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Thank you. Now here are the hosts of the
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United We Scan podcast. Welcome back everybody, episode
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95 got some updates, some info in the usual banter.
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It should be an interesting time tonight.
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James, how was your week? Oh, don't get me started.
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Oh, my goodness. Being a swing state here in
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Michigan, you're familiar with it too.
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Kristen Monday DPS was late Oh Bill, you're retired already.
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You don't deal with it anymore. I'm.
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Still in a I'm still in a swing state.
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You. Know you know from past
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experience, but DPS was way late on Monday and I ended up not
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getting done until almost 8 PM 7:45 the first day and then
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Tuesday didn't get done until 6:30 because DPS was late again.
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Actually got an hour of wait time on that one.
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Finally Wednesday it showed up on time and Thursday and Friday
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it showed up on time, but I still didn't make evaluation any
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of those days. Of course, I'm still 2 hours
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under the evaluation my route should actually be at.
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But thank you Rex, since packages seem to be the biggest
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contributor to route increases compared to anything else,
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especially coverage factor. Pretty bad week overall.
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Tons and tons and tons of political mail and tons of it in
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my own mailbox going right into the burn pit.
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But when I get into that, then the weekend came and Saturday
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was a lazy day after all that work and took time to go out, do
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some shopping and stuff like that.
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And then did a lot of yard work today to get ready for Halloween
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and trick or treaters and stuff like that.
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Make sure that all the leaves and stuff are picked up since
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they're already falling off the trees here.
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But yeah, overall it was a terrible, terrible week with
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political mail and but I got through it all.
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How was your retired week, Bill? Mine was wonderful.
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I, I got to throw away 93% of my mail because it was all
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political. And when I tell you I had four
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pieces of first class mail all week, that's the God's honest
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truth. Friday morning was interesting.
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I had a, my Eagles lawn chair and I sat on the grass across
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the street from my FD and Z with a sign saying they LC, you
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deserve more vote no. And I sat there for two hours
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while the city carriers were, you know, leaving the facility.
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All of them were beeping the horns and give me the thumbs up
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and all that. Twice, twice, little white Ford
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Focus government vehicles drove up to my spot slowly.
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One guy actually stopped to look at me, and I waved that and
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said, how you doing? And then he drove off because,
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you know, not on your property, you can't say anything.
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But then, you know, within about 15 minutes, my phone just
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started ringing off In the city carrier right now, and they're
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going, no, you're such an asshole.
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We love you. And I said, you know, hey, guys,
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you know, we're going to get the same shit contract.
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So, you know, we're in the same boat.
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And the Titanic's going down for the second time.
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Other than that, you know, I had Hudson, my grandson, Friday
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night, Saturday day, we went down and saw Noah and took food
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down to them. So you can eat for three or four
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days. It yeah.
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It it's great because, you know, even when I was working, we did
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that. My son Gregory is AEMT for
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Kaiser Permanente in Camden, NJ and he is in the middle of a
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really bad piece of the the state of New Jersey in Camden.
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And he's going to school to be a doctor.
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He just had his MCAC. He's waiting for those results
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and his wife is a dispatcher for the University of Delaware.
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So, you know, kids go to the daycare and and that's cooling
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and all, but the kid is so sharp and so cute and just, you know,
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and, and, and adamant. I love it.
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No Poppy. No Poppy has like, you know, he
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puts his little hands on his hips.
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No Poppy. And it's just like, how do you
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get mad at that? Then you go over and smack his
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ass, you know, but it it was a good week.
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I've been fielding calls all week like you guys been
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experiencing the with the political mail and our office.
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They had a problem with the Amazon on Sunday.
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Everybody seems to have Internet problems recently.
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Monday we had 11 carriers out, eight O clock because of the
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the, the amount of parcels that came in, they had to make second
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trips. Second trips are done after you
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take your mail and the first loadout, not before you start
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your day in the case at home anyway.
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Beautiful weather. It's dry though.
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We need rain, but the the weather's turning into fall and
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it's just beautiful with the colors we have out here.
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How about you Chris? Now is your week.
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My week, Well Monday sucked. It was an 11 and 1/2 hour day
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from hell and other than that the rest of the week wasn't too
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bad. I was done usually between 4:00
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and 5:00 and Friday I got done at 3:30 and and went to a
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concert. Took my daughter down to the
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legendary machine shop for her first time now that she's 18.
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So we went and did that and had a good time and then came home.
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Yesterday was just a blase day for me, even though Ruby and the
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boy, my boyfriend, decided they wanted to have a party but oh,
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it was only two of Ruby's friends that came over so I just
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kind of chilled on my own and went to bed at a decent time
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last night. Today I started my last
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Halloween decoration. Easy to get put out before
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Thursday so I got to get some more black spray paint for that.
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Other than that, my week wasn't horrible horrible.
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Just had days where I wanted to mumble and grumble a bit, but
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yeah. Seem seem to be a lot of that
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you know this week. Oh, I think we're going to get
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it all this next week, too. Oh God, yeah, I, I so not miss
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that yet. I, I, I had a screenshot sent to
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me from one of our carriers. They had a 14 inch high stack
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political mail on their case when they came in in the
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morning. And of course, of course, none
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of it covered the entire route, but the 14 inches actually went
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around the route twice. They've got a little over 650
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boxes. Yep, and.
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That's included in your 19%, right, James?
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Well you supposedly get credit when they actually register it
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as being a paid postage in the system supposedly.
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But you don't get the coverage factor that goes along with it.
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That's only counted with the DPS.
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It's not counted with any flats or any raw mail as.
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And you and. There's.
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And there's no proof that the bread crumbs pick it up for it
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either. Exactly.
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So you're basically delivering me for free?
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I I do do appreciate the fact that, you know, some people were
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as about obnoxious enough as the individual engaging Kristen and
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we were told we had to deliver the political mail even if it
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was on hold. We have not got that directive,
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but I have heard of where that's come down in a few places and
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I'm sorry they're on. Hold.
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I mean, I fell off the toilet seat on that one.
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I mean you are delivering it to the spot where you hold their
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mail. Yep, that is where you are
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supposed to deliver it. That is where the customer has
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requested their mail be delivered for the time frame
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they have that hold. You just can't make this shit
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up. You can't.
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Nope exactly. They will get it when they
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resume or when they pick it up at the office.
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Oh we were. We were now directed that we
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have to count our three M mail that we bring back from our DPS.
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You have to count it. Yep, we have to count the miss
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sent, the miss sort and the miss sequenced that we bring back.
