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Loading Truck, End of shift duties, etc · United We Scan

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  Welcome back, everybody. Episode 140 this evening we're
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  going to be talking about load truck time, return to DU and of
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  shift duties, all that good stuff.
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  How was your weekend, your Thanksgiving, Josh?
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  It was a week. It was pretty good on Monday, I
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  guess I was delivering. I my hardship had her flag up.
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  So I went and hold it out. It was in a small Amazon box
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  with a card taped to it saying happy Thanksgiving mail carrier.
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  OK fine, great, you know. And she usually gives me snacks
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  and stuff. So I just popped the box open
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  and it was this little Angel figurine in it.
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  I'm like, oh that's nice, that's cool and everything.
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  It wasn't until I got home and open cards and realized it was
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  not from her, but from one of the, you know, a friend of hers
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  who used to live in that neighborhood and moved away five
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  years ago. They got there together, which
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  made it even more special. Thanksgiving was good.
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  It was just us, my sister-in-law and her two kids.
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  We went to my father in law's house, so it was small until we
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  were getting ready to sit down at the table and she realized
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  that she forgot to bring the stuffing with her.
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  So it was it was what it was we're getting.
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  You know, we bought a rotisserie chicken and a box of stove top
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  tonight to make up for it. So that was dinner tonight.
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  Things are starting to settle down a little bit at the at
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  work. So that's a plus.
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  Meow, how was your week? My week was mostly good because
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  I didn't work very much this week.
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  You know, I, my kid was off of school so I, I took off Saturday
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  so that I had leave in conjunction with my relief day
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  so I wouldn't be mandated. So I was off Thursday, Friday,
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  Saturday and then today. So not really wanting to go back
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  to work tomorrow, but Monday trying to think of what happened
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  Monday. It was a Monday and then the
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  Tuesday and Wednesday before Thanksgiving weren't too bad.
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  The parcels I think were increased.
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  But then Wednesday morning, this is probably like a, the low of
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  the week, you know, not years past.
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  My office usually would do a like a potluck or we would do
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  like a themed potluck. And a lot of the time I'm
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  usually one of the ones who helps try and organize it too.
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  And with my station manager, you know, just to bring on some
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  camaraderie. And this year they didn't want
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  to do it. So it was like whatever, OK, But
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  like we clocked in and our start time is 8:30 and my morning
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  supervisor calls us all for a stand up and just any including
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  the rule side. Normally like they will only do
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  a stand up on the City side and most like if they think that
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  it's prevalent to rule, they'll call us over.
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  And so this morning she called us all over that we none of us
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  had grabbed any of our mail yet. So we all run over there and
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  she, I know that she's talking a loud voice so that everybody can
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  hear her, but the way that she speaks, it's like berating.
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  So she gives us this giant stand up about how we're not doing our
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  SPM scans correctly and we're missing partial scans.
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  And just like just kind of it was kind of berating and it
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  wasn't even like a, you know, I understand like management has
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  to do that, but they're to, they have to address the issue.
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  But there's still like a way to do it and not and be respect,
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  I'm sorry and be respectful about how they're presenting
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  that information to us. So all of us are just glazed
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  over that they want us to scan the scans and not hit already
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  passed and hit. What was it?
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  They want us to hit no more to scan instead of already passed.
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  It's their flavor of the of the last few months.
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  But there was no hey, thank, thank you guys and over approach
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  to peak and it's going to get crazy and I'm thankful for all
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  of you. It was nothing like that.
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  So like at the end of it, I, I being, I try and be a little
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  jokey sometimes. And so I told, I went to tell
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  like the Subs especially like, hey, I, I'm thankful for you
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  guys, 'cause I 'cause I am, I'm thankful for my coworkers.
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  And even though management may not tell us that and they just
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  want to berate us for missing SPM scans, sorry, we didn't scan
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  flats and letters, you know, you know, we us carriers look out
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  for each other, You know, same on the City side, even this.
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  And then the City side, they were splitting all these routes.
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  So it was like, you're going to waste time telling us all this.
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  And then it's just, it's just ridiculous.
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  Yeah. So, but after that, I mean,
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  Thanksgiving was really good. We had, I had, I was the host,
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  so I had to hurry and kind of clean my house.
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  And so my whole family was over here and it was kind of
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  overwhelming inside my house, but I purposely took off the
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  time because my, my kid was off school.
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  And most of the time that I take off is usually for, for union
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  events. So I, I took this time to right
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  before I know it's getting into the crazy time and I won't be
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  home as much. So I took off time with my kid.
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  So to be with my family and my kid, you know.
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  So how was your week, Kristen? Oh, it was a week.
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  Oh, Monday was a 12 hour day. That that sucked really bad.
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  Well, I clocked out five minutes shy of a 12 hour day, but still
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  close enough. Tuesday was a 10 hour day.
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  That's the heaviest Tuesday I've had in a while.
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  Mail, mail, mail. But it took Wednesday off so I
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  could get ready for dinner, make my pies, and prep all my food.
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  And Thursday morning, my son calls to say, hey, because of
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  the weather, we're not coming up.
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  So it was my parents and my son did not make it.
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  So it was just, you know, Ruby Kingston, Eric and I.
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  And then Eric's son Logan popped in just for dinner.
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  Was it wasn't too bad. It was just us.
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  And then Friday actually wasn't bad.
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  I, I was expecting worse. I was one of the lucky ones in
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  the office. I didn't have a second trip.
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  I was done under evaluation. To me it looked like like normal
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  average Monday is what Friday felt like to me.
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  I was kind of like going around going.
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  Are you sure there's not a hamper or hamper of partials
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  hiding from me somewhere? Because everybody else has
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  hampers stacked of second trips and well, I still have room in
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  my truck. Not complaining though.
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  And then I worked my K day yesterday and it was a light
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  day. I had one tray of DPS 1/2, a
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  tray of pull down and 175 parcels, but which was actually
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  less than I had. No, it was more than I had on
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  Friday parcel wise at 230 Monday.
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  So scans it was, it was a week I Ruby took my car in on Monday to
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  had to get a new auxiliary and regular battery and oil change.
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  And next thing I know I'm getting a phone call saying
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  something's wrong with my car. She had to take it back.
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  And I'm like, well, place that she goes is on my mail route.
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  So they know me and that's where I normally take my car anyways.
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  So when you have a 19 year old telling you stuff, you don't
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  know what the Hell's going on. So I, I ended up missing a
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  package on that part of the route anyway.
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  So that just gave me an excuse to drive back up there and go
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  see what was going on with my car.
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  And it turned out my oil filter housing slash oil cooler is what
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  it's called on my Jeep Compass was dented in a weird spot.
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  So, but we're thinking, because I was talking to the kid
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  Wednesday after it was fixed, when I went to go pick it up and
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  I was talking to the one guy because when I went up there, I
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  was hot. I mean, I was like, what the
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  hell did they do to my car? You know, And then when I was
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  talking to the guy that manages that location and it was found
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  like it was pretty much I just wanted to confirm that it was
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  something that was there prior to taking my car in.
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  And, and so when I went pick the car up Wednesday after it was
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  fixed and I was talking to the other guy because there's two
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  guys in there. I trust the one I talked to
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  Monday and the one I was talking to Wednesday and they and I were
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  talking, I said, well, do you remember when we had that issue
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  a while ago, you know, first year or so I had the car,
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  whatever I said, and I left and you called me back right away to
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  come back because the car, because the oil was leaking.
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  He's like, yeah, I said, and the owner of the shop at the time
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  was there and he was down in the pit and he didn't understand it
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  either because the oil filter looked fine and whatnot.
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  And he kind of he looked at me and he's like, I wonder, I said,
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  I wonder if that was a manufacturer defect.
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  And it finally, just because I wonder if this was a blessing in
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  disguise. I said exactly.
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  And he's like, you know, because that was pretty much doing the
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  exact same thing. I'm not going to tell these guys
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  about the previous time. I said no, no, don't do that.
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  So that was an extra 200 bucks out of my pocket.
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  But cars fixed cars running 2 new batteries could.
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  Have been a lot. Worse, Yeah, I mean, because I
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  they were changing filters and it was spraying and they
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  couldn't figure out and they, it was something on the inside that
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  housing that was dented or whatever.
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  Because I even asked him, I said where is that actually located?
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  Is it something that, you know, something could have hit it, you
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  know, up off the road or run over something or whatever.
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  And he's like, not really. I mean, he was worried about it
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  when they were telling him because he wasn't there Monday.
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  He was worried about which engine is that because some of
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  them they screw, right, the oil filter screws right into the
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  engine block. He's like, guys engine block,
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  you know, And then when they told me he's like, oh, good,
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  that's just the cooler. That's 2 bolts, not a big deal.
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  And so that, you know, we got lucky on that.
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  But yeah, so even the he, he and I agreed that was more like a
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  blessing in disguise because they even put the premium filter
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  on and it sprayed worse than the cheaper ones.
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  And then they went back and they felt and they went back and
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  looked at the original filter that they took off to the car
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  and they could see where the sleek seal was about ready to
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  slip. So I said sound like most likely
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  a manager defect that just overtime got worse.
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  He's like that's I wouldn't doubt it.
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  So thankfully we got that taken care of because they all know
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  how much I drive my car so. Yeah, Oh my gosh.
