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Spring '25 MiniMail Survey · United We Scan

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United We Scan podcast. Welcome back everybody episode
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110 I am back this week yes, I am feeling better and yeah so
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we're going to go over mini mail survey stuff tonight so if
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there's. A hold on, Hold on.
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Yeah. What's the title?
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What's the title? Oh, that one says go birds, but
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we're. Yes, thank you.
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Thank you very much. The episode for the listeners is
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a mini mail survey. Yeah, sorry, Bill.
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And yes, we're recording on Saturday instead of Sunday
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because Bill will be glued to the TV for the Super Bowl
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tomorrow night. And I want to thank you for
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everybody's difference of scheduling here.
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I greatly appreciate it. For bowl tomorrow, even our
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audience members that listen to us live.
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So it's important for us to, you know, make sessions for things
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like that so people can go and enjoy that instead of listening
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to us talk all, all night. As a fine Fender and these
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things, you'll have to. Explain.
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Yeah, we know he's a cheese head.
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That's OK. We respect that he supports his
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team. I've been to Lambeau.
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It's nice mistake. I like how the neighbors let you
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park on their lawn for $50. Right.
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Yeah. All right, James, how was your
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week? It was standard week, had a
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couple box holders this week, so that's going to help with my
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evaluation a little bit since package volume is down.
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I think Monday and Tuesday I had over 100 packages, which I know
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a lot of routes get more than that, but my route is measured
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at 80 parcels. So being over that was good.
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The rest of the week I was under that.
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So having the two box holders did help with coverage factor
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and my total volume on the route, number of box that I make
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and mail volume, so on and so forth.
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So I think it was pretty good week other than ice and snow.
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One of my streets is no longer getting delivery.
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Currently they're on old for the weather.
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They get this once in a great while when their St. becomes
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completely ice covered and the LLV can't make it up there.
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So it's it's standard practice on this route for the road not
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to be delivered if it's ice covered to the point where the
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LOV can't get up it. But other than that, pretty
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normal week for me. How was your week, Bill?
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Oh, mine was pretty good. Yeah.
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Your your state doesn't allow change, does it?
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No, no. OK, it's my my week was good.
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Had some interactions with our office again, we're having a lot
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of carriers being forced to help on vacant routes and the local
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steward is oblivious to the situation, doesn't want to be
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involved. Whereas I would pay attention to
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what's going on in the entire floor, this one just hides in
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their case so they don't have to get involved.
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And we, we have the mention of the MOU not being extended,
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which we can discuss later on. But folks, let me tell you that
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is going to be a shitstorm for all.
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My biggest concern in, in regards to this whole thing is
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in regards to the MOU expiring on the 22nd, I believe, and
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what's you know, what, what the immediate future is going to
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foretell in regards to carriers being forced as in my office is.
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So other than that, I mean, you know, we're going to look for
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another house tomorrow and the Eagles are playing in the Super
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Bowl tomorrow and I'm just so excited.
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I'm, I'm all hyped up. I really am.
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I mean, I, I in 2018, we won the Super Bowl and it's, you know, I
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said, you know, I can die now because I've seen the Eagles win
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the Super Bowl. And my wife came downstairs and
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I'm sitting there crying, drinking my Crown Royal Limited.
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And she's like, are you crying? She doesn't understand sports.
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And she's, she's been disavowed of the Eagles since 2004 and the
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Philadelphia Phillies since 93. So yeah, yeah.
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I I, I grew up a hardcore Seagull fan and I'm so looking
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forward tomorrow. So are we going to get Malkov?
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No, Malkov is not going to speak on here.
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So Kristen, how was your week? Because we know you were a
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little bit under the weather the start.
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Yeah, Saturday and Sunday were rough for me.
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I pretty much slept all day, every day.
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That was about it. It really wasn't.
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Had a headache, maybe a little bit of a fever but I pretty much
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just slept so went back to you know.
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Went to work Monday and toughed it out.
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It was a rough start to Monday but Oh well it is what it is.
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Late week for the most part this week I had one WFS but other
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than that it's been a fairly light week.
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And I had work today but I was done by in home by 2:30 as the
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snow was just starting, so thankfully I got home before the
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weather got too bad. It's funny you say you had a
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light day because my carrier yesterday, I saw him, he says,
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Oh my God, he says I have, I have 120 packages today.
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His body is still next to the cluster box unit out front.
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You know, 120. I'm like, Oh my God, that would
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be like a holiday to me, you know, to have 120 packages.
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Yeah, I I was. Monday was think I had 186 scans
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Monday but 22 of those were certified as you know people
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don't want to pay their property taxes and title checks went out
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and. You get those for the snowbirds
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too. Only if they don't pay their
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property taxes. OK.
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Most of my snowbirds though, I don't think I've ever actually
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had one for one of my snowbirds. So they're usually pretty good
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about paying their stuff. But other than that, the rest of
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the week, except for Friday. Friday was 107 scans and the
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rest of the week. So Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
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and today I averaged between 62 and 77 scans.
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That's how light it was. My God, I know Jesus.
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I need that, you know, if I have less than 100 or, you know, 100
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or less, I'm like, it's fairly light for me, but yeah.
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I like seeing in the platforms there that people are
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commenting, seeing the UPS packages with the USPS barcode
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on there asking Leo why are they delivering our packages.
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No folks, they put both barcodes on there just in case they have
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to hand them off so that putting our barcode on there is not an
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afterthought. It's done when they print the
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entire label, it's just they decided not to hand them off to
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us, that's all. Still their package.
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Yep. Melco, do you have anything to
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add before we begin today? Not really.
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It was a really light week for me too.
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I think I actually had under 100 packages today, which was
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surprising. If you take the rubber bands off
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the those two little things downstairs, your voice will go
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up. 6 Thank you. Chris and James piss themselves.
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I need a drink. Here you go.
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Me too, please. Oh my, Oh my.
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So yeah. Oh man.
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Can't take you? Anywhere.
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Bill can't take you anywhere. Well, now you need to take me
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everywhere so that everybody understands the life is real and
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I come at you. Anyway, moving on to this week's
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topic. No, you had something you said
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you wanted to discuss. Yes, yes, this is.
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This is a ethical dilemma for you, everybody to consider, OK?
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This is not just, you know, for myself, this is for everybody
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listening and and the host. And this walks what I'll say is
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a fine line in in ethics in regards to your responsibilities
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as a steward, as your responsibilities of a union
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member, OK, on a minor part as a carrier, OK, in a certain
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certain office OK, my office as an example, you know, there's 18
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full rule carriers OK routes. The the situation is, is based
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on the fact that and they had two vacant routes today and one
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route is a consistent call out on Saturdays.
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Now they don't have Saturday drop days but more than
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infrequently they call out on Saturdays.
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They will often use the excuse of nobody watching their child.
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Individual is involved and lives with a partner in which they
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have this child but because of certain allowances OK and I'll
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I'll put it along the lines of trying to be delicate.
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Oh he's black that's not delicate enough.
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It never gets called up for Ionis for attendance.
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Now as a steward, if I was still a steward in the office and I
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had somebody else called up on an INIPDI, whatever you want to
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call in regards to attendance, then I would feel compelled to
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bring up this individual's history and not being, you know,
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called up on INISPDIS, whatever, while you're calling this
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individual up for a PDIINI the first time in six months.
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Now the the problem is we also had a young lady in the same
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office, our office that was consistently getting one to two
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days a week off for for various reasons.
