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Thank you. Now here are the hosts of the
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And welcome back everybody. Y'all missed a good preacher.
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I might just leave that one in there tonight.
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I think you should. I think I will.
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OK, episode one O 2 here we are. Carrier, CPWU and privacitation
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is privatization. OK?
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I can't talk tonight. It's going to be a fun night.
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How was your week, James? Oh, I got into overtime on Day 4
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and was overtime on Friday the whole day.
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Management was surprised. I didn't want to get assistance
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from relief carriers because they were doing static routes
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and things like that and telling them that they don't have to
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switch over to the routes when they're delivering the packages.
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I'm like, Oh no, I need all that, all that money to my route
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for my evaluation. So I'll take everything I can.
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They still sent assistance out to me on the route for two times
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this week, but really it didn't do much to change what time I
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got back to the office and I only missed the truck once this
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week. But we'll get into some
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discussions I've had this week, which is part of the carrier
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section of this. But I've enjoyed taking the time
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at the end of the day when I've gotten done doing my route,
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helping carriers like I normally do, and of course, gearing up
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for Christmas time. And the last couple weeks before
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Christmas always seem to pile on more packages because of people
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ordering and delivery times getting close to Christmas.
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So I'm hoping, I'm hoping that it's a good week, but you never
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know, you know, box holders and stuff like that come in all the
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time. So other than that, how was your
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week bill with your not To Do List?
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Oh. My God, nothing done on my not
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To Do List. So I I feel like I'm 100% it's
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to to the point where we actually didn't get our grandson
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Friday night. So we made an appointment with
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one of my customers who has one of these 3 1/2 story tall stone
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barns and they converted it into an Event Center and rented out
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for