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The Lost Episode · United We Scan

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  Thank you. Now here are the hosts of the
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  United We Scan podcast. Hey guys, this is episode 114
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  AKA the Lost episode. I wasn't able to get in and
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  record all of my missing pieces so I trimmed out the silences.
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  Bear with us it's just James and Bill on this one.
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  Due to weather, severe weather and people being under the
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  weather this weekend, we did not put out an episode this week.
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  So I'm finally getting this lost episode.
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  I hope you enjoy it as much as possible, but at least it's
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  something to listen to this week.
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  Thanks guys. It's.
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  Exhausting it, it really is. I mean, you know, we're in the
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  midst of hunting for a house or a piece of ground to build a
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  house on up here so that, you know, in case anything before
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  falls one of our children, it would be large enough to
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  accommodate us and have them at a reasonable distance in the
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  same domicile. Got to hate real estate agents.
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  How about this? How about you give them a list
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  of what you want and they they go the other way.
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  It's like, you know, I'm sorry, you know what the were you
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  smoking? And when when, you know, I sent
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  you a tight typed in block letter list.
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  Didn't have to read cursive. Yeah, it's just anyway, let's
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  see another day of the gun range.
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  I I think they're at the point where they're going to start
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  naming in one of the shooting lanes after me.
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  Actually, they should. That's the, that, that's the
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  store that keeps having sales and stuff and, and, you know,
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  tempting me in to buy in three and four at a time.
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  Anything else? No, nothing else.
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  I mean, the, you know, the mini mail survey's over.
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  I sat there and observed how people were getting less than
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  400 pieces of mail a day. It's like, and then Saturday
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  they they got hit with 300 pieces of, you know, non linear
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  mail. All of a sudden just just just
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  popped up and all parcels are moderate across the board.
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  Here's a strange thing for you though.
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  Unfortunately, I still get up early in the morning.
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  So the other morning I'm up and I'm standing outside enjoying
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  the fresh air and the coffee, and here comes an Amazon driver
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  in his own car at 7:10 in the morning.
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  Oh, hold it. There's a Amazon depot who's
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  probably 2025 minutes away from me.
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  You know, we would see all the Amazon trucks while I was on the
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  route, you know, from time to time.
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  Or the contractor trucks, I should say, not the Amazon
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  truck. And here's a guy delivering his
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  car at 7:10 in the morning. I found that a little surprising
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  that somebody, a freelancer would be out there doing it in
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  their own vehicle that early in the morning.
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  What does that say to to? I mean, they confused the hot.
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  I mean, usually they're the last drag to be out because they
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  promised they shipped it and didn't get it out on their
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  delivery vehicles. So that that raises a couple
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  questions in my mind. Other than that, the spring
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  looks like it's trying to break this week.
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  We're we got weather in the 60s and the grandchildren are babies
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  are really, really good and life life is pretty good overall.
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  How about you, James? We go, Oh well this is a good
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  week until Wednesday when I got about, got sick on the route and
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  had to take the day off and took Wednesday and Thursday off
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  because I just didn't feel good whatsoever.
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  Went back to work on Friday, finish out the week before I
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  left for the Spring Booster in Port Huron.
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  Met up with Kristen and everybody of my state there that
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  came to Spring Booster and it was a pretty good good turn out
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  and good event. Had a few new people there and a
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  lot of the people there were active carriers.
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  There weren't as many retirees as there were active carriers at
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  our spring booster this time. And I really appreciate that.
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  That's a really good showing and it shows that people are in
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  desperate need of information right now.
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  But other than that, got down with spring booster, came here
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  and now I'm on the air with you guys.
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  Are you Kristen, you want talk about your week or?
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  How many how many people went to your spring booster versus your
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  big convention? There were at least 80 people at
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  the spring booster. So bad.
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  Yeah. My bad, no.
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  And I do like that that we have our spring booster on the actual
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  weekend. Granted, the state board meeting
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  is the the Friday before it. And unfortunately, earning my
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  leave to go to regional conferences makes it hard for me
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  to actually go in and actually attend the state board meeting,
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  although I do plan to attend a few of them coming up.