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And one time she actually flipped out during an APDI and
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I'll call them Pdis because that's what I'm more comfortable
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you saying they're Pdis. But you know, she would call on
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the PDI and she flipped out on the supervisor.
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Now the problem of it was that this went on for four months
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prior to the PDI. They called her up on it.
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She flipped out out. And there's a mitigating
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circumstances with her being oh God, we'll see.
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She was married, had a child, divorced, remarried, had another
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child, and was taking care of her mother.
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Now when it came to my attention that she was having attendance
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problems, I went to her privately as a concerned
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carrier, OK, because I like her and told her that she needs to
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file for FMLA to protect herself.
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She didn't do she had APDI. Again, I brought up the FMLA and
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the supervisor agreed that that would be their best Ave. of
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protection. He didn't do it.
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Nothing ever became of her Pdis as with this other individual.
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Nothing has become of him ever having APDI.
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Yet you have a another carrier once in six months and they and
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they pull them up with an attendance review.
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Now the ethical thing to me is do I bring up the fact that two
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individuals you haven't prosecuted in regards to the
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Edis and the follow through discipline are of non Caucasian
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backgrounds. The one you're pulling up on the
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ini for once in six months is Caucasian.
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I find myself torn on this because of the fact that you are
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yes, this disparity treatment because of race.
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And yet I the one individual I tried to help, the supervisor
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tried to help, and yet you're going after this individual for
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missing one day in six months. How do you justify disciplinary
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procedures for management versus what I would say is obvious
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racism and trust me, be as racist as the next person.
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But then again, if you were to insult Roy Kelly, who's a
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personal friend of mine, find out that I would lay your ass
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out or somebody you didn't know was a black man because I never
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talked about Roy Kelly being a black man.
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That's how I view people life in general.
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I don't define you by your color, less you do.
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So I'm looking for input from everybody, anybody even in the
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chat group in regards to how do you handle this situation
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because of the fact that it just can't go on anymore.
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Years ago, we had a guy who was a preferential carrier.
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He had every supervisor, postmaster's ass in his hands.
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His truck broke down so they gave him an LLV.
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He didn't like an LLV so he took the LLV off of RD16 because she
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was out for a rotator cuff surgery.
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When she came back the LLV got reverted back to his route and
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he turned around and pushed it over to a route where a sub had
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a hold down with an FFV. This went on for almost 8
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months. Again, preferential treatment
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based on race and I don't like using that work or for that, but
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I mean folks, you can't be any more obvious than what it was.
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So help me understand there were Eric give me your reasoning in
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regards to how they handle this ethically.
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That's a tough one because. People in the I said like people
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in the chat said disparity treatment.
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I would also have the carrier file and EEO for them.
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But the problem with the EEO, as in many offices, and you all
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know this, OK, people don't want to push back against the system
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in in case there is retribution coming down the line.
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And in the fact of the matter, even though they had me as a
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steward in office and I stood up to Jesus Christ to fight for
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them, they still worried about retribution.
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The same way a new sub worries about filing a grievous within
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90 days. The same way they're pulling
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Subs off of Phoenixville and the FD and C and making them work in
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Westchester with no training whatsoever as they're afraid of
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filing a grievance within 90 days.
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Same way our local steward keeps his head buried in his case
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because if he says he doesn't know anything about it, then he
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doesn't have to prosecute that grievance.
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I mean the ethics department, The post office?
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Give me a fucking break. Yeah, I think they have.
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Is to push, push, push and push and push until either you cave
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or you quit. Of course, out of the the three
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of us here, I'm not sure about Malco.
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We would never cave and we would never quit.
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We'd punch them right in the fucking mouth and leave that in.
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Don't cut that. Right, just shot they, they do
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have to grow up here. Please leave your thought.
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I mean, you know this, this is as troublesome to me as carriers
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who sit there and say, oh, I'm just a carrier.
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I can't do anything. That's what they depend on.
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They count on the fact that you feel the hopelessness of the
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situation and that it won't go anywhere.
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That's why we're losing the battle.
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That's why our national board doesn't fight for you, because
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you don't demand that of them. I mean, you can't tell me they
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don't know about all this. We have a local meeting on
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Wednesday afternoon here for my local.
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They're bringing over an NSS employee from New Jersey because
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they have nobody in the in this area.
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Why? Because our Dr. is out of New
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York. Our ADR was just removed.
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The other ADR has previous engagements.
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Can you tell me you you don't have a local steward or an area
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steward that could come to our meeting?
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You don't have to say anything, you just have to attend.
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But we're going to pay an ADR to come out of New Jersey all the
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way over into Pennsylvania and maybe even stay overnight just
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to attend a local meeting. ORNRO coming up here.
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I don't think so NR OS don't go to local meetings sits next to
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their house. Go ahead.
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I mean, you know, I'm, I appreciate everybody listening
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to me, but this is the type of situation that really goes to
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the, the, the basis of the problems in our union in regards
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to disparity of treatment in the fact that, you know, management,
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you know, violates the contract in the, in the way that we treat
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each other. And you know, never mind that
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the fact you call out all the time for whatever reason, OK,
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had a situation where she had a employee where she addressed it
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on this past Monday about her attendance if her six months.
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And the lady said I'll, I won't make any big problems, no
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excuses for the next six months. Thursday my wife let her go
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because at 10:30 in the morning she's calling up with excuses.
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Now does that help my wife out? No.
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She's already 3 employees short. This lady was a good worker when
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she attended, but the problem of it is that if you let her stay,
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everybody else sees what she can get away with.
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Just like in the post office. If you let these carriers get
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away with it, OK, they're going to try it.
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That's why this guy calls out Saturdays because he knows he
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won't be called up on it because of his race.
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Same way the woman who hasn't filed for the FMLA as
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recommended by the steward, me and by the supervisor has not
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been disciplined because of race.
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There is no race in the post office.
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You're blue or you're not. I'm such a, I'm such an ass all.
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Right. See your wheels running in your
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head, Kristen? Well, we don't have the racism
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issue in my office per SE, but we have a a sexism issue, gender
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issue. It's same thing though, it's
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just a different category, yeah. Yeah, it, it is.
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I mean, if you have genitalia between your legs that makes you
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male, you get treated completely different than the females in
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the office. And it's been that way since
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we've had our current management regimen.
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And that includes prior to the, that includes the former
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supervisor who's now the postmaster.
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It goes back there that far to when the postmaster was a
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supervisor. But no, no, I, I see it and it
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is the same thing. And you know when you let them
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and that, and that's the other thing too, and I see it quite a
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bit, is when you let them walk all over you and let them
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control you and you don't do anything to stand up for
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yourself. There's nothing, you know that
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things can be done. I mean, if you're not willing to
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stand up for yourself, how can a local steward at that point then
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assist you with remedying the issue if you're not willing to
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step up and say hey? They don't make the paper trail,
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then nothing can get fixed. I know you said BEOS aren't
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worth that, but it puts it on paper.
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You know, and it's one of those things that, like somebody said
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in our chat, it's a cancer. And when you let one person get
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away with this stuff, you eventually spread it to another
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person. It's a plague.
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It's a disease, just like hostile management, just like
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carriers who are scared to file grievances because they see
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somebody get beaten up by management with retaliation over
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grievances. The problem is, is we have a
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system in place that is supposed to protect the carriers, is
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supposed to stand up for the carrier, supposed to protect
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them from management and protect them from disparate treatment,
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which is the case here. We have laws on the books
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against reading people over race, sex, read all that stuff.