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  Yep. I said yeah, because the last
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  time I got the oil changes wouldn't like the day before I
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  left for Florida, they're like, Oh yeah, remember you were
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  talking about you're going to Orlando the next morning.
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  I said yeah. And last year I went to Reno and
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  back, so we got that. I need.
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  It and then Tuesday when I got. It I said 200, better than two
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  grand if it yeah, down the road. Exactly.
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  So thankfully, because you know, I've only had this car for 2 1/2
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  years now, so thankfully it wasn't major.
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  It was 600 bucks we dumped into it between Monday and Wednesday
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  but Oh well. And then Tuesday when I got off
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  the route, my supervisor was so happy.
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  I mean she was holding herself back from texting me or calling
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  me on the route to let me know that district finally approved
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  for the use of the LLV in the Christmas parade on Saturday the
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  6th. So we've already decided we're
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  going to do all hands on deck and since it is the first day of
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  Christmas overtime period, I said if my route gets slammed
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  with packages please call me. I will come in and run packages
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  so we can get everybody back. So as of right now, I have my K
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  day off for Saturday. So but I did offer, I said I'll
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  have no problems coming in and running packages in my car just
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  so we can get people done because parade lineup starts at
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  5:15. So but I did, I got a six foot
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  tall light up Santa hat that says Merry Christmas on it to
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  put on top of the LLV. Postmasters offered to get
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  lights for it, but I've already got all that covered.
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  So yeah, we're gonna, whoever volunteers to come walk
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  alongside with the LLV. I just put a Facebook blast out
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  in our local groups that we're going to be picking up Santa
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  letters along the parade route as well.
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  I know. And even my postmaster said
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  she'd buy pizza for everybody afterwards and we'll just have
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  to go pick it up when we get done so.
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  Help with that? Yeah, so, but yeah, yeah, it'll
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  be fun. I finally it, I've had this idea
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  of wanting to do it for a few years and we finally put it in
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  motion. Kind of cool.
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  And then I got my national conventions proceedings in the
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  mail yesterday too. So I was kind of shocked because
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  I walked in from loading the truck and envelope sitting at my
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  case. I'm like, oh, take care, you
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  dropped it off to my case. I wasn't expecting that, but
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  cool. Thanks.
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  Well, that's even better. Oh, I know.
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  I'm like, what is this? And then I saw and I was like,
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  oh, that's my, oh, I know what this is.
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  Yeah. There's some gems in there.
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  It's a good book. It's a good read.
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  I haven't, I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but I,
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  you know, dealing with the fact that I have, I've been out of my
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  allergy medication since Tuesday.
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  My allergy and sinus stuff that I have to take year round.
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  It's horrible trust me. So I've been out since Tuesday
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  and it is now catching up with me.
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  So today has been completely rough.
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  So I apologize guys. I'm probably going to mute
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  myself quite a bit so y'all don't have to listen to me
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  blowing my nose and sneezing constantly right now as it's
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  been all day fun. Tomorrow's going to stop.
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  Fun times. I guess I'll have to find the
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  one of the empty bottles and give it to Ruby and the
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  boyfriend so they can go get me more tomorrow because
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  unfortunately it's one of those off brands that only Walmart
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  sells. I haven't been able to and it's
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  the only one that works for me. So yeah.
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  Do you guys have any Walmarts in your in your town?
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  No, my closest Walmart is 15 miles away.
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  Oh geez, there's like one on my way home from work.
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  Yeah, no, no, we, no, no Walmart with it.
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  You know, it's a 20 minute drive to Walmart, so anything else is
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  an hour to two hours away for us, unfortunately.
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  And that's the only stuff that works for me.
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  So I am suffering what is? But you know, we push through it
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  all. Yeah, we're rule carriers.
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  We push through it. Yeah.
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  I've worked through pneumonia a couple times.
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  I you know, I'm not going to mention how many times of COVID,
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  Yeah, you know, it happens. So.
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  Yep, we do. We do punch through we do.
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  Male pregnant. I never did.
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  That I. Never did that but I have I I
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  have worked with my knee in an immobilizer when I injured it on
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  my left leg. That was fun.
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  No, that was I left or my right I don't remember.
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  That was fun, trying to drive the POV straddling.
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  But yeah, I mean, we do. We push through it.
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  So I'm going to be pushing through it tomorrow and let's
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  just hope somebody doesn't say something to me in the wrong.
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  Don't. I need my allergy medicine.
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  Leave me alone, the claws will come out since best you just
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  don't talk to me, OK? Got it.
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  When you do like a infomercial, we're rule carriers.
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  We do it, we push through it. Make it a cheer, you know.
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  Yeah, but we enough is enough. We'll carry your splash through
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  it. I.
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  I did get one of my new holiday T-shirts in to where that the
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  one that says I, I. I think I'll just Jingle part or
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  some of the way. I'm tired.
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  It's got Christmas lights. We got our.
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  We got our first big snowfall last night today, and it's the
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  heavy, wet stuff because it's still kind of warm out there and
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  it sucks, so tomorrow's going to suck even more.
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  But yeah. Slushy.
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  Yeah, yeah. So guys, let's.
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  Get this. Rolling What was that, Josh?
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  Supposed to be wet here for most of the week and I don't like it.
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  Yeah, well, I'll, I'll trade you.
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  Eat that ugly white stuff. I don't want the ugly white.
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  Stuff, at least where you're at, people almost know how to drive
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  and they know how to clear the roads well, but people tend to
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  you're they talk about. That and people don't remember
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  how to drive in it and they just.
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  Amnesia. Well, this is true.
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  Yeah. Amnesia.
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  You're driving in the snow. They talk about, they talk about
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  it, and the city shuts down for a week.
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  Right. You see a snowflake in the air
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  and everything shuts down. Yeah, You see, we, we, you know,
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  I, I laugh when you guys say we got snow and it's like this
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  dusting and I'm going. That looks like frost to me.
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  It ain't snow, but yeah. OK, well, let's get this going.
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  I should say what at least what real snow looks like.
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  You're originally from Penn? Yeah, as I said, I'm from
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  Philly. I know what real snow looks
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  like. But you've forgotten over time,
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  Slowly, I. I was just looking at the snow
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  reports from where I used to live, where my original office
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  was when I first started in Gaylord and some of the areas
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  they got anywhere between above to 24 inches over Thanksgiving
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  and I just keep thinking to myself I do not miss the winters
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  there because I learned to deliver mail in Blizzard
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  conditions. Yeah.
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  I learned how to straddle APOV in Blizzard conditions so I'm
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  glad I don't get it. You got like the the parcel in
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  your arms and you're just like, like chucking through the
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  there's no shovel driveway yet. Oh yeah, I I've gone and seen a
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  mailbox get taken out by a plow and mail is strewn across the
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  ditch in waist deep snow. And yes, I have.
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  I was at RCA that got out and picked all that mail up.
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  Oh yeah. You know, got to protect the
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  integrity of. The mail from the snow.
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  Oh. Yeah.
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  So, OK guys, So what are we going to start with first load
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  truck start load in I would do, I thought we would do the.
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  Express deviation first, because yes, it's the easiest of them.
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  Yes, that. Is so just to kind of.
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  Do you want to do that or do you want to just follow the I'm
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  sorry, I said you want to do that or just follow the day as
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  it would go? No, I wanted to do this one
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  first because this one there's not a lot and I, I think that
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  there's a lot of more. There's, there's more confusion
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  with express deviation, I think than the others, maybe because
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  and the other stuff I think is more straightforward than that
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  what this is. But So what we're basically
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  going to be talking about is your actual time events that
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  happen each day on your route and in the office.
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  So when the engineers and even in the old mail count system,
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  there were certain times that it used to be called, was it column
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  seventeen time was what it was called for the load time, right
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  And so like. Load 17 was miscellaneous,
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  forget which, you know what. Was the load.
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  Time I I forget what column number that was, but it was it
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  was the load time. OK.
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  They would say they come out there with you, they would have
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  a counter, come out there with a stopwatch and they would time
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  you and watch you load your vehicle so you put the
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  conveyance back to where it belongs.
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  Yeah. So thankfully with RX we don't
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  have to have that happen because I know the counters would have
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  to sit there with you for the two weeks of the count or
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  however long the count was and follow you, you have to go, I
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  need a counter to go with me to load.
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  But so when the engineers were designing RX and they were doing
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  the the study and seeing the different miscellaneous things
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  that we do as rule carriers, they determined that there is
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  certain activities that it's, it's you can't really put a
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  standard to. And so, and those three things
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  are the end of shift times, the load time and the express
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  deviation. And so all your other things
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  that you do have a set amount that a standard, standard
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  minutes that are you're evaluated for based off of how
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  many times or how many items you have and even even your foot
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  measurements. So what they said in the
• 23:32
  comprehensive guide, and I'm going to this is page 19 of the
• 23:36
  of the NRLCA comprehensive guide to RREX revised to four 2025,
• 23:42
  because that was the last time it was revised, which it wasn't
• 23:45
  revised very much, but that's a whole nother.
• 23:47
  Sorry, sorry, so the end of shift period is also very
• 23:51
  difficult to measure. Many possible activities can
• 23:53
  occur in the office at the end of the day.
• 23:56
  Different activities are performed on different routes,
• 23:58
  and different activities are performed on the same route on
• 24:02
  different days. Once again, the Panel concluded
• 24:04
  that it would be impractical and expensive to develop to develop
• 24:09
  engineered standards and data capture procedures for many of
• 24:12
  the short activities performed during this period.