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  So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I can't argue with them on that,
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  You know, get, get, get it in while you can before they tear
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  off your plane ticket. But speaking.
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  Of you submitted it more than 60 days, you know, before the trip,
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  so we can't approve it yet. Oh my God.
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  Speaking of our fall booster, so I wanted to put this out there.
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  Our fall booster is going to include a day at the postal
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  Museum here in Michigan Rural Postal Museum.
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  So you get to see all the stuff from Michigan Rural Postal.
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  Thanks. If anybody is interested, as
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  they say, you can attend union events if you are a union
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  member. But Bill, I'm jealous.
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  You can come. You can come.
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  I know. So can anybody else?
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  That is a union number. My state president has said that
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  as long as you are a union member, you can attend union
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  events anywhere. That's it.
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  Yeah. But you want to talk about our
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  spring booster? What was talked about there,
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  Kristen? Yeah.
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  He came to my office not too long ago.
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  So. But yeah, the Stewart Q&A was
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  actually short and sweet because not a lot of people had
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  questions this time. Yeah, it wasn't as vibrant as
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  the last as a fall booster was for it.
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  I think that was, there was so many things going on at that
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  point. It Yeah.
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  But big thing that I want to talk about as the rallies going
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  up now, the city letter carriers, the NALC has set up
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  rallies nationwide on Sunday, March 3rd.
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  Now on thenalc.org website, you go to news and research, latest
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  news and updates and you click the find a March 23 rally near
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  you. Now as it stands, they currently
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  have one in Alabama, one in Alaska, one in Arizona.
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  Arkansas needs to step it up. There aren't any in Arkansas
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  yet. There are three in California,
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  two in Colorado. Connecticut's got to step it up.
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  Delaware's got 19 in Florida, 74 Idaho, 3 in Illinois, 4 in
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  Indiana, one in Iowa, one in Kansas, 2 in Kentucky, one in
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  Louisiana. None listed in Maine yet. 3 in
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  Maryland. None in Massachusetts yet. 4 in
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  Michigan. One in Minnesota, One in
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  Mississippi, 5 in Missouri. None in Montana, 3 in Nebraska,
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  None in Nevada. None in New Hampshire. 3 in New
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  Jersey. None in New Mexico. 9 in New
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  York, 7 in North Carolina, 2 in North Dakota, 4IN Ohio, One in
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  Oklahoma, 2 in Oregon, 3 in Pennsylvania, none listed in
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  Rhode Island, 2 in South Carolina, one in South Dakota, 2
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  in Tennessee, 7 in Texas, one in Utah, none in Vermont, 2 in
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  Virginia, 3 in Washington, 3 in West Virginia, 4 in Wisconsin,
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  one in Wyoming, one in Puerto Rico, and none currently
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  scheduled in DC. That gets updated regularly, so
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  make sure you go on nalc.org under the news.
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  It's the fight like hell rally. Now, Ori Walton said it best go
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  to buy a house. There's a Creek that's running
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  behind it. You're on a floodplain, but it
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  hasn't flooded in over 230 years.
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  But the insurance is free. Hell, take the insurance.
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  It's free. This is free insurance.
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  Whether or not anything's happening, whether you believe
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  in it or you don't believe in it, it doesn't matter.
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  Putting it out there that we are important, we matter.
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  We need to be in front of the news and say city carriers,
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  rural carriers, clerks, ale handlers, we're all in this
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  together. I say it all the time.
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  We're all in this together and it's important for us to stand
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  together in unity on them because if anything happens, we
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  already have the insurance. You're being proactive instead
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  of reactive. It's very important that we step
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  up as carriers, not just as the union national board members or
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  state board members, but boots on the ground carriers, stepping
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  up and fighting for this craft and this organization.
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  Your guys's thoughts? I, I just checked Pennsylvania
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  and I'm a little surprised that the three largest cities in
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  Pennsylvania aren't having any rallies whatsoever.