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And yet we have management violating that very law.
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And we have management who, if you file for them doing that,
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will retaliate against you or IT.
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And it's one of those things that as a board nationally, we
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should be going after hostile management because everybody
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deserves to be treated exactly the same with dignity, fairness
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and respect. And when you?
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Like them or not, whether you like them or not, James, whether
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you. Like them or not, you have to
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treat them with dignity, fairness, and respect.
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Because I don't care if you like me or hate me or whatever, I'm
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going to treat you with dignity, fairness, and respect.
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May I turn around and call people out for things?
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Yes, just like people call me out for things.
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I have absolutely no problem for it.
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And when they turn around and turn one of my corrections, or
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lack thereof as they call it, it's damned if you do, damned if
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you don't. Because if you do make it, then
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they say, oh, he's making corrections, so he's trying to
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hide it and stuff like that. It's the same with management.
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They're going to try and hide and bury what they're doing in
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some other legal ease, but they can find within the contract and
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confines of all our MO use manuals and especially the
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Arcam. And so we have to protect
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ourselves as carriers. Carriers need to protect
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themselves because the only person you can rely on to
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protect yourself is yourself. And if you can bury management
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and paperwork while doing it, that's the best way to do it.
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Because the only way you're going to get management to
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change their ways is when it starts actually costing them,
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when it starts causing problems, when their management starts
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coming down on them. Why are you having so many
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grievances? Maybe we need to move you.
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You know, that's an expense for some postmasters, especially if
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the office they're in is close to where they live.
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And then they have to move them to an office that is not close
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to where they live. That's a punishment for
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management, but getting the James that punishment is the
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hardest part. James, I mean your Westchester
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settled $400,000 grievances for the city carriers.
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Chicago settled over $1,000,000 of grievances for city carriers.
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It's almost like they don't give a shit so why should I?
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And that is, that is something that definitely our national
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boards for the city carriers and the rural carriers and the mail
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handlers and the APWU all need to sit down with national
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management and say, hey, look, you want to get rid of your
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negatives, especially on your budget.
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Here's your first clue to fixing that problem.
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Now, I do recall the joy saying that he wants to get respect for
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the carriers in the Postal Service again.
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It was a way back in one of his interviews.
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But he said he wants to get the respect back to the kid letter
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carriers. And we need to hold him to that.
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And we need to get him and everybody below him, especially
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Doug Tulino, the deputy postmaster general, and
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everybody else, finally realized that the only people that
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actually make this industry money are the clerks, the city
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carriers and the rural carriers and your your contractors, the
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people who actually pick up and deliver the products that we
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sell and transport. The mail handlers help us move
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the product without those crafts and janitors cleaning the office
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is keeping them from being OSHA hazards.
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The people at the bottom are the only reason the Postal Service
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exists. But treating them with dignity,
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fairness and respect is the first step.
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Just a step. And and then I I'd like to
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respond to that follow up in, in regards to people responsible
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for profits, OK, we are the bottom of the ladder.
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We are the ones who deliver the product.
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We are the ones who have the interaction with the customers
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and everything. The people who are on social
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media sitting there saying that we had $107 billion bailout
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because they rescinded pre funding of carriers, healthcare
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and retirement benefits at 75 years into the future.
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That is not a bailout you dumbass.
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It was a writing of a wrong where Congress was trying to
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steal from the post office. But the fact of the matter is
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we're still losing money. Let me tell you something,
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folks, we could make money in 30 days with little effort.
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OK, first of all, let's get rid of the SD and CS that aren't
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working. Personal experience from
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Westchester, SD and C and the fact that you're trying to turn
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around and take three other offices to put it in our former
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location. Guys are idiots.
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If you're on a permanent forward, it's $20.
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If you're on a temporary forward, it's $10.
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If you're on a hold, it's dollars.
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If you're getting 20 boxes for free, it's no longer free.
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It's $2.00 a box. You can go to the post office by
32:19
the same damn box, a single box for $6, but yet I'll send you 25
32:25
for free. House Stupid.
32:28
Can you be? You could turn this entire
32:33
organization around in 30 days, and one of the first things I
32:39
would do was turn around and fire Ron Harrison as the
32:44
district manager in our STC because nobody likes going to
32:49
force labor work camps that he has turned that SD and C into.
32:55
Yeah, 75% of management. You probably could cut 75% out
33:00
and not miss a blink. You can't process the mail quick
33:07
enough. I can get you more clerks.
33:10
I can get you more mail handlers.
33:12
We can get the parcels up. My current office cannot get
33:15
their parcels before 10:00 AM because they're busy running
33:21
everybody else's. Yet my office, Westchester
33:27
AKADSDNC, has the furthest to go to deliver your mail.
33:34
How the hell does that make sense?
33:38
Abacus. You know, trigonometry,
33:41
calculator. I don't care what you use.
33:43
How the fuck does that make sense?
33:48
I don't know. Yeah.
33:49
Yeah. There's simple questions.
33:50
They they require simple answers, but nobody has them.
33:56
I tried to get an answer in Grand Rapids on on the SND CS
33:59
and why they're paying more money to do to run all these
34:02
postal vehicles out to these offices and delivery routes.
34:06
Then it would have cost to send a single truck to several
34:09
offices every day. But he wouldn't answer it.
34:13
So anyway, moving to our actual topic of the week, the mini mail
34:21
survey actually starts today, the day we're recording this,
34:25
which is the 8th of February 2025.
34:29
And it starts with the measuring of your route, the distances in
34:33
your office, right, Kristen? All right, so not as to confuse
34:38
people by saying it starts today, the actual mini mail
34:43
survey, I am going to go over the important dates first.
34:48
Yes, please. The important date, so between
34:52
28 and 314, is where the delivery units enter office walk
34:59
route settings and daily volume data into the RMSS system web
35:06
application. On February 22nd the 12 day mini
35:12
mail survey of stated items begins on all roll routes.
35:20
The 22nd through March 7th is the data entry must be made
35:24
daily by close of business day for all routes on March 7th DPM
35:32
and LTM mapping deadline date. No mapping changes will be
35:35
reflected past this date in evaluation 5 S all your mapping
35:42
your February mapping. I just put it that way with all
35:45
your edits, your edit book, your February mapping needs to be
35:49
completed no later than 37 for it to count towards the
35:54
evaluation that comes out of this mini mail survey. 314.
35:59
All mini mail survey entries to be include to include walk,
36:03
office, walk distance, route settings.
36:05
Daily volume must be finalized by 1700 Central time.
36:10
No additional changes will be accepted past that date. 329 is
36:17
when the 4241 A's and M's will be available, and the new
36:22
evaluations will be effective as a 4-5.
36:30
So those are the dates. I just wanted to add with three,
36:38
the actual main mail survey as Kristen stated, they're supposed
36:44
to enter your entries every day. They're supposed to give you
36:48
your slip back by end of day or first thing the next morning
36:54
with that phase numbers so you can verify and try and you can
37:00
get it corrected. So yes, then the mini mail
37:06
survey will be conducted for 12 working days beginning Saturday,
37:11
February 22nd and ending on Friday, March 7th.
37:17
You're supposed to get a stand up talk prior given prior to the
37:20
mail survey. All routes are included in the
37:24
mini mail survey. Even those routes that have been
37:26
cut and are affected to be on that one year stay, you're still
37:31
going to participate in the mini mail survey.
