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MMS Results, Disputes, RDWL/Amazon & The Matrix · United We Scan

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  Thank you. Now here are the hosts of the
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  United We Scan podcast. Welcome back, everybody.
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  Episode 117, we did take off last week.
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  James had some severe weather in his area.
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  I was a bit under the weather, so we just decided to not do one
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  last week. But I was able to get the Lost
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  episode and James's Bill and James and Bill's midweek up as
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  well. So it didn't go without last
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  week, that's for sure. So this week we are covering in
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  quite a bit. Tonight, her first, we'll talk
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  about the many mail survey results that James and I had.
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  We'll go over what you can and can't dispute again.
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  And of course, the relief day work list and the Sunday holiday
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  volunteer for the leave replacements that goes up on
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  Saturday the 12th to sign up. And as requested a while ago, I
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  will go over the matrix. I know.
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  I do believe that was the steward highlight thing this
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  past Thursday. Obviously, none of us were able
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  to sit down on that, but I've been asked how to explain the
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  matrix, how it works for RC as so we'll cover that as well.
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  What was that Bill? I love that movie.
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  So yeah, we got a little bit going on.
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  I am still working on my edit book presentation.
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  Don't worry, we'll get there hopefully.
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  If not next week, the week after for sure.
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  So on that note, how was your week, James?
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  Or two weeks, I should say 2. Weeks.
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  Yeah, two weeks. It's been 2 weeks.
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  Hasn't been done here. Yeah, I know you guys up there,
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  we're dealing with a crap ton of winter weather, especially ice.
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  Actually saw a video of the ice falling off the support wires of
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  the Mackinac Bridge there. Chunks of ice the length of a
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  car falling onto the road surface.
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  That was crazy to see. And I know Gaylord and other
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  areas up there got really slammed hard.
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  I heard that there was. The highest total I heard was an
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  inch and 1/2 was reported in Elmira, MI.
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  Which is just West of Gaylord. Yep, it was.
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  Actually pretty. Much that whole tip of the
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  mitten there. I'm going to say canal down to
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  Kalkasket. It's all the way down.
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  And then all the way straight across to Alpena.
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  I was just South by about 10 miles of having the ice storm,
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  thank goodness. But yeah, my daughter on Sunday,
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  last Sunday, I reached out 'cause they had lost their
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  power. And by Tuesday morning at 7:00
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  AM, she called and said, can someone come get me?
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  And they got their power back on after six days yesterday.
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  And her dad and Ruby met so she could go home to go back to
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  school Wednesday. But go ahead, finish up, James.
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  Yeah, well, you guys were dealing with the ice storm.
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  Of course, we had the severe weather in the southern part.
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  And at one point, I mean for me, I actually went under a severe
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  thunderstorm warning with 80 mile an hour wind gusts attached
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  to it. Now it did not affect me,
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  however it did take my power out right about the time we would be
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  actually recording this episode. So that wouldn't help things at
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  all for the episode. So I'm glad we did take the week
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  off for that. And another interesting weather
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  fact. At one point in the state of
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  Michigan, the the distance between a severe thunderstorm
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  warning and an ice storm warning was 20 miles.
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  And I was, that's it, 21. I was in those 20 miles.
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  Yeah. And but it's crazy to think
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  about that and how different the weather was in just that short
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  little distance there. But this week was really good.
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  I did find out my sub did not input box holders on the
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  weekend. So I got permission from the
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  management to put them in this week to make sure that they got
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  counted for my route. And of course, they left.
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  They had three box holders on Saturday.
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  So on Monday I had one box holder to deliver.
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  But that's OK, do do the job. You know, I understand that you
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  can't take 3 box holders out at once.
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  For most people it's too much and especially on a route that
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  you only have an hour and a half playroom from the evaluation to
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  when the truck gets there. I know a lot of people work a
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  lot more than that so I, I, I feel for them as well.
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  This week was pretty good other than of course severe weather
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  going on all over the country, flooding and stuff like that as
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  well. We got flooding here in Michigan
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  too. But but really this weekend was
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  nice. I got finally got a couple days
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  to work on stuff without rain being in the area and then went
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  and visited my mom yesterday and got to spend some time with her.
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  So that was very nice. And then came back here for the
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  podcast. And I will say the hardest thing
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  about the past two weeks is the number of messages received of
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  people begging for help on their 4240 ones.
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  So but other than that, it was it was a good two weeks overall
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  for the post office. How was your two weeks of not To
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  Do List Bill? God, if I get any busier on
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  things not to do, I'm going to retire again.
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  Some of you may know where my wife and I are looking for a
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  house or a piece of property to build a house on.
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  And the, the, the, the housing nightmare continues.
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  But you know, we're, we're not going to settle on anything
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  unless it fits our needs exactly.
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  And that includes gas heat, heating and cooking and enough
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  property for her to have her garden and her chickens.
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  So property wise, we can find the raw land.
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  It's then, you know, going through the permits and zoning
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  regulations for several different townships, boroughs,
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  counties that you know, we're encountering.
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  We did find a nice property. Unfortunately, it's in a flood
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  zone and it's $675 a month for flood insurance.
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  Ouch. That's for the flood insurance,
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  not that that's not even the rest of the house insurance.
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  And it the even the better is the fact that the well is inside
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  the house. It has a well.
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  It's inside the house. Of course, my first son said,
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  Dad, don't look down there. There's a woman trying to get
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  out. I'm like, OK, little bastard,
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  but it, it, it's been a busy weekend with some things
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  developing in our office. I have a pertinent question for
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  both of you that I'm going to present later on about the
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  adjusting routes and weather here.
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  And yet we, we had decent weather last week and then this
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  week coming up, we're not getting out of the 40s.
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  What the hell? How do you go from 76, you know,
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  one week back down into the 40s? We actually have frost warnings
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  for the mornings 3-3 days this week.
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  Mother Nature is a fickle bitch. And with that, how was your two
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  weeks, Christian? Oh, where do I begin?
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  No, it wasn't too bad the first week there.
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  Ruby started her well, where am I at?
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  OK, so this past week Ruby started her OJT.
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  We did two days they were going to, we did Tuesday and Wednesday
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  to start with. They were going to do Tuesday,
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  Wednesday, Thursday and then one day this coming week and then be
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  on her own. I'm like no, no, no, no, no.
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  I mean, if you're going to have to split it up due to coverage,
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  then do it two days this week and then do 2 days at the end of
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  this coming week. And then she'll be, so it's
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  still fresh in her mind. So do Thursday, Friday and then
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  she's on her own Saturday. So I did talk him into that.
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  I will not be doing the last two days of Oji, but I did the first
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  two days. She did get a car, you know,
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  it's, it's a beater with a heater basically.
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  But other than that, this week, let's see, last week pretty
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  much, you know, the same old, same old.
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  We went, Ruby and I went to a concert last week.
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  It was our Christmas present. And then we went to one this
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  past Friday. Of course, I end up always
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  having to work the next day. We got 1 coming up on Tuesday.
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  Of course I'll have to work Wednesday, but I don't know.
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  That's how life is in general for me at the moment.
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  It's run, run, run, run, run. But yeah, the I got lucky with
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  the ice storms that hit northern Michigan.
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  Personally, my daughter and her father didn't fare so well.
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  Their apartment, they said when James was talking, they were out
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  for six days or tentatively going back to school.
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  This coming Wednesday, there will be no busing.
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  It is horrible. I mean, mail has finally been
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  starting to go out as they can access boxes and roads within
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  the last few days of this past week.
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  It's crazy. Ruby went Tuesday after we did
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  her OJT to go pick Sophia up because she called and said hey,
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  can I come over? And so Ruby took my car and went
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  over and got her. And even she said it was just
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  surreal still on Tuesday the way it looked over there.
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  So, yeah, that's definitely not the best scenarios over there,
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  but they are pushing through. The National Guard finally
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  showed up on Friday. I think it was to help start
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  cleaning up the downed trees. I do know one of the power
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  companies, the one that handles mainly the rural areas said that
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  they basically have to rebuild their whole grid.
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  So those that are in those rural areas in northern Michigan under
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  that electric company, you're probably going to have to wait
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  quite a bit longer. There's still many, many people
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  without electricity, but they are railing communities are
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  railing together and trying to help people out as much as
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  possible. So that's that's always awesome,
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  but. Yeah, they, the worst part about
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  it is, is because of the ongoing severe weather across the
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  country that's going on, usually when situations like this
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  happen, the lineman all rally together and they come from all
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  different states to help fix this stuff.
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  But right now with what's going on, especially with your weather
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  down here, you're not getting our guys going up there.
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  They're fixing the problems down here.
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  And then even further South, you've got the tornado damage,
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  the flooding and things like that they're having to fix down
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  there. So it's very hard to to imagine
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  that we're in basically the worst case scenario for getting
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  electricity back on because everybody's focusing on their
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  own territories right now and can't assist in other
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  territories that are damaged. I do know they have crews from
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  as far as Texas that have come up.
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  So we we are getting, they are getting the assistance from
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  lineman and stuff from other states as they can as they can.
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  Like I said, it was just the National Guard finally got
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  activated to come in and help. There's been other area
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  communities that you know the local Meijer chains, which is a
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  Michigan based chain store for those that aren't in the Midwest
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  that are familiar with Meijer. They were giving out water and
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  snacks and the Home Depot, Lowe's, they were getting
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  generators delivered daily by the pallets.
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  They weren't even unloading the pallets.
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  They just open them up and they would selling out just as fast.
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  We had gas stations, there was only two gas stations in Gaylord
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  at one time that were had fuel available.
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  They were running completely on generators.
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  Lines to get in were a quarter mile long with police directing
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  traffic into the gas stations. So we've had, you know, so even
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  the one of the family owned ones and one of the other smaller
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  towns that has a grocery store connected, they had the
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  generators hooked up so they could have the gas available.
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  They normally aren't open 24 hours, but they were having
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  people there staffed to be available through the night for
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  people to get fuel, fuel trucks coming in on the daily.
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  So yeah, it, it is really been community rallied and, and one
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  of our listeners posted who, who is from Gaylord that, you know,
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  they did. There is a lot of downed trees
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  still. You know, they did a short ride
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  through town and and once they got back from their vacation and
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  her neighborhood is still covered in trees over lines.
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  And so it's going to be it's definitely going to take time to
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  be back up 100%. So but they're slowly doing it
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  as they can. Kids got an extra week and a
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  half of spring break so far. So starting to tie somewhat get
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  back to normal, but we're going to cover real quick.