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With us, at least a time into shift duties and you get
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straight time for it. Right.
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I'll sit there and count it all damn day.
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Same way they want each piece of political mail indoors.
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I'll do that all day long. And she let us, she let she let
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the office take a vote on this, on whether we would count it and
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write the numbers down on the sheet ourselves or we'd wait for
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management to come around and count it.
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Well, Neil's to say we won the vote on, we count it and we put
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the count sheet right on our clipboard underneath our 4240
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and it all in at the same time, no questions asked.
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I would have. I would have gone with the oh,
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I'll wait right at my case for management to come around and
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count it on into shift duties. Not when I gotta get the hell
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out of the office Friday by 3:30.
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Thank you. She was putting herself ahead of
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herself. Yeah, I'm sorry guys.
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And she brought it down to show me.
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Speaking of. Weird management directives.
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Some offices are being told they now have to stop and check every
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mailbox every day until the election.
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And if you so the actual directive it says mounted
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routes. Make sure you know to check with
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the flag. With the flag is up.
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Yes. That's what the actual directive
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says, but they're twisting it all around to check every box
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every day regardless, even those that are inactive.
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I had one carrier in an office South of me saying well a lot of
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my inactive ones that are just dead boxes are zip tied shut.
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She goes well, then you have to untie them and check the box.
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So I had a carrier actually say something really smart about
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this. You want me to stop at every
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box, right? Good.
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Do I get AWSS credit because I am stopping at every box?
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Can I put it in as AWSS since you're making me stop at each
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box? Because that's 100% coverage.
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If you're stopping at every single box, you should get a
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credit for it. So I think that's something that
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they should ask. Now, I am not saying that this
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is official thing to do or anything like that, but that is
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something that somebody has said that hey, I want credit for
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stopping at every single box. So I'm going to get the credit
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through the Rex input scan because I'm not getting credit
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through the DPS for the coverage factor and I'm definitely not
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getting paid for it any which way that management wants wants
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to pay for it. So I want the credit somehow.
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And if I have to undo the zip tied shut mailboxes, well I'm
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going to be timing every single one for 8127 time.
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Exactly the time it takes to take the zip tie off, check the
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box and put a zip tie back. Yep.
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Yeah. So let me address.
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Let me address Bart here about having his tray or tub to this
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case. We we've had that several times
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happen every time we change math through than our underwear in
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regards to having equipment at our case.
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And first time that we, we did this, it was a unilateral
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grievance, class action grievance in which we were
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allowed to. Now given the, the micromanaging
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that we are under nowadays, they have people that hide mail
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under, you know, in the empty tub, none in the empty trades.
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They don't want them there at all.
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So we get and, and when many mail surveys start, we get time
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walk to the area where they have trades and tubs.
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And if that area isn't fully stocked with empty equipment, we
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then put down 8127 time to roam the office to find the
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appropriate amount of equipment we need for our route.
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Mild and 1:00. They tried that in our office
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and quickly found out that we were getting paid way too much
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of that 8127 time to go get that, get equipment and said OK,
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you guys can go put it back underneath there and we'll just
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check to see if there's hidden mail.
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Instead of doing a report about getting off your damn asses and
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checking the damn cases like you're supposed to for sleepers,
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you know, for mail that's been left behind without
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authorization. Yeah, they're now, they're now
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sending all our album back to the plant every day now they're
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actually taking our album, sending it back to the plant.
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And guess what? That album is coming back in our
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DPS. So our forwards, so our forwards
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or our markups, everything's coming back.
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It's like the plant is literally taking everything that comes
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into it, throwing it in the DPS machine and calling it good.
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I mean, I mean, I'm perfectly happy getting the extra DPS
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credit and the end of shift time to to deal with all of it.
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But at the same time, that is a waste.
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That is also a failure for the customer that we're working for,
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especially forwards and markup mail.
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You know, those are failures. Management's failing again.
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What's new, right? But they're good at it.
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Yeah. I had a medical magazine from
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one of my customers going forward and I wrote it in pan.
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I wrote forward, came back to me.
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I put it back in the circulation again to be forward, but I put
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my little check marker on the back of it came back again.
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So this time I wrote it with a black sharpie, came back again.
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It came back three times. I got a magic marker, a Big
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Magic marker and wrote forward and three inch letters on there.
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It came back to me. I took it to the supervisor and
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explained why is this coming back to me?
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I don't know the plant's doing it.
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Why don't you know why the plant's doing this?
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Well, we get we have no control over the plant.
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I don't give a fuck. It says excuse me.
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I said I don't give a fuck. I'm not paid to handle this day
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in and day out. I only get this raw mail count
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credit credit during the mini mail survey.
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I've handled this and I turned it over in times.
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It said, now you either make it disappear or I'll make it
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disappear, but I'm not handling this again.
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They took it, they put it in it. It came back the next day,
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accidentally slipped in the some place that I won't mention and I
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never saw it again. I mean, I, I feel bad for the
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customer, but you know, do you really want me going off on the
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floor because you can't do your job yet?
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We're expected to do it 100% every day.
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And when we try to do our job, you don't support us.
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I'm sick and tired of, you know, of, of the people saying, well,
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we have no control over the plant.
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Well, get, get 5 or 6 nice big beefy guys go down there,
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straighten them out. Somebody's asked because, you
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know, we're tired of it. Well then and you get some of
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the offices there in in my district, but all our mail comes
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out of the other district. Or how about this?
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How about you get your marked up letters A-Z, no mail receptacle,
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you know, address the unknown and you get it back in your
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clerk mail. Your own clerks are sorting it
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and putting it in clerk mail. Because they don't.
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They don't look at, they don't look at that.
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In fact, in my my office, the clerk literally only looks at
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the street name, doesn't look at the numbers, doesn't look at
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anything else, just looks at the street name and throws it into a
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slot. I, I just, you know, and, and I
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took that to a supervisor. I said, now here's something you
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can deal with. Well, I'll talk to the clerk
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supervisor. Who is it?
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This guy over there? I went over to talk to the clerk
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supervisor. Well, I don't know who did it.
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It happens every day. Doesn't matter who's working.
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It happens every freaking day. Folks to talk to all of them.
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How about that? Yep.
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And then sign an 1810 training form saying that they were
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instructed not to put this back into the clerk mail.
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No, no, no, two days later it'll come in your DPS.
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And and they wonder why, you know, the work atmosphere is
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intolerable. Well, because people at the
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bottom of the ladder expect to do their jobs 100% of the time.