37:35
There's a reason why, and the reason why is so That way it
37:40
never gets forgotten once the 52 weeks are up.
37:45
EAS employees will conduct the mini mail survey.
37:48
So that is management, they are the ones conducting the mini
37:52
mail survey. There is 12 Rex office walk
37:57
distances that will be measured a round trip jointly by manager
38:00
and the assigned carrier. Data will be entered daily and
38:06
in a timely manner no no later than close of business day of
38:10
the current business day. The only the following items
38:16
will be measured and or counted and entered into RMSS, random
38:22
letters, random flats, office walk distances and any
38:27
miscellaneous office activity. PARS labels are no longer
38:34
included in the mini mail survey.
38:36
Those under that MOU that came out at the end of January are
38:41
now going to be on the 52 week, which is what it was actually
38:46
intended to be to begin with. And then the technology wasn't
38:50
supposedly there and so then it was counted during mini mail
38:53
survey and now supposedly the technology is there.
38:58
So now it's going to be auto counted over the 52 weeks, which
39:03
for some of you that have routes like mine is a good thing
39:07
because during the mini mail surveys I don't get hardly any
39:11
cars labels at all because that's in between my people
39:15
coming and going. Yeah, it's it's it's amazing
39:20
that our mini mail surveys always seem to end up in between
39:23
the snowbirds. So did mail counts?
39:28
Yeah. So hopefully, hopefully the
39:34
system works right in counting these pars labels for us because
39:37
I did, like I said in a previous episode, I did ask the question
39:41
on what pars labels were accepted and they said all of
39:44
them. So that would include the ad
39:46
Modifies and deletes are supposedly counted by this, but
39:50
keep track of them yourself. I know we're behind the 8 ball
39:53
because they didn't tell us this 52 weeks back.
39:55
So we could keep track for 52 weeks, but we start now.
40:00
All right, I'm going to. I did have a special request
40:02
just for about miscellaneous activity, so I'm going to go
40:06
over the miscellaneous activity real quick.
40:09
This is off of the worksheet that you can get on the website.
40:15
Required Activity Required customer communications time if
40:20
required by management to answer customer questions across the
40:24
counter or over the phone. If such duties occur daily or
40:28
weekly, that is what would be be counted for miscellaneous as
40:33
well as electronic parcel lockers.
40:37
So those that have Amazon lockers on your route and
40:41
anything that's electronic locker wise record actual time
40:46
Use daily to service the electronic parcel lockers.
40:51
Actual time begins once all parcels are located at the EPL
40:56
and carrier signs in on the keypad and continues until the
41:01
carrier signs out on the keypad. If the carrier is required to
41:06
wait to gain access to the keypad, that time is also
41:10
recorded as actual time. Reloading satchel.
41:15
Actual time to reload a satchel if required for multiple
41:18
dismount deliveries. Non Personnel Unit time Non
41:25
Personal Non personnel units are small non staff stations or
41:30
branches that are serviced by a rural carrier in a location
41:35
typically provided by a contractor.
41:37
A non personnel unit provides essential mail services on a
41:41
self-service basis, such as the collection and delivery of mail
41:46
and the sale of stamps. Rural carriers are required to
41:51
remain at MPU for a minimum of 15 minutes each day.
41:58
Extra time dismount. Additional time associated with
42:02
accessing delivery point at an authorized dismount such as a
42:06
key keeper, security guard, gate check in, or access code entry.
42:12
So this would be and that would include this one was
42:15
specifically mentioned was the hockey puck locks which I have.
42:20
I personally have never seen but some offices have them that you
42:25
have to unlock those first and then use your arrow key.
42:29
I know I have ran a route in the past where I had unlock a little
42:33
key keeper with the arrow key to then unlock the door to give me
42:37
access to the units inside. So that additional thing that
42:42
you would be doing that you have to unlock prior to getting entry
42:46
would be included under miscellaneous time.
42:51
And then anything that is approved by district outside of
42:55
that or an explanation must be entered that you would keep
42:59
track of time on. I know we had one, We had a
43:02
hardship at the time that had they kept the gate at the end of
43:07
their driveway closed to keep the bears out.
43:11
District did approve that to to have that time counted that
43:16
you'd have to go to open the gate and close the gate to gain
43:19
entry. I I had a carrier.
43:22
Cost service, I say. Other things would be if you go
43:27
to a business and have to bring a doorbell and wait for them to
43:30
answer. That's like a school.
43:36
Yes, schools too. You know you have to budget
43:39
gift. Yeah, that falls in under the
43:41
extra time under dismount. Yeah, and I do want to bring.
43:48
Up. Yeah, that would also be under
43:51
the additional, the extra time under dismount.
43:55
Under dismount, yes, it's good, I do.
43:59
If you deliver to apartments 30 stories up, you don't get that
44:03
time except for the linear travel on the stairwell.
44:11
How to fuck do you actually justify that?
44:17
I know. I mean, it's like you.
44:22
Having carried a route for 20 years, Kristen.
44:26
I. Don't know that's why they
44:28
haven't. I'm sorry.
44:30
I I. Have, I have a few condo and
44:35
apartment complexes that like to order their packages and they
44:38
all happen to live on the 2nd floor or so.
44:42
And yeah, so I just look at those days of, well, I'm getting
44:45
my stair steps in. Yep.
44:50
And I did want to bring up a couple of things.
44:53
First one is I have a carrier I talked to who got credit for a
44:58
train and the reason why they got the credit is because
45:03
they're right next to a rail yard and they would get stuck
45:07
with a switching train almost every single day on that route.
45:12
Oh my God. That would be something that
45:14
would be. 20 minutes. Yep, that would be a
45:18
miscellaneous that district should approve because you're
45:21
constantly waiting there and they should see your stationary
45:24
event. But the other thing I wanted to
45:28
bring up about satchels, part of your time on the satchels.
45:34
We have two step fours listed in the Steward reference guide on
45:37
the web on the union website that specifically state that
45:41
carriers who are instructed to carry a satchel, whether it is
45:46
just for dog protections or if you are carrying a satchel for
45:50
CBU delivery will be given credit in column R, which is
45:55
miscellaneous time under the mail count, which would
45:58
translate over to miscellaneous time in the mini mail survey.
46:02
For the time required to pick up the satchel in the vehicle,
46:07
place it on your shoulder, remove it from your shoulder and
46:11
return it to its place in the vehicle.
46:14
If these activities occur on a daily or weekly basis.
46:19
So that is an unless an unusual existing exist for a special
46:24
trip must be made in the office to obtain and return the
46:27
satchel, no additional credit would be warranted.
46:31
So in that instance, getting your satchel could be on load
46:35
time under my opinion only and you get credit in your end of
46:40
shift duties automatically with return to DU time to put that
46:45
satchel where it belongs before you go home.
46:48
You guys agree with that? If you don't agree with.
46:51
This, yeah. I mean, you know, you do.
46:57
You leave a satchel with the vehicle, turn it to the original
47:02
equipment area, I mean. It's supposed to keep the
47:05
vehicle empty at the end of the day.
47:08
Yeah, yeah, exactly. And how many carriers do that,
47:12
James? Including City side.
47:16
How many carriers do this? And I'm just saying that's what
47:21
what the black and white says. That's what the black and white
47:24
says you correct, but black and white versus actuality.
47:32
My girl got a her her mattress was pull up for service today.