• 24:15
  Deviation for express mail delivery is a relatively rare
• 24:19
  event. Many express mail deliveries are
• 24:22
  full, are fully integrated with mail delivery, and do not
• 24:25
  require any deviation from the basic route and normal direct
• 24:29
  delivery door deliveries. When deviation is required,
• 24:33
  there is no set procedure governing how it occurs.
• 24:36
  That is, no standardization of where the carrier departs from
• 24:41
  and returns to the basic route, and no uniformity and whether
• 24:45
  the deviation is made on foot or by a combination of driving and
• 24:49
  walking. Capturing and assigning time to
• 24:51
  irregular traffic travel patterns of this sort is
• 24:55
  extremely difficult with GPS technology.
• 24:58
  Given the great difficulty of using the engineered standards
• 25:01
  in this context and the relatively small contribution to
• 25:04
  the activity makes to the overall route evaluation, the
• 25:08
  panel opted to direct opted for direct measurement of actual
• 25:13
  time. So express deviation let me pull
• 25:17
  up. Sorry, I thought I had
• 25:19
  everything up and I do not. I'm pulling up the RX activity
• 25:25
  scan. I'm sorry, I thought I had it
• 25:27
  all the way up and a shift coverage.
• 25:31
  So express deviation on the RX activity scans is activity scan
• 25:39
  F which is start deviation and it states upon leaving the
• 25:43
  official line of travel to deliver priority mail express.
• 25:47
  This is the this is only. This is used only when required
• 25:50
  to deviate to make committed delivery time for priority mail
• 25:54
  express. No other types of deviation are
• 25:57
  covered under this selection. And then end deviation, which is
• 26:01
  G, is upon returning to the official line of travel from
• 26:05
  delivering Priority mail expressed.
• 26:08
  This is used only when required to deviate to make committed
• 26:11
  delivery time for Priority Mail Express.
• 26:14
  No other types of deviation are covered under this section.
• 26:18
  And what's different with this RX scan compared to the other
• 26:21
  ones of your of your, your timed ones that you'll have it'll have
• 26:27
  a start and an end to your RX scan menu will only leave that
• 26:30
  up. This one does not.
• 26:33
  So you'll have to remember to hit the end if you've started
• 26:36
  it. So the most common that I'm
• 26:42
  going to use because this is also express deviation is kind
• 26:46
  of changed since a lot of this information was all written and
• 26:51
  came out. They changed the express time
• 26:54
  from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM. So it's been a lot easier for us
• 26:59
  as rural carriers who get the express to its to its delivery
• 27:04
  point in that time frame. But that is not always the case.
• 27:09
  So like, let's say you know, Friday, Friday was the day after
• 27:12
  Thanksgiving and you knew you weren't going to leave the
• 27:16
  office until like 2:00 and you had an express and you were
• 27:21
  going to come back to the office till probably like 7.
• 27:24
  We'll just say that if you can't make that express by 6:00 PM,
• 27:30
  you're going to get as close as you can to like that point in
• 27:35
  the route before that time. And then you're going to hit
• 27:39
  start deviation on your scan scanner, on the RX scan and then
• 27:44
  you're going to go deliver the express.
• 27:46
  And then you're going to get back to that point in your line
• 27:49
  of travel. And then you'll hit end
• 27:50
  deviation. If another scenario that could
• 27:55
  happen is, and this is also, I'm going to face all of this by
• 28:01
  saying it's, this is management also requiring you to do this.
• 28:05
  So if you know that you haven't expressed that you're not going
• 28:09
  to make it by 6:00 PM, I would communicate that with
• 28:12
  management, be like, hey, like I'm not going to leave till
• 28:15
  2:00. I'm going to have to use my
• 28:16
  express deviation just so that you have it up front with them
• 28:20
  if you are on your route. And I going to preface this by
• 28:25
  also saying management shouldn't be texting you on the scanners,
• 28:30
  shouldn't really be texting you at all.
• 28:32
  But I know that this is happening.
• 28:35
  So I'm going to provide you with this information.
• 28:38
  If management is requiring you at some point in your route to
• 28:43
  deviate and come back to the office for an express piece of
• 28:47
  mail. The moment that you leave your
• 28:51
  line of travel to come back for the Express and then go deliver
• 28:55
  it or, or if, if you're just going to that point, sorry, I'm
• 29:02
  going to get real meta here. If you're just going back to
• 29:05
  that point because you're going to make the Express before 6:00
• 29:08
  PM, that's when you would hit end deviation.
• 29:11
  Does that make sense, Josh? They lose everybody.
• 29:14
  No, it makes sense to me. OK.
• 29:17
  OK. No, it and it and it is
• 29:21
  explicitly for express mail. Yes.
• 29:25
  So let's say in that scenario, management wants you to come
• 29:29
  back for an Express and where you leave off and you start that
• 29:34
  deviations. If that express was for a spot
• 29:37
  already on a part of the mail route you've already passed, you
• 29:41
  would stay under the start deviation until you deliver it.
• 29:46
  And then when you get back to the point where you left off to
• 29:49
  go retrieve it is when you would end it.
• 29:52
  Yes. So if yeah, Yep, those are yeah.
• 29:56
  That that's the other scenario that it would work in.
• 30:00
  I and I said it to Josh. Oh, Josh is going to come back
• 30:03
  in because he's I know that he's done this more so my office does
• 30:08
  not require us to come back. And so our expresses are
• 30:12
  typically done under second trip, which is a whole nother
• 30:17
  Side Story that I could go into. And we we went over it in
• 30:20
  another thing. If management also sorry also to
• 30:25
  perface this, if management is requiring you to go back, you
• 30:30
  also need to be doing that load time for you loading a parcel
• 30:34
  into the vehicle or however many express you're delivery.
• 30:38
  Because the deviation based off of the stuff that I just read
• 30:42
  out of the comprehensive guide is for that part of you
• 30:47
  deviating out of your line of travel.
• 30:49
  Hello. Hello, we can hear you good.
• 30:51
  OK, yeah, I was trying to reply but apparently that microphone
• 30:56
  didn't like long period of time. Yeah.
• 31:00
  Want me to Yeah, I would say if if you and I missed what you
• 31:04
  said, so if I'm repeating what you said, I apologize.
• 31:07
  If you leave your line of travel for whatever reason, enforce
• 31:14
  whether it be to go back to the office and pick it up or to
• 31:17
  deliver, make sure it gets delivered by that 6:00 PM cut
• 31:20
  off, you would delete or the deviate deviation start and end.
• 31:27
  And the reason that it doesn't lock you out like start and end
• 31:31
  load for that is because in theory you're going to deliver
• 31:35
  an express. So you need to be able to get to
• 31:41
  the option whether it's delivery attempted.
• 31:45
  The only thing I would add to what you were saying was is, is
• 31:49
  and I don't know if it just cut out because I couldn't really
• 31:51
  hear you all the way is that if you're leaving your line of
• 31:56
  travel for an express specifically, it can't be for
• 32:02
  whatever reason. But if management is requiring
• 32:05
  you to deliver it for a by by 6:00 PM to come back to the
• 32:10
  office for what it it's, it is only like Kristen had said
• 32:15
  earlier, it is specifically only to express.
• 32:20
  The other part that I did also want to add because this was
• 32:25
  brought to my attention and I was like when I was a regular
• 32:29
  and I and this is a Section 342 of the PO6O3 which is the real
• 32:38
  carrier duties and responsibilities and it is
• 32:41
  specifically about express mail and it says dismount delivery.
• 32:47
  All express mail must be delivered to the residents or
• 32:51
  business. Try to get the customer to come
• 32:54
  to the vehicle by sounding the horn or by giving some other
• 32:59
  signal. If there is no response or if
• 33:02
  the customer requests you to do so, dismount to to deliver any
• 33:08
  residence or business that is on the line of travel or within 1/2
• 33:12
  mile of the route and has a password leading to it in order
• 33:15
  to meet requirements. Delivery times Management may
• 33:17
  require a carrier during the course of normal delivery of the
• 33:20
  route to deviate from the established line of travel to
• 33:23
  deliver express mail and will provide additional compensation
• 33:27
  as appropriate, IE express deviation, RX hands or second
• 33:32
  trip later on if you're doing it at the end of the day.
• 33:35
  However, a carrier who traverses both sides of the road is is
• 33:40
  expected to deliver express mail to a residence or business on
• 33:44
  the opposite side of the roadway in order to meet an established
• 33:47
  delivery time when it is anticipated that the carrier
• 33:50
  will not transverse the opposite side of the road until the
• 33:53
  required delivery time for the express mail piece.
• 33:56
  In those circumstances where divided highways, limited access
• 34:00
  roads, hazardous conditions or other unusual situations exist
• 34:04
  that may encumber delivery to the opposite side of the
• 34:06
  roadway, management may require the carrier to deviate and the
• 34:09
  carrier will receive additional compensation as appropriate.
• 34:12
  So let's say you're delivering to one side of the highway, your
• 34:15
  express is for the other. Again, this might be another
• 34:18
  event and you're not going to be on that other side of the
• 34:20
  highway until after 6:00 PM. That be an event that you're
• 34:25
  using the express deviation and regular roll carriers covered
• 34:30
  under the FLSA or leave replacements when compensated on
• 34:34
  the evaluation of a regular auxiliary route served and when
• 34:38
  actual hours do not exceed 40. Oh, never mind.