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  We're going to I know I'm going to go over what happened on my
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  mini mail survey and my new evaluation here real quick.
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  I have been AI went up to what a 46 K It would have been the
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  spring. Was it the spring 1?
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  I don't remember. No, it wasn't.
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  Yeah, I think it was the spring one.
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  My mind just so much going on at once.
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  So anyways, I kept A46K for a year.
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  I unfortunately lost an hour this time around and went down
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  to a 45 KII lost a little over an hour in standard hours.
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  I mean I literally went from 5456 down to 5335.
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  So I actually went down to a low 45K, but a lot of that, it was
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  in my parcels. I literally lost over an hour in
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  just parcels under my street volume time.
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  And that adversely, you know, coincides with losing my load
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  time as well. So unfortunately, I mean, I do
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  have a couple things I will be disputing otherwise that I can
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  dispute. But my, when I really, I was mad
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  when I first got him. So I was looking at it and I was
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  looking at wrong stuff. So I set it down and went back
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  and looked at it after I calmed myself down and really then dug
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  into it and saw, Oh yeah, my biggest drop was in my parcels,
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  which collates to us losing UPS. Honestly, Amazon went down for a
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  little bit, but it's been picking back up lately.
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  So yeah, it's, you know, that's what happens.
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  I mean, I still, I was around for the old mail counts and saw
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  routes go up and down South. My office in general, our two
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  other zip codes, both of those routes stayed the same.
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  Our H route lost two hours, myself lost an hour, the other K
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  route lost an hour, and then our J route lost an hour.
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  So yeah, that was what happened in my office for mini mail
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  survey this time around. Yeah, my route, my route stayed
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  the same 40K, but it did go up a little bit in standard hours.
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  I am almost a fully true 40K. My standard hours are 48 O 7.
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  And yeah, and I was actually impressed with that.
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  It looks like everything that I've been doing with inputs and
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  stuff was not removed from the system, and my mileage and
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  everything stayed the same compared to the last survey.
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  So really a lot of this stuff I think is done outside of what
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  we're really doing. And the biggest disputes that
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  I've actually seen for people sending me stuff is management
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  messing with numbers like walk distances or boxes on their map,
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  mapping, things like that that have been changed.
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  I have a carrier in my office who we had a postmaster who
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  joined our office, been on our office, won it and then during
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  the mapping ended up grouping all the CB US under one CB.
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  She lost like 16 CB US because of this on her evaluation.
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  So she's disputing that, but it goes to show management messing
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  with stuff messes with the evaluation.
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  So I'm going to tell everybody that's listening to us go
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  compare your 4241, see what's changed, find out if it's
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  something that's due to volume changes or if it's something
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  that management messes with. You need the A and the M to do
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  this and there is Cheat Sheets out there for you to see what's
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  going on and we'll post it on the Discord server under forms
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  or something. One of the one of the channels
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  there for people to see. But you got to go through it
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  with a fine tooth comb because like Bill says, everything you
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  put in the scanner goes in your wallet.
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  Well, everything on your 4241, every minute you add there goes
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  into your wallet. So you got to make sure to go
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  through it. And I understand a lot of people
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  get disputes back. That say no action needed, but
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  still file the paperwork because then that creates a paper trail
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  that can be followed. And that's also important too,
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  right, Bill? 100% dude and and you know, like
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  every traffic control point, you know, means you know something.
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  We had the carrier in our office who who's one of the few, and
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  they they put up for the railroad crossings and all of a
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  sudden that disappeared off their miscellaneous times.
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  It's like, OK, yeah. He's.
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  Well, you know, it doesn't happen that often.
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  No, it only happens six days a week.
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  And they said, yeah, oh, you can't prove that.
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  And they says, yes, I can because you tried to pull me in
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  for six stationary incidents this week.
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  All more for the train. Oh, all they have to say is, oh,
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  I mean, this, this is the mentality of, of the individuals
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  running the post office on, on the ground level.
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  Oh, at the, you know, and, and trust me, it's funny because we
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  have a local steward in, in our office.
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  He represents Westchester, which is 18 routes, and since there's
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  another office in their Phoenixville, they turn around
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  and within six months they've made him a area Stewart.
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  And I'm, I'm just, I'm happy for him.
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  That's all I'll say. I'm so thrilled for the
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  carriers, but I'm happy for him. But as we said prior to the
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  actual recording of this, if you don't dig, you're not going to
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  find out what you're getting screwed on.
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  And management's doing their best.
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  I have no idea why they would be so vindictive to the craft that
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  pays their salaries, because we're the ones that generate the
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  income. We're the ones that pay the
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  bills and yet they have this mentality of screwing us over.
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  And I don't know if it's mid level or upper level or upper
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  upper level, but it seems to be a common theme across the United
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  States Postal Service in its entirety.
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  There are some unicorns, but there's, there's a lot more
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  instances that, you know, people were just, you know, messing
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  with the the royal craft because they can.
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  And and that's why we do need that change of leadership there,
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  Mr. President, to be. All right, so I'm going to go
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  over briefly go over the road route evaluation dispute
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  process. We've we, we've gone over it in
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  detail in the past, but I'm just going to bring, this was the one
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  that was signed on March 24th this year.
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  And I'm not going to read the whole thing.
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  I'm just going to highlight the important stuff.
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  The roll route evaluation dispute process will be used to
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  address disputes where the assigned rule carrier has
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  identified potential errors and time credits provided on the PS
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  Form 4241 A. This process will be used to
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  resolve disputes related to the subjects below without the
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  filing of agree of grievances. The parties agree that carriers
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  may dispute the following an entry of 0 or a questionable
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  number in any data field on the 4241 A that would otherwise
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  expect to have a time credit. This would include, well then
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  I'll continue on here, an obvious error in any of the
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  following data fields on the PS Form 4241.
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  A route length, Regular, centralized or total boxes,
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  Daily dismounts, Daily dismount, distance, collection
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  compartments, TCP or traffic control points, Daily
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  activities, miscellaneous time and office walk distance.
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  Miscellaneous time has been a big one from what I have been
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  seeing and hearing from people that upper management is telling
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  them that's already built in. That's already but satchel time
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  or any you know the railroad crossing times.
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  If you have to wait for trains, the electronic parcel lockers,
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  anything that was normally already timed in the previous
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  mini mail surveys. A lot of them are getting saying
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  Nope that's already built in. You don't get that this time
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  around. You didn't get it.
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  Dispute it, plain and simple. Because just because you did it
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  six months ago on the last mini mail survey and it was credited
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  to your route, it needs to be redone again.
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  Why do you think they have us redo the walk distances every
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  six months in our offices now? This is why.
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  If they're not, if they're saying it's already built in,
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  you need to go and dispute that, plain and simple.
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  The Postal Service in the NRLCA will designate representatives
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  at the district and area levels to review and adjudicate the
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  disputes filed using this procedure.
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  These representatives will work in teams of two and will consult
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  with local operations personnel to include the District Delivery
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  Support Specialist as necessary to review and discuss the
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  dispute and further develop the supporting documentation to
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  initiate a dispute. The assigned carrier and local
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  management representative will complete Evaluation Dispute form
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  one. While completing the form, the
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  parties at the local level shall discuss the data field or fields
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  in dispute and should they agree that appropriate credit has not
• 26:23
  provided, they will annotate the form accordingly.
• 26:26
  Upon completion, the form with all relevant documents will be
• 26:30
  forwarded to the Manager, Labor Relations at District and the
• 26:35
  NRLCA District Representative. The forms must be submitted no
• 26:39
  later than April 18th, 2025. I have another dispute that they
• 26:49
  can do and this involves the casing DPS letter.
• 26:55
  Now, this was actually stated to us at our spring booster.
• 27:01
  You remember that Kristen, that management has unilaterally
• 27:05
  decided that it is based on 2400 letters a week.
• 27:12
  However, our standard and the standard on paper in black and
• 27:18
  white that we have is 400 fewer than 400 pieces of DPS letters
• 27:25
  in a day. So if you have situations where
• 27:30
  you had days with less than 400 pieces of DPS letters and you've
• 27:37
  gotten credit for it before, that is something you need to
• 27:40
  dispute because management has found a way to cheat the Casing
• 27:47
  DPS Letters standard that we have set forth in the Rex 99
• 27:54
  page guide. It is actually on page 67 in the
• 27:58
  guide if you want to take a look at it #9 on the page.
• 28:02
  But you should be getting credited when you receive fewer
• 28:07
  than 400 pieces of DPS letter in a day or if you receive more
• 28:14
  than one run of DPS in a day. So those are the two times you
• 28:18
  should see numbers in the Casing DPS Letters plot on your 4241A.
• 28:31
  All righty. So yeah, make sure you have
• 28:35
  disputes. Go ahead and get those have to
• 28:38
  be submitted by April 18th, which is 12 days from today as
• 28:46
  we're recording this. So if you're listening tomorrow,
• 28:49
  11 days. So on that note, we're going to
• 28:53
  move on to relief day work list and the Sunday holiday parcel
• 29:00
  delivery work list as that is coming up here on Saturday the
• 29:06
  12th. It will be posted for three
• 29:09
  weeks. Am I right on the three weeks or
• 29:12
  is it 10 days? Yes, I.
• 29:14
  Believe it's. I believe it's.
• 29:16
  Three weeks before it goes into effect is what it is.
• 29:18
  Thank you. Like I said, my brain's all
• 29:23
  scattered everywhere. I am going to pull up the I have
• 29:28
  the Sunday holiday parcel delivery work list right in
• 29:30
  front of me. This goes for our leave
• 29:34
  replacements. The parties recognize the
• 29:36
  importance of successfully implementing the continued
• 29:38
  expansion of Sunday holiday parcel delivery service which
• 29:42
  began testing in October of 2013.
• 29:45
  I said this is a little bit older, but in order to have
• 29:49
  sufficient rural carrier leave replacements available to
• 29:51
  complete Sunday holiday parcel delivery, a Sunday holiday
• 29:55
  parcel delivery work list will be established for part time.
• 29:58
  Flexible carriers, substitute rural carriers, rural carrier
• 30:02
  associates and rural carrier relief employees.
• 30:06
  Assistant Rural Carriers Arcs will not be included on the
• 30:09
  Sunday holiday parcel delivery work list as these employees are
• 30:12
  hired specifically to work on Sundays and holidays.
• 30:20
  There will be no Sunday holiday parcel delivery work list
• 30:22
  utilized upon collapse of the Hub except during peak season.