47:38
The parcels were run late. They didn't get them till 10:00
47:41
AM and she had two box holders and had already volunteered to
47:46
help on a vacant one of the vacant routes.
47:49
So her vehicle wasn't ready. The equipment in her vehicle
47:53
like you know, her, the scanner holders and everything that she
47:59
has set up in her vehicle weren't available to her and the
48:03
and the supervisor said, well, you need to take these two box
48:07
holders out. Do you do you want me to take
48:10
the box holders out? Do you want me to help on our
48:11
D12 turn into easy answer up on our D12 leave the box holders
48:22
and I you know, I and I said to her, you know, on the down low,
48:27
do the budget box holder in for today.
48:29
Put a box holder in for Monday. Carry your discretion, but the
48:37
fact of the matter is that you need the credit.
48:39
This is the same carrier who got her DPS numbers back on the
48:44
radar report reporting zero and only 6% coverage factor or 8%
48:49
coverage factor which we all know will affect your paycheck.
48:56
Oh, I mean, you have to play the game, but we're held to a more
49:03
rigid standard in management is. I say keep in mind if they are
49:09
doing what they're supposed to with the vehicle and empty it
49:13
with the satchel, they're going to get credit during load time
49:18
and end of ship duties to take it out and put it back in the
49:21
next day. In your court, Kristen.
49:28
We're going to move on to the walk office, walking distance.
49:34
I know we briefly went over this a couple episodes ago, but we're
49:37
going to go over it again according to what the data
49:42
collection form says. Yes, not what management told
49:48
me. Walking distance segments
49:56
measure the round trip distance footage required for the carrier
50:01
to complete the segment where applicable.
50:05
Office walking distances only applies to activities performed
50:09
in the AM while the carrier is in the office prior to departing
50:15
to the street for delivery. Activities performed in the PM
50:20
after carrier returns to office from delivery are included in
50:26
the End of Shift duties #1 Scanner Storage Area.
50:33
This is where you're measuring from to the carrier's case, from
50:39
the point where the carrier stands when retrieving the
50:42
scanner to the point where the carrier stands when casing mail.
50:49
I'll explain that you literally are.
50:52
You're getting your scanner to clock in and then go to your
50:57
case to start working. That is why you measure it that
51:00
way. #2 carrier's case is where we're starting from and we're
51:08
going to the raw letter or raw flats distribution case from the
51:14
point where the carrier stands when casing mail to the point
51:18
where the carrier stands when retrieving raw letters or raw
51:22
flats, whichever is further. Include walking distance to
51:27
obtain a convenience if typically required.
51:31
And this is for withdrawal routes only.
51:34
So if you do not have a withdrawal office and clerks
51:38
bring everything to you mail wise, you do not have to do that
51:42
one. The third one is DPS letters
51:46
distribution rack from the point where the carrier stands when
51:50
casing mail to the point where the carrier normally stands when
51:54
retrieving the first tray from the DPS letter rack.
51:58
Include walking distance to obtain a conveyance if typically
52:02
required. Withdrawal routes only.
52:07
Again, if the clerks bring you everything and you are not a
52:10
withdrawal office, you do not have to do those two walking
52:13
distances. All right #4 is not applicable
52:20
now #5 We're going to start the carrier's case and go to the
52:25
parcel ample retrieval from the point where the carrier stands
52:29
when casing mail to the location where the carrier normally
52:33
stands when grasping the handle of the parcel ample for
52:36
transport to their case assigned.
52:42
And then the next one assigned location or typical location for
52:45
inspection of government vehicle from the point where the carrier
52:51
stands when casing mail to the point where the carrier stands
52:54
when opening the driver's door of the parked vehicle.
52:59
Use the assigned parking if there is is one or the typical
53:05
location if there is none. So you're going to, if you have
53:10
an assigned spot, that's where you're going to go.
53:12
If you don't, then it's the typical location of where your
53:15
government vehicle is. If you're APOV, you don't
53:18
measure this. All right.
53:22
The next one is your CFS markup 3 M centralized hold mail to the
53:28
carrier's case from the point where the carrier stands when
53:32
casing mail and follows their normal path to the CFS, the
53:36
markup case and the three M location centralized hold and
53:41
back to carrier's case. Note the order of locations may
53:45
vary according to local practices.
53:48
We don't have a centralized hold location.
53:50
So that's something that we wouldn't have that additional
53:54
footage for the centralized hold location, but for your CFS
53:58
markup case, 3M location accountables, distribution
54:03
points from the point where the carrier stands when casing mail
54:07
to the point where the carrier receives accountable mail from
54:10
the clerk in the morning. Pretty self-explanatory.
54:14
If you have a cart that comes around with the count on the
54:17
accountable cart, then you would go to where that cart stops for
54:21
you. If you have to go to a cage,
54:23
then you would measure the distance from your case to the
54:26
cage and back. Pretty self-explanatory for your
54:30
accountable distribution. Point.
54:32
Hot case from the point where the carrier stands when casing
54:36
mail to the point where the carrier stands when retrieving
54:39
hot case mail? No, not applicable if performed
54:43
in conjunction with load time. So if your office is one of
54:48
those that goes to the hot case while you're under load time,
54:52
then you don't get The Walking distance.
54:58
Location to obtain additional pieces of empty equipment
55:02
rolling stock prior to loading vehicle from the point where the
55:07
carrier stands when casing mail to the average point.
55:10
Location to obtain an additional piece of empty equipment rolling
55:14
stock prior to loading vehicle. Note this only applies if the
55:19
additional piece of equipment is required for loading and #11
55:27
storage location for excess trays and tubs from the point
55:31
where the carrier stands when casing mail to the location
55:34
where excess trays tubs are stored after mail has been
55:38
loaded for conveyance to the vehicle.
55:43
And the last one, location of where the safety service talk is
55:47
given from the point where the carrier stands when casing mail
55:51
to the designated safety service talk area and back.
55:55
Of course those are your in office walk distances.
56:01
And I will issue the correction here.
56:06
When I talked about walking around the truck to go to the
56:09
front door, tell you the door you, you unlock, that is because
56:17
all the managers that I have had in my office that that is what
56:22
we do to get the best credit for that distance.
56:26
And they actually walked with us all the way around the vehicle
56:30
and said, that's right. So that is why I made that
56:33
statement. It was a.
56:34
It was an error in my part from training from management.
56:41
Bad boy. I know, I know, the manager was
56:45
supposed to train us on this and who was supposed to train us on
56:49
this stuff? And credits are supposed to be
56:52
in the favor of the carrier. James Snowmaker, come out there.
56:55
Smack the stupid shit out of you for management training you.
57:00
They are idiots. OK?
57:03
Yeah, fuck they know about training.
57:04
Come on now. Would would you wait?
57:07
Let me ask you this, would you rather management give you extra
57:09
credit or would you rather than fight you over every credit?
57:14
Oh, I fight them on everything. I love fighting.
57:17
Yes, but if they're, if they're giving, if they're giving you
57:21
extra credit, if they're giving you extra credit with no
57:24
argument, would you argue with extra credit?
57:29
If it was unjustified, yes, yes, I I don't want anything that I'm
57:34
not entitled to per the contract.
57:38
OK, because they can't. When my route got adjusted 8
57:44
years ago and RCA turned around and gave them the line of travel
57:52
which had me backtracking 5 miles, I turned around and
57:57
corrected it and they said well why do you want to do it this
57:59
way? I said, well, hey, it's more
58:01
efficient, OK, I'm not backtracking.
