail time
43:39
for your integrity. That reminds me of a Not a rumor
43:45
that, you know, there was a package on my case, when I came
43:48
back and the supervisor said, you know, oh, we found is while
43:52
you're out. I said, well, would you like me
43:54
to take it out because, you know, at that particular day, I
43:57
had time to, you know, do a second run and they said no, no
44:01
will do it. Integrity scan.
44:03
So being the type of person I am and you appreciate this.
44:09
I recorded the tracking number. And I went home and I checked
44:14
the tracking number and it was received at 450 6 p.m. at West
44:19
Chester, Pennsylvania. The same time, she defected that
44:24
scan. That's an Integrity scan.
44:31
It's a bold. Outright lie.
44:43
The only Integrity that that have is that they do get called
44:46
up and Report the next day, Yeah, because they were scanned
44:50
off property, that whole ski can't scan anything on the
44:53
office after 3, p.m. be us. Yeah.
44:59
Unless you you lie about it you scan it on the truck for you
45:04
walk in now but that's all the parking lot.
45:08
Yeah, Mark a little show it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
45:15
So if you have management is telling you to do something that
45:18
you believe is illegal immoral or dangerous.
45:22
You do have a right to refuse. For make sure that if management
45:27
wants you to do something, you get it in writing first.
45:32
Today, I want to make sure we're clear on this.
45:34
I need it in writing to make sure we're clear on this because
45:38
otherwise it's his word against your hearsay.
45:42
And unfortunately in that instance, most often the carrier
45:45
losses against management and those arguments Can you explain
45:49
the immoral one? Because I'm not sure after 25
45:52
years at the post office. What's immoral anymore.
46:00
Just say I would help that would be like, trying tell trying to
46:03
tell you to deliver make it. Oh I would we know.
46:09
Yes. You have to have, you don't have
46:39
morals to go out and lie about scans.
46:44
It's also illegal to do that. Most immoral things are illegal.
46:49
I said most because some states do allow immoral things to occur
46:53
and that's carrier discretion. As to what's a moral?
46:59
Well, yeah, and I'll bite my tongue on which states they are
47:05
here in one of them Bill. No, not exactly.
47:17
It took the better part of three years just to get the engineers
47:32
that together. It tooks what?
47:34
Another 45 for them, they kind of sort out what they thought
47:37
they were tracking and how they were tracking it and what
47:40
credits were what and you know, you come to September and they
47:45
delay it again. Even though Due in August before
47:48
the convention then and and yet management still did nothing to
47:53
get their people trained and up to speed on this and thank God
47:57
for offices like mine. And you know, my co-host and all
48:01
that we went, we made the effort to make sure our offices were
48:04
aware of what was coming down the pike, what to be doing.
48:07
And not not eight weeks before too many mail survey, but a year
48:11
and two years ahead of time and since I was a test office, you
48:16
know, from the get-go. We've been on this ever since
48:20
and still people failed to do it and I cannot explain anymore and
48:27
clearly than to say, if it goes in your scanner, it goes your
48:31
wallet. So you're responsible for your
48:35
pay. Yeah, if you feel something
48:39
needs to be in your scanner, it probably does.
48:43
That's how I look at it. Scarier discretion on that.
48:47
But the biggest thing that I can say is, if you feel you deserve
48:50
a scan, but the scan in because only you can know whether that's
48:56
can needs to be in there or not management.
48:58
Definitely does not know if this can needs to be in there or not.
49:04
And if you have carriers next to you, that you see something that
49:09
could be asked in, hey, did you put in WSS for that marriage
49:13
mail? This week you can ask nicely,
49:17
you can go around and talk your cares and be like, hey make sure
49:20
you put W SS in for the marriage male.
49:22
Make sure you put in Unscanned parcel for that because it's a,
49:27
it's a photo. No, that's that's the size of a
49:31
parcel. Make sure you put in on scan,
49:33
parcel for that because it doesn't have a barcode on it.
49:38
Or how about this one? How about this?
49:40
One yo, we all get different versions of the ad bows, red
49:43
plums, marriage, mail, whatever, And we have a separate barcode
49:48
that we have to scan for the advo printer in my case, it's
49:53
red plum, and then management turns around and tells you oh no
49:57
you don't put that in WSS. It's already entered when you do
50:01
the Advil and I look at him. I said are you kidding me?
50:06
You know it's not how it's not that no it's not but the thing
50:13
of it is Management's under you know under the guise that if you
50:17
do the advo it goes automatically into twss.