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  It's Allentown, Erie and Hunstown.
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  Where where's Philly, Pittsburgh and Harrisburg.
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  I, I, am I missing something here?
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  Folks that you know, it's like you said, free insurance.
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  Step up, confess something to you, both of you and, and to the
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  listening audience, because I'm not one to, to, to be a, a
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  Debbie Downer. And, and it takes a lot from
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  the, you know, to discourage me from pursuing, you know what I,
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  I feel, you know, in my heart and soul.
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  But you know, you scan all these Facebook pages and you see all
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  these questions and, and I realized maybe a lot of new
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  people, they may be a lot of uninformed people, but how the
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  hell with all the resources that we have, all the platforms that
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  are available to rural carriers, OK, including people in your own
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  damn office, how do you not know simple things?
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  And, and I realize that what we try to do, try to educate them
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  and inform them on, you know, how procedures work, how
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  grievance, how to file grievance, the EEO, you know, a
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  1767 week. And, and trust me, there's
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  nobody who's a bigger advocate for trying to understand your
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  paycheck. That is the one of the greatest
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  mysteries of all times. If you're a new carrier, why?
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  Why don't people spend the time and invest the time insurance?
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  James OK, this is all free. This is information you can
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  utilize to protect yourself and your paycheck.
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  Why can't you spend 10 minutes a night, an hour a week going
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  through all the manuals, the contracts, the Constitution, the
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  Elm to protect yourself? Who has a greater interest in
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  your success in the post office then you?
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  It's this it, it really is disheartening that that people
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  come up and and they're asking questions.
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  You say, Oh my God, didn't you learn that in, in your Academy
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  training? Now I know there's not a lot of
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  people out there that can handle a foreign customs posting to do
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  when you sit there and, and, and put up there.
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  I have a, a box holder that says WSH do I put that in my
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  scanners? If it's WSH, it's not a box
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  holder period. Well, I heard we used to get
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  credit for that. We have a carrier in our SDNC 30
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  year carrier, other office of Phoenixville and two too many
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  mail surveys ago, he questioned one of our carriers is why they
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  were getting a wheel around the office.
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  He explained that you have to measure the distances to your
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  your primary hamper as well, the bullpen area.
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  Back to your case. We've been here three years.
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  They've never done that. This is a 30 year carrier.
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  I I, I don't know. I don't know what to say.
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  I, you know, what does it take to wake you up to protect your
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  paycheck? I mean, we can do what we do,
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  for God's sakes. I mean, we, we've been on this,
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  you know, for almost 2 years now and it's over.
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  What the hell? Yeah, What the hell?
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  All I, all I saw was 14. But the thing of it is.
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  Yeah. And I thought it was 14 months.
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  But the thing that is that you know me, it, it, it bothers me
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  that I'm still more involved in your well-being than you are,
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  Bill. Let me ask you this, these
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  rallies are for us to get together, join together and
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  fight for the Postal Service and for the crafts.
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  Now, the fight like hell rally that the city carriers are
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  putting on is not only for keeping the Postal Service from
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  being privatized, which is the biggest thing they're pushing
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  right now, but it's also for them to fight for a better
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  arbitration case, even though they're going through the
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  expedited arbitration process, which is a pain in the butt as
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  it is. But really it's about protecting
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  our future in this craft by doing these rallies.
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  How important is it for our brothers and sisters of this
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  craft to step up, step out and get into involved in these
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  rallies? Let's see, do y'all work in the
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  same post office that you do that we that I used to?
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  Are you, are you involved in the same US, United States Postal
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  Service? Is it in your interest to step
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  up and bring it to the public's attention?
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  What's going on? I mean, it just is lightfully
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  ignorant people are in regards to the contract and everything.
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  Don't you think there's a lot of aspects of the public that don't
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  realize what's going on? I mean, my wife and I, we have
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  not had a, a cable service per SE for eight years.