• 30:26
  Management will utilize ARCS 1st and utilize leave replacements
• 30:30
  within their own office and they may borrow leave replacements as
• 30:32
  needed to complete Sunday holiday parcel delivery during
• 30:35
  the Hub collapse, which we all know is during Christmas
• 30:39
  overtime season Erik time of the year and so for so to establish
• 30:46
  the initial one. And this will go for those
• 30:48
  offices that are going to soon be getting Sunday delivery if
• 30:52
  they don't already have it, which I've heard mine is office
• 30:56
  is one of those. So if you don't have Sundays and
• 30:59
  you hear Sundays are coming in, this is what they got to do.
• 31:02
  To establish the initial Sunday holiday parcel delivery
• 31:06
  worklist, the NRLCA District Rep or designee and a Postal Service
• 31:10
  representative designated by the District Manager.
• 31:13
  Human Resources. Recreate a listing of all
• 31:16
  available part time flexible rural carriers.
• 31:19
  Substitute Rural Carriers, RCA's and Rural Carrier Relief
• 31:23
  employees assigned to the Hub location, including stations,
• 31:26
  branches and any remotely managed post offices, associated
• 31:30
  spoke offices and nearby rural delivery post offices as
• 31:34
  determined by the Party's representatives.
• 31:38
  Each available leave replacement on this listing will then
• 31:42
  indicate his or her desire to work or not work on Sunday and
• 31:46
  holidays. Accordingly, once the signing
• 31:49
  period is complete, the list will be separated and
• 31:52
  alphabetized by last name regardless of the seniority
• 31:55
  classification or the assigned office.
• 31:59
  One list will include all volunteer leave replacements as
• 32:02
  identified above and the second list non volunteer leave
• 32:05
  replacements. The initial list will be amended
• 32:08
  as new Rcas are appointed and or PTF substitute Rule carriers.
• 32:13
  Rcas or Rule Carrier Relief employees are separated or
• 32:16
  converted to regular rule carrier if necessary.
• 32:21
  The party's representatives may reconvene in advance of a Sunday
• 32:25
  holiday parcel delivery work list posting to ensure all leave
• 32:29
  replacements are properly annotated.
• 32:33
  Newly hired RC AS will be afforded the opportunity to
• 32:36
  place their name on the Sunday Holiday parcel delivery work
• 32:39
  list as volunteers within 60 days of hire.
• 32:44
  If these rural carriers choose not to sign the volunteer list
• 32:48
  at this time, they will be placed on the non volunteer list
• 32:53
  when it is necessary to schedule rural carrier relief.
• 32:57
  Rural Carrier leave replacements for Sunday Holiday parcel
• 33:00
  delivery. Management will first utilize
• 33:03
  any Arcs assigned to the Hub location or associated spoke
• 33:06
  offices. If there are no Arcs assigned to
• 33:09
  these locations or an insufficient number of Arcs,
• 33:12
  management at the Hub location will then select leave
• 33:16
  replacements from the volunteer list on a rotating basis.
• 33:21
  If there is an insufficient number of leave replacements on
• 33:24
  the volunteer list, management will schedule leave replacements
• 33:27
  from the non volunteer list also on a rotating basis.
• 33:33
  Rural carrier associates serving a vacant regular routes or
• 33:37
  serving regular routes during the extended absence of regular
• 33:40
  carriers, including the 1st 90 days before becoming a
• 33:43
  designation 74, will not be scheduled for Sunday holiday
• 33:48
  parcel delivery unless all leave replacements from both the
• 33:52
  volunteer and non volunteer lists are scheduled.
• 33:58
  Leave replacements on both the volunteer and non volunteer
• 34:02
  Sunday holiday parcel delivery worklist will be bypassed in
• 34:05
  rotation if the leave replacement has approved leave
• 34:09
  or an approved non scheduled day adjacent to Sunday or the
• 34:14
  holiday. However, the leave replacement
• 34:17
  on the Sunday holiday parcel delivery worklist may notify
• 34:20
  management in writing that he or she does not wish to be bypassed
• 34:24
  in the circumstance provided notices given at the time leave
• 34:28
  is requested. In addition, management may
• 34:30
  bypass leave replacements for Sunday holiday parcel delivery
• 34:33
  if such assigned work hours would result in the leave
• 34:36
  replacement exceeding 40 hours at the end of the work week.
• 34:43
  All right, so then the implementation guidelines of
• 34:50
  office assignment list to begin the process for establishing
• 34:53
  Sunday holiday parcel delivery work list.
• 34:55
  The USPS NRLC reps for each district shall meet for the
• 34:59
  first Create the hub office assignment list.
• 35:03
  Hub Office assignment list is inclusive of the Hub Office
• 35:06
  including any stations, branches, remotely managed post
• 35:09
  offices, assigned spoke offices and any nearby offices with
• 35:13
  rural delivery. The determination of which
• 35:16
  nearby offices to be included on the Hub Office Assignment list
• 35:20
  will be through joint agreement between the designated reps.
• 35:27
  All right upon completion of the two week signing period, a copy
• 35:31
  of the Hub Office sign up list will be returned to the
• 35:34
  designated USPS Rep who will work with the NRLCADR.
• 35:38
  Or does a need to create the Sunday Holiday Parcel Delivery
• 35:41
  work list? The Hub office sign up list will
• 35:45
  be consolidated and then alphabetized by last name
• 35:48
  regardless of seniority classification or assigned
• 35:51
  office and listed by volunteers non volunteers and then
• 35:54
  designated 74 volunteers non volunteers.
• 35:58
  The final Sunday Holiday Parcel Delivery work list will be
• 36:01
  forwarded to the installation heads no later than when And
• 36:04
  that was when they first set it up in 2016.
• 36:06
  So I don't need those dates. Scheduling When it is necessary
• 36:11
  to schedule rural carriers for Sunday holiday parcel delivery,
• 36:14
  management will schedule the appropriate number of carriers
• 36:17
  as follows. Arcs by seniority on a rotating
• 36:20
  basis, Volunteer leave replacements on a rotating
• 36:23
  basis, non volunteer leave replacements on a rotating
• 36:27
  basis. If I'll leave replacements, both
• 36:29
  volunteer and non volunteer are scheduled and additional rural
• 36:34
  carriers are needed. Management will schedule
• 36:37
  designation 74 leave replacements utilizing
• 36:40
  volunteers before non volunteers.
• 36:43
  And as we all know we still have the MOU for regulars as well so
• 36:47
  that would fit in after the designation. 70 fours.
• 36:51
  I do believe management might be may be a pass may bypass.
• 36:57
  I can't talk tonight a leave replacement in rotation if such
• 37:00
  assigned work hours would result.
• 37:01
  Leave replacement exceeding 40 hours at the end of the week.
• 37:05
  Maintaining the list. Newly hired leave replacements
• 37:07
  may request to sign the list as a volunteer within 60 days of
• 37:10
  hire. Local management should notify
• 37:13
  the Hub office a newly hired leave replacement needs to be
• 37:15
  placed on the Sunday holiday parcel delivery work list either
• 37:18
  as a volunteer or non volunteer in his due be appropriately
• 37:22
  incorporated into the scheduling rotation.
• 37:28
  Peak season. The Sunday holiday parcel
• 37:30
  delivery work list will not be utilized in these locations
• 37:32
  where the Hub office is collapsed or decoupled.
• 37:40
  So yeah, basically that's for the replacement Sunday holiday
• 37:45
  that comes up on the 12th of April.
• 37:50
  It's posted to sign up if you wish to do so.
• 37:56
  And I did have the relief day work list one.
• 37:59
  Where did it go? And and through.
• 38:04
  Go ahead, Bill, through. Through all this bullshit, OK,
• 38:07
  management's responsibility for fiscal integrity of the Postal
• 38:11
  Service is not supposed to put you on that list if there's the
• 38:16
  opportunity of you going over 40 hours, OK, so in their infinite
• 38:22
  wisdom, management say, well, we'll take volunteers from
• 38:24
  regulars because if they're making $40.00 an hour and
• 38:28
  they're getting time and 1/2 for the help on a Sunday or holiday,
• 38:31
  that makes better sense than having a new RCA making time and
• 38:36
  1/2. Exactly making.
• 38:38
  Just over $3030.00 an hour. Well, I I left out at 45 an
• 38:46
  hour. OK, James, you know if they
• 38:51
  offered the overtime change, change, change.
• 38:58
  Well yeah, I'd be making $40.00 an hour on Table 2 working
• 39:04
  Amazon Sunday. Yeah, well, I I'd be making
• 39:08
  what, 6750? Somewhere around there, yeah.
• 39:11
  Yeah, and trust me, I love doing Parcel.
• 39:16
  Work. Yeah, that's that's the easy
• 39:19
  part. You know, which brings me up to
• 39:23
  a point that I've seen many times this week about carriers
• 39:28
  putting them in mailboxes or stuffing them in parcel lockers
• 39:31
  instead of taking them to the door on Sundays and holidays.
• 39:34
  What's your all feeling on that? I when I first did it, when it
• 39:39
  first implemented, I was always told it went to the door.
• 39:43
  The only very few exceptions that I ever put anything in a
• 39:46
  box was if it was weather that day and like the small little
• 39:52
  Poly Mailer things or something that would blow away from a
• 39:56
  porch, something like that. I would secure it in a mailbox,
• 40:00
  but that was the only thing. Yeah.
• 40:04
  Mine mine was mine was the same only take it to the take them to
• 40:07
  the door. But a lot of our carriers were
• 40:10
  OK with us putting them in the mailbox if there was room for
• 40:15
  the mail on Monday. Yes, or on Tuesday after a
• 40:20
  holiday. Yes, you know so, but you're
• 40:27
  supposed you're paid by the hour to do these parcel deliveries.
• 40:31
  I understand everybody wants to get out of work on Sunday, but
• 40:36
  you are paid by the hours the more hours you work, the more
• 40:40
  money you make on a Sunday. So and on top of that, you're
• 40:44
  supposed to fuel the trucks when you bring them back on Amazon
• 40:49
  Sunday. So that way the carrier isn't
• 40:52
  getting screwed out of their fueling bonus with the postal
• 40:56
  trucks because they were only paid for so many fuel UPS.
• 40:59
  It's one fuel up per 100 miles of route miles.
• 41:03
  So for me on my route that's three fuel UPS a week.
• 41:09
  So it or No2 fuel UPS a week. Excuse me, two fuel UPS a week
• 41:14
  on my route. So if I have to fuel it up
• 41:16
  because of Amazon Sunday, then it has to be fueled up again
• 41:22
  twice more that same week. So I'm getting screwed out of
• 41:26
  one extra fueling because they aren't fueling the truck and I
• 41:30
  actually grieved that and want it in my office and they never
• 41:34
  took my truck on Amazon Sunday again because I creased it.