• 34:41
  Sorry. I don't know why it cut off
• 34:43
  there, but that's not relevant. So I think I covered it mostly
• 34:47
  for the Express. Does that make sense?
• 34:49
  Do you have anything else to add for that, Josh?
• 34:51
  Yes. Fun fact, Express mail is the
• 34:55
  only type mail that gets attempted for no no male
• 35:01
  receptacle. Yes, and it has to go to the
• 35:03
  front door based on what I just read.
• 35:05
  Yes. OK, so the second thing we're
• 35:08
  going to. I was just going to say that I
• 35:10
  think that pretty much covers that in its entirety.
• 35:13
  So on to number next. Number next, so loading a
• 35:18
  vehicle. So the second thing that the
• 35:21
  engineers also made as an actual timed event which was the same
• 35:28
  as it was in the in the past mail system was the start and
• 35:33
  the end load vehicle. Now hold on, sorry one more
• 35:37
  second. I was trying to pull it up
• 35:40
  before I got there. And.
• 35:43
  Then I just forgot what I was looking up.
• 35:45
  Oh my God I'm so sorry. Yes, but I also wanted to
• 35:52
  include that there. It's in the comprehensive guide
• 35:58
  and I thought I had it up the drive speed.
• 36:01
  Nope, Nope. So there's certain events like
• 36:05
  the express deviation, sorry, that out of these three events
• 36:09
  that I'm going through express deviation and loading the
• 36:13
  vehicle also has a personal fatigue and delay percentage
• 36:18
  that is added to them. And that percentage is that's
• 36:24
  what I was looking at is like 1.3%.
• 36:28
  I can't remember exactly. So you'll, you'll see it on
• 36:32
  your, on your 4241 M when you get your evaluations
• 36:37
  specifically on load vehicle and express deviation, it'll say
• 36:41
  actual time plus personal fatigue and delay because you're
• 36:45
  not going to load the vehicle the same each day.
• 36:49
  There might, like I, I was, I've said before in another episode,
• 36:53
  you maybe went to a concert the night before and you're real
• 36:56
  tired. Or you might have a, a sub who
• 37:00
  you know is a little bit slower and, or they this day they were
• 37:05
  quicker. So it, it just depends on
• 37:08
  there's a lot of other factors that play into it.
• 37:10
  So just keep that in mind with your load time in that
• 37:15
  fluctuation. Also, just been doing any task
• 37:19
  after a period of time you're going to slow down even if it's
• 37:22
  just slightly. Yeah, it just depends on the day
• 37:25
  that you're like on the day that you come back from being on
• 37:31
  leave or the day that you came back from from being off.
• 37:35
  You might load faster than you do when you've worked 10 days in
• 37:40
  a row. You know, it's just, it's kind
• 37:43
  of, it varies from person to person.
• 37:46
  I mean the size and the weight of your packages too.
• 37:50
  I mean, if you're loading up the small stuff 1st and you're
• 37:53
  quicker at it, by the time you get to the heavier stuff it's a
• 37:56
  little bit more draining, yes. Right.
• 37:59
  Or even vice versa. You load the heavy stuff in the
• 38:02
  truck first just to get it in there and out of the way and
• 38:06
  place it. You've drained yourself even for
• 38:08
  the smaller ones, which you can move quicker with those, but you
• 38:13
  might not be moving as quick if it as if you did not have the
• 38:16
  big ones. Yeah, so the RX scan for start
• 38:21
  load vehicle. The RX activity guide states
• 38:26
  select start load vehicle and moving loaded conveyance from
• 38:29
  work area to begin loading vehicle for delivery Carrier may
• 38:32
  have multiple start load vehicle selections in a day of
• 38:36
  additional trips are additional trips to load are required.
• 38:40
  Ensure this keystroke is followed by end load.
• 38:42
  Once loading is complete, there is no change to previously
• 38:46
  established loading procedures and then End Load Vehicle.
• 38:50
  Select End Load Vehicle when returning MD conveyance to
• 38:53
  designated location After vehicle loading is complete.
• 38:57
  Carrier may have multiple end load vehicle selections in a day
• 39:00
  if additional trips to load are required now.
• 39:04
  M38, which is management's managing management of rural
• 39:11
  delivery services, says loading the mail must be loaded in the
• 39:16
  vehicle in order of delivery. It's essential that the carrier
• 39:20
  maintain the delivery sequence of mail in the vehicle.
• 39:23
  This permits ready identification and retrieval of
• 39:27
  the mail to be delivered and contributes to an efficient
• 39:30
  delivery operation. Safety is an important factor
• 39:34
  and the task of replenishing mail or obtaining the next
• 39:37
  parcel for delivery is only done when the vehicle is stopped.
• 39:40
  So each person loads their vehicle differently.
• 39:43
  And I, I mean, management really doesn't have, that's, that's
• 39:48
  what it says for loading. Now, just be safe while you're
• 39:53
  doing it. And I'm not saying like be
• 39:55
  meticulous in how you're loading your vehicle, but each person's
• 39:58
  going to load their vehicle a little bit differently.
• 40:01
  So keep that in mind while you're while you're loading.
• 40:06
  And then the other part, sorry, loading of vehicles, thought I
• 40:11
  had it up PO6O3 section 262 states load all mail in the
• 40:17
  vehicle so that it is in sequence of delivery to ensure
• 40:20
  that no time is lost on the route searching for the proper
• 40:23
  bundles and parcels or containers.
• 40:27
  And then if and I, I will also say it should be an if final
• 40:32
  withdrawal, make final withdrawal of preferential mail
• 40:36
  from the designated distribution case immediately prior to
• 40:39
  leaving the office. Place this mail in sequence of
• 40:42
  delivery and deliver with the other mail.
• 40:46
  I know my office had an issue where they weren't going to
• 40:48
  measure us an additional time around the hot case because they
• 40:54
  said that that final withdrawal would be on load time while
• 40:57
  you're loading. And then the other part of this
• 41:02
  is if the clerks are placing like large parcels or let's say
• 41:10
  you have a full coverage and they're placing a bunch of items
• 41:16
  for you to like load into a conveyance to deliver to take to
• 41:20
  the vehicle, you also can be on load time for that.
• 41:25
  And then the other part of this is I'll let you say what you're
• 41:33
  going to say, Josh, I'm sorry. I'm going to say yeah, if if the
• 41:36
  clerks sort parcels to your case on the floor, you can when you
• 41:43
  move them to put them in a conveyance to take them out to
• 41:45
  load, you can include that in your load time.
• 41:48
  Yes. And it always be from you
• 41:51
  leaving your case to push that conveyance or wherever you're
• 41:56
  sorting your parcels that I should say as some people move
• 41:59
  to other areas. But the way that it's
• 42:02
  generalized is the moment you just start pushing it until you
• 42:06
  have taken that hamper back to its designated location or
• 42:11
  conveyance. The other part of this that gets
• 42:14
  a little bit more complicated. And I, I know that we are rule
• 42:18
  carriers and we aren't all required to do this.
• 42:22
  There is what is called the load truck feature on the scanner.
• 42:27
  And over the last couple years I've seen more rule carriers are
• 42:33
  using it. And I'm going to read the Step 4
• 42:36
  grievance settlement from 2019 and it hasn't been altered yet.
• 42:42
  And then I'm going to talk about my my understanding of this
• 42:45
  after the issue in this grievance concerns rule carriers
• 42:49
  utilizing the load truck feature when loading an employer
• 42:53
  provided vehicle. After the this reviewing this
• 42:56
  matter, we mutually agree that no national interpretive issue
• 42:59
  is fairly presented in this case.
• 43:02
  PO6O3 Section 223.23 is instructive regarding how rule
• 43:07
  carriers handle parcels that do not fit in the case separation.
• 43:10
  Specifically, a letter may be reversed or some other method
• 43:14
  may be used to alert carriers as a parcel, yada yada yada.
• 43:17
  The parties agree that management may require rule
• 43:20
  carrier rule craft employees who are being compensated hourly to
• 43:24
  use the load truck feature. This settlement should be
• 43:28
  applied to grievances that are currently being held provided
• 43:31
  pending the outcome of this dispute yada yada yada.
• 43:35
  So this was like in our old mail count system.
• 43:40
  My understanding of this now is that if management is requiring
• 43:45
  you to use the load truck feature that is on the scanner,
• 43:50
  you can be using it under load time.
• 43:54
  Now the other part of this is that regardless if you're in
• 43:59
  office, that management has not required you to do this.
• 44:03
  You're sorting your parcels like you've always done it before.
• 44:06
  RX does give you credit for you handling the parcel in the
• 44:11
  office and we have talked about that in that 4241 M episode.
• 44:16
  It's based off of where you're delivering it.
• 44:18
  You're getting credit to sort small or medium sized parcel and
• 44:22
  if it's in a mailbox or in a parcel locker and then you're
• 44:26
  getting credit to sort a large parcel if it was delivered to
• 44:28
  front door on the scanner in. If you are loading your vehicle,
• 44:36
  you can switch over. The only option that you're
• 44:41
  actually have the ability to do during load loading your vehicle
• 44:46
  is the load truck option. So I don't know if that's going
• 44:50
  to become a requirement for us here on out.