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  We, we, we do streaming services.
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  We only watch the local news on the streaming service for, you
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  know, you know, little events in the weather and that's it.
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  Otherwise, we don't watch the news whatsoever.
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  She does enjoy her Newsmax. But you know, I try to avoid
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  that one too, because if you know, they, they both, both
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  sides of the fence tilt towards themselves and I and I can't
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  stand that. But the fact of the matter is
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  that your, your livelihood is tied in with the clerks, with
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  the carriers, with the, with the custodians, you know, with
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  everybody employed by the post office.
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  You're 1 big happy family. Yes, I'm the degenerate half
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  breed brother-in-law, but you know we're still family.
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  If you don't step up for if you don't step up for each other,
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  who the Hell's going to I you know I can get to the Allentown
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  one it it's about an hour and 10 minutes away.
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  You know no big deal. I'm retired.
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  I can go there and and you know I can wear one of my naughty
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  postal T-shirts up there. But the thing of it is that you
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  know how many others are going to give up anytime to
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  participate in this rally? Is it worth it?
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  Well, if you can't spend 10 minutes a day or, you know, half
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  an hour a week looking through your contract, yes, this
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  wouldn't be worth your time either Be able to, you know, get
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  your face out on it and say, oh, the neighbor goes, oh, Bill, I I
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  saw you up at the postal rally. Is it really that bad?
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  Well, then you can talk to them. Then you can get their support.
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  Spread the word. I don't mean Thunderbird.
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  How are you, Kristen? Your thoughts?
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  What you think our carrier should do?
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  Yeah, because it doesn't matter. Somehow mad this actually makes
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  makes me in regards to pride trying to privatize the post
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  office. I now drive around with a dozen
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  eggs in my car and every Tesla I see I egg Tesla get it doge and
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  if I'm if I'm willing to waste the the cost of an egg.
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  Oh, speaking on that issue, it doesn't matter if they can or
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  can't privatize us. It doesn't matter if they're
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  going to or not going to do anything with us.
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  They're going to put us under the commas department or if
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  they're going to move us over into the Secretary of Defense
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  cabinet. It doesn't matter.
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  The most important aspect of this is just getting out there
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  and getting our voices heard, getting our strength being is
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  standing up for our careers are craft.
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  Our brothers and sisters who work side by side with us,
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  whether it be a city carrier or a janitor or a clerk or a mail
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  handler. Especially those guys that are
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  in SCDC's that now work side by side with mail handlers, IT and
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  even supervisors and your postmasters to be coming to
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  these rallies too. Because guess what?
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  It's all about the Postal Service and protecting what we
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  I'm not saying what we have is great and grand and all this
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  stuff. I'm running for the president of
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  the NRLCA. Everything was great and grand.
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  I wouldn't have to run, but we're talking about just making
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  sure we have endurance that's free, easy to do.
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  Yes, it cost us a little gas money and a little time out of
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  our day, but the benefits outweigh anything else.
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  It's. It's getting the message out
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  there and that's the important part people talk about.
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  How our national board doesn't let anything out, doesn't talk
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  to the media about much of anything.
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  Maybe it's time for us as boots on the ground craft, be out
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  there and telling them what's going on with us being out there
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  on the picket lines. Speaking of the atrocities that
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  management is doing to us, from the falsified heat illness
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  prevention training to working us beyond 12 hours FLSA, to
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  micromanaging us down to the minute on stationary events.
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  Even if we are actually working the emergency placement of
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  carriers, punishing carriers before you discipline them.
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  All that stuff could be put into the spotlight at these rallies
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  if people step up to them. Because each person coming to a
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  rally will be bringing their own issues, too.
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  Yeah. One that you are germane to you
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  or me or Kristen. But, you know, to them, Yeah,
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  depending on what their office is, maybe they're coming from a,
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  a little podunk office where, you know, it, it's a family
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  affair. And somebody's getting a
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  parental disparity in regards to how the routes are covered and
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  what days they get off and everything else to a, a large SD
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  and C where all politic that it's all, you know, on under the
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  gun. You know, this is the way that
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  you know there's no other way. Well, folks, you know that I
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  hate to tell you that's not the way the rule craft ever worked
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  in its life before. Some people case their DPS, some
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  people don't. Some people, you know, work
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  their flats into their DPS. Some people don't.