• 41:40
  Or you do like our sub did and he would take forever on Sundays
• 41:45
  getting back at 5:00 and 6:00 in the evening to the point where
• 41:49
  management didn't want to be there waiting for him.
• 41:51
  So they took him off the list. They took him out of the
• 41:54
  rotation. Unfortunately for him, it was
• 41:58
  the time when I was a steward. So I turned around and filed a
• 42:02
  class action grievance against management for that and one do
• 42:08
  what? I think it's 6 or 7 Subs all got
• 42:11
  $250 each for that one. All right Relief Day Work List
• 42:20
  Article 8.5 The Relief Day worklist at each delivery unit
• 42:26
  shall be established twice during each guarantee period.
• 42:29
  The Relief Day worklist will be posted for a two week period.
• 42:33
  There that answered my how long it will be posted?
• 42:38
  The relief Day worklist will be posted for a two week period.
• 42:41
  Each time the new Relief Day worklist is established, it
• 42:44
  shall supersede the previous list.
• 42:47
  All regular carriers, regardless of route classification,
• 42:51
  desiring to work the Relief Day shall place their names on the
• 42:54
  Relief Day Work list. The first opportunity to sign
• 42:58
  the Work Relief Day Work list will be 3 weeks prior to the
• 43:01
  beginning of the new guarantee period and will be effective at
• 43:05
  the beginning of the new guarantee period.
• 43:08
  The second opportunity to sign the Relief Day Work list will be
• 43:11
  3 weeks prior to the beginning of the first full pay period in
• 43:16
  May and will be effective the first full pay period in May.
• 43:20
  So that is the one that we're coming up on.
• 43:23
  When a regular rural carrier is needed to work a relief day due
• 43:26
  to the unavailability of a leave replacement the employee, the
• 43:30
  employer will one select carriers on the list in order of
• 43:35
  seniority on a rotating basis to work the relief day.
• 43:40
  Two, if the need still exists, the employer will accept
• 43:43
  volunteers from regular carriers not on the list before requiring
• 43:47
  regular carriers not on the list to work for the relief day.
• 43:50
  Such requirement will be by juniority.
• 43:54
  A regular rule carrier would not be required to work if the
• 43:57
  carrier has at least one day of annual leave, including an
• 44:01
  approved X day or sick leave adjacent to the relief day.
• 44:07
  On the day the regular rural carrier works the relief day,
• 44:10
  the assigned leave replacement may be required to work any
• 44:14
  route in the delivery unit consistent with the provisions
• 44:17
  of this agreement. Administrative errors in the
• 44:20
  assignment of work to regular carriers on relief days will not
• 44:24
  result in monetary remedies. The employer is not required to
• 44:29
  work any regular carrier on a relief day if the assigned
• 44:33
  primary leave replacement is in the first two pay periods of
• 44:38
  assignment in the office or if it caused the carrier to exceed
• 44:42
  the hours of the annual guarantee or 56 actual hours
• 44:45
  within one week. So that is the contractual
• 44:49
  language for that. What does compensation And so
• 44:54
  I'm going back to the implementation guidelines,
• 44:57
  compensation for working relief day.
• 45:00
  All regular carriers not on the relief day work list who work
• 45:03
  the relief day will reserve compensation, receive
• 45:07
  compensation at 50% of the carrier's daily rate of pay in
• 45:11
  addition to receiving an X day within 12 weeks will be
• 45:15
  scheduled as scheduled by the employer.
• 45:19
  Regular rule carriers on the relief day work list who work
• 45:23
  the relief day will select one of the following options.
• 45:27
  Number one, an X day to be immediately scheduled by mutual
• 45:31
  agreement between the carrier and the employer.
• 45:34
  The scheduled day must be within the next 12 weeks #2
• 45:40
  compensation at 50% of the carrier's daily rate of pay.
• 45:44
  In addition to receiving a next day within 12 weeks is scheduled
• 45:48
  by the employer or three compensation at 150% of the
• 45:53
  carrier's daily rate of pay. The carrier will not receive a
• 45:57
  next day. The regular rule carrier must
• 46:00
  make his or her election of the above options no later than the
• 46:04
  day of the worked relief day. Regular carriers who earn an X
• 46:13
  day for working relief days from the beginning of the guarantee
• 46:16
  period through the end of the Christmas period must receive
• 46:20
  the X day within the same pay period in which the relief day
• 46:24
  was worked. Regular carriers who did not
• 46:26
  receive the corresponding earned X Day within the same pay period
• 46:30
  will receive 100, 100% of the daily rate of pay in lieu of the
• 46:34
  X Day. Regular regular rural carers who
• 46:38
  worked their relief day prior to May 20th, 2000 and have not
• 46:42
  received the corresponding X Day will not receive compensation in
• 46:46
  lieu of the X Day. So that was when it actually
• 46:48
  came about was it? May 20th of 2000 was the initial
• 46:52
  date. So that is relief day work list
• 46:58
  sign up and Sunday holiday parcel delivery sign up, which
• 47:02
  is should be coming out April 12th for two weeks and then it
• 47:07
  will be effective the first full pay period of May.
• 47:16
  So there's that for you guys. Any other decisions about that?
• 47:23
  Isn't it convenient how the wording of the X days being
• 47:27
  assigned by management work for management's favor and not the
• 47:31
  carrier who sacrificed their their X day or your drop day?
• 47:36
  Unless you have really decent management who lets you use your
• 47:40
  X days like normal leave and you get to choose them.
• 47:43
  But not all management does and they're technically technically
• 47:47
  technically. The language says management
• 47:51
  schedules it. Yeah, again, it's in
• 47:56
  management's hands. It is.
• 47:58
  Not for our part, not in our benefit whatsoever, but
• 48:01
  management's hand. But I, I will say this, you
• 48:06
  know, the management that's out there that does do it with the
• 48:09
  carrier by mutual agreement, those are the kinds of managers
• 48:13
  that you want in offices to take care of their carriers, make
• 48:17
  sure that their carriers get what they need.
• 48:19
  I mean, we understand there are management out there that can't
• 48:23
  help what's going on in these offices.
• 48:25
  People don't want to work here for the the low wages that we
• 48:29
  get. People don't want to work with
• 48:31
  the heavy workload that we get on our routes.
• 48:35
  But you're going to have to deal with this in one way, shape or
• 48:41
  form until somebody steps up and actually holds management
• 48:44
  accountable to getting coverage for these routes and fighting
• 48:49
  for wages that will bring people in the door.
• 48:52
  But until that time, us helping them out with the relief day
• 48:56
  work list gives us the benefit of choosing whether we want to
• 49:01
  get that X day that management can assign or the 150% pay.
• 49:07
  And I saw somebody say that if you're OK with DACA 3, don't
• 49:11
  sign. That's what you'll get.
• 49:13
  But the problem with that is that if you have management that
• 49:18
  auto assigns the X day on you, it might as well sign up and get
• 49:22
  the 150% pay. Then management can't force that
• 49:26
  day off for you. And of course you you can choose
• 49:32
  to take leave days with leave without pay at your detriment if
• 49:42
  you do the DACA 5 and that would basically be like utilizing the
• 49:47
  next day when you have the 150% pay.
• 49:51
  But you have to remember there are certain provisions for
• 49:55
  ELWOP. ELWOP has to be approved with
• 49:58
  the exception of Saturdays. Saturdays is the only day if
• 50:03
  there is a leave replacement available, that management
• 50:08
  should be honoring the ELWOP during the week.
• 50:11
  Good luck. But all right, so relief day
• 50:17
  work list, we'll check that one off.
• 50:22
  And yes, I forgot to cut. When you sign up, you can
• 50:26
  request in writing as I would suggest you put any requests in
• 50:30
  writing to come off of the relief day work list at any
• 50:34
  time. Once you sign up, you just
• 50:36
  cannot go back on it until the next sign up period.
• 50:40
  Nor can you say, oh, I forgot I wanted to be on it, it's down
• 50:44
  now. Nope, you got to wait till the
• 50:45
  next time, unless you're a Princess in the office, but
• 50:49
  we're not going to talk about that right now.
• 50:53
  So yes, you can come off of it anytime after you sign up on it,
• 50:57
  but you cannot go back on it until the next sign up period.
• 51:09
  OK, OK, new topic. New topic.
• 51:11
  Yes, new topic. All right.
• 51:14
  I'm going to go over the matrix the the leave replacement
• 51:23
  matrix. This is specifically for RCA's
• 51:27
  as PTF's have assigned strings. The matrix is came about in the
• 51:37
  9599 national agreement between USPS and the NRLCA newly.
• 51:44
  I'm just going to read the beginnings of it.
• 51:46
  Trust me, there are it. There's 20 pages of this, but it
• 51:49
  has examples on how to do stuff, whatnot.
• 51:54
  I'm not going to get into there, but I'm going to go over and
• 51:57
  read out the beginning of it and the basics on how a matrix is
• 52:01
  supposed to be filled in. In the 199599 National agreement
• 52:08
  between USPS and the NRLCA, new language was added which
• 52:12
  provided for a leave replacement assignment list.
• 52:15
  This list is commonly been referred to as the Matrix.
• 52:19
  The matrix was introduced in an effort to clarify the proper
• 52:22
  scheduling of leave replacement assignments beyond the primary
• 52:26
  assignment and allow for utilization of leave
• 52:29
  replacements assigned to a specific delivery unit once the
• 52:33
  office matrix is exhausted. When the initial filing of
• 52:37
  filling of the matrix, the carriers that are qualified on
• 52:41
  more than one route must make their selection of the two
• 52:44
  routes to which they want to be assigned.
• 52:47
  No qualified is defined as having received training on or
• 52:50
  been utilized on the route. Management must then begin
• 52:54
  filling available secondary and 3rd positions.
• 53:00
  Because I can never pronounce tertiary.
• 53:03
  Yeah, whatever tertiary. Tertiary.
• 53:06
  Tertiary. Tertiary positions third spot.
• 53:09
  Anyways, the the filling of these positions must be based on
• 53:14
  two factors 1 The seniority of the carriers 2 The route
• 53:18
  selected by the individual carriers.
• 53:21
  It is important to note that each substitute RCA or RCR will
• 53:25
  appear no more than three times on the matrix.