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Nobody else is. Speaking of not caring, Renfro,
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Renfro is going around touting the City Carrier contract as the
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greatest thing since sliced bread in the rap sessions.
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How out of touch do you have to be that you have to delete all
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your social media accounts because you can't stand all the
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people calling you out for the mistake that you made in one of
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the worst negotiated contracts ever to come out through the
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Postal Service since the 1970s? It only took you 20 months to do
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it. Yeah, you spent 20 months in an
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in negotiation supposedly, and this is the best you can come
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out with. Our city brothers and sisters
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deserve way better and we deserve way better.
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But our our leadership is waiting on the City side to
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ratify theirs first. And because they're not going to
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ratify it, although they have stack the deck in their ballot
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counting already with a retiree out of Royal Oak, MI they're
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talking about, it's a possibility this may go as a
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yes, even though there are more no votes supposedly, at least on
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the on the social media side of this.
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But the fact remains, this contract is a precursor.
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If this contract is ratified, all the other crafts are going
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to get the same thing. All the other crafts are going
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to be low balled with the city carrier contract that this
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person negotiated. And they really didn't work hard
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at it because there are multiple posts out there, as just was
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posted in our chat here, showing that everything on there is
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almost identical to the last contract they negotiated.
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So he really didn't have to do any work and make this, but he
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had to wait 20 months to give us this for the city craft.
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Seriously. But we are at a precipice here.
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People are waiting to see what will happen.
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And if it doesn't go the way it is, I'm afraid that the people
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that can leave will leave. And the people that can't leave
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will be so overworked they'll either cut corners and risk
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their own safety causing problems, or they'll get so
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overwhelmed that they'll quit too.
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And then there will be nobody left to deliver but management.
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And let's not. Forget and.
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Let's not forget about the mass exodus of those that pull those
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that pull their dues. Yeah, they're already pulling
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dues on the City side, you know, And I'm telling people don't
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pull your dues because this right here is why you don't.
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If the people who think and don't like this kind of a
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contract voted no on this contract, people actually
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participated and voted on this contract and said no in
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overwhelming numbers, it would send a message not only to the
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union leadership but also postal management that we won't accept
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their shenanigans anymore. We need to stand up.
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We need to come together. Those of you who are not dues
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paying members right now and see this contract from the city
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carriers need just get in need to start getting into this union
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so you can use your voice and your vote.
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When our contract is tentatively agreed upon, the time for
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sitting back and not doing anything is over.
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For the crafts. We sat back long enough.
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We took hit after hit after hit, not only on arbitration to the
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two tier pay system, but since the 70s, since we had that one
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great moment where we got properly respected for one
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moment from management. Since then, management has been
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clawing back at their ability to take and take and take from each
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craft, pitting US against each other, pitting city against
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rural, rural against clerk, clerk against mail handler.
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Now it's time for everybody, no matter which craft you're in, to
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come together as one unit of workers and tell management it's
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time to stuff it. These losses that they're
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posting, 80% of it is in managerial pay, 10% of it is in
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grievance pay. The last 10% is in paychecks to
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carriers. And let's not forget about the
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frivolous spending of the SNDCS and all the extra vehicles too.
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A gentleman did a post in regards to how much the SD and
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CS are affecting personnel count from mail handlers, clerks and
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everything else, trying to to come up with a balanced figure
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in regards to the joy's calculations.
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And the joy's never, you know, explained any of this as this
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gentleman did. He just always said, you know
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the cost savings as far as the trucks are concerned and
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everything else. Well, you know we got a problem
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with that because right now in my area we have 3 or 4
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supervisors who are constantly taking late mail up to the FB
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and CS to deliver it. What are you going to do when
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the post office, you know, that no longer has carriers and still
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servicing boxes and customers at the window as an express mail?
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Are you going to just keep turning over the money back to
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the sender because the express mail didn't get there on time?
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Are you going to change those standards of service again the
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same way you've changed the standards on the certified
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letters? I I don't understand where he
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thinks he's saving the a shit load of money.
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Here's here's an idea. How about stop giving away free
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boxes to people you know, 10 and 20 at a time while you're
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charging 5 to $7.00 for the same boxes in the lobby.
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How about charging people $10 to forward their mail about
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charging them $5 to hold, you know, hold the mail.
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I mean, there's plenty of areas where you can, you can generate
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income. One of the areas is get rid of
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your piss poor management because you're, you're paying
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these people in the six figures and they ain't worth I got to
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bite my tongue. I got to bite my tongue, bite my
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tongue like they're not worth a snot off the end of your nose.
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And that's not what I was going to say.
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But you know, I think the fact of the matter is, you know,
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they're not trained. They, they have no contract
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knowledge. They're in fear of their jobs
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from their postmasters. The postmasters in fear from the
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job from the DM. The DM is in fear for the job
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from the rooms. I mean, you know, this is just,
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it's a, a state of fear for doing your jobs.
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It's really easy, folks. It is the mail and let us get
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out on the route. OK, but babysitting us, it's the
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mail. Get the parcel sorted, you know,
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oh, the scanners are down. The Internet's down.
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We had Eddie Torrance and used to throw parcels for 100 plus
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routes in Westchester memory. And yet now you have these
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parcel sorting machines. You have, you know, the bullpen
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area where they're using the scanners that resort them.
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You still can't get it right. Agreed.
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Technology is making this job a little bit easier from some
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aspects. The stupidity of operating it is
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the downfall. Yeah.
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Clerks. They're they're clerks don't
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learn a scheme anymore. They rely on the freaking
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scanner to tell them what route it goes to.
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Then they're over there sorting freaking raw mail and they can't
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get it right 3/4 of the time because they're not forced to
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learn a scheme anymore. I'm, I'm going to say this, we
25:46
have an RCA that does some clerk work because we actually need
25:50
two more clerks in my office. So he does clerk work on top of
25:54
running routes on that and he literally doesn't look at the
25:58
scanner. He looks at the packages and
25:59
throws them to the route because he's done every route in that
26:01
office. He is much faster than any of
26:04
the clerks at doing it And and more accurate too.
26:09
And you know, you're talking about management and the issues
26:14
going on there. At this point in time, I'm going
26:19
to say that from district on up, it's no longer incompetence.
26:25
This is pure and simple maliciousness.
26:29
It is intentional. It is by far on purpose that
26:35
they are doing these things because the stuff that keeps
26:38
coming across, the people that keep talking about stuff, after
26:41
a few times, it's no longer a mistake.