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  They they, you know, two tier system.
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  It's it's amazing. Some some people mark their
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  their parcels, you know, with parcel markers other than
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  remember them. Some write a list.
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  Now I, I thought I caught one guy writing a list down and
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  halfway through the route the list went out the window and he
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  couldn't find it and he was screwed for the next three
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  hours. But it doesn't matter.
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  It's the way they do it. We have each our own individual
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  habits that we're comfortable with and we do the job
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  efficiently for the most part. I mean, you know, just like
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  other any other industry, there are laggards is, for lack of a
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  better word, in regards to performing the the service that
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  they're entitled to. And it is an entitled position
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  because we have really good jobs.
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  We get to spend most of the day outdoors with customers, the
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  kids, the animals, even when the weather's bad.
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  Sometimes it it's, it's one of the best jobs I've ever had in
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  my life. But the fact of the matter is it
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  is it is what it is what you make out of it.
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  The gentleman on my route now he's he's not very happy because
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  of the fact he's not Bill May and you will never measure up
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  the Bill May and and the way I perform my job and the service I
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  provided. Worry about it.
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  Do it. Do the job to the best of your
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  ability. Get it done, get it done
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  efficiently, get it done safely and go home to your family
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  because why, James, you're the most important delivery of the
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  day. Her dad.
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  Enough this weekend. Like I said, I saw, I saw that
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  little thing. I put it up there.
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  It's like, wow, if, if they only would have finished that
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  statement. You know, you're the most
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  important delivery day every day.
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  Oh, when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor, I can't believe
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  that one. He was on a roll.
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  Let him go. Let him.
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  I've got a couple more things, but you know, I'm trying to hold
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  back a little bit, little bit. Just to remind everybody, March
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  23rd, they're listed on the NALC website.
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  If your area is not having one, step up and put one together.
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  Talk with city carriers in your area.
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  Talk with your world brothers and sisters.
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  Figure out a way to do it because this is going to be a
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  nationwide thing. As I read, there's already over
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  100 of them already scheduled for March 23rd.
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  I want to see it everywhere, want to see rural carriers out
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  there with them wearing NRLCA Protect Letter Carriers T-shirts
• 23:21
  that we got from the rallies we held, or the rural letter
• 23:26
  carrier stuff that you bought from the pack table at one of
• 23:28
  the conventions or something. Or just build a sign that says
• 23:32
  Protect Rural Letter Carrier. It's a little poster board now.
• 23:37
  Joann Fabrics is going out of business but maybe you can still
• 23:39
  get poster board there. Michaels or Hobby Lobby.
• 23:45
  Hobby Lobby. Worst case scenario, go get a
• 23:48
  get 1/4 inch sheet of plywood from Lowe's or Home Depot or
• 23:53
  Menards I'll. Go to Kensington Ave. in Philly
• 23:57
  and I'll steal the cardboard box somebody's living in and use
• 24:00
  that. Did I say that out loud?
• 24:03
  Unfortunately. And I meant it whether it's
• 24:11
  getting. That's what I have.
• 24:15
  What do you have, Kristen? For every state, every state, we
• 24:20
  need fresh people. Every state needs fresh people
• 24:23
  showing up. Every state needs people coming
• 24:26
  in and asking questions, getting involved and even sometimes
• 24:31
  pushing the envelope a little bit to get people to open up and
• 24:35
  talk about things and get the answers out there to the crack
• 24:40
  and. And as much as we do in our
• 24:42
  local providing food from either like Wawa or even Olive Garden,
• 24:47
  we failed to provide a quorum for our last meeting.
• 24:51
  Ridiculous of that out of 200 people.