• 44:54
  That's out of my wheelhouse and I'm not the person who
• 44:58
  determines that. I know it's, there's some
• 45:02
  benefit to it, especially to the Subs that do not know their, the
• 45:08
  routes that they're doing, because it gives you the
• 45:10
  sequence number based off of your, the AMS edit book number.
• 45:15
  And then it also gives you the section of the route that it's
• 45:18
  in. And then if management is ever
• 45:22
  questioning you of whether you're not or not you had a
• 45:25
  parcel, now you have that as a resource to go, hey, I never
• 45:29
  loaded this in my vehicle even though it's on my package to
• 45:33
  look ahead. And I'm trying to think of is
• 45:35
  there anything else with that part of that?
• 45:37
  No. I can't.
• 45:39
  I'm I'm one of those meticulous truckloaders, so.
• 45:45
  Yeah, to eat their own, I mean. It is, it is.
• 45:49
  And I, I just see some of these carriers that just load packages
• 45:53
  Willy nilly and I'm just like ow, but I also don't mark
• 45:57
  packages, I don't write on them. I, you know, I load meticulously
• 46:02
  basically. And I, I see some, even some
• 46:06
  regular carriers that write the house number on the parcel
• 46:10
  marker. They, they, they mark it, write
• 46:13
  the house number or on, on the, on the package.
• 46:17
  And it's just tossed Willy nilly in the truck.
• 46:20
  And I'm thinking, how do you work efficiently doing that?
• 46:23
  But that's just I'm. Yeah.
• 46:25
  I, I I. I'm not an OCD person but when
• 46:28
  it comes to my mail and delivering I'm OCD or.
• 46:32
  My curbside, I have them lined up in order and I, you know, I
• 46:37
  do mark them because what we've talked about before, I miss them
• 46:41
  when I mark them. You know, what makes you think
• 46:43
  I'll get it right if I don't mark them exactly?
• 46:46
  But for all my, I separate my, all my different CBU stops,
• 46:52
  which is the bulk of my round. I just kind of throw them in
• 46:55
  there in different sections of the truck because I actually
• 46:58
  sort them when I get to that location for delivery, if that
• 47:03
  makes sense. Yeah, I think it does.
• 47:06
  And and maybe I should have used, I should have used
• 47:08
  probably a different set of words.
• 47:10
  But like there's I've seen people where it wasn't, I
• 47:14
  wouldn't say I would call it meticulous, but they were
• 47:16
  organizing it to be what what I actually think is going to be
• 47:20
  most efficient for them on the street.
• 47:22
  But I've also seen it where somebody like overthought it
• 47:25
  like that was like a newer sub and they didn't realize that it
• 47:30
  was like harming them essentially.
• 47:32
  So you just have to load however works for you, that's going to
• 47:36
  be the safest and most efficient for you.
• 47:39
  But and if management really feels like micromanaging it,
• 47:43
  like, I mean, you know, the manager I was talking about
• 47:46
  earlier today, she she's never delivered mail and never had to
• 47:51
  deal with an SPM. So, you know, some of these
• 47:54
  managers ever had to deal with that either.
• 47:56
  So kind of keep that in mind. So the other thing with the load
• 48:01
  truck is that it does mark those parcels as out for delivery.
• 48:05
  So if the if it's it's like a customer service kind of a
• 48:11
  thing. And I don't know if management,
• 48:14
  the higher ups are going to make us do it from here on out with
• 48:17
  that and using that. I, I know personally, like I
• 48:23
  don't flag anything, but I do mark like right on some of my
• 48:26
  parcels for like the for my key box stops.
• 48:30
  And there was this one guy I used to work with that would he
• 48:34
  would literate like his he had worked, he started in the 80s
• 48:40
  and he would just look at and he was on APOV route and he would
• 48:42
  just look at a parcel and just like his arm, like he had like
• 48:46
  visual memory of it. And he would just like look on
• 48:49
  it and then like put it in the vehicle and he had them all in
• 48:52
  these spots. And it was just like it looked
• 48:55
  like no rhyme or reason to me. And I still like to this day
• 49:00
  don't know how he did it, but it just blew my mind just watching
• 49:05
  him load. Just go look at it and go boom,
• 49:08
  boom. Like just place them where they
• 49:10
  go. What?
• 49:12
  I do in my LLV, but yeah, I I get it as a being APOV driver.
• 49:16
  That was the one thing is I marked everything in APOV, but,
• 49:20
  but I was meticulous on how I loaded that too, as much as
• 49:23
  possible. Yeah, I, I, I get it.
• 49:25
  I, I worked with an old regular that would, he would circle the
• 49:29
  address instead of marking it and then he would know what he
• 49:33
  had and he wouldn't mark everything.
• 49:34
  I remember having to go take over the route 'cause he got
• 49:37
  sick out on the route or something one day and nothing is
• 49:40
  marked. And I was just like, OK, let's
• 49:43
  do this. Yeah.
• 49:45
  And also if, if I and if I'm mistaken in this in, in my
• 49:51
  understanding of the load truck, because I know different offices
• 49:54
  kind of have been doing different things, but my
• 49:56
  understanding of it is that it's been altered now that they're
• 49:59
  going to let you use the load the load truck feature on load
• 50:04
  time in regulars and RCA's. But unless that's changed, yeah,
• 50:08
  the the parties agree that management may require real
• 50:12
  craft employees who are being compensated hourly to use the
• 50:15
  low truck feature. But the RCA are always using
• 50:18
  aren't always hourly. It may be over 40.
• 50:23
  So if that's if I get other information on that I, I will
• 50:28
  correct myself on that too. But.
• 50:29
  I only say or regulars in their first year that choose hourly
• 50:34
  they can require them. New RC as in within their first
• 50:39
  five pay periods? Oh yeah, they would be.
• 50:41
  Initially what it was about was the newer RC as in their first
• 50:48
  five pay periods. Yeah, all of why they were
• 50:51
  making them and, and I I think that it's I've, I've noticed
• 50:56
  that there's some Subs that it they crutch on it pretty heavily
• 51:04
  and there's others that have used it as a tool, but they
• 51:08
  still like know the route. And there's going to be some
• 51:11
  parcels that, you know, I know we're kind of going off on the
• 51:15
  load load truck feature, but there's going to be some parcels
• 51:19
  that don't scheme correctly. And other side little note on
• 51:25
  this too, because I've seen this happen before and it has not
• 51:30
  really ever been talked about very often, but I've witnesses
• 51:34
  happen if a route is scheduled to be adjusted and there is a
• 51:40
  firm date of when that's going to happen.
• 51:43
  Typically the pay period before the adjustment happens, the edit
• 51:47
  book sequence numbers have already started change and so
• 51:52
  the load truck feature will not work 100% correctly, especially
• 51:57
  if they've just completely like gutted and changed a route.
• 52:00
  So load truck and package look ahead will not work that pay
• 52:05
  period prior to the adjustment going into effect.
• 52:08
  So. Also.
• 52:10
  Keep that in mind. Load truck will not scan
• 52:13
  packages in if the clerks have not scanned the dispatch up scan
• 52:19
  after sorting. So if they're loading by clerks
• 52:23
  are still sorting packages as this happens in our office daily
• 52:28
  and they're trying to use load truck, it will not always it
• 52:31
  more. 9 times out of 10 does not register that package until
• 52:35
  after clerks have scanned the dispatch scan.
• 52:38
  And fun fact I found out the hard way, if you hit load truck
• 52:43
  after the delivery scan, it will cancel the delivery scan.
• 52:47
  Oh yeah, yeah. Because I scanned them delivered
• 52:50
  at the apartment when I got there and, you know, sorted them
• 52:53
  to where they're going to go, like at the on the ground
• 52:56
  underneath this CBU that it's supposed to be at.
• 52:59
  And there was one that I relooked at it and couldn't tell
• 53:02
  because it's dim lighting in in the one section.
• 53:05
  I couldn't tell. So I scanned it load truck to
• 53:08
  see to verify the apartment number.
• 53:10
  And I had to talking to you the next day about that.
• 53:15
  You can also, if you're under the scan barcode screen, the
• 53:20
  little magnifying lens down on the left hand corner at the
• 53:23
  bottom. If you hit that, it will pop up
• 53:26
  to do an address verification to scan in.
• 53:29
  Oh, I did not know that. Yeah, it'll turn, screen will
• 53:32
  turn yellow and it'll ask for address verification and then
• 53:35
  you can scan it that way to look.
• 53:37
  Up. I've seen the yellow screen
• 53:39
  before. Address look up.
• 53:41
  Didn't know how I got to it, but I've seen that yellow screen
• 53:44
  before. OK.
• 53:45
  Somebody asked does it work for letters too?
• 53:48
  I don't know. I've never tried it on letters,
• 53:51
  but I've done it on packages usually, like if an Amazon
• 53:55
  label's been ripped off and it only works once the dispatch
• 53:59
  scan has been done after, after the clerks, after sorting and
• 54:03
  everything's done and they do their upload scan.
• 54:06
  That's the only time it will work.
• 54:08
  Yeah, I probably, I don't think it would work on letters because
• 54:12
  it's just showing what the parcels scans are I think in the
• 54:16
  system, but I don't know. I'll test that out.
• 54:19
  Also the other thing too that I've noticed now, because I know
• 54:23
  the scanners just recently updated and now you'll have the
• 54:27
  package look ahead with the scan menu and you can toggle between
• 54:31
  the two of them, which I think is amazing because like I
• 54:35
  sometimes forget parcels I have in the way, way back because I
• 54:38
  have a Metris and I don't want to go pull over, turn the
• 54:41
  vehicle off, go, you know, go look in the back.