26:45
It's intentional. And we know that from the
26:48
district on up, these people are manipulating, attacking and
26:55
unilaterally choosing to do these things.
26:59
And it is our job now as carriers to come together
27:06
against the onslaught that we are getting from management, not
27:12
only for our craft, but for every craft out there.
27:16
We need to come together. I know a lot of us in the rural
27:20
city craft and even the clerk craft don't know any mail mail
27:23
handlers. But I'm telling you, on my
27:26
perspective alone, I stand with my brothers and sisters at the
27:29
plant. It is I don't believe it is
27:32
their fault this stuff is happening.
27:35
I believe it is management from the district level and higher
27:39
that is causing the plants to make all these mistakes.
27:42
That is causing the issues in these plans because they are
27:45
trying to control every little thing like you said,
27:49
micromanaging and it is district management that is micromanaging
27:53
the local management. Then that makes the local
27:56
management have to micromanage the people that are under them.
28:00
It is intentional now and it is time for the crafts to stand up,
28:06
step up and show them that we, as the people who make the
28:12
revenue for this service, won't take it anymore.
28:16
Mr. Johnson posted up about a carrier saying could you sort
28:20
the parcels cause the Internet was down?
28:22
I'm sorry, what does the Internet have to do with the
28:25
parcel sorting machine that should have its own server
28:29
sorting parcels for that office? Am I missing something?
28:34
Why is the Internet involved in that?
28:35
The lamest excuse that I ever heard.
28:39
The Internet's down. I mean, we have scanners in our
28:42
office that are not connected to the Internet that can scan
28:46
parcels and tell you what route they go to.
28:48
How is that not possible to give to somebody, a clerk or a mail
28:52
handler at the SNDC, whatever to sort these things?
28:55
Use that. The old brick scanners, they
28:58
work and they don't have Internet anymore.
29:00
They killed the phone contract on them.
29:02
Yeah, because the information doesn't get gathered until it's
29:05
uploaded when they hang the scanner up.
29:07
Yeah. But so some info I've gotten to
29:12
change gears here. I had a carrier reach out to me
29:16
this week about their route. They were a 40K route and the
29:22
routes in their office got adjusted which turned the aux
29:26
route into a 42J. Carrier bid on the 42 J won it
29:32
in September and then the evaluation came out and it is
29:36
A33H now because of when the around evaluations happened, it
29:42
did not have enough data for 52 weeks to keep it at the 42 J.
29:47
So the carrier is upset about that and wanted to know what
29:50
they can do and stuff like that. Plus their guarantee salary was
29:56
Table 2 step 13333 hours instead of what it's supposed to be,
30:04
which is 40 hours at its current step.
30:07
So they were reaching out to figure out what to do and in the
30:11
process got in, got found out who their representative was,
30:15
talked with them and the case was escalated up and it was
30:20
passed on to Miss Bethany Small. So we're going to see what she
30:24
she can do on this case, but they are trying to figure it
30:30
out. Routes that were newly formed
30:35
from the new evaluation of the route cuts are dropping hard.
30:41
It's not the first one we've heard of.
30:43
It's not the only one we've heard of.
30:46
Routes that were cut have gone back over evaluation, over
30:50
evaluated again. This is going to be a complex
30:54
issue, but I wish that when they thought of this they could have
30:58
turned around and said OK. If a route gets added to or
31:03
deleted from, then we take that section of time that it was
31:08
added from or deleted from and use that for the route
31:11
evaluation temporarily until we can get full data sets on it.
31:16
Because I'm sure the post office doesn't want to be overpaying
31:19
carriers for more than the work they're doing.
31:21
And I know carriers don't want to be underpaid for the work
31:25
that they're doing. Why can't?
31:27
Why didn't they come up with some kind of middle ground
31:29
before they went into this system full tilt?
31:32
Because they didn't test it fully to know where they needed
31:36
to make those big changes. They couldn't test it on
31:39
something that had every aspect showing, OK, if we cut it,
31:43
what's going to happen? If we build up a new route,
31:45
what's going to happen? They, they they couldn't do all
31:49
this variable in the 1011 freaking years it took them to
31:53
do this. They still couldn't work any of
31:55
those bugs out. Because why?
31:57
Oh, we didn't think about that. Yep.
31:59
They didn't think of parent child routes.
32:01
They didn't think of any of the other aspects of our job other
32:05
than, Oh well, we're just we're just going to do evaluations and
32:08
call it good from there. And then before, because you
32:11
know, you had your box volume factor and you know, you, you
32:16
knew what your boxes were worth and everything else.
32:20
And now they use it as a route average.
32:23
So when they do make these cuts and add on to routes and take
32:27
away from routes and move territory around, that's
32:30
screwing the whole thing up because they're taking it as a
32:32
total average of the entire route and not the average of
32:35
that section alone. Yep.
32:38
That's because they're Commodore 64.
32:40
Computers can't calculate that speed.
32:43
Wow, you're giving them credit for actually having Commodore
32:45
64? Doesn't say that.
32:47
Seems like a little too up to date for them.
32:50
Well, the. Advocates was, you know, the
32:52
advocates wasn't keeping up either.
32:54
I mean, I thought it was still the old punch card machine.
32:58
Oh, now you're talking my language.
33:04
But so they are supposedly working on it at National.
33:10
Whether that's actually happening or not, we have yet to
33:13
see. Like we have said before, we do
33:16
not know how our newly elected board members are going to be,
33:20
but we are giving them the benefit of their doubt to see
33:24
what happens. I.
33:25
Hope something positive happened.
33:28
We all do, because it's a change we definitely needed.
33:31
Now we just need to see the results of that change.
33:34
We, we hope, but I, I cannot say that I am the Mystic whatsoever,
33:39
given the leadership that we have.
33:42
The top two positions are still and in that old boy style.
33:46
And you know, somebody would compare Don Madsen to a
33:50
unpopular German gentleman from the 30s and 40s.
33:55
But you know, I, I, I, I don't have any hope that they're going
34:01
to get anything better than what the city carriers have been
34:03
offered. They don't, and.
34:04
Neither do I. So those of you who had your
34:09
routes added to and then lost in the last evaluation, just know
34:15
we understand completely what's going on.
34:17
We understand the system is flawed massively and it's going
34:22
to take a year for you to see those results.
34:27
It's going to take the next two mini mail surveys to get there.
34:31
And for some people that may be too long for others if just a
34:38
waiting game. But just know that we are
34:40
actually in communication with our national office on this for
34:44
several carriers as well. I talked with my NRO several
34:49
times to try and make sure things get done.