• 53:29
  Management will continue to designate assignments until the
• 53:32
  matrix is complete or there are no additional qualified
• 53:35
  employees to designate. Example If RCA Atoms selects
• 53:43
  route one and both the second and third positions are
• 53:46
  unfilled, management must place ATOMS in the secondary position
• 53:50
  on Route 1. The contract calls for a matrix
• 53:53
  to be established for each office.
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  The following is an example to help you better understand the
• 53:57
  matrix in the proper way it should be established.
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  Initial Filling The first step in the process of filling in an
• 54:04
  office matrix is to establish a leave replacement seniority list
• 54:08
  based on the longest period of continuous service in that
• 54:11
  office. This list should also contain
• 54:14
  the routes on which the leave replacements are qualified to
• 54:16
  work. The second step in the process
• 54:20
  of filling the matrix would require the postmaster
• 54:23
  supervisor to contact the leave replacements and allow those who
• 54:27
  are qualified on multiple routes to choose by seniority 2 routes
• 54:32
  that they are qualified to work in addition to their primary
• 54:35
  assignment. The selecting of two routes and
• 54:37
  the filling of the matrix should be done simultaneously.
• 54:42
  The supervisor begins contacting leave replacements by seniority.
• 54:47
  Management would begin to complete the matrix by assigning
• 54:49
  the leave replacements to the routes they have chosen,
• 54:52
  starting with a secondary position if available.
• 54:55
  If that position is not available, then the name will be
• 54:58
  placed in the third position on the matrix.
• 55:01
  This process will continue until the matrix is completed or no
• 55:05
  additional qualified employees. Make a selection and matrix in
• 55:16
  office with stations or branches.
• 55:19
  The establishment of a leave replacement matrix in an office
• 55:22
  with stations or branches follows the exact same
• 55:26
  procedures that were explained in pages one through 4.
• 55:30
  A common mistake made by management is to establish a
• 55:32
  separate matrix for each station or branch.
• 55:35
  This is not correct. It would be correct in the
• 55:39
  relief day work list, but not in the matrix.
• 55:43
  One matrix should be established for an entire office, which will
• 55:47
  include all stations and branches and will list all
• 55:50
  regular routes along with the assigned leave replacement and
• 55:54
  those substitutes, Rcas and RCRS designated as the second and
• 55:59
  third leave replacements for each route.
• 56:04
  When a When the primary leave replacement assigned to survey
• 56:07
  route is temporarily unavailable or there is no assigned leave
• 56:11
  replacement, management must refer to the leave replacement
• 56:15
  assignment list and offer the assignment to the leave
• 56:17
  replacement designated as second replacement for the route.
• 56:22
  If this employee is unavailable or there is no second
• 56:25
  replacement, then the employee designated as the third
• 56:28
  replacement will be offered the assignment.
• 56:36
  If both 2nd and 3rd replacements are unavailable, management
• 56:39
  shall then offer the assignment to other qualified leave
• 56:42
  replacements assigned to that delivery unit in order of the
• 56:45
  longest period of continuous service in the office.
• 56:48
  Qualified is defined as having received training or been
• 56:51
  utilized on the route. Delivery unit for this purposes
• 56:54
  is defined as a physical location containing one or more
• 56:58
  5 digit zip codes under the control of 1 postmaster or
• 57:02
  station branch manager. Management may wish to establish
• 57:07
  a separate seniority list for each individual delivery unit.
• 57:11
  In developing a specific delivery unit seniority list,
• 57:14
  only the substitute Rcas and RCRS assigned to that delivery
• 57:19
  unit as primary leave replacements will be considered.
• 57:26
  And let me scroll through some more if there was any more
• 57:36
  filling in the blanks on leave replacement assignment list.
• 57:40
  Should a blank occur in the assignment list and another
• 57:42
  qualified substitute, RCA or RCR is not currently designated for
• 57:47
  three routes on the assignment list.
• 57:50
  This employee may be designated to serve as a second or third
• 57:53
  leave replacement where there is none listed.
• 57:58
  Care should be taken in this vacancy or under subsequent
• 58:02
  vacancies to be sure the substitute Rcas or RCRS who
• 58:06
  previously elected to serve an auxiliary route 6 days are
• 58:08
  offered the opportunity to accept the new assignment and
• 58:12
  relinquish the six day assignment.
• 58:16
  That's when an RCA goes regular. When circumstances create a
• 58:24
  large number of blanks on the list due to conversions,
• 58:27
  auxiliary route assignments, etcetera, management should
• 58:30
  review the list to determine if sub movement of qualified leave
• 58:33
  replacements or additional cross training is needed.
• 58:37
  If management chooses to fill the secondary positions,
• 58:39
  management must ask the third leave replacement if they wish
• 58:43
  to be moved to move before filling another leave
• 58:46
  replacement. Hiring a new leave replacement
• 58:51
  affects the matrix the following scenarios.
• 58:56
  Care should be taken in this vacancy.
• 58:58
  OK, let me figure out here. Basically, when you have new
• 59:03
  ones, it's almost management's discretion to fill in the blanks
• 59:06
  with the new leave replacements or Rcas.
• 59:09
  I should say. Primary leave replacement
• 59:15
  vacancies may occur due to resignations, appointment to
• 59:18
  regular carrier, transfers to other offices, and creating new
• 59:23
  regular routes. A substitute RCIA or RCR who
• 59:27
  previously elected to serve an auxiliary route 6 days may later
• 59:31
  accept a subsequent leave replacement vacancy under
• 59:34
  Article 30. Once a carrier has relinquished
• 59:37
  the six day assignment on an auxiliary route, there's no
• 59:39
  contractual provision that allows the carrier to again
• 59:43
  elect the six day assignment on the same auxiliary route.
• 59:47
  This is not to say the carrier would not be allowed to elect a
• 59:49
  six day assignment for any other vacant or newly created
• 59:52
  auxiliary routes. When circumstances create a
• 59:59
  large number of blanks on the matrix due to conversions,
• 1:00:01
  auxiliary route assignments, etcetera, management should
• 1:00:04
  review the list to determine if the movement of qualified leave
• 1:00:06
  replacements or additional cross training is needed.
• 1:00:09
  I already read that or repeated itself.
• 1:00:17
  So yeah, management if if they're redoing the matrix and
• 1:00:21
  that is completely up to management on when they want to
• 1:00:24
  do that. It should always be updated when
• 1:00:26
  there's changes in leave replacements in Rcas.
• 1:00:30
  Basically they need to go through by seniority to fill
• 1:00:33
  that out. When you have new ones, they may
• 1:00:36
  just put them in to fill the gaps.
• 1:00:39
  I know Ruby's already on our matrix, but yet we're missing
• 1:00:44
  the sub that came in the one above her.
• 1:00:46
  He's not on it, go figure. But that's already been taken
• 1:00:51
  care of by my local store and being brought up.
• 1:00:54
  So matrix. And that's how they were
• 1:00:58
  supposed to follow when it comes to the order consideration.
• 1:01:01
  If there is not a leave replacement, if that primary
• 1:01:04
  leave replacement or there is not a leave replacement for that
• 1:01:07
  route, then it would go to the secondary.
• 1:01:10
  If the secondary is not available for whatever reason,
• 1:01:14
  running another primary or whatnot, it would then go to the
• 1:01:17
  third. You can if you are choosing
• 1:01:22
  when, if they are allowing you to choose your secondary or
• 1:01:26
  third, your second and third choices as long as you are on
• 1:01:29
  that matrix three times. You can have two seconds or 2/3
• 1:01:34
  instead of a primary, a second and a third.
• 1:01:38
  You can have a primary in 2 seconds or a primary in 2/3 if
• 1:01:43
  you wish. But again, that comes goes by
• 1:01:45
  seniority. So the lower seniority that you
• 1:01:48
  are, you're pretty much going to get stuck with what's open
• 1:01:50
  depending on the size of your office.
• 1:02:03
  Anybody else have anything on that?
• 1:02:07
  I think you covered it pretty well.
• 1:02:09
  All right, I tried. And yes, if you are, and here's
• 1:02:15
  another situation as an RCA, you're on the matrix.
• 1:02:19
  Your, let's say your primary routes relief day is Saturday.
• 1:02:24
  Your well, I'll put an example of when I was in RCA, my primary
• 1:02:29
  routes relief day was Monday. At the time we had two J routes.
• 1:02:34
  So my second and third choices were I was #2 for both the J
• 1:02:41
  routes and they had alternating Saturdays.
• 1:02:45
  So I had my primary on Monday and then I was a secondary for
• 1:02:50
  one of the J routes and secondary for the other J
• 1:02:53
  routes. At the time, neither one of them
• 1:02:55
  had leave replacements, so I worked Mondays on my primary and
• 1:02:59
  I rotated The Saturdays between the other two routes as J
• 1:03:03
  routes. If you are in RCA, you're on
• 1:03:06
  your primary, you have your primary.
• 1:03:08
  Obviously that doesn't change unless you wish to switch at the
• 1:03:13
  time of vacancy becomes open and you put it in writing.
• 1:03:17
  As I definitely suggest, put everything in writing because
• 1:03:21
  that's the only way to back it up.
• 1:03:23
  If you are skipped on the matrix and let's say you're the second
• 1:03:26
  for Route 1 and they route one doesn't have a primary, you're
• 1:03:32
  the second. You're sitting at home and they
• 1:03:34
  called the number three or they called a different RCA.
• 1:03:39
  Yes, you can grieve that because you were skipped over and you
• 1:03:44
  shouldn't have been. Or yeah, PTF is actually under
• 1:03:52
  order consideration. They can use a PTF before they
• 1:03:55
  use the utilize the matrix under the O 6 in the order of
• 1:04:00
  consideration. Actually, I'll bring that up
• 1:04:03
  real quick. I normally have copies of it,
• 1:04:07
  but I'll pull it up. It'll be quicker for me to pull
• 1:04:09
  it up otherwise, so the order of consideration will tell you how
• 1:04:17
  that should go. Bear with me for just a moment
• 1:04:25
  as I am pulling it up real quick.
• 1:04:32
  I know the order of consideration can definitely be
• 1:04:37
  fun to fight at times. All right?
• 1:04:39
  Order of Consideration box #1 Primary assigned leave
• 1:04:42
  replacement. A Entitled to weekly evaluated
• 1:04:45
  hours when covering route for full week may only then be
• 1:04:48
  replaced to avoid overtime or additional overtime.