• 54:45
  I sometimes will look on my scanner and go oh OK I do have a
• 54:49
  parcel for them. And you scan scan from that
• 54:52
  package look ahead screen too. That's what I Yep, that's what I
• 54:55
  was just about to say. Yeah.
• 54:57
  Which was like, whoa, I don't, I could just leave that menu up
• 55:00
  and then scan from there. Which is that's actually.
• 55:02
  Or you'd have to toggle back over to it.
• 55:04
  Yeah, once you scanned it, but yeah, so but if you have, if
• 55:11
  you're in office, I will say this also at the end of this,
• 55:15
  there is no sorry to say this for all of these events, there
• 55:20
  is no set time based off of what I read those engineers, there is
• 55:26
  no set time for these events because there's so many like I
• 55:30
  said, there's so many variables that that's why there is no set
• 55:35
  standard here. Like it's going to take what
• 55:38
  it'll take and management can't be benchmarking your time for
• 55:45
  what these things are going to be.
• 55:48
  And I know the express deviation, they're not really as
• 55:53
  harping on. It's, it's this next one that's
• 55:56
  going to be the it's a load time.
• 55:58
  And then this next one, I'm going to go over here in a
• 56:00
  second, which is the end of shift time there.
• 56:03
  Like I said, there's there's no set time.
• 56:06
  So end of shift duties, which a lot of people in the beginning
• 56:12
  of RX didn't realize we had is the moment that you hit RX scan
• 56:20
  J, which is returned to DU, it says select return it to you
• 56:25
  after returning the office, stopping the vehicle by turning
• 56:28
  off the key. After all route delivery is
• 56:30
  complete. This begins timing of end of
• 56:32
  shift duties and until you either hit L, which is RX scan
• 56:38
  L, which is clock out or if you hit PM casing that timer for
• 56:44
  that end of shift time is going and it's important.
• 56:50
  And I'm going to preface this again, even if you're sub, make
• 56:54
  sure you've turned off that vehicle, you've parked it.
• 56:57
  If you need to go to the dock to start unloading things and
• 57:01
  you've turned off the vehicle, the next thing you should be
• 57:03
  doing is grabbing that scanner and hitting return to DU The
• 57:08
  other day. I, I think I was talking to, I
• 57:13
  was talking to Josh the other day and I said, do you when I
• 57:17
  leave my house, I'm so like, I have this so ingrained in me now
• 57:20
  is that like when I leave my house sometimes to go to work, I
• 57:23
  want to hit depart to route or when I leave work, depart to
• 57:28
  route, you know? Yes Sir, what she's smoking and
• 57:32
  why she wasn't sharing. Depart to route.
• 57:40
  Yeah. And I wish there was a scan for
• 57:42
  the mapping, but so the union came up with and this is also
• 57:51
  like some of this information is in the PO per the PO6O3.
• 57:55
  But like loading time, the time required friend of shift duty is
• 58:01
  recorded daily on the MDD and the average weekly time over 52
• 58:06
  weeks is included in the evaluation.
• 58:08
  The time begins when the carrier enters returned to you on the
• 58:13
  MVD and ends when they hit PM casing or clock out.
• 58:18
  Either event signals the end time of the four end of shift
• 58:23
  signed of shift activities recorded as actual time are And
• 58:27
  then I'm going to also prophase this by saying not all will be
• 58:30
  applicable at every office. 1 is gather accepted and collected
• 58:37
  mail. Empty mail trays, turn in the
• 58:40
  scanner personal items and exit the vehicle.
• 58:45
  Grabbing all that stuff and then taking it into the office.
• 58:49
  Obtaining A conveyance hamper using the restroom.
• 58:53
  Disposal of ordinary mail collected and accepted on route.
• 58:57
  Dispose like if you have to fix stamps on unstamped mail when
• 59:01
  the customer has left sufficient postage.
• 59:03
  Face and deposit mail and designated location case or
• 59:07
  dispose of undeliverable ordinary mail and there's a
• 59:10
  reference to the PO6O3 section 4.21 dispose of carrier pickup
• 59:16
  items collected on the route and that also includes if you need
• 59:21
  to hit that prepaid acceptance. If the if management is
• 59:25
  requiring you to do that prepaid acceptance scan for the parcels
• 59:29
  over the five placing undeliverable parcels in a
• 59:33
  designated location, Dispose of special service mail collected,
• 59:38
  accepted on route, registered mail, certified mail, insured
• 59:41
  mail, Cods, express money orders.
• 59:46
  You know all that stuff. Clear and dispose of accountable
• 59:51
  items. You're registered your certified
• 59:53
  express mail, Cods, postage, dues, customs duties, mail and
• 59:58
  wait while items are cleared and completed paperwork at your like
• 1:00:02
  accountable cage or if management clears you.
• 1:00:05
  Return keys and the gas cards, their credit cards.
• 1:00:09
  Dispose of signed forms for numbered insured mail.
• 1:00:14
  Dispose of undeliverable and ordinary and insured parcels.
• 1:00:18
  Place returned empty mail traced in designated storage locations.
• 1:00:23
  Move vehicle from own loading location to regular parking
• 1:00:27
  location where applicable. So if you're unloading at the
• 1:00:30
  dock because you're where you park to be closed so far away or
• 1:00:35
  you have bought loads of parcels that you picked up on your route
• 1:00:39
  and you need to unload them at the dock rule reach.
• 1:00:43
  So replenish the lead cards and the brochures that you need.
• 1:00:48
  Stamp stock. Replenish stamp stock and turn
• 1:00:50
  in cash from previous sales. Participate in audit of stamp
• 1:00:54
  stock sales trip report. Complete afternoon entries on
• 1:00:58
  Form 4240. Report vehicle problems and
• 1:01:02
  write up your vehicle. Like let's say you were
• 1:01:04
  delivering and all of a sudden your turn signal light went out
• 1:01:07
  and you need to write it up. Or like what happens to me all
• 1:01:10
  the time because I'm parked under a tree that has a lot of
• 1:01:14
  SAP. I go through windshield wiper
• 1:01:16
  fluid a lot. Windshield wiper fluid.
• 1:01:20
  Yeah. And if I didn't, I'd write up
• 1:01:23
  and if I didn't, I'd write a 1767 because it freezes here.
• 1:01:27
  It is 15° outside right now so to hell I'd better have someone
• 1:01:33
  show I perform so report vehicle problems.
• 1:01:39
  Perform required updates in AMS edit book.
• 1:01:43
  So when you're working on your edit books, this is when you
• 1:01:47
  should be doing it so that your route is receiving credit, your
• 1:01:51
  DPM and LTM updates. Now management can do this in
• 1:01:57
  the morning and pay you 8127 time, but the preferred method
• 1:02:02
  for this to be built into your route is on end of shift time,
• 1:02:07
  perform Saturday clearance activities.
• 1:02:10
  So like let's say you know, some offices, they clean the floors
• 1:02:16
  on the weekends. I know my office, they have a
• 1:02:18
  company during like holiday weekends will come in and we'll
• 1:02:24
  add wax, buffer the floors because our floors have asbestos
• 1:02:27
  in them. And so if we have to move all of
• 1:02:30
  our mats and all that kind of stuff, maintain case
• 1:02:34
  configuration, replace labels as needed.
• 1:02:37
  So if you're doing labels on your route and it's not because
• 1:02:40
  your line of travel changed or, and I, I, it's not based off of
• 1:02:48
  like let's say that you had a route adjustment.
• 1:02:51
  That's going to be a whole nother topic.
• 1:02:53
  This is like if your labels are old, you need to change a row
• 1:03:00
  out, you know, try to at least change a row every every month,
• 1:03:04
  you know, do do some maintenance on them.
• 1:03:07
  Labels waive rate and a fixed postage to parcels received on
• 1:03:13
  route. Emptying out and returning mail
• 1:03:15
  from full boxes held that case where the customer never came to
• 1:03:19
  retrieve. So let's say you got somebody on
• 1:03:22
  10 day hold and it's been the 10 days and they haven't return
• 1:03:26
  that mail, put a bar in there and and get that, get that
• 1:03:32
  rolling, returning three M mail, the three M mail, forward mail,
• 1:03:38
  etcetera to its designated location.
• 1:03:40
  Retrieve hold mail for the next delivery day.
• 1:03:43
  If kept away from your case and prepare for delivery.
• 1:03:46
  I actually will retrieve retrieve my hold mail for the
• 1:03:49
  next delivery day and get it set up for the next day so that I
• 1:03:53
  just throw it in with my small parcels later on and my spurt
• 1:03:58
  like spur trays and stuff. If you need to have discussions
• 1:04:03
  with management, like let's say you needed to file a grievance
• 1:04:07
  or manage like something's wrong with your pay and management
• 1:04:11
  still hasn't corrected it, that can be on return to EU time
• 1:04:15
  replenish supplies. So like you're 3840 nines, 4050
• 1:04:19
  sixes, 4560. What are 4560 fives?
• 1:04:22
  That is a good question and I don't know.
• 1:04:26
  Let's see and 4232. 65 yeah vehicle.
• 1:04:31
  Right anyways. That that that's your fix it
• 1:04:33
  slip for the truck. Oh.