50:20
I'm like okay. Help me out here folks.
50:25
One know because everything I announce you do your adverse
50:32
cans and make sure you put them into your rule, carrier study.
50:39
Yep, I do the same thing and I rode a Now remind, you know, raw
50:45
box holders that you get to. Those are important to put in
50:48
there even if they come in a tray from a plant and they're
50:52
separate from the mail, put it in there because if it's any
50:57
separate tray that means it did not go on automation.
50:59
Yeah. Even if it's labeled for your
51:03
route. It did not go through automation
51:05
to get there. Explain why that is.
51:15
I understand, but explain for our listeners, why you would do
51:18
that. So when they talk about wsf
51:23
letter, specifically, because we don't have FSS Platte City more,
51:28
when they put the mail through the automation process to sort
51:34
it for your route, it automatically takes a picture of
51:37
the mail reads, the barcode underneath the address or in the
51:41
lower corner of the thing. There's also orange bars on the
51:46
back of the envelope that are part of the automation process
51:50
in the biggest thing is is that barcode on the front and the
51:53
back, direct it to your route. Putting it through the
51:58
automation, assigns it to your route through the informed
52:03
visibility, which is different from informed delivery.
52:08
But the informed visibility is ver way of tracking mail through
52:12
the system. As part of those SPM scans, you
52:15
get and it actually routes it to your route in order DPS.
52:20
But if they send it to you in a tray, where it's even if it's in
52:27
order, Or something most likely that was done by the shipper who
52:32
put it together and send it off to the plant to be sorted to the
52:36
routes. It's literally grabbed by the
52:38
people at the plant and put on a cart to go to your route, to go
52:43
to your office. That's it.
52:44
They don't put it on the machine.
52:46
They don't run it through the machines.
52:47
They just literally transfer from one car to another and it
52:50
goes to your office. So, you got to make sure you
52:53
input that in because it's not counted on the DPS machine.
52:58
If it's in your DPS, it's counted.
53:02
But if it's separate, it's not. And 95% of that if not higher
53:09
will not have any barcodes whatsoever on it, and even if
53:15
they do, it'll be the front one and not the one on the back.
53:17
That's part of the informed visibility, right?
53:20
Because that's have the orange bars.
53:21
Yeah. That's from the printer correct
53:24
because that's from the DPS machine to sort it to your
53:26
route. And that's that's the other
53:32
thing is some people, they'll throw mail back saying it's
53:36
forwarded Earth, been put to the wrong officer DPS, they'll put
53:39
it up in there, 3M case, and it will come back to over and over
53:44
because of those orange bars on the back.
53:46
Even if you block out the error code, on the front, the orange
53:50
bars, on the back, iron block off the the machine will read
53:52
that and send it right back to your route.
53:55
Yep. There's a lot that a lot to
54:01
this, there's a lot to it, but the key to this is is the
54:07
important part, is we've grown in the technology that we use.
54:12
Back back before all the scanners and stuff like that
54:16
male is hand routed. We didn't have DPS and then we
54:21
got DPS, then we got scanners and then we got FSS for a while
54:26
there and then we got rid of FSS because I would never
54:29
profitable. And now we have Rex
54:35
Technologies, been slowly improving at the post office.
54:40
Very slowly because they don't like change.
54:43
And that's the big thing here too.
54:45
Is a lot of people don't like change but this is going to
54:50
benefit us in the long run as long as we learn to step up, do
54:56
our jobs and tell management we're doing our jobs correctly.
55:02
That's the big thing. And anybody that gets called up
55:07
on their scan activities, they can explain that, you know, hey,
55:12
I never knew I never never feel follow the program.
55:16
I did wasn't trained in this and that's the biggest one I was
55:19
never trained in this even though.
55:23
I trained my most of the people that Management's responsibility
55:28
was to do the training, not mine.
55:29
So if people have a fallback it's because management failed
55:33
to do. The proper training.
55:36
Just ask the question straight up, where's my day of day of in
55:40
classroom training on this? Hmm, you have record of my day
55:44
of in class training because you should have had a full day's
55:48
training on this system. I can sit there and I can do a
55:52
two-hour training on it, but it's not going to hit home.
55:58
People need to sit down have a actual classroom time over this
56:03
and learn the ins and outs of each specific scan and they're
56:07
not providing that. So, you have to go by what your
56:10
local designated union. Rep has given you, and the
56:14
information you can glean from other sources that you find
56:18
Reliable on that intent activity scans.