• 1:04:53
  B. When covering a route for entire
• 1:04:55
  week, they may be required and or request take a relief day in
• 1:04:58
  AJ or K routes. The relief day is not necessary
• 1:05:01
  the same as the regular carrier. When Aleve replacements being
• 1:05:05
  scheduled on a day by day basis. The primary must be scheduled
• 1:05:09
  for work on their primary assignment if available, even if
• 1:05:12
  this results in compensation at the overtime rate.
• 1:05:17
  Box #2 If primary assign leave replacement is not available,
• 1:05:20
  management may assign an available PTF before assigning
• 1:05:25
  the second or third leave replacement on the matrix.
• 1:05:29
  If you have PTFS in your office, I know not all offices have them
• 1:05:33
  #3 Assign the leave replacement in the secondary spot on the
• 1:05:37
  matrix. No entitlement to overtime #4
• 1:05:40
  Assign the leave replacement in the third spot on the matrix.
• 1:05:43
  No entitlement to overtime #5 assigned by seniority and other
• 1:05:48
  qualified substitute RCA or RCR in the delivery unit.
• 1:05:53
  Qualified means having received training or been utilized on the
• 1:05:57
  route. No entitlement to overtime
• 1:06:00
  number six. If no qualified substitutes,
• 1:06:02
  rural carrier associates, or Rural carrier relief employees
• 1:06:06
  within the delivery unit are available, the employer may
• 1:06:09
  designate any other leave replacement in the office prior
• 1:06:12
  to selecting a regular rural carrier to work in accordance
• 1:06:15
  with Article 8.5 Relief Day Work list.
• 1:06:19
  We just covered that #7 If no other leave replacements in the
• 1:06:23
  office are available, the employer may schedule a leave
• 1:06:27
  replacement from another office before selecting a regular rule
• 1:06:31
  carrier to work in accordance with Article 8.5.
• 1:06:34
  If our leave replacement is scheduled to case and carry a
• 1:06:37
  regular rural route in his or her assigned office, the leave
• 1:06:41
  replacement is considered unavailable to work in another
• 1:06:45
  office #8 Management may on some occasions split a route or
• 1:06:51
  schedule an RCA to serve a regular route and an auxiliary
• 1:06:55
  route. Notice the NRLCA position is at
• 1:06:57
  the term on some occasions. Does not include scheduling
• 1:07:01
  multiple assignments or splitting routes on a repeated
• 1:07:04
  or ongoing basis, except in emergency situations.
• 1:07:09
  Management must not schedule a leave replacement to serve on 2
• 1:07:13
  full assignments or one full assignment and one or more
• 1:07:16
  partial assignments in a single day if the evaluations of these
• 1:07:20
  assignments total 12 hours or more #9 A Select regular.
• 1:07:27
  Select a regular carrier to work in accordance with Article 8.5.
• 1:07:32
  A Select carriers on the Relief Day worklist in order of
• 1:07:36
  seniority on a rotating basis to work on their relief day.
• 1:07:42
  Carriers on Relief Day worklist are paid one of three ways at
• 1:07:45
  their option. We already covered those.
• 1:07:48
  B. If the need exists, the employer
• 1:07:51
  will accept volunteers from regular carriers not on the list
• 1:07:54
  before requiring regular carriers not on the list to work
• 1:07:57
  the relief day. Such requirement will be by
• 1:08:00
  juniority, so they should offer by seniority force and by
• 1:08:04
  juniority or C Require a regular carrier not on the relief day
• 1:08:09
  work list to work. This is done by juniority and
• 1:08:12
  does not rotate. DACA 3 is the only compensation
• 1:08:17
  choice, so if you are that junior regular carrier, guess
• 1:08:20
  what? You're the one that's going to
• 1:08:22
  get forced in all the time if necessary.
• 1:08:25
  Notes Any regular carrier may be bypassed from working a relief
• 1:08:28
  day if the hours worked would cause them to exceed 2080 hours
• 1:08:32
  for the guarantee year or 56 hours for the week.
• 1:08:35
  Regular carriers with annual leave, sick leave, or next day
• 1:08:38
  scheduled addition to their relief day will not be required
• 1:08:41
  to work the relief day. And #10IN emergencies, any other
• 1:08:46
  qualified employee may be assigned.
• 1:08:49
  So there's your bonus of covering the order of
• 1:08:52
  consideration as well, since that falls right in line with
• 1:08:55
  the matrix and the relief day work list.
• 1:09:01
  Now, that's actually one thing I want to talk about on that order
• 1:09:04
  of consideration. You talked about every step
• 1:09:09
  there including splitting routes.
• 1:09:11
  Now you've got to remember management would rather split
• 1:09:15
  routes then have a relief day, workless carrier work.
• 1:09:19
  Now I got into this, I got into this discussion with
• 1:09:26
  representatives of the union and management and management's
• 1:09:31
  thought process is as long as it is only RCA, then they are not
• 1:09:38
  violating use utilizing the relief day work list and only if
• 1:09:45
  they are using regular carriers to split routes that it's a
• 1:09:48
  violation. So I actually do have agreements
• 1:09:52
  in process over the situation right now and I will let you
• 1:09:55
  guys know the results when it comes back.
• 1:09:58
  But that is something the union has stated on that sheet that
• 1:10:03
  they believe it to be only in it's exigent circumstances in an
• 1:10:09
  emergency situation. So my thought of an emergency
• 1:10:14
  situation would be on the day that it happens, somebody has
• 1:10:18
  called off where there's nobody to cover it and you're not going
• 1:10:22
  to call in a regular carrier to come run around when you can
• 1:10:26
  split it with the Subs that are already in the building.
• 1:10:29
  But if you're planning ahead and splitting routes, that's not an
• 1:10:33
  emergency situation. So that's part of the reason I'm
• 1:10:38
  grieving it. But the other reason is I do
• 1:10:40
  know that a regular carrier did work a route split that day when
• 1:10:49
  carriers on the release day work list were available.
• 1:10:53
  And I also was available to work that day.
• 1:10:57
  That's why I'm grieving it. So we'll see how that turns out.
• 1:11:03
  So yeah, that pretty much filled up an hour, guys.
• 1:11:10
  I, I I still have one subject matter to touch on.
• 1:11:14
  The floor bill, the. Floor.
• 1:11:18
  How about the chair? Because I'm sitting down right
• 1:11:19
  now. That works for me as well.
• 1:11:21
  OK, this has been approached several times in regards to the
• 1:11:26
  impending route adjustments. OK, some people are under the
• 1:11:33
  under the the thought process that management can only use re
• 1:11:38
  sequencing as a matter of adjusting routes.
• 1:11:43
  Others are under the impression that squaring off is the only
• 1:11:48
  way. I'm I'm confused in, in regards
• 1:11:53
  because of the terminology in, in relation to what actually
• 1:11:57
  dictates the process. And I'm looking for your guys
• 1:12:01
  feedback because of the fact that this is happening within
• 1:12:05
  the same SD and C where my office is was.
• 1:12:10
  And you know, one office is being cut making the
• 1:12:15
  adjustments, territorial adjustments are being made on
• 1:12:19
  the basis of just getting down to 43 KS, OK, squaring off the
• 1:12:25
  you know, or anything else like that.
• 1:12:26
  Whereas the Phoenixville office is going through a situation
• 1:12:30
  where they're terming it as resequencing, which is
• 1:12:36
  terminology I'm not familiar with from the post office.
• 1:12:40
  So either of you have any thoughts or comments on this
• 1:12:45
  because, well, it's it's confusing as hell for two
• 1:12:48
  different offices in the same building be treated differently.
• 1:12:52
  Well, I'm going to bring up because I did post this in one
• 1:12:55
  of our Discord channels for you guys and this kind of is similar
• 1:13:01
  to that. And I will, I'm going to read
• 1:13:04
  this first and then I'll go back to what the former director of
• 1:13:08
  Labor relations had put in in the National Magazine a year ago
• 1:13:12
  in the March 2024 with what to know about upcoming route
• 1:13:16
  adjustments. So this was a message that I
• 1:13:19
  received. I'm obviously not going to give
• 1:13:22
  out locations or names but this has been a real carrier for 27
• 1:13:27
  years. Loving as a regular.
• 1:13:29
  The route is up for cut. Understand it has to be cut to
• 1:13:31
  A43K which is fine. What they have a problem with is
• 1:13:36
  they the area they want to cut to make it square is the highest
• 1:13:43
  volume portion. Somehow they went up three hours
• 1:13:48
  this last count from 61 standard hours to 64.
• 1:13:51
  So they have to cut 12 hours a week.
• 1:13:54
  They have 478 deliveries and 93 miles.
• 1:14:00
  They want to cut at least 200 deliveries, leaving them with
• 1:14:06
  less addresses than the aux route currently has and about 3
• 1:14:10
  miles in that section. It all looks good on paper, but
• 1:14:14
  the route will tank in the next two evals.
• 1:14:16
  As most of the parcel and letter volume is the part of the IS
• 1:14:20
  part, District thinks it should be cut.
• 1:14:23
  How can they take so many addresses off?
• 1:14:26
  They propose that 70 boxes that are attached to 35 miles be
• 1:14:29
  taken. That puts them at 5150 for
• 1:14:32
  standard hours. But District says it's not
• 1:14:34
  square. They're cutting too much without
• 1:14:37
  thinking of the letter volume that goes along with it.
• 1:14:40
  The aux route will go regular from their cut and if it's
• 1:14:45
  bigger than their current route, they'll bid on it, which I don't
• 1:14:47
  blame them, even though they really don't want to lose.
• 1:14:50
  You know, they love their current customers.
• 1:14:52
  They don't want to do lose half of their deliveries and what are
• 1:14:57
  their rights on that? And to understand the actual cut
• 1:15:02
  for a year from now it's going to close on the ox.
• 1:15:05
  If not an ox, they'll have a zero growth.
• 1:15:10
  And they're only overburdened due to Amazon.
• 1:15:12
  Before Amazon was a 40K same miles, same number of
• 1:15:15
  deliveries. I think due to election mail,
• 1:15:18
  they had a lot of WSH on them to put them in the scanner carrier
• 1:15:22
  discretion since no one could say if WSH is accounted for,
• 1:15:26
  there are a wreck. So my you know, I did a
• 1:15:32
  screenshot of the article and let him know to contact the VR
• 1:15:35
  because honestly, yeah. I mean, when you're when you
• 1:15:38
  have a route that that's, it's that Amazon volume and the
• 1:15:42
  political mail that has bumped it that far up.
• 1:15:45
  Because I know our 95 mile route in my office, that's 95 miles
• 1:15:50
  and roughly about 500 deliveries is a 44K.
• 1:15:55
  So that's going to be some heavy volume because I know what my
• 1:15:58
  ours does, it's roughly that size.