• 1:04:34
  OK, OK OK I know I was like Oh my gosh I think but complete PS
• 1:04:42
  Form 3575 which is change of address if required.
• 1:04:46
  Complete PS Form 3971 leave requests if you want to do your
• 1:04:50
  leave requests on return to DU time, handling money order
• 1:04:53
  transactions, which I've never done, and then returning a
• 1:04:57
  conveyance to its designated location.
• 1:05:00
  So these are just, that's like a 31 item list of things that can
• 1:05:06
  be happening on return to DU. And I'm sure there's other
• 1:05:10
  things, you know. So I've what was one of the
• 1:05:13
  things I did, I haven't done this in a long time because I've
• 1:05:16
  not had enough time to do it. I've like dusted the inside of
• 1:05:21
  the my mattress on the on the dashboard one time just 'cause
• 1:05:27
  it was disgusting. I'll put, I'll put my hold if I
• 1:05:32
  have future pars, labels and hold cards that are up there for
• 1:05:37
  future dates. I'll put those up if they're
• 1:05:39
  going up for the next day as well as our holds are are kept
• 1:05:45
  at our cases. We have racks for those.
• 1:05:47
  But yeah, I'll pull my holds. I'll try if I can remember.
• 1:05:51
  Yeah. Anything that you know you're
• 1:05:53
  preparing for the next day would be included under that too, so.
• 1:05:57
  Yeah, some of the things that won't be included in this is if
• 1:06:01
  your case, like if you're casing mail that you brought back from
• 1:06:06
  the route, like management has allowed you to not have to like
• 1:06:11
  leave it uncased. It depends on the office, but it
• 1:06:14
  was a black box or some of the DPS that you had was miss
• 1:06:18
  sequenced and they you know, it's it's you're handling that
• 1:06:22
  day's stuff. But if you're essentially PM
• 1:06:26
  casing or casing like a a full coverage for the next day, that
• 1:06:30
  would be under PM casing that would not be on.
• 1:06:33
  Or like when I come back Tuesday evening, Tuesday after the row
• 1:06:37
  and newspapers for Wednesdays are sitting there, I wanted to
• 1:06:40
  case them up for Wednesday. That would go under PM casing
• 1:06:43
  usually, yeah. And I'm also kind of blind, so I
• 1:06:48
  when I write my I actually, cuz you know how like they'll have
• 1:06:51
  the hold papers they give us or even the yellow cards and they
• 1:06:55
  have like the tiny font that's on the bottom.
• 1:06:57
  I write it bigger in Sharpie so that I can see it.
• 1:07:02
  And then I'll even write like the day of the week that it says
• 1:07:04
  that it ends plus the date or if it's a pick up, I just write PU
• 1:07:08
  real big so that I just so that it's it's just organized and
• 1:07:13
  that you it's just easier to see it.
• 1:07:17
  I already know I'm going to have like three holes that the guy
• 1:07:20
  who delivered my route Friday did not probably deliver, but
• 1:07:24
  that's tomorrow's problem. The the other thing with it is,
• 1:07:33
  I know like Josh the other day was talking about the red line
• 1:07:36
  policy and there's SNDCS and I think some offices have started
• 1:07:41
  doing this. There's going to be I don't
• 1:07:44
  think there's still provisions of what is contractually
• 1:07:49
  appropriate and management can't be again benchmarking and
• 1:07:54
  limiting the end of shift time to 5 minutes because the
• 1:07:59
  engineers determined is that there is no set standard.
• 1:08:04
  So granted, they may have, you know, maybe they put the three M
• 1:08:10
  case and like an area for the album and the area for the holds
• 1:08:16
  in a different location so that it's not them going all the way
• 1:08:20
  back to their case per SE. But they still have to allow
• 1:08:25
  them to do their case labels and the route maintenance that has
• 1:08:29
  to happen because there is no other way for us to get the
• 1:08:33
  credit for it. And granted, you're not going to
• 1:08:37
  be doing your edit book every single day unless your growth
• 1:08:40
  route, which would be kind of crazy, but I'm a growth route
• 1:08:43
  and I'm not doing my edit book every day.
• 1:08:45
  But you still have to be able to get paid and compensated for
• 1:08:48
  doing these sorts of things. And that's why a lot of this is
• 1:08:52
  just blanketed under the return to DU time.
• 1:08:55
  So don't let management bully you into thinking you can only
• 1:08:58
  have 5 minutes of return to DU time.
• 1:09:01
  And if if they are, yeah, well and even.
• 1:09:05
  Like get the nerve. To leave the truck now the other
• 1:09:11
  thing that I talked about was that personal fatigue and delay
• 1:09:16
  and this is in the comprehensive guide the return to DU time is
• 1:09:20
  going to be what it is. It does not have that personal
• 1:09:23
  fatigue and delay buffer added to it because the engineers know
• 1:09:29
  that you're fatigued from the route already.
• 1:09:32
  So the time it it, it's kind of already treated like a break
• 1:09:37
  because sometimes people, you know, are just going to the bath
• 1:09:41
  like you, some people like you park the vehicle, turn it off,
• 1:09:44
  hit return to DU and run to go to the bathroom.
• 1:09:48
  Like like, I want to know what the return to DU time is for
• 1:09:51
  that route that's like 180 miles.
• 1:09:55
  Like did you pee out there on the route?
• 1:09:57
  Like like where did you have bathroom stops?
• 1:10:03
  That would be me on a Saturday or anytime that my Township
• 1:10:08
  office is closed because it's about halfway and there are days
• 1:10:13
  where they love me when I bring their mail in because I'm using
• 1:10:16
  the restroom. Like, guys, I got to go potty,
• 1:10:21
  yeah. Pretty much.
• 1:10:22
  I'm here, be back in a minute. Well, and sometimes like I get
• 1:10:26
  back to the office and a lot of the city carriers get back
• 1:10:30
  around between like 4:00 and 4:30, I've noticed.
• 1:10:33
  And if I get back, when the city carriers get back, it's going to
• 1:10:36
  take me longer because they're all like all their vehicles are
• 1:10:41
  in the way and like I'm having to run around them.
• 1:10:45
  It's, it's just different, you know, and I know as rule
• 1:10:48
  carriers, we try to be as efficient as possible because
• 1:10:51
  we're on an evaluated system, but just, I don't know, I had to
• 1:10:55
  start doing this like mentality with saving some things to, for
• 1:11:02
  return to DU time just so that I knew that I was getting proper
• 1:11:05
  credit for it. And granted, there's certain
• 1:11:07
  items like, you know, that we have measurements, we, we do
• 1:11:10
  have credit for, you know, the three M mail were measured over
• 1:11:14
  there. But I mean, the management's,
• 1:11:19
  the one that says DPS is designed so that it's supposed
• 1:11:21
  to go to the streets. So obviously that DPS better be
• 1:11:25
  pristine, but it's not. I'm going to have.
• 1:11:28
  Mistakes we started on Monday. There was a reason I had a 12
• 1:11:32
  hour day and 11 inches of DPS I brought back that was miss
• 1:11:39
  sequenced. So last night I had AI had a
• 1:11:43
  nightmare that I got to this to like the beginning of this one
• 1:11:48
  neighborhood that I have really bad.
• 1:11:49
  My DPS turned to a tray of raw and I was like, Oh my God, this
• 1:11:52
  is a nightmare. Why am I I can stream about
• 1:11:55
  messed up DPS society post office dreams.
• 1:12:02
  So yeah, can't wait for the for the manager to be like you need
• 1:12:06
  to handle you need to be out in 5 minutes.
• 1:12:08
  Cool. Then what are you going to do
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  with all this? You're going to pay me 127 time
• 1:12:12
  tomorrow to handle all this play route cleanup?
• 1:12:17
  Yeah, there there is no benchmarking and if management's
• 1:12:20
  trying to benchmark. Well, you need to contact your
• 1:12:24
  appropriate as Yeah. And we've, I've I've seen an
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  influx of. I guess it comes in waves
• 1:12:31
  there's and right before we started this episode too, we had
• 1:12:34
  somebody who posted and said management is trying to limit us
• 1:12:39
  to only 5 minutes of return to DU time and falsify if they're
• 1:12:44
  changing your 40 to 40 after you leave for.
• 1:12:47
  The Today to reflect that 5 minutes that is falsifying a
• 1:12:51
  time record and yeah, you definitely do contact somebody
• 1:12:55
  about that. Yeah.
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  Oh my gosh, I would. Yeah.
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  And. Even and the other thing, yeah,
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  I'd be all they'd be running scared from me if I caught them
• 1:13:05
  doing. That yeah, yeah.
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  Well, and and I've. I've I've actually caught it.
• 1:13:12
  On my own route. Where the sub hit clock out and
• 1:13:15
  returned it to you in the same minute and I'm like it takes a
• 1:13:17
  minute for you to just more than a minute for you to walk from
• 1:13:21
  where my parking. Spot is.
• 1:13:23
  To my case, so I disputed that time.
• 1:13:29
  So it it was and and won that dispute and has made have I have
• 1:13:36
  made management very aware. Like, hey, you know, if you're a
• 1:13:41
  you know, there's going to be sometimes where, yeah, you are
• 1:13:43
  kind of throw and go or there's no the DPS is pristine.
• 1:13:49
  So you don't have a bunch of three M mail or you don't have
• 1:13:52
  people on hold. But sometimes that soup that you
• 1:13:56
  bring back, it's going to take a little bit for you to clean up.