58:03
All second of all, I said it saves the post office money.
58:07
I said, third of all, you can't come back to me and say I'm not
58:10
delivering it in this fashion because I know it's inefficient.
58:14
4th of all, you can't come back and ask me for money back.
58:19
I'm not doing anything I can't justify as being efficient,
58:24
legal within the terms of the agreement that we have in doing
58:28
our route professionally, efficiently, competently, just
58:34
because you were stupid enough to listen to an RCA who knows my
58:40
route better, James. Oh, Bill, on that you're saying
58:46
that if you were overpaid you would you didn't, you didn't
58:50
want to get a letter of demand, but even if management errors
58:55
and carriers favor, you'd agree to them giving a letter of
59:00
demand? No, I I would agree that I'm not
59:04
going to be subject to a letter to the man because of your
59:08
incompetence, OK. And if you are going to be
59:14
unethical, it's on you. This thing, you know, just
59:22
because they feel that they have the ability, the right, the
59:28
justification, the fuck you over doesn't give you the same
59:34
reciprocal rights. Screw them over.
59:38
No argument we. Have to be.
59:40
We have to be better than them, right?
59:43
Because in the long run, when it comes back down to it, OK,
59:47
you're the ones going to pay for it, not them.
59:51
Exactly, exactly. And our carriers are paying for
59:55
it. Our carriers are paying with
59:57
that MOU. And it was just management's
1:00:02
error. I go to bed every night, the
1:00:10
clear conscience of the things I've done in the past.
1:00:13
And ladies and gentlemen, you don't want to know what I've
1:00:17
done in my past, but I've done it for God, for country, for
1:00:21
family, whatever. But the fact of the matter is
1:00:24
that as long as I was employed by the post office, I did what I
1:00:30
was paid to do. I didn't shortcut anything.
1:00:33
I didn't skimp on service. I actually gave extra service to
1:00:38
some customers, even though I didn't get compensated for it
1:00:44
because of the situations of those specific customers.
1:00:49
I performed the best service that I could possibly afford
1:00:53
with a without affecting my standards, time standards,
1:00:58
service standards, my moral standards.
1:01:01
I don't compromise my standards anybody or anything, period.
1:01:08
That's the way I was raised. I'm going to get a little bit
1:01:11
better explanation of what is random letters in random flats.
1:01:18
What they include. Random letters include a letters
1:01:23
that have not been run on any type of automation, letters from
1:01:29
manual distribution cases and DPS mail errors. 3 M mail.
1:01:39
I'm trying to read this. Sorry guys I am blind.
1:01:44
High rise without three M mail High rise without secondary
1:01:51
addresses. CFSRTSUBBM Hold mail and closed
1:01:57
business. Your DPS letter mail errors.
1:02:04
No do not include walk sequence saturation mailings or box
1:02:08
holders. Random flats include flats that
1:02:13
have not been run on automation, flats from manual distribution
1:02:18
cases, and flat size mailings not received in white tubs or
1:02:24
from local distribution cases. Do not include walk sequence,
1:02:30
saturation, mailings or box holders.
1:02:34
Now in light of that, Kristen, somebody please expand on me the
1:02:44
bundle flats that you receive that are in Polly's that are
1:02:49
supposed to be included in your flat count.
1:02:54
God forbid if that's actually true, but tell me how you can
1:03:01
prove that you're actually receiving credit for those flats
1:03:06
in a timely fashion. You can't.
1:03:11
Supposedly they're on the radar report and you have to keep
1:03:15
track of every single one that you get, average it out for the
1:03:19
52 weeks, and make sure that you're actually getting credit
1:03:22
for every single flat that you get as long as it is less than
1:03:26
19%, I believe was the #19% credit.
1:03:32
Yeah, but your guess is as good as the next person.
1:03:39
Because I, I've seen where, especially in your area, OK, not
1:03:44
specifically Michigan, but in the Midwest area, they get a lot
1:03:48
of these things that are dropped off at the dock.
1:03:53
So how, how do you prove you're getting, you know, actual credit
1:03:56
for those? When, when our when our
1:04:01
newspapers, when our local newspapers were getting dropped
1:04:04
off at the dock. We counted ours for the mini
1:04:09
mail survey. Now that our local newspapers
1:04:13
are coming from the plant, which is interesting.
1:04:19
Yeah, they're not counted. I I, yeah, I'm I'm still
1:04:26
perplexed by the fact that Ronnie Stutz.
1:04:29
OK. And, and prior to Ronnie Stutz
1:04:32
that the, the engineers, the arbitrators, everybody else
1:04:36
agreed there would be transparency.
1:04:38
Ronnie Stutz delayed the first mini male survey because of the
1:04:43
lack of transparency from the numbers that the post office
1:04:46
was, you know, providing right through Don Madison's, you know,
1:04:53
terms. And we're not getting the
1:04:57
transparency that was dictated by the engineers.
1:05:03
Why aren't carriers up in arms over this, James?
1:05:11
Because they probably aren't even aware of it.
1:05:14
But you better make sure they are aware of it, yeah?
1:05:17
You better. You know what?
1:05:19
That's what we're trying to do here.
1:05:20
We're trying to get the information out to the carrier,
1:05:23
trying to get them educated and trying to get people to realize
1:05:28
that there is a lot more to this craft and this union than just
1:05:35
delivering the mail. It's a lot deeper than that's, a
1:05:38
lot stronger than that. And carriers on the ground,
1:05:42
boots on the ground, are the union.
1:05:45
They are the reason this union exists and the reason this union
1:05:50
needs to step up. If carriers want this union to
1:05:53
make a difference, they need to use their voice.
1:05:56
They need to step up. Look at the city carriers, 70%
1:06:01
to 30% on their contract. That is city carriers stepping
1:06:07
up for their craft. Our union could do the same
1:06:11
thing. All our carriers could step up
1:06:13
for the craft if they get educated.
1:06:17
Well, and this, this is the battle you're fighting all the
1:06:20
time because of the fact that the complacency that the, I'll
1:06:27
say the, the, the lack of, of faith that we have in our union
1:06:33
because of the fact that we see so many people complaining about
1:06:36
their local sewers or Adrs or DRS.
1:06:39
The, the fact of the matter is that the management continually
1:06:42
gets away with this horseshit that, you know, we have to set
1:06:48
the example from the top. I guarantee you like, like I
1:06:53
said years ago, if if I'm elected president of the of the
1:06:58
NRLCA, OK and I go out to Western States Conference, I
1:07:05
take two or three extra days and I go to a local office, see how
1:07:09
things are done. Or you know, I'm in Michigan.
1:07:14
Stop by Kristen's office, see what's going on.
1:07:19
The amount of involvement, the the amount of factual personal
1:07:24
contact in connection with those individuals, it just escalates,
1:07:30
you know, 100% because you actually can put a face with
1:07:35
somebody, you can actually put a concern.
1:07:40
James Brennan as president would sit there and OK, write down
1:07:43
Kristen Wakeman's name. OK, she's pissed off this.
1:07:46
Why investigate it? Let's let let the the, you know,
1:07:51
director of Labor relations look into it.
1:07:52
Let, let's let the director of Stewart Operations look into it.
1:07:57
Yeah. All right, whatever.
1:07:59
But the fact is there is no connection between the national
1:08:03
office and the individual carrier.
1:08:08
And it it, it just makes people say I can't do nothing about it.