34:51
And everybody needs to. If you are affected by this, get
34:58
in contact with your designated union Rep.
35:00
Figure out what you guys can do, because being underpaid is just
35:06
as bad as not being paid as all at all.
35:08
Or not being paid for the hours that you actually work versus
35:12
your evaluation. Yeah.
35:14
I mean, I I left my route and it and it was 10 hours over the
35:17
Max. I didn't see if any of that.
35:20
All right, it. Got quiet that that was your cue
35:24
to kick in there. That was your cue.
35:26
You had something. I thought you had something to
35:28
discuss. Did.
35:29
I I thought you did. Didn't you get something or?
35:32
I see in the comments we're telling people to get involved
35:35
and not to pull their dues and everything else about getting
35:38
changes. And you know, for years I've
35:42
had, you know, some of the biggest rye babies in my office,
35:46
non union members and I, I would politely explain to them,
35:50
listen, I said, you know, I don't care what your gripe is,
35:54
not in the union. You make no attempt to make any
35:56
changes. You're not involved.
35:58
They'll participate. So you don't have a voice.
36:01
It's like when they send the, the, the votes out for the
36:03
national contract don't get a vote and you don't have a voice.
36:07
So, you know, after about the fourth, fifth time, I finally
36:11
went, you know, Bill on and said, look, I don't care, Don't
36:14
cry on my Dick. And I don't care if it's a, a
36:16
man or a woman or whatever gender affiliation they had.
36:19
But you know, I don't care if you're not part of the union,
36:24
not part of the solution. Yeah, and then you get the. 1.
36:29
You. Want your you want your gripes
36:31
heard and join. Have a voice.
36:34
And then you get the ones that gripe that are in the union, but
36:37
they don't do anything. They don't go to a local, they
36:41
don't vote for delegates, they don't vote for ratifications,
36:45
but they just whine and complain and gripe and, and, and well,
36:50
what's the union going to do about that?
36:52
And this honey, we are the union.
36:56
What many people think is the union are those nine people that
37:00
sit up at the National board. They are not the union.
37:04
Those are the elected representatives.
37:09
The regular dues paying member is the main voice for the union.
37:15
We are the union, even if the most you do is vote, whether
37:20
it's for delegates or a contract ratification, and when only 17%
37:26
/ 120,000 people are making the determination of whether this
37:32
contract is a go or not a go vote.
37:35
Sad. Sad.
37:37
Yeah, well, Kristen and, and be being in your position, a single
37:41
mom per say. I I once had a lady say, well, I
37:44
can't go to the, you know, the local meeting because, you know,
37:47
I got the kids and this and that and all and, and I said, look,
37:50
bring the kids there. I said we're providing free food
37:53
so you don't even have to make dinner to bring them.
37:55
They get we'll put with coloring books and crayons in the back.
37:58
I don't care. Come and participate, get
38:00
involved and she goes, well, I, I've, I've never had anybody
38:04
tell me that. Well, you know, you raise all
38:06
kinds of objections. I said I can overcome this one.
38:09
So bring the kids, we'll feed them.
38:10
You participate and the, and the kids will have fun.
38:12
Dress them in their pajamas. When you get home, you can put
38:15
them right to bed. I, I, I do want to, I, I do want
38:19
to add something out and I'm thinking about it because you
38:21
remember last week I talked about how Kristen.
38:25
Hang on. Yeah, go ahead.
38:27
Before, before you get into that, I wanted to say 17% of the
38:31
craft is only 20,400 people. 20,400 people decided the last
38:42
contract. Out of 120,000 people, 20,400
38:47
decided the fate of this craft. And I don't know about you, but
38:51
I can't stand by and let everybody just be silent on it.
38:55
20,400, If we had another 20,400 people step up and decide,
39:01
imagine how that would sway a vote.
39:03
Yeah. All right, so I don't remember
39:05
if it was pre show, post show or maybe during the show, but I
39:08
talked about an RCA in an office nearby where I grew up who turns
39:14
out to be a former boss of mine from way back, you know, teenage
39:19
early 20 years. And they talked carrier in that
39:24
office at Booster and they gave him it my number and I hadn't
39:28
talked to him in over 20 years. He called me Tuesday and we
39:32
talked for 45 minutes Tuesday. This is somebody who is coming
39:36
out of 32 years in management. So he's trying to change his
39:41
thinking around a little bit 'cause he wants to make that
39:44
office better. And I told him, I said the
39:47
number one thing you can do. I said read up on your contract,
39:51
read up, you know, read the contract, the PO6O3 and hold
39:55
management responsible. I said, I know he can do that.
39:59
He was a manager 32 years of his life, you know, and he's like,
40:04
all right, you know, And I talked a little bit more.
40:06
I said if you ever get hung up on something or a question or
40:09
something, right? I said.
40:10
Feel free, send me a text, I can send you a screenshot, tell you
40:13
where to look, whatever I said. But number one, you want to make
40:16
a change for the positive in that office.
40:19
I said educate yourself on your rights and your responsibilities
40:24
and hold management accountable to them and get active in the
40:28
union. Go to your, your, your meetings,
40:30
I said the next spring one is for the state.
40:33
I told him when that was in a local meeting that night.
40:37
So that was kind of a late notice for him because I didn't
40:39
know the details. I just know they're having a
40:41
local meeting that day. I still get involved.
40:43
I said get get, you know, get yourself educated and get
40:46
involved. He's like, all right.
40:47
He goes, yeah, thank you. I was like, wow, this is kind of
40:50
a little different twist here. He goes, yeah, he goes.
40:52
Sometimes the teacher becomes the student.
40:55
And I said, this is kind of fun for me.
40:59
But yeah, I mean that that really right there.
41:01
You want to make a change in your office, educate yourself
41:05
and hold management responsible. That's the main thing that you
41:10
can do. OK.
41:11
I just wanted to share that. Well, it's true.
41:14
The biggest thing, you know, you can have a steward in every
41:17
single office. You can have somebody who's
41:20
fighting management in every single office.
41:23
But if every carrier in that office is educated, management
41:27
will eventually learn that that office cannot be messed with.
41:31
They'll mess with an office that has a steward, they'll mess with
41:34
people that have a steward in office.