56:21
In this podcast, I'm sorry. Hashtag Shameless plug.
56:32
But you want to learn as much as you can about these because this
56:35
is your paycheck, and that's the biggest thing.
56:38
We're stressing, this is your wages.
56:41
This is your benefits and this is part of your work conditions.
56:47
And this is what you and your fellow carriers in your office,
56:50
need to know and you need a place to go to get that
56:56
information and the best place you can go to get that
56:59
information is your local designated union representative.
57:03
We can only give you our opinion on it.
57:07
But your resource should be your union rep.
57:11
They should be the ones that are properly trained on this.
57:14
They should be the ones to be able to answer any question you
57:16
have on it and they should be the ones you have conversations
57:21
with about what Management's doing to you.
57:24
They're your resource. They're supposed to be there for
57:27
you. Go to them.
57:30
If you don't know who they are you can find out for the NRL.
57:34
See a website, you can contact your District rep to find out.
57:39
You can contact National and ask them who your representative is.
57:43
You can also use resource on Facebook, ask people around your
57:46
area. Hey, do you know who my union
57:48
rep is? Anybody can help you find out
57:52
who your rep is and get you the information.
57:55
You need to contact them. So Reach Out get the information
57:58
from them because we may not be 100% accurate.
58:02
I mean he'll I know I've made mistakes talking on this
58:05
podcast. I'm the first one.
58:08
It's it's like that old telephone game.
58:11
We all played in Elementary, it starts off at one and by the
58:15
time it gets to the end, it's completely different.
58:25
Yeah, really out. We play different games in my
58:28
school. Well, yeah, that wasn't even
58:34
invented when you were in high school.
59:05
Where they answer all the questions about Rex everything
59:08
you need to know about it. Yeah, I'm so old school.
59:14
I still get my notices on parchment written and quill.
59:20
Yes. Well, it's an upgrade.
59:23
I usually get it on Papyrus, but now, it's parchment for all
59:29
youth egyptologist out there. You know, it's we support, we
59:36
support our union members, whether they are dues-paying or
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nandu Spain, we we are all brothers and sisters in this
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craft. I'm going to forget the RCA's
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well you know they're in the union or not also so exactly
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aren't if we have them. Yeah yeah yeah really they did.
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It's just You know what y'all know what's funnier than not
1:00:12
having an arc. Not ever seen the hark the
1:00:17
holiday guys. You know he's around here.
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Yeah. When they sent them Flyers out
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to you know, all the retired employee.
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Yeah. Two of them live on my route and
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they specifically came out the laugh with me about mailing are.
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You could just be the only RCA with six routes on an offset
1:00:43
Christmastime and reap those benefits, but it's still make it
1:00:48
happen, all right? Yeah.
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I think I'm still recovering. A month later.
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But yeah, yeah. You need that time at State
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Convention to wind down from it? No.
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No, I'm going. I've got my complete.
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Get away in July. I'm good. this week, I'm at my
1:01:13
next week where I will be Is there anything else you guys
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have in mind to talk about about management being on carriers?
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Well in the famous words of Bill May don't get stressed cause it
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so yeah. When they, when they turn the
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tables on you like the said as for the reports for the other
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routes, let's see. A comparative in regards to what
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everybody else is doing. Is anybody else getting these
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ionized or pdi's or, you know, display formal discussions in
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regards to our your skin activities?
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Yeah, don't just don't sit there and take it.
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You know, you can be I'll say quietly aggressive in defending
1:02:16
yourself and if you know if you're not comfortable do that
1:02:20
then you know, guess what? Get ahold of your local union
1:02:23
rep or your ADR area, Steward and say look you know I'm being
1:02:28
harassed. And I'll tell you what, you
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know, harassment doesn't last longer than 5 minutes my office
1:02:36
because you know they have me but the thing is it is yeah but
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the thing of it is is that you you do not have to put up with
1:02:46
that type of atmosphere at work. At all.
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Nobody should ever yell at a carrier on the floor.
1:02:54
Nobody should ever demean anybody on the floor.
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And if they going to do it in the office and, you know, they
1:03:01
better do it with either their union rep or a witness.
1:03:06
So there's collaboration in regards to what was said, and
1:03:08
who said it. Stand up for yourself.
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Never go alone with management. No, no, because it's your word
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against theirs and we know, they don't lie.
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Oh, nope. Not at all.
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No, they have. No reason to protect their
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position as a manager. No, no.