1:08:16
There's nothing to be done. This is the way it is.
1:08:18
This is the way it always will be.
1:08:20
That's the attitude that has to change.
1:08:24
That's mentality has to be turned around to say we do care.
1:08:34
Thinking is painful. Oh my God.
1:08:37
Only if you're in management. Nope.
1:08:40
I want to touch on something because that's been my biggest
1:08:42
thing about when, you know, being involved, even the
1:08:44
smallest, most minute thing as simple as voting can make a
1:08:49
difference. And this is for example, with
1:08:53
the city TA that recently got voted down.
1:08:57
They had more people vote no, more members vote no than all
1:09:06
the members combined that voted for the previous TA for just the
1:09:14
no vote. There was more no votes, more
1:09:17
people came out and voted than in a just a single vote than
1:09:23
what you had all together for the previous one.
1:09:27
That's what I mean by saying even that smallest thing as just
1:09:31
voting can make a huge difference.
1:09:37
The idea they have no idea, Kristen, they really don't.
1:09:43
And, and you know, like, like we put up there for the, you know,
1:09:46
2025 candidates, national delegate candidates, if you're
1:09:51
not involved, if you don't pay attention to the people you're
1:09:56
sending to the National Convention, no piss in front of
1:10:01
a hurricane, really. And you know, you hear a lot of
1:10:05
times that people saying, well, I don't know who these people
1:10:08
are. You know, go to your local
1:10:10
meetings, try to go to your state booster.
1:10:12
Those are the, those are the people that are going to be
1:10:14
there that are on there for the most part.
1:10:17
Also, if you you can go on the NRLCA website and you can
1:10:23
download the previous convention's proceedings, go
1:10:29
through that and look for the names to see.
1:10:33
And if it's somebody that's you know on from your state that
1:10:36
spoke up at the microphone, that gives you an idea of where they
1:10:41
stand on certain things. That's another good way to
1:10:44
really look and see who some of these people are that are
1:10:48
running for national delegate. And that's important, Kristen,
1:10:53
because you can see what they're speaking on and how they're
1:10:57
speaking for or against a certain topic.
1:11:02
Yeah, and you can also make it easier on yourself to find the
1:11:06
people in your state. Use the search function and find
1:11:12
your state name. Now, sometimes it'll come up in
1:11:15
convert in the conversations that they're making, but most
1:11:18
often it'll be the person's last name, Delegate 8.
1:11:25
So you can actually find everybody in your state that's
1:11:28
talked at National Convention just by that fact alone.
1:11:32
And you don't forget the X, the last national magazine also has
1:11:39
the delegate nomination ballot in there.
1:11:42
So people can get their name out there and run for delegate to be
1:11:48
at National Convention to be able to use your voice and your
1:11:52
vote, the vote on resolutions, the next national board members,
1:11:57
everything. And you could even speak on the
1:12:01
resolutions on the people, stuff like that.
1:12:05
It's it's important to step up for your union.
1:12:11
Step up for yourself. Yourself.
1:12:14
For your audience. You know, I mean, if, if you
1:12:20
have an office where everybody just goes along to get along,
1:12:28
sorry, I don't want to work there.
1:12:31
I, I want an office where there is mutual respect, knowledge
1:12:35
there. There's, you know, people who
1:12:37
are solely accountable and concerned with the contract as
1:12:43
well as how we are treated. I mean, I, I, I grew up in the
1:12:50
post office, you know, shit, at 40 years old, I grew up in an
1:12:54
office that was basically, you know, towing the line.
1:13:03
And I didn't mind that because of the fact that everybody towed
1:13:06
the line. But as we got into this
1:13:08
micromanaging aspect of, of running the post office, it's
1:13:13
funny how the, the whole atmosphere changed, especially
1:13:17
because of the fact that management was equipped,
1:13:22
actually manages the post office in the fashion that they were
1:13:26
being dictated. The post office was ill equipped
1:13:30
dealing with Amazon and the volume, the COVID and the
1:13:34
volume. And then we went to Dejoy and
1:13:39
now we're with SD and CS. My suburb record is APTF now she
1:13:49
is the highest seniority PTF and she cannot become a a career
1:13:59
carrier in our office because now that we are associated with
1:14:04
the SD and CA, route will come up in Phoenixville rural route
1:14:09
office that she will have to take and the lower PTF will be
1:14:16
able to get route in our office per SE except if right now she's
1:14:26
thinking about quitting. If if the route in Phoenixville
1:14:31
goes up and then a route opens up in your office, guess what?
1:14:35
She can bid on that route before the PTF moves up.
1:14:40
But it won't. Weeks 2 weeks.
1:14:46
Yes. Oh wait, it's going to go up for
1:14:49
a bid. And before the next that one's
1:14:50
awarded, the other one's going to go up for a bid.
1:14:53
Correct. Are they still running them
1:14:57
separately? Well, you know, the the thing of
1:15:01
it is, is that I, I like I explained to her.
1:15:04
Once you accept the one in Phoenixville, then put in for
1:15:08
one in Westchester because of the fact that you are a regular,
1:15:15
technically you'll get the Westchester office 1st.
1:15:21
Yeah. So all right, getting back to
1:15:25
what what's left on the mini male survey there, Kristen?
1:15:29
Kristen. What?
1:15:33
You were saying with a high rise?
1:15:37
Yes. I just wanted to clarify for
1:15:41
people that that's typically apartments.
1:15:44
So they would have 123 Main St. apt 1O2.
1:15:50
That's what they mean is it's missing the apartment number
1:15:53
which makes it in IA. It doesn't make it in IA, but it
1:15:59
does make it a random letter out of your DPS.
1:16:05
It's ADPS error but if you look at the domestic mail manual it
1:16:11
says for insufficient address. If you know where it goes, you
1:16:15
are to attempt delivery. And if you don't know where it
1:16:18
goes, well, then it's an insufficient address.
1:16:22
Exactly. I have a couple of those with
1:16:24
names that pop up and I'm like, well, you don't have a unit
1:16:27
number and I don't know your name, so you're not getting this
1:16:32
exactly. Now that pretty much covered the
1:16:39
mini mail survey. And you do have the right to
1:16:43
count your random letters and random flats.
1:16:48
Management is required to count them, but you can count them
1:16:52
after they do to ensure the accuracy of their count.
1:16:57
Be afraid to do it. Don't be afraid to question
1:16:59
them. It's supposed to be an accurate
1:17:02
count, so make sure you're holding management accountable
1:17:05
to an accurate count. And you do have the right to
1:17:09
turn everything behind the last. Week.
1:17:14
Also, you have to remember when you get the paperwork and
1:17:18
whether or not you're going to take high or low option if it is
1:17:23
applicable. Remember you do have to be 10
1:17:27
years out from computation date to accept the high option if
1:17:35
applicable. As somebody said in here, you do
1:17:40
have the right to observe account the mini mail survey on
1:17:43
your day off in an unpaid status.
1:17:46
Yes, can't touch anything. You can just come in and watch.
1:17:52
Yes, and make sure yes and make sure management toggles the high
1:17:56
option. We've had that issue in my
1:17:57
office where they signed for high option and they didn't get
1:18:01
high option and it took them almost a month to get it fixed.
1:18:05
Yeah. And same with withdrawal office,
1:18:09
you take anything out, make sure it's the buttons checked for you
1:18:13
to be a withdrawal office. Yes, withdrawal offices are all
1:18:17
or nothing for the most part. You either are a withdrawal
1:18:21
office or you are not a withdrawal office.