41:36
But they will. They'll try, but eventually
41:40
learn. It's too difficult to mess with
41:43
an educated carrier. Now, as there's been studies,
41:46
psychological studies done, an informed minority controls the
41:53
uninformed majority. It's time for the majority to
41:59
become informed. Can you imagine in the nether
42:03
regions of your mind an office where everybody was educated,
42:08
everybody knew the contract? 6O3 They didn't have to know the
42:12
whole thing, but knew, you know, the, the, the vague fringes of
42:18
their right on the floor and stood up to management every
42:21
time management approached them with something that was
42:24
afflicting with the contract and yell at them or whatever.
42:27
Management would be cowering in their seats every day if they
42:32
had to broach a subject with a carrier, because if one carrier
42:36
didn't know something, the other than one next to them might step
42:38
up and say, hey, you know, that's in violation of our
42:41
rules. Sorry that that's not
42:43
enforceable. Sorry.
42:46
Did you ask them to work tomorrow?
42:48
Did you file the order of consideration?
42:50
You know, if you all, if an office like that ever existed,
42:54
management would never, ever reach the confidentiality of our
43:00
contract Elm, the six O 3, the M38, because they'd be if they
43:05
would be afraid of like I said, when I was a local steward, I
43:08
mean, I would file a grievance. I got to the point where I filed
43:11
the grievance and the settlement the same day because the post
43:14
match knew if I'm filing a grievance I was going to win it.
43:17
Yeah, and me and. And it's those same carriers
43:20
that'll gripe and gripe and gripe, but they won't stand up
43:22
for themselves. And they expect the steward to
43:25
do it all for them. And even then, the steward's
43:27
like, dude, I can't. You have to initiate.
43:30
You're not happy, You talk to management, you initiate it,
43:34
then I'll take it over until then.
43:36
Otherwise, quit your bitching. And I have a supervisor in our.
43:40
Office that James. I understand both sides of that,
43:44
Kristen. I do you know, I also know that
43:48
there are some carriers that are so afraid of retaliation and
43:54
living paycheck to paycheck, especially those on Table 2 or
43:57
RCA that are on the table for that.
44:03
They will talk with the steward and hope the steward can help
44:07
them. And if the steward had the
44:09
ability to file on contractual issues, just contractual issues,
44:15
that alone could solve at least 40% of the problems in offices,
44:20
if not 50%. I understand that that puts more
44:25
work on the stewards. I understand that puts more work
44:28
on the system. But at the same time, if
44:31
management starts realizing that the union is stepping up for
44:37
carriers, the union is defending against management's mistakes
44:44
and intentional infliction of emotional distress, then at that
44:49
point, management's going to cut the BS in half.
44:53
But because we don't stand up for our fellow brothers and
44:57
sisters, and I'm talking even regular carriers should, if they
45:02
see a contractual violation occurring to another carrier,
45:06
should be able to initiate agreement for that carrier to be
45:10
able to protect their brother and sister on the floor.
45:13
Because the only way that we have any semblance of an actual
45:18
contract is if we enforce its parameters.
45:23
A contract that is not enforced is no contract.
45:29
I have to do agree with you on that a little bit James, but
45:32
when this is carriers that have been around for well they're
45:35
table one carriers, yes, Yeah, that just.
45:40
And I have been in my office, Kristen, same way.
45:44
You're going to have them in every office, you're going to
45:46
have them everywhere because we're 120,000 people.
45:50
You can't expect 120,000 people to think exactly the same way or
45:55
act the exact same one. Oh, and you don't have 120,000
45:58
that that have the backbone stand up for themselves either.
46:02
You know, I, I've got a 30 year carrier that I don't think he
46:06
had, but three grievances of which I handled too, the 30
46:11
years that he's had because he's afraid, although just come after
46:15
me or, and, and this gentleman had had a little arrangement
46:19
with the supervisor or he would work every drop day and then
46:24
take you the next day in the middle of the week at his, his,
46:27
his own convenience. Well, when they stopped doing
46:29
the overtime and he didn't get to, you know, his drop day to
46:33
work, you know, he was crying and pissing the moan about it.
46:36
I said, well, you didn't try and piss and moan about it when you
46:38
worked the rules to your advantage, did you?
46:40
No, and I said you didn't cry and piss and moan about it when
46:44
you're not paying dues and you're not involved in the union
46:48
yet. No, I said so when you're 30
46:50
years, guess what you learn the working system to your
46:53
advantage. Now it's gone and now you want
46:54
to cry about it. Sorry it doesn't work that way.
46:57
I I can have empathy towards people to a certain extent after
47:03
a certain point, guess what you're on your own because you
47:07
didn't bother to participate when it affected other people.
47:11
You did was cry when it affected you.
47:12
OK, so now that it has a direct effect on you, you have a
47:15
complaint, but you have no foundation for your crying if
47:20
they have a stub available to run your route and they're
47:25
entitled to run your route. I, I, I did have an instance
47:28
Friday there was a stand up talk happening about the three M mail
47:32
that I mentioned pre show and the postmaster also mentioned
47:37
the red line. And then she saw me walking
47:39
closer to her out of my case and the look on my face.
47:45
She got that look of terror on hers and she looked over at the
47:48
steward who turned her on, looked at her, shrugged his
47:51
shoulders and I waited until she was done talking.
47:55
And then I asked a couple questions just to get
47:57
verification before I decided if I was going to file a grievance
48:02
or not. There was no grievance to file
48:04
but I was already locked and loaded.
48:06
All she did is see me step out of that case and walk closer up
48:09
to the center of the room where she was at and the look of
48:11
terror came across her face is. That what you got to do?
48:16
Every carrier, yeah, every carrier has that ability.
48:22
Every carrier has the chance to get management to back off of
48:28
the stupid. I'm not going to say that word.
48:32
The dumb things that come out of District's mouth because 99% of
48:40
the things management is telling you to do was not in an e-mail.
48:46
It was told to them over a telecon.
48:49
So that the district manager has immunity from the grievance that
48:54
comes because your manager will fall on a sword for the district
48:59
manager, but the district manager will throw their ass
49:02
under the bus faster than you can even blink.
49:05
And then backed up just to make sure they got you.
49:07
Oh yeah. Yep, but.
49:09
Yeah, when? When?
49:11
When you could just the way I stepped out of the case and
49:13
walked towards the center of the room.
49:15
Soon as she said the red line policy, I was like, oh, here we
49:19
go, I'm waiting on this one. I let her finish and I made
49:24
clarification that would be allowed to go back to our case
49:27
when we returned. And yeah, I didn't have a
49:30
grievance. I was like I was locked and
49:32
loaded too. You know what's really egregious
49:37
is that all my years I probably had three good supervisors on
49:41
the rural side, and all three of them left because they didn't
49:46
like working under the pressure from above.