1:03:34
They have no reason to place responsibility on others for
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their inability to do their job. As they say management has the
1:03:43
right to miss manage an office in any way they deem fit.
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Well, the first time I heard that I flipped And anything you
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say can and will be misconstrued, misinterpreted,
1:03:56
and misapplied to be used against you, amen.
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Yep. Yeah.
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I learned that from a lawyer says, I but I still spent five
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years in jail. That's because of how you talk
1:04:15
to him, Bill? Well, at least he leaves.
1:04:18
He got seven years. You got, you got contempt of
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cop. I once did beat a cop at his own
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Story here back in the years before we had picture licenses.
1:04:36
Hmm. Because I spent a year and a
1:04:38
half on a motorcycle traveling, the country up in the Canada,
1:04:41
Alaska. I come back and I looked like
1:04:43
something out of Woodstock, got caught.
1:04:47
I got caught two blocks from my house.
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Speeding only ticket. I got in 18 months, okay, the
1:04:54
turned around, I showed up in court, clean-cut suit, haircut,
1:04:58
and everything, and the officer couldn't identify me because Cuz
1:05:02
of the dramatic change. And the judge looked at me says,
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well if you can't identify the defendant, he said that the
1:05:08
throw the case out he goes, this is a farce I'm about like you
1:05:12
know sorry I hate to tell you but I'm me, birth certificate,
1:05:16
everything High School pictures and I said you know, I don't
1:05:20
know what he's talking about. Your honor.
1:05:24
Wait till you had hair. I'd only had here.
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I had a ponytail. Yeah, of working.
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But working, as a steward, you pulled it all out.
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Oh no, that that was you know, marriage.
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He'll probably, that's why I don't get married.
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And I have the same problem. I had a lot.
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My hair and I had a long falling out, you know.
1:05:57
So it's get it falling out. Yeah, he really was, you know, I
1:06:11
always say my hair is hanging on by
1:06:24
more appropriate. Not trying to correct your but,
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you know, this is more appropriate, it just, sounds
1:06:34
like you're dragging that split ends there.
1:06:39
Well, you sounds like you're splitting hairs.
1:06:44
Okay guys, these jokes make me want to bother we've anyway.
1:06:56
Back on topic. All right guys going down now.
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Yeah well lighten the mood there for everybody you know?
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Yeah. Sure are Lighter Side and we do
1:07:13
have one specific. We can have fun while trying to
1:07:17
help our fellow carriers, absolutely.
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Well, we do our business. As a reminder, we will be off
1:07:26
next weekend since Michael be gone and James and I will be at
1:07:29
State Convention so coy. Yeah.
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So we won't be around next week, so it'll be two weeks.
1:07:39
For the next one. We supposedly jab, jab jab, you
1:07:51
know, in the both times, I've lost the episode, it's been me.
1:07:55
So it's it's all good. I like I said, I mean, I start
1:07:58
that GoFundMe for a new computer.
1:08:02
At least you have a track record now I do.
1:08:06
Yeah, well, I got to if they'll send you, I'll make it all order
1:08:16
if yeah and a flat rate box with no $2.50 taped up together.
1:08:28
Oh you meant you and bail out of quarters.
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Yeah. When he said when I say when he
1:08:37
said I have 250 for you I thought he was going to send it
1:08:40
to half dollars. Yeah.
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Just send me your, send me your address.
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I'll send you a check? Yeah.
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Okay. Not really seeing a couple
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months. Anyways, there's a Best Buy up
1:08:57
the road from where convention is, but You guys?
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Look at the table, too. Yeah, we'll take that up.
1:09:10
Just if anybody knows, I did Reserve 10 spots for banquet.
1:09:14
I think I have two, maybe three, open spots on to double check.
1:09:18
And once everybody is confirmed and so if anybody makes it and
1:09:22
they didn't get a banquet ticket and they want to come sit with
1:09:25
us. I know I'll have at least two
1:09:27
open so you better get a table for 40 then that'll be a fun
1:09:31
night. Yeah, we don't we don't We don't
1:09:34
play, we just nibble. Speak for yourself.
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Mmm. Doesn't sound like your final
1:09:50
thoughts on this evening. Oh well yeah, like thank God.
1:09:56
It was a day off for most of us. Sorry Kristen but it's another
1:10:04
beautiful day and Just everybody please, you know, put the effort
1:10:10
into your job, you know, learn what you can 5 minutes, 10
1:10:14
minutes and night, you know, half an hour for a week.