1:18:25
A withdrawal office is the one where you have to go get your
1:18:30
mail. You were get your, your raw
1:18:35
flats, your raw letters, your hot case, you retrieve your DPS.
1:18:40
A non withdrawal office means it is all of that is brought to you
1:18:46
to your case. So make sure you know which one
1:18:50
of your offices, if your office is one or the other.
1:18:55
The only way that it can be changed is if there is a vote
1:18:59
within the office amongst the carriers.
1:19:03
On a personal note, on a personal note, Fender Bender
1:19:08
said I need some cheese about this for, you know, stressful
1:19:12
conditions. I would like some pursuit or
1:19:15
some nice dry salamis with that. OK?
1:19:19
This might be a personal. Observation.
1:19:23
I'm I'm telling you, there's nothing like cheese pursuit and
1:19:26
salami. Oh my God.
1:19:28
I have to agree. With a Chardonnay too.
1:19:30
A good Chardonnay and. There's there's reasons why I'm
1:19:34
really looking forward to Italy in October.
1:19:37
Oh my God, Kristen, let me tell you, you are going to come back
1:19:42
12 lbs heavier. God, I hope not.
1:19:46
Oh, no, no, no, I'm telling. I'm going to have to lose 20 lbs
1:19:50
just so I can. I went to, I went the last time
1:19:56
I went to Italy, I was 218. I came back 242.
1:20:01
Oh my. Well, as much walking as we're
1:20:04
going to do, I'm think. Pretty sure we can walk it.
1:20:06
Didn't matter. It didn't matter because you
1:20:08
wouldn't walk 100 yards without running into another Bistro
1:20:12
cafe. Oh my God.
1:20:14
Like I said, any pasta is it. To them it's like appetizers.
1:20:21
To us it's a meal and they get insulted if you don't eat.
1:20:26
Yeah, if you don't clean your plate, they are.
1:20:28
Oh my God. I'm cappuccino after 11:00 AM.
1:20:39
You're not ordering cappuccino after 11:00 AM?
1:20:41
OK, I'm that. No, guys, we're going to wind it
1:20:44
down. I will.
1:20:48
Keep it real for. You know that I am making small
1:20:52
little progress into my edit book presentation.
1:20:55
So that is coming. I have started it so we will
1:21:01
hopefully be getting to that here shortly on edit books.
1:21:06
I am in the process of finally getting that presentation done
1:21:08
so. Puzzles off.
1:21:13
All right, that now, James, your final words for this evening.
1:21:20
You know, it's that time of the year again, 2 * a year that we
1:21:25
have to do the mini mail survey and we know everything is up in
1:21:29
the air until the final numbers drop and management does their
1:21:33
adjustments to whatever they want to adjust.
1:21:36
But you have to remember, this is the process that we have
1:21:39
right now. This is what we need to do to
1:21:42
ensure that we get as much credit as possible as accurately
1:21:47
as possible. So keep your eye on management,
1:21:50
keep your eye on everything that's going on.
1:21:53
Make sure they are fair to you. Make sure they treat you with
1:21:59
fairness over it. It is an evolving process and
1:22:05
they are still working out the kinks in it.
1:22:08
I know I still haven't heard any updates on how they're fixing
1:22:11
parent child routes in the rec system, but it's going to get
1:22:17
better. We have to work through this
1:22:21
until it gets better, and doing so means standing up for
1:22:26
ourselves, fighting for what's right, and holding management
1:22:32
accountable. Just remember this is your money
1:22:39
as many mail surveys are your money.
1:22:43
Amen. And together and proud and show
1:22:49
management. We're all in this together,
1:22:52
Malco. I think so.
1:22:57
This is 2 * a year. It's only two weeks.
1:23:03
It's very minimal. It gets counted.
1:23:08
Just keep up on it, hydrate, be safe out there, and don't get
1:23:15
overwhelmed. Bill.
1:23:19
Well, I've gone off on several topics tonight.
1:23:23
I'm very passionate about them. The fact is that I don't have to
1:23:29
care about you. I don't have to care about the
1:23:31
post office. I don't have to care about the
1:23:33
union, but yet I do. I mean, my wife does not
1:23:38
understand the level of commitment, compassion that I
1:23:42
have for this craft and she doesn't understand the fact that
1:23:51
I am the white knight, OK, I am the one that comes in save the
1:23:57
day. I am the one to fight every
1:24:00
battle, whether I win or lose because of the fact that I will
1:24:03
not back down. But the fact of the matter is
1:24:06
that you deserve better. You are entitled to better.
1:24:14
You've earned it. I mean, ever since COVID has
1:24:18
come into play, ever since Amazon has come into play, you
1:24:22
have earned every in nickel and dime that you have laundered to
1:24:30
your paid payroll system and the, and the, and the truth of
1:24:34
it is, folks, you deserve more. I don't feel that you're going
1:24:40
to get it with the current national roll letter carriers
1:24:44
board. I don't even dare say that
1:24:49
you'll get it in the in the next TA tentative agreement for the
1:24:52
for the royal craft. I wish the best for you.
1:24:56
I, I wish for everybody to, to, to be able to have a safe
1:25:03
medical workplace environment so that you don't go in there
1:25:10
dreading going to work, to be able to say that, you know, you
1:25:17
have a, a cell, a safe, healthy environment to work in.
1:25:23
But we know that's not true. All of you go out, do the job to
1:25:28
the best of your ability. Be efficient, be safe.
1:25:35
Do the job as professionally as you can.
1:25:39
Make sure your last delivery is the most important delivery.
1:25:45
It's yourself, home to your loved ones.
1:25:50
I'm an asshole. I'm an asshole that cares.
1:25:55
Home to your loved ones. God bless you all, Kristen.
1:26:01
Thank you guys. I mean, we really we did get the
1:26:04
mini mail survey covered for the most part and the only really
1:26:08
big notable change that's on this next one is the difference
1:26:13
in pars labels. So we can't really complain
1:26:17
about that. And other than that, everybody
1:26:21
stay safe. I know some of us are still
1:26:24
getting this wonderful inclement weather.
1:26:27
How likely I got done today in time before it started.
1:26:32
But you know, be vigilant out there guys.
1:26:34
Be safe, stay hydrated. Even yes, in the winter it's dry
1:26:39
air. You got to stay hydrated.
1:26:42
I know I go through at least 1-2 bottles of water while I'm out
1:26:45
on the route as well. So be vigilant, stay safe, stay
1:26:51
warm in areas that are getting cold.
1:26:54
And everybody enjoyed the Super Bowl.
1:26:59
Yes. Congratulations to the winner
1:27:04
since this is recorded before it happens, so congratulations to
1:27:07
the winning team. You and I do believe we will
1:27:13
return at the normal time next week, which actually is a
1:27:19
holiday for the 17th. So yeah, I don't have to worry
1:27:26
about trying to get to bed super early Sunday night, so.
1:27:31
Yeah, and I'll be down, down South, so.
1:27:33
Oh yeah, yeah, you've got that next one going.
1:27:37
Yeah, yeah. Are you saying James is going
1:27:41
down again? Going down, there's your,
1:27:45
there's your. Cut for the safe and everybody.
1:27:51
Safe travels to James this week heading to SWAT and I'm then no,
1:27:56
we'll be back next week. Good night everybody.
1:28:01
You know, hey, make this shit up.