49:49
But every piece of shit supervisor I've ever had who
49:52
follows and bends the knee, kisses the ring, and everything
49:56
else of those above them, they've made lifelong careers
49:59
out of the post office. Ones with the skinned up.
50:03
Knee pads. You said it, not me.
50:10
Yeah, it's. Really soft lips too.
50:15
No, I mean, honestly guys, educating yourself, I mean
50:19
everything is right there at your fingertips for the most
50:22
part. Yeah, you may have to search and
50:24
dig on the website a little bit. Lord knows it's not the best
50:28
user friendly at times, but it is all right there available and
50:33
educating yourself and educating your case mate.
50:37
Or you know that new RCA coming into the office and standing up
50:43
for yourself and make the biggest difference in holding
50:47
management responsible as well. Because if you don't hold them
50:50
responsible, they're going to run right over you completely
50:53
every single chance they get. The longer you let them do it,
50:57
the worse it's going to get. Anything else, gentlemen?
51:00
That's all I had. Bill, you have anything you want
51:03
to add? I think Bill Bill went into his
51:05
retirement nap. I.
51:09
Don't hear him snoring quite yet.
51:10
True. Oh, I did want to bring up one
51:13
more thing. This was kind of brought up to
51:15
me a little bit earlier during a conversation.
51:18
And RCA is, if you're not happy in an office, you can transfer.
51:25
RCA transfers are so you can transfer, you can find an office
51:30
that's going to treat you better and treat you with a little bit
51:34
more respect and not be degrading and, and nasty to you.
51:39
If you find another office, even if it's just because you get
51:42
sent to another office to to help or you volunteer and you
51:46
like that office better, you could always put in for a
51:50
transfer if it's a better foot for you.
51:53
I would rather see RC as transfer to an office that's a
51:57
better fit for them than to see them quit and leave.
52:00
Am I right guys? Yeah.
52:02
I mean, if you're a regular carrier and you want to transfer
52:07
out, you can look for district bids or you can also do a mutual
52:12
transfer with somebody. That's another way you could do
52:15
that. You could actually.
52:18
There are people who move just from one district to another on
52:22
a mutual transfer because somebody in the other district
52:24
wants to move to their district. Yeah, so, and also, I mean, if
52:29
another route, if you're you're struggling on the route, you're
52:31
on your primary because it's one of those just bad routes or, you
52:36
know, the, the regular doesn't keep the case up properly or,
52:40
you know, there's a lot of different factors why routes
52:42
aren't good fits for certain people.
52:44
I've had routes that I never was able to to lasso in.
52:48
I mean, I had a route, my old office, it didn't matter what
52:53
day it was that I went out on that route.
52:55
I wasn't getting back between it was 10 and 12 hours before I was
52:58
getting back that me and that route just did not get along.
53:01
But if there's another route that comes vacant with an RCA
53:05
now, technically, according to Article 30, they are supposed to
53:09
offer it by seniority when a leave replacement becomes open.
53:13
They don't always do that. Put it in writing if you want to
53:16
switch to another route that's, you know, a better fit for you,
53:20
you know, if they fail to offer that by seniority down the chain
53:24
when it comes vacant, that's an article 30 violation.
53:28
I mean, I'd reach out to your designated union Rep on that.
53:32
But there's, there's other ways, you know, don't feel like you're
53:35
locked into a bad, bad office. I mean, or, or you're on a sucky
53:40
route for one thing or another. I mean there are options make it
53:45
better for our CIS like that. And just as somebody pointed out
53:50
in the chat, and RCA has to have completed probation before
53:54
transferring, but but an RCA can also just apply to an office and
54:01
then quit at the office that they're at to go work at the
54:04
other office. That's another way you can do
54:06
it. There is and then I have been
54:08
some instances where a transfer has gone through prior to the
54:14
probationary period being over. You don't necessarily have to be
54:18
in the office one full year. You just have to for sure have
54:22
your 90 work days and to be out of probation so.
54:26
Looks like bills having technical difficulties.
54:29
I see that. But yeah, and there are lots of
54:36
mutual transfer groups on Facebook for those who may be
54:39
interested in transferring offices or districts or
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different states. Either way, any transfer, any
54:49
transfer, you become the least senior person in that office.
54:55
Oh, in an RCA instance, yes. So if you do a mutual transfer
55:00
as a regular, all the routes in the office go up forbid and you
55:04
get what's left. Basically it's not a route to
55:09
route transfer. You can also find mutual
55:12
transfer requests in the back of the NRLC magazine as well.
55:15
But mutual transfers are definitely harder to come by as
55:20
an RCA when you transfer as I have experience in this.
55:23
As an RCA you fall to the bottom of the office seniority list.
55:28
You still have your service time.
55:30
Now if you are an RCA who transfers and you have more than
55:34
12 months in, as an RCA therefore you are eligible to
55:39
bid on a route and you transfer into an office that has let's
55:43
say two or three other RCA's but they have less than 12 months
55:49
in. This is where you get to
55:51
leapfrog over them. Otherwise, you are below them
55:55
seniority wise. So yeah, keep that in mind too.
55:59
So now there's always, like I said, there's opportunities out
56:03
there. And as a regular carrier, you
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transfer at the step you're at. You don't lose your pay.
56:10
You you stay at the step you're at.
56:12
If you transfer, can. You hear me now, James?
56:14
Can you hear you now, Bill? Oh, you had technical
56:18
difficulties? Yeah, for some some reason they
56:21
just went mute. You know, it's like I thought I
56:23
was talking to my wife for a minute.
56:25
Anyway, no, my wife's never been mute.
56:33
Then she went to bed already. Things you can say safely.
56:39
Oh boy, yeah, you got to say those things at a safe distance.
56:43
Obey. Oh hell yeah.
56:45
Hey, I'm I'm the man of the house.
56:47
As long as she said so. And I guarantee you, if some
56:50
object is nearby and she heard you saying that, she'd hit you
56:53
square between the eyes, wouldn't she?
56:56
No, she usually goes for the back of the head.
56:59
Oh OK, that she likes the sound the metal plate makes.
57:05
And I'm sure sure with with all the years of living with you,
57:08
she's gotten very accurate at that throwing.
57:10
Oh. Let me tell you for for one, one
57:13
practical joke. Put an electromagnet on the
57:16
other side of the closet door. Stuck there for two days.
57:20
All right, we good guys. I'm.
57:23
Good, are you, Bill? You're good, I'm wonderful.
57:28
I'm thinking about my list of things not to do tomorrow and I
57:32
I've got 5 items on there already.