1:10:17
Or, you know, any time that you put in to educating yourself
1:10:21
about your job, your responsibilities, your duties,
1:10:25
The more likely that you're going to increase your paycheck
1:10:29
learning how to do your job correctly, Management's, not
1:10:34
going to help you. If you do, the six cans, they be
1:10:36
happy as pie because that's all they're going to pay you on.
1:10:40
If you don't do the rest of the scans, the postage ooh,
1:10:43
certified money order application stamp stock sales
1:10:46
rule reach. If you don't do them, you can't
1:10:49
get paid for them, plain, and simple.
1:10:53
So do the job, the best you can be safe, get home to your loved
1:10:59
ones because I truly mean that every carrier, you know, is
1:11:04
special to somebody and you're all in our hearts and our
1:11:08
prayers, our minds and prayers that you go do your job and get
1:11:12
home safely to your loved ones. All right, I had to go out and
1:11:19
come back in again real quick, but I gotta follow up real
1:11:24
quick. With the question that was asked
1:11:25
of carriers going to be out for six to eight weeks.
1:11:27
Can they leave written instructions without getting in
1:11:30
trouble? So we can make sure they do the
1:11:32
work specially the line of travel.
1:11:34
Absolutely. And I still have regular
1:11:37
carriers if they know they're going to be gone and there's
1:11:39
something special, they leave notes at the case.
1:11:42
When I first started my old regular, we had a notebook we
1:11:45
left at the case all the time. I'm so you know what?
1:11:49
If I was only working my one day a week, she'd write anything
1:11:52
important in there and we have a bookmark where we left off.
1:11:55
Then I know if she was going to be gone for a week, two weeks,
1:11:58
whatever it was then I would write down anything important
1:12:02
and leave the bookmark over. I've gotta definitely
1:12:05
communication whatever you can leave for communication helps
1:12:09
completely. You know, tomorrow's going to be
1:12:17
a big day of the Monday, the day after Monday holiday.
1:12:22
And so be safe out there. Don't rush it and be unsafe but
1:12:28
do your job. Do your jobs correctly again
1:12:30
will be off next week, so right. I'll just have a good week
1:12:37
everyone. I'm going to be a meeting to go
1:12:41
to tomorrow and then I'm off the rest of the week.
1:12:44
Go to a family reunions out of town.
1:12:46
So just be safe out there. Do your job, right?
1:12:51
And we'll see you when I get back.
1:12:57
Okay, my my final thoughts are, we're all in this together.
1:13:02
We all have to support each other.
1:13:04
We all have to take care of each other because we are the rural
1:13:07
Union. We are the Royal craft
1:13:10
dues-paying and non dues-paying. We need to take care of our
1:13:13
brothers and sisters, especially in this time with management
1:13:17
getting on everybody. You know, be a witness for one
1:13:21
of your carriers in your office. If you have to help them,
1:13:24
understand what these scans are. Because even if it's not your
1:13:28
route, you may be helping the next RCA who takes that route
1:13:32
help your RCA's out because they're going to affect your
1:13:36
your evaluation just as much as you are especially if you get
1:13:40
injured on the job you could be out to 36 weeks and they're
1:13:45
they're doing the scans so then having the knowledge of all the
1:13:47
scans that need to be done is imperative to your route.
1:13:52
So, take care of each other. And Josh would say, you know, if
1:13:59
you get overwhelmed, take a step back, take a deep breath, step
1:14:04
back into it, and get back to work.
1:14:08
Do the job to the best of your ability.
1:14:10
And remember, at the end of the day, go home to your family
1:14:14
because you're the most important delivery.
1:14:17
Kristen your final thoughts. Yeah, I'm just following up with
1:14:21
everybody else, you know, it's do your job.
1:14:23
The way that you're supposed to do your job.
1:14:25
Do your job. As if you eat the way you've
1:14:27
done it this whole time, you know?
1:14:30
And if you have that extra trip to the door put that scanner and
1:14:33
it's just just do your job, your job correctly.
1:14:37
Help the newbies out there that are still learning.
1:14:39
So they understand it better. And I'm still working with the
1:14:43
two other new guys and I've got another one coming in going to
1:14:47
Academy this week, so you know, it's what kind of you got to
1:14:51
remember, is when we were in the office, we work as a team, all
1:14:55
right? On the route.
1:14:56
We're on our owner. And it's our responsibility to
1:15:00
keep everything going. So, on that note guys have a
1:15:02
safe week and again, we'll be back in two weeks.