• 1:14:00
  So it takes what it takes and don't let management benchmark
• 1:14:04
  you. All right.
• 1:14:06
  So trying to think, oh I did get my mini e-mail survey dispute
• 1:14:11
  back. The other day, yeah, nice.
• 1:14:14
  My two boxes that I disputed were added.
• 1:14:17
  On for a whopping. 1.7 minutes. Anything to help those standard?
• 1:14:23
  Hours since I was only three minutes.
• 1:14:24
  Over. Yeah, Every little bit helps.
• 1:14:27
  Seriously, Josh, have they been? Have they been telling, have
• 1:14:31
  they been like limiting your guys's return to you time with
• 1:14:34
  that red line policy? No.
• 1:14:36
  OK, good. I'm walking on wood right now.
• 1:14:39
  Don't limit it. At least they haven't said
• 1:14:42
  anything about limiting it. We're going taking.
• 1:14:45
  But I did find out that you know where Monday was a 11 and 311
• 1:14:51
  and three quarter hour day. Yeah.
• 1:14:53
  But it might actually be 12 hours and 15 minutes because the
• 1:14:58
  one supervisor request asked me yesterday about Monday's hours.
• 1:15:03
  She's like, was that you or was that the sub?
• 1:15:06
  You know the sub, you know, clock out at 8:45.
• 1:15:09
  I'm like, I'm like, what was the date?
• 1:15:11
  What day? It's like Monday.
• 1:15:12
  I'm like, that was me, OK, Because it has your name on it.
• 1:15:16
  But I'm like, she's like, there's no way you got back that
• 1:15:20
  like, like, well, first of all, it was a Monday and we had the
• 1:15:22
  marriage now that they made us take this take with us.
• 1:15:25
  Yeah. Oh, OK.
• 1:15:27
  It's like, so you know, I'm using what what was, you know,
• 1:15:31
  entering the scanner. I didn't adjust nothing, which
• 1:15:34
  means she's not putting in my 30 minute lunch every day, which is
• 1:15:37
  down. I I write it down.
• 1:15:39
  That means I have 15 minutes overtime.
• 1:15:42
  I was going to say, So you went FLSA overtime?
• 1:15:45
  Are you doing your clock in and out to lunch on the scanner I
• 1:15:49
  keep? Forgetting and I know it's two
• 1:15:52
  more scans. In the day, but yeah, because if
• 1:15:56
  you do that it automatically puts it into the time.
• 1:15:58
  System. Yeah, right, I know.
• 1:16:00
  I just keep forgetting to add, you know, to.
• 1:16:02
  Hit it. Yeah.
• 1:16:03
  And there's a spot for them. Well, they're supposed to.
• 1:16:07
  Enter what you have on the 2. 40 not what the scanner said you
• 1:16:11
  did Yeah, but I still I write 30 but sometimes I I mean I've.
• 1:16:15
  I've taken like 2 breaks to equal 30 usually and management
• 1:16:21
  can enter in or whoever is doing your time keeping an RMSS can
• 1:16:25
  enter that blanket number of time.
• 1:16:28
  Right, but they're supposed to. They're supposed to adjust it to
• 1:16:32
  what, you're 42? 40 says yeah, well and if
• 1:16:35
  management isn't entering. Your break time that also can
• 1:16:40
  affect 2080. It can, but when you stay under
• 1:16:44
  most of the. Time.
• 1:16:46
  Yeah, you can, but I don't know about every person.
• 1:16:49
  That's listening to that going to be listening to this.
• 1:16:51
  You know, everybody's got a different scenario if you can
• 1:16:55
  stay. Under most of the.
• 1:16:57
  Time, yeah, then. You're, you know, you're good in
• 1:17:00
  theory, but then again, I also like to take my time off, so
• 1:17:04
  yeah, that helps also. All right, guys, let's wind this
• 1:17:06
  down for tonight, yeah? Yeah, final thoughts, Josh,
• 1:17:12
  other is coming. So layer.
• 1:17:15
  Up. Be safe out there for whatever
• 1:17:17
  the road conditions are. Don't let yourself get
• 1:17:21
  overwhelmed if you do take a step back, take a deep breath,
• 1:17:25
  step back in. Have a good week time meow.
• 1:17:30
  Well, thank you guys, I hope that this helped some.
• 1:17:33
  People out there, because I like I said, we, I don't know, we
• 1:17:36
  usually try and see like what a lot of people are, are asking
• 1:17:39
  questions about too. So, so if you, if you know of
• 1:17:44
  somebody who's, who's needing some help, like let them like
• 1:17:48
  share this with them and let them know.
• 1:17:49
  I know we still have a lot of people who are asking about the
• 1:17:53
  Christmas overtime procedures and somebody wrote like, is it
• 1:17:57
  when is the the Christmas actual time period or something?
• 1:18:01
  And I was like, that's not what it is like.
• 1:18:04
  So be resourceful and information is invaluable.
• 1:18:13
  You know, there's so many different things that you have
• 1:18:17
  at your fingertips. You know, I have to remind
• 1:18:20
  myself of that too. Sometimes I'm like, ah, yes, I'm
• 1:18:22
  going to get off of Facebook and actually educate myself and read
• 1:18:26
  some stuff. So again, I will in your free
• 1:18:30
  time, which if you don't have any, or when you're when you're
• 1:18:35
  going to the bathroom, you know, go through and just start
• 1:18:38
  reading some random postal manuals, you know, some
• 1:18:41
  invigorating stuff. But no, seriously though, I
• 1:18:47
  hope, I hope that this does help you in some way.
• 1:18:50
  Speaking of the Christmas overtime, it starts this
• 1:18:53
  Saturday. Coming up, yes, it does.
• 1:18:55
  Yes, December 6th. The other thing is next Monday,
• 1:19:02
  again, because I was going to actually going to write this on
• 1:19:04
  Facebook, December 8th, it's coming up quick, is the end of
• 1:19:09
  the open enrollment. So if you need to do that this,
• 1:19:14
  you got to get that done so that you don't don't lose that.
• 1:19:19
  So, yeah, free time free. Yeah.
• 1:19:22
  I still have to be my FSA. Yeah, Light blue just reminded
• 1:19:25
  me. That too.
• 1:19:26
  So there's Lincoln light blue. For the FSA, yeah, like.
• 1:19:29
  Light blue said on the on the top of it it.
• 1:19:32
  Said if you have an FSA account, make sure you're running out of
• 1:19:36
  time. Like December 8th is the last
• 1:19:39
  day. So.
• 1:19:40
  But I got to figure out if I'm going to do that or not, I
• 1:19:44
  guess. Yeah.
• 1:19:45
  Yeah, but anyways. Like Josh said, don't get
• 1:19:49
  overwhelmed and stuff. Again, I'm going to preface this
• 1:19:52
  again, I know we're in Christmas time holidays.
• 1:19:58
  If you need help, please reach out to EAP.
• 1:20:01
  Their number is 1800 EAP for you and they will help you.
• 1:20:08
  Like let, I just want you guys to know you're not alone.
• 1:20:10
  I mean, we're, we like we do, we're doing this because we want
• 1:20:14
  to help educate people and, and let you guys know like we're,
• 1:20:18
  we're there for you. And the camaraderie of, of
• 1:20:22
  knowing like, Hey, it could get crazy.
• 1:20:25
  And we're we're reaching that crazy time of year.
• 1:20:30
  So don't be afraid to reach out to people if you need some help.
• 1:20:33
  So layer up also. And don't forget your headlamp
• 1:20:40
  if you need it, because I know this next week we're going to be
• 1:20:43
  delivering all of that Black Friday, Cyber Monday fun jolly
• 1:20:48
  time. So just please be safe, guys.
• 1:20:51
  So, Kristen, thanks guys. Yeah, definitely as we're.
• 1:20:56
  The holiday season is starting upon us.
• 1:21:01
  And you know, headlight, I made sure I recharged my finger light
• 1:21:06
  gloves the other day. You know, basically stay safe
• 1:21:10
  out there. I know there was a lot of wet,
• 1:21:12
  heavy snow that's come through some areas in the last 24 hours
• 1:21:16
  or so. You know, guys, take precautions
• 1:21:20
  and make sure that you stay safe out there.
• 1:21:24
  Stay hydrated as well. The weather seems to be air is
• 1:21:28
  drier, so you do need to still stay hydrated year round.
• 1:21:32
  I'll always preach that. And yeah, definitely make sure
• 1:21:37
  you're staying safe out there and you're taking care of each
• 1:21:39
  other. And as you know mentioned, if
• 1:21:43
  you do need that extra assistance, EAP is available for
• 1:21:47
  everybody. Most importantly, you gotta
• 1:21:49
  watch out for yourself most importantly, and get home safely
• 1:21:52
  to your loved ones at the end of each night.
• 1:21:54
  Better how long that night ends up going.
• 1:21:56
  As we all know, this is the time of year where we kiss our loved
• 1:22:00
  ones goodbye in the morning and we'll see them again on
• 1:22:02
  Christmas morning. But it is what it is.
• 1:22:07
  And you know, we push through and we we make sure everybody
• 1:22:10
  has their Christmases every year.
• 1:22:13
  So that's what we do. On that note, guys, we'll be
• 1:22:17
  back next week. So everybody have a safe week.
• 1:22:19
  Bye.