57:34
All. Right.
57:34
Make sure you do them this time or you'll be mad at yourself for
57:37
not for not doing your not to do that.
57:39
Well you know the first thing I not do is set the alarm clock.
57:43
Lucky. Yes, yes, yes.
57:46
I am very blessed. Second second thing I get up to
57:49
do is decide what I'm not going to do when I get up to do.
57:54
Why not to do lift? Understand that.
57:56
All right, guys, James, final commentary for this evening.
58:01
You know, we go over a lot of things on this podcast.
58:05
We talk about a lot of issues, a lot of problems going on.
58:08
We're here because we love what we do.
58:11
We love our customers, we love the what our tasks entail us to
58:16
do, but we're not going to sit idly by and just let management
58:20
walk all over us. And you shouldn't either.
58:23
You shouldn't let them walk over your brother and sister.
58:26
Take care of your fellow carriers.
58:28
Take care of your city brothers and sisters.
58:31
Help them understand what this contract means, not only for the
58:35
city craft, but for every single craft in the Postal Service.
58:40
I know there's some out there that won't care what happens,
58:45
and there are a lot of Nbas and regional people for the city
58:50
craft that are going to vote yes just to hold their position
58:54
underneath Renfro. But it's up to us as rural
58:58
carriers to help educate our city brothers and sisters on
59:02
what this this lack of a good contract means for the Postal
59:07
Service, for the rural craft, for the clerk craft, nail
59:10
handlers and the city craft. It's time for us all to stand up
59:15
together and show management. We're all in this together,
59:20
Bill. Well, it it's funny how in in
59:25
retirement, I'm more active in the social media and the
59:28
questions and everything that I'm getting and I still enjoy
59:32
it. I still enjoy helping people.
59:35
It's actually refreshing to have the time to do it.
59:38
That's part of my To Do List is not to put off helping people
59:43
because of the fact that, you know, I have the time and the
59:45
resources to do so and it gives me a great deal of satisfaction.
59:50
I still am missing my customers and my dogs and kids and all,
59:55
but the fact of the matter is that I'm getting calls in my
59:58
office, you know, on a regular daily basis from a number of
1:00:02
carriers. And I still help them out
1:00:04
because no matter what, I'll, I'll be a rule carrier at heart.
1:00:10
And if I can help anybody advance themselves themselves or
1:00:15
do better for themselves, that that's my calling.
1:00:20
I'm, I'm like the the rabbi of rule carriers.
1:00:24
Shalom. Here to help you, but the fact
1:00:27
of the matter is that James, right, if we don't all stand
1:00:30
together and protest, it's a protest contract that was
1:00:34
offered to the city carriers. They're just going to pass it
1:00:36
down the line and it's going to be accepted.
1:00:40
The fact of the matter that a president of a union, National
1:00:44
Union representing 200,000 people didn't even consult with
1:00:49
its own board on offering this as a tentative agreement smacks
1:00:54
of the disdain he has for the people he represents.
1:00:57
And I pray that the Don doesn't have that disdain.
1:01:01
I'm not hopeful, but I pray. I mean because we, we do deserve
1:01:05
better. It's been 6 years now since all
1:01:10
the Amazon has hit us smack in the face, broken our backs and
1:01:17
and our hips and everything else.
1:01:18
And the fact of the matter that that they had 12 years to get X
1:01:24
correct before they implemented and there are holes in it left
1:01:28
and right. And the fact that management
1:01:30
never trained people, management never got trained properly and
1:01:34
they still, like the comments earlier was will believe what
1:01:37
management tells them. Yet they asked you to put it,
1:01:41
put it in writing and you differ from them.
1:01:44
How can you accept management's word challenge them on
1:01:47
everything? Because of the fact that
1:01:48
management is so uninformed, uneducated and ignorant in
1:01:54
regards to the contract, the M 380603 DLM, they have little no
1:02:00
idea except for what the people above them and they believe it.
1:02:04
That's because they believe it doesn't mean you should
1:02:07
challenge it. Stand up for the people next to
1:02:09
you and up for yourself. It involved and I'm talking
1:02:13
about getting involved on the floor at your local meetings, at
1:02:16
your boosters, a convention and National Convention.
1:02:19
Quit letting the minority dictate your future.
1:02:23
If you want a better future, you have to get involved.
1:02:27
Tomorrow's the start of another work day.
1:02:28
Everybody go out your job professionally, efficiently and
1:02:32
safely and make sure you make that last delivery, which is the
1:02:35
most important delivery of the day.
1:02:37
Go home to your loved ones. ZAP.
1:02:39
Thank. You guys, all valid points, yes,
1:02:43
educating yourself, standing up for yourself, standing up for
1:02:46
your neighbors, your coworkers, your friends, your family and
1:02:51
you know, vote that that's you know, when it when it becomes
1:02:54
our turn to ratify a contract. Now take your time and read over
1:03:01
that tentative agreement when we receive it.
1:03:03
I'm not saying I, I don't know when we're going to receive it,
1:03:06
but when we do, take your time and read it.
1:03:09
Take everything, the whole picture in and then vote how you
1:03:14
want to see that contract go. It's a simple, I mean, literally
1:03:18
probably takes more time to open the envelopes that it's in than
1:03:22
it does to actually vote. You know, you put it in, you
1:03:24
take it out, you mark whether you want yes or no.
1:03:28
You fold her up, you put her in the secret ballot envelope, you
1:03:31
put it in the return envelope, you make sure you have your
1:03:34
return address on there. Throw a stamp on it and toss it
1:03:38
in the mail system. That's simple.
1:03:40
And even when it comes for national delegates.
1:03:44
And I would Start learning who people are.
1:03:46
And you know, that means going to a, a, a state booster or a
1:03:50
regional conference or a local meeting and asking others there
1:03:55
who these people are and vote. Take that time to vote.
1:04:00
That is probably 1 of the easiest ways to be involved.
1:04:04
It's just simply filling out those ballots and returning
1:04:07
them. So on that note guys, stay safe
1:04:10
out there this week. I know we're still got a little
1:04:12
over a week to go with political season for those of us that are
1:04:16
getting slammed with it. And don't forget time change for
1:04:22
those that are do it is next weekend.
1:04:26
Daylight savings time goes bye, bye falls back an hour.
1:04:31
Not thrilled. But on that note guys, stay safe
1:04:34
out there this week. Take care and we will be back
1:04:36
next week. Howdy, duty time.
1:04:52
Howdy, duty time.