• 1:16:01
  So from a year ago in the National Magazine, former
• 1:16:06
  Director of Labor Relations Bridget Boziak had put out what
• 1:16:09
  to know about upcoming route adjustments based on the
• 1:16:12
  information the NRLC has received from USPS headquarters.
• 1:16:16
  Route adjustments will start soon as we know this is the next
• 1:16:18
  round of them. So in this article I'll point
• 1:16:22
  out what your rights are regarding to adjustments.
• 1:16:24
  The first place I want to point to is Article 30.1, Point J
• 1:16:29
  Carrier's Rights and Route Adjustments.
• 1:16:31
  The regular rule carrier assigned to the route shall be
• 1:16:34
  notified in advance of any route adjustments and afforded the
• 1:16:38
  opportunity to submit comments in writing.
• 1:16:42
  The comments will be considered as a factor when such
• 1:16:45
  adjustments are under consideration and before any
• 1:16:48
  decision is made. Substantial route adjustments
• 1:16:51
  must be approved at a level higher than the installation and
• 1:16:55
  if requested in writing, will be reviewed at the district level,
• 1:16:58
  except for adjustments to avoid actual work hours in excess of
• 1:17:02
  2080 during the guarantee period.
• 1:17:05
  The assigned carrier should be allowed to give suggestions on
• 1:17:09
  the adjustment and should put those suggestions in writing.
• 1:17:12
  Having said that, you know your route the best and will know
• 1:17:16
  what can be removed from the route, but management does not
• 1:17:20
  have to take your suggestions. They can remove the portion that
• 1:17:24
  is the most efficient for the office.
• 1:17:27
  The part of the route that you may want to have removed is not
• 1:17:30
  necessary the best part of the route to move.
• 1:17:33
  From the Postal Service perspective.
• 1:17:35
  It might make sense if to you if it is the part of the route you
• 1:17:39
  don't especially like, but that doesn't necessarily make it the
• 1:17:43
  most efficient part to remove for the office.
• 1:17:46
  If you are in a non formula office, management may reduce
• 1:17:49
  your overburden route to 52 standard hours.
• 1:17:52
  If you are in a formula office and you voluntarily took
• 1:17:55
  Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday as your relief day, management
• 1:18:00
  should reduce your route no lower than the 53 to 55 standard
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  hours. There are some operational
• 1:18:07
  concerns where the adjustments may not be exactly 52 hours or
• 1:18:11
  53 to 55 standard hours, but it should be as close as possible.
• 1:18:16
  The route can be adjusted down if it is a 47K or 48K or if the
• 1:18:22
  carrier is unable to maintain the standard hours of the route.
• 1:18:27
  There have been lots of rumors about the adjustments.
• 1:18:30
  Postal Service will not be adjusting every route in an
• 1:18:32
  office unless the routes are either all over, all
• 1:18:35
  overburdened, or under 40 hours. They may have to move territory
• 1:18:40
  through your route, but if you're not having performance
• 1:18:43
  issues or in the 47 or 48 K category, what you started as is
• 1:18:50
  what you should be when the adjustments are finished.
• 1:18:53
  For example, if your row is a 43K going into adjustment, it
• 1:18:58
  should be a 43K coming out. You should not end up as a 42K
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  unless there is no operational way to keep you at A43K.
• 1:19:07
  Management should keep everyone informed about what is happening
• 1:19:10
  during the process. They should let you and your
• 1:19:13
  coworkers know what is happening at each step of the adjustment
• 1:19:17
  process. If you have questions about what
• 1:19:19
  is happening in your office, reach out to your steward for
• 1:19:22
  help or information and you also find the information in the
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  Stewards Reference Guide under Route Adjustments.
• 1:19:28
  On the website, there is no less than 25 documents that refer to
• 1:19:34
  route adjustments. Reminder Remember, read and ask
• 1:19:40
  questions. Do not rely on rumors or false
• 1:19:42
  information for people who do not know the correct answer.
• 1:19:46
  Personally I've never gone through a route adjustment
• 1:19:49
  therefore I can't give an answer on that because I'm going to say
• 1:19:52
  contact your Dr. or your ADR. Plain and simple.
• 1:19:58
  And don't forget the extra 81 pages on top of your breaks and
• 1:20:01
  your RCAM and everything else you have to study for the route
• 1:20:05
  reset sequencing phase two. I mean this would this would.
• 1:20:14
  Take a full time job just to figure out this stuff.
• 1:20:18
  They actually have a break in the middle of this about recent
• 1:20:23
  reset. You know what the fuck I'm
• 1:20:26
  trying to say? Resequencing.
• 1:20:28
  Thank you. It's like miscellaneous, you
• 1:20:30
  know what I mean? Hey, I was good and said
• 1:20:33
  miscellaneous both. Times.
• 1:20:35
  You said it right this time. Yes, she did.
• 1:20:38
  But I'm saying it, you know, her faux pas.
• 1:20:40
  My faux pas the the fact that matter is that, you know, you
• 1:20:44
  actually have a 10 minute break in the middle of this
• 1:20:47
  resequencing videos so you can get through the damn 81 pages.
• 1:20:55
  That's pretty good. You give you breaks.
• 1:20:59
  And just for those that do get adjusted and cut, you will be on
• 1:21:05
  hold for a 52 week period before you so and for some people it's
• 1:21:12
  going to be longer than that depending on when, how, when
• 1:21:15
  it's adjusted and how the mini mail surveys fall.
• 1:21:19
  Exactly which is again, in whose favor?
• 1:21:27
  Management. Thank you.
• 1:21:31
  So Speaking of that, I've had multiple people ask this
• 1:21:34
  question. Who gets affected by that MOU
• 1:21:39
  where you get held for 52 weeks plus to the next mini mail
• 1:21:43
  survey? So the only people that are
• 1:21:47
  actually affected by that are people who have route
• 1:21:53
  adjustments or get squared up when boxes are added or removed
• 1:21:59
  from the route that are those are the routes that get held at
• 1:22:03
  the evaluation. Resequencing does not because
• 1:22:09
  that only affects your mileage. That's it.
• 1:22:16
  Anytime there's territory adjustments.
• 1:22:19
  Yes, territorial adjustments are the only way that they hold you
• 1:22:23
  for 52 weeks plus to the next mini mail survey.
• 1:22:33
  All right, guys. Anything else we want to cover
• 1:22:35
  or are we going to wind her down now?
• 1:22:38
  Sounds like a good idea about one thing.
• 1:22:40
  Go ahead, Bill. Sequencing is well hold it
• 1:22:45
  didn't the previous management effectively blind these routes
• 1:22:50
  up when they they made their adjustments years ago and years
• 1:22:53
  ago and years ago? I don't understand, you know,
• 1:22:55
  are are you saying we have better management now just being
• 1:22:59
  just being an asshole, but you know.
• 1:23:01
  Well, no, it's it's not that. It's it's at the routing a high
• 1:23:06
  that they have now wants to send you through people's backyards,
• 1:23:09
  across flooded rivers and gorges, and they want to send
• 1:23:13
  you off of bridges like Apple Maps.
• 1:23:19
  The the and I thought you were being still James.
• 1:23:23
  I was being a little facetious with that very last comment.
• 1:23:26
  Yes, ATV trails or like on my route they'll send you down a
• 1:23:30
  dirt 2 track that's designed only for 4 wheel drive mud
• 1:23:34
  trucks. It's about as bad as the Amazon
• 1:23:39
  dynamic delivery routing when it tries to.
• 1:23:41
  Send you through. Yeah, it, it is.
• 1:23:44
  And then I remember, you know, well, turn here.
• 1:23:47
  No, that's gated private property and that's A2 truck
• 1:23:52
  going through their property. I can't turn down that, you
• 1:23:54
  idiot. Or seasonal roads.
• 1:23:57
  That's even funner. Yes.
• 1:24:00
  In the middle of winter with five feet of snow on the ground,
• 1:24:03
  Turn down this. No, no, not happening.
• 1:24:06
  Yeah. Golfer trails for Amazon.
• 1:24:13
  Wow, recalculating. Cackling right route, Please
• 1:24:18
  wait. Yeah.
• 1:24:19
  So bunches of information there for you guys tonight.
• 1:24:24
  So I read a lot. I'm sorry, but it was
• 1:24:29
  information that's been requested and information that
• 1:24:31
  needed to go out and, you know, things are, you know, things are
• 1:24:37
  coming about. I know we've got 1 route in our
• 1:24:39
  office that keeps saying that they're going to be cutting that
• 1:24:42
  one. The 148K win.
• 1:24:45
  Don't know yet. The yeah.
• 1:24:49
  So it'll be interesting to see what happens.
• 1:24:53
  Yeah, exactly. So, anything else, guy?
• 1:25:00
  I'm. Good.
• 1:25:00
  It's been fun, no? All right, James, your final
• 1:25:06
  thoughts for this evening? Yeah, we covered a lot of
• 1:25:10
  information today. It was a major info download
• 1:25:14
  today, but the results are in. People lost.
• 1:25:19
  Some people gained, but you need to go through it with a fine
• 1:25:23
  tooth comb whether you gained or lost, because if there are
• 1:25:27
  minutes there to recapture, you need to find them because it's
• 1:25:33
  your money management doesn't care what goes into your wallet,
• 1:25:38
  but you do. Sorry, Bill's still in your line
• 1:25:41
  a little bit there, but you've got to make sure you account for
• 1:25:47
  everything. And I understand there are some
• 1:25:50
  out there that when they get their disputes back and it says
• 1:25:53
  no action needed, think, well, you know what, I'm not going to
• 1:25:56
  submit them anymore. Don't be that person.
• 1:25:59
  That's what management wants. Management wants you to give up
• 1:26:04
  so that you get paid less. That way their numbers look
• 1:26:08
  better to their management. So make sure you're going
• 1:26:12
  through it. Make sure you find everything
• 1:26:14
  that's wrong. Even though my route stayed the
• 1:26:17
  same, I'm going through with a fine tooth comb.
• 1:26:20
  I'm finding those flaws. I'm finding those mistakes.
• 1:26:24
  Because unless you're keeping track of this stuff, and I know
• 1:26:28
  we're all working off the clock doing this stuff, but you can do
• 1:26:32
  it on your end of shift duty too, going through it because
• 1:26:36
  that is something you should be doing, taking care of your
• 1:26:39
  route. It's route maintenance to do
• 1:26:42
  that, so make sure you're taking care of your route because the
• 1:26:46
  only one who knows it is you. You're the best person to know
• 1:26:51
  what your route deserves for these evaluations.