• 24:54
  And, and then one of one of the regulars, and he's a steward,
• 24:57
  too, turned around and called me just before the mailing went out
• 25:01
  because the meeting was on the 12th.
• 25:02
  And I had him out like the 25th of January.
• 25:06
  He called me up and said, when's our next meeting?
• 25:09
  And I told him February 12th, you know, regular place, food
• 25:12
  provided. So, you know, February 12th
• 25:16
  comes and goes and he doesn't show up.
• 25:17
  And it's like, OK, that's a usual.
• 25:19
  Excuse me. Called me three days later.
• 25:22
  Did I miss the meeting, Bill? Yeah.
• 25:23
  This this is the funny part. OK.
• 25:26
  It's the meeting. Yeah.
• 25:27
  I did. I I you did.
• 25:28
  I was surprised you missed it. He goes, yeah, I marked it on
• 25:30
  the calendar for some reason, you know, I didn't know where.
• 25:34
  What time called me to ask if you missed the meeting that you
• 25:37
  marked on the calendar for the 12th?
• 25:39
  This is the 15th. Where have we had it for the
• 25:42
  last two years? At what time?
• 25:47
  Speaking of meetings, Speaking of meetings, for Michigan at
• 25:52
  least April is the time where we have all our local meetings or
• 25:59
  resolutions and state convention.
• 26:01
  This is the time for you to get your resolutions into your
• 26:05
  locals before your state convention.
• 26:08
  If you don't have locals and it just goes straight to state,
• 26:11
  it's different. But a lot of places you have to
• 26:13
  go through your local 1st. And we did go over resolutions a
• 26:18
  few episodes ago. We went over them over a year
• 26:20
  ago too. And now is the time to put them
• 26:23
  together. Now is the time to put them
• 26:25
  together. Now is the time to step up, make
• 26:28
  the changes you want to see happen to this craft because
• 26:32
  without you, E Kristen Bill, everybody here, this union
• 26:38
  doesn't exist. Even the people that don't pay
• 26:40
  dues are a reason the union exists.
• 26:43
  Exactly. Fight for that, can you?
• 26:46
  Imagine that, Kristen, a format where if you paid some money
• 26:51
  that you had access to all those resources and you wouldn't have
• 26:56
  to sit there and listen to the bullshit and lies from
• 26:58
  management without the ability to prove them wrong.
• 27:02
  Imagine having on your on your phone, on your laptop.
• 27:06
  What? About the zip?
• 27:07
  What about the zip? What?
• 27:09
  Are you serious? Yes.
• 27:12
  Yes, it's let's see, there's the NRLCA website ruleinfo.net,
• 27:20
  there's United. We scam, a scam.
• 27:23
  And I said scam. That's scam.
• 27:28
  There's something. Yeah.
• 27:30
  I wish I'd be rich by now. There's been so many platforms
• 27:35
  out there that you know you can make available to yourself, and
• 27:39
  it's like, wow, it's right at my fingertips.
• 27:42
  But you'll sit there and tick tock your ass away, won't you?
• 27:45
  Hey. Bill no, I'm.
• 27:47
  I'm surprised. During the course of the week,
• 27:50
  even when I I was working, I never answered you guys unless
• 27:53
  you've called me on the phone, right, Kristen?
• 27:55
  If you text me during my day, I I didn't answer you OK, but I, I
• 28:01
  think I'm yes, but the thing of it is I can sit there and and
• 28:06
  prop my phone up on the on the dash of the LLV and just watch
• 28:10
  the carriers from my office. Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing and even
• 28:15
  some people on you know, United, we scan, you know, the listener
• 28:18
  chat. Ding Ding.
• 28:20
  It's like, you know, now I understand.
• 28:22
  I can't text like you all do, OK?
• 28:24
  I'm like the two finger typewriter guy, OK?
• 28:27
  And how the hell you put a paragraph and a half out in
• 28:29
  three seconds? Ellen.
• 28:32
  Hey, Bill. Bill, you called.