• 1:26:54
  So go through it, find it all because you're not only taking
• 1:26:59
  care of it for yourself, but eventually you're going to be
• 1:27:03
  setting it up for the next carrier that takes that route.
• 1:27:07
  In our city? Go ahead.
• 1:27:13
  Sorry, go ahead. I know what, I know what you
• 1:27:15
  were going to say. I was getting to that.
• 1:27:21
  But you got to understand these routes are adjusted on 52 week
• 1:27:25
  averages of everything you do to that route plus all the other
• 1:27:31
  input that you put into there. And that's the same for Rcas,
• 1:27:37
  which you were going to say, Kristen, Rcas need to make sure
• 1:27:42
  they know that they're going to be doing this stuff.
• 1:27:45
  I'm about to be training in RCA on my route when I get back from
• 1:27:49
  Western states once they get done with Academy and if they
• 1:27:51
  show up on the first day, you know how that goes.
• 1:27:55
  I'm going to be teaching them how to do these inputs in the
• 1:27:59
  scanner and using Bill's line, what goes in the scanner goes in
• 1:28:04
  your and my wallet. So make sure we're getting what
• 1:28:07
  we deserve accurately. Take care of this stuff, because
• 1:28:14
  at the end of the day, we're all in this together, Bill.
• 1:28:21
  Well, all I can say is that there's an overload of
• 1:28:26
  information out there in regards to these territorial adjustments
• 1:28:31
  to the, you know, the resequencing, the squaring off
• 1:28:35
  and you have to do your due diligence and, and know what is
• 1:28:40
  right and what is wrong because you cannot depend on management
• 1:28:43
  to do this equitably and in your best interest.
• 1:28:47
  As Kristen said, you know, before our, our sign offs here,
• 1:28:52
  they may adjust them to 43, but if they can't and they make you
• 1:28:56
  a 42, so be it. You know, everything that we do
• 1:29:01
  is almost invariably geared for management's benefit and not
• 1:29:07
  ours. There is at least 100 points in
• 1:29:10
  our contract that needs to get rewritten, be equitable for the
• 1:29:15
  regular carriers, for the Subs, for the PTFS or the Arcs, for
• 1:29:19
  everybody. And This is why we need to
• 1:29:22
  change with leadership. We need somebody to go line by
• 1:29:25
  line, word by word, through the contract and actually through
• 1:29:30
  the Constitution too. But the fact of the matter is
• 1:29:33
  that management may management can, it doesn't say management
• 1:29:38
  must, OK. And herbage is very important in
• 1:29:43
  this. Like you said, James, if you put
• 1:29:46
  it in your scanner, it goes in your wallet and it affects both
• 1:29:49
  people's wallets. And that's what I emphasize that
• 1:29:52
  it goes into my wallet as well as a sub's wallet.
• 1:29:56
  But I get paid. You're entitled to that
• 1:29:58
  evaluation. So if you don't work hand in
• 1:30:02
  hand with each other, it's going to screw up both your paychecks.
• 1:30:06
  And you don't want to mess with my paycheck because I'll come
• 1:30:10
  down on you, I will assist you, I will educate you, I will
• 1:30:14
  direct you, and then I'll plummet you if you mess up my
• 1:30:18
  paycheck because that's my paycheck and my next Subs
• 1:30:23
  paycheck. So do it for the in the
• 1:30:27
  interests of both parties, the regular and the substitute
• 1:30:30
  carrier. I cannot say this more clearly
• 1:30:36
  than an educated carrier is the biggest threat to management's
• 1:30:41
  shenanigans. The stuff in regards to, you
• 1:30:45
  know, reducing your dismount distances, reducing the amount
• 1:30:49
  of your dismounts to traffic control points, everything
• 1:30:54
  people, you have to pay attention to the details.
• 1:30:57
  As the the pre show stated so eloquently.
• 1:31:01
  If you don't go and check line by line, you'll never know what
• 1:31:04
  you're missing. Check your 424221 A's and M's.
• 1:31:09
  Make sure you're getting everything you're entitled to.
• 1:31:12
  It's your damn paycheck and you can't pay your bills without
• 1:31:17
  getting paid correctly. Thankfully, I haven't seen
• 1:31:20
  anything lately up there in regards to people not getting
• 1:31:23
  paid on on paydays, which isn't, you know, almost a surprise.
• 1:31:29
  But folks, educate yourselves. If you don't know, ask somebody
• 1:31:34
  if, if, if you don't know anybody knows anything, get a
• 1:31:38
  hold of us. So, you know, we'll, we'll
• 1:31:40
  gladly look into it. And James is getting more than
• 1:31:42
  four hours of sleep at night, so you need to keep him up a little
• 1:31:45
  more. We're.
• 1:31:47
  Here we're we're here to help you and we're doing it for free
• 1:31:53
  because it's in the interests of all of us.
• 1:31:57
  Together, we can present a unified force to change the
• 1:32:03
  National Rule Letter Carriers Association, to change the way
• 1:32:07
  management deals with us, to change the toxic work
• 1:32:12
  environment that a lot of us deal with as well as something
• 1:32:15
  is is changing the the the number of Subs, how they hire.
• 1:32:20
  That's got to be one of the biggest bitches in and Kristen
• 1:32:24
  just went through it with her daughter of trying to get hired.
• 1:32:28
  It's got to shorten up the process to get people on the
• 1:32:33
  rolls in trained and inviolably out on routes so that people can
• 1:32:38
  have off. I mean, between Kristen and
• 1:32:41
  James and myself, well, I'll, I'll probably give you, you
• 1:32:44
  know, 200 offices that we know have a severe shortage of Subs.
• 1:32:50
  I can even name three have no Subs at all.
• 1:32:54
  So go out, have a good week. I know weather's changing again.
• 1:32:59
  We're going with the frost warnings this week.
• 1:33:03
  Oh my God, you know we're in April, but be safe, be diligent,
• 1:33:08
  do your job professionally and efficiently, and make sure you
• 1:33:13
  do it safely, OK? Get home to your loved ones
• 1:33:16
  because you are the most important delivery of the day,
• 1:33:19
  Kristen. Thank you guys.
• 1:33:23
  It's good to be back this week. So yeah, definitely like the
• 1:33:28
  both of them said, going through stuff with a fine tooth comb.
• 1:33:31
  I mean I have my 4241 A&M's as well as the print out from my
• 1:33:37
  mapping that I did at the end of February that coincides with all
• 1:33:41
  this and I am I'm in the process.
• 1:33:44
  I have two possibly 3 disputes right off hand.
• 1:33:49
  Will it give me much time? Not enough to make up the hour
• 1:33:53
  and some I lost but it it'll definitely help and it needs to
• 1:33:57
  be corrected so definitely keep that in mind.
• 1:34:02
  Rcas, yes, do your rec scans. Do them for the routes.
• 1:34:06
  When you're splitting a route or you're assisting on another
• 1:34:09
  route for whatever reason, make sure you're changing the the
• 1:34:14
  route number in the scanner option 6 on the main menu,
• 1:34:19
  Change route. Put that correct route in.
• 1:34:23
  That way, if you had to make more than one trip to the door
• 1:34:26
  delivering parcels, enter in those Rex scans for those routes
• 1:34:30
  that you're splitting or you're giving auxiliary assistance to
• 1:34:34
  or whatever it may be. You're training new RC as teach
• 1:34:38
  them from the very beginning as, as the Rex scans per SE.
• 1:34:44
  So if they are out there and they've got 2 huge boxes and
• 1:34:48
  they have to come back to the truck and go take the second box
• 1:34:51
  up and come back, use that right there as all right, go under Rex
• 1:34:55
  trip to door. You made two trips.
• 1:34:58
  Do that as you're training them, that way they get in the habit
• 1:35:02
  of doing it and know once they're out on their own and
• 1:35:07
  they're working it, they'll know that, Oh yeah, I got to put that
• 1:35:11
  in or, Oh yeah, I got to put that in.
• 1:35:13
  It's part of the job, people. It's not going to go away.
• 1:35:17
  So we might, as everybody be on the same page with that.
• 1:35:20
  It doesn't matter if you're a brand new RCA, a brand new
• 1:35:24
  regular, a regular on their way out the door retiring, or
• 1:35:28
  whatever. APTFI should say as well.
• 1:35:31
  Leave replacement in general. Still don't have PTFS in my
• 1:35:35
  office so please forgive me guys.
• 1:35:37
  You know you should be doing every day on every route you
• 1:35:42
  run. Even if you're running multiple
• 1:35:44
  routes that day. Don't forget to change that
• 1:35:47
  scanner over to the correct route so you can give that route
• 1:35:50
  credit for those additional rec scans.
• 1:35:57
  But yeah, definitely, guys, as we're winding up, spring is on
• 1:36:01
  the way. As Bill said, temperatures are
• 1:36:03
  up and down, up and down. Wednesday was not fun.
• 1:36:06
  We ended up getting heavy wet snow and then switched to rain
• 1:36:11
  before we were done with Ruby out on the route on her second
• 1:36:14
  day of OJT and the vehicle took a few Donuts.
• 1:36:20
  Not purposely, let's put it that way.
• 1:36:23
  I. We're expected to get snow and
• 1:36:25
  rain in the morning here and then it'll gradually start
• 1:36:28
  warming up the rest of the week. So weather out there is
• 1:36:31
  definitely inconsistent in many areas.
• 1:36:34
  So please stay vigilant and safe with the weather.
• 1:36:38
  Stay hydrated as I always say that every week it is very
• 1:36:41
  important you're around and I know my office has already
• 1:36:47
  started the heat illness prevention training, so that is
• 1:36:53
  supposed to be coming about if it hasn't already started.
• 1:36:56
  We haven't watched our video yet because management can't figure
• 1:36:59
  out how to get it up on the big screen yet, so.
• 1:37:03
  We got rid of the video. We were told there was a 2
• 1:37:06
  minute video to watch still. That we didn't have the video on
• 1:37:11
  ours and I've on the on the city carrier side, yeah, it's turned
• 1:37:14
  into just a handout because they didn't want to have that video
• 1:37:18
  on there for Eugene Gates situation anymore.
• 1:37:22
  I know we were told we had a 2 minute video to.
• 1:37:25
  Watch and she was going to get to it probably this week, so.
• 1:37:29
  Let me know what it is. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 1:37:32
  But on that note guys, stay safe this week, stay vigilant, get
• 1:37:36
  home to your loved ones safely, and we shall be back next week.