• 28:34
  You called us united. We scam.
• 28:36
  You do realize we've been trying to reach you about your car's
• 28:39
  extended warranty? I I did get, I did get one of
• 28:45
  those fictitious emails for my EZ pass.
• 28:50
  I was a little suspiciouswhenisawtheguysname@gmail.com.
• 28:53
  I'm like, OK, I don't think that's real.
• 28:57
  Oh don't worry, now that they know that you're going to get
• 28:59
  the text for the package sitting at the warehouse be delivered by
• 29:03
  USPS. Thank you.
• 29:04
  Yes, yes, talk my ass away. Oh, my God.
• 29:10
  Well, we got the Eastern Eastern greats coming up.
• 29:13
  Yeah. I've got the, you know, Maryland
• 29:16
  and the Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania State Police
• 29:19
  watching out for him. I've got him on the undocumented
• 29:22
  immigrant list giving a description of his pickup truck.
• 29:29
  I just just look for the the pickup truck with all the
• 29:32
  weather satellite antennas on his on the top of the vehicle.
• 29:36
  Yeah. You got to save up those X days.
• 29:39
  Yeah, going to Italy here. Here's the question.
• 29:43
  Yeah, somebody. Somebody said how real is that
• 29:46
  4% pay cut we're supposed to take?
• 29:48
  Has anyone heard this? This is one of my favorite ones
• 29:51
  on on, on the Facebook platforms.
• 29:53
  All the platforms out there about.
• 29:55
  Don't worry about it. It's only 6%.
• 29:58
  Hey, top of the pay scale, you're almost $100,000.
• 30:03
  That's step 12 for Table 1, correct?
• 30:05
  Yeah. Hello.
• 30:08
  So let let me ask you, Kristen, are you going to give me $6000
• 30:12
  and it's not going to affect you, OK, James, how about you?
• 30:16
  You got $6000 you can give me because you don't care about
• 30:18
  them. An e-mail survey doesn't affect
• 30:20
  your pay. I.
• 30:21
  Could barely afford to go to all these conferences.
• 30:24
  You think I have $6000 to give up?
• 30:26
  OK, I'll make it easier on you. OK.
• 30:28
  Your table too. You're only making $50,000.
• 30:31
  Six percent is only $3000. OK, It's half.
• 30:34
  Can you give me $3000? Yeah.
• 30:37
  And can you give you 300? You know, shut the hell up about
• 30:41
  this bullshit that the mini mail survey doesn't matter. 6% is 6%.
• 30:48
  I have a fit when I have to pay a $3 surcharge on an ATM fee.
• 30:54
  ATM bank doesn't charge me, but my bank charges me because I use
• 30:59
  an outside unit for withdrawal and I scream at them.
• 31:03
  I said yeah, how much money? It doesn't matter.
• 31:05
  It's automatic 3 hours. So when my wife goes, it takes
• 31:11
  $20 out and it cost her $3 to get 20 of her own dollars out.
• 31:16
  How much does that represent? 15 percent, 15% charge on that
• 31:20
  money? No way.
• 31:23
  Oh yeah? Well, let.
• 31:25
  Me put it to you this way, on a 40 hour work week, you're
• 31:30
  looking at a total 144 minutes, which is 2 1/2 hours, Yeah.
• 31:38
  That's like a lot of time. It's like a step and a half up,
• 31:41
  maybe even 2, two steps, really, really close to two steps up.
• 31:45
  Let's see, 2 steps. What's that dollar wise, James?
• 31:50
  Two steps is almost a couple grand.
• 31:54
  Should be. Close to 28 to 32 I believe.
• 31:57
  Thing what table you're on. Damn.
• 31:59
  Now would you rather have that pay me 6000?
• 32:02
  Would you rather get money or give it?
• 32:05
  Yeah, yeah. Would you rather put it in your
• 32:08
  wallet or give it back to the post office?
• 32:10
  Would you like? To give it to somebody or get it
• 32:12
  from somebody on. That note or chase.
• 32:17
  You see his face. It's like what?
• 32:22
  On that note. I like, I like.
• 32:25
  I like the video. Somebody's all wound up.
• 32:32
  I'm not it. It's it's coffee coffee that's
• 32:35
  the problem. Within the coffee.
• 32:37
  That's the problem, OK. I just said it's not a
• 32:41
  Starbucks, is it? OK, we.
• 32:44
  Already are I'm. Retired.
• 32:46
  Nothing's good. No, no, I'm retired.
• 32:50
  Nothing can be that I say or do can be used against me in the
• 32:53
  court of law. That's my effing line.
• 32:56
  You've. Got a lot of editing to do
• 32:58
  tonight, Kristen. OK, it's a very good.
• 33:04
  Spot. The rest is.
• 33:06
  Good. It is very important to get
• 33:10
  involved one way or another, whether, as Bill said, getting
• 33:14
  yourself even more educated. You're already educating
• 33:17
  yourself by listening to our podcast and studying what we
• 33:21
  talked about, and now we have the opportunity to ensure that
• 33:26
  the public knows something's going on.
• 33:29
  It has the ability to step up and protect us.
• 33:32
  That's the biggest thing. We want publicity to protect the
• 33:37
  Postal Service. We are the most trusted
• 33:40
  organization country. Even with all the problems that
• 33:44
  people have with mail delivery, especially packages that are
• 33:48
  mislabeled to be delivered to the wrong house with the barcode
• 33:52
  delivered to another address. Protect yourself by ensuring you
• 33:56
  do the right things, whether it's learning, going to one of
• 34:00
  these rallies, or even just stepping up and helping your
• 34:05
  fellow brothers and sisters in the office.
• 34:07
  It's important to protect yourself, your craft, your
• 34:11
  career, especially in this day and age, whether any of the
• 34:16
  rumors are true or not, because it's better to be proactive and
• 34:22
  it is to be reactive. When you go out to these
• 34:25
  rallies, remember you're there or your craft.
• 34:28
  You're there for yourself, but you're also there for your
• 34:31
  brothers and sisters because at the end of the day, we're all in
• 34:35
  this together, Bill. Thank you, James, I say about
• 34:39
  what I said in regards to people learning about protecting their
• 34:43
  paycheck, protecting their jobs, protecting themselves.
• 34:47
  Like I said, it's disheartening that you know, I put this effort
• 34:50
  in. Kristen James, you know a ton of
• 34:53
  people who participate in this platform to help people.
• 34:57
  And as hard as we try to be, you know, the the shining knight in
• 35:02
  armor to help you and protect you, you have to take the first
• 35:07
  step, OK? It's incumbent upon you to put
• 35:11
  forth the effort to protect yourself.
• 35:13
  Nobody and and nobody in the national steward system, whether
• 35:16
  it be a local, a area ADR, what they're not going to be able to
• 35:20
  help you unless they know about it.
• 35:22
  And that requires you to step up, to speak out, become
• 35:26
  involved, not don't have to become involved in you, but
• 35:29
  becoming involved in the contract, be involved in regards
• 35:34
  to the management of Labor management, labor relationship
• 35:38
  that is established. And don't let them walk all over
• 35:42
  you. I mean, please, you know, like I
• 35:45
  said, it starts with you. We can only help you if you
• 35:48
  speak up like the little fob that I found on Facebook there
• 35:52
  that said that, you know, yeah, you're the most important
• 35:55
  delivery. Of course, that's my, you know,
• 35:57
  that saying that you're the most important delivery of the day,
• 36:02
  every day. And, and don't forget that.
• 36:04
  Be proficient, be professional, be safe, get home to your loved
• 36:09
  ones. And I don't care who, when the
• 36:12
  national state boards or anywhere else uses it.
• 36:16
  You know I mean it when I say you are the most important
• 36:19
  delivery of the day and get home to your loved ones because
• 36:22
  without you, it's not worth it. OK,
• 36:41
  keep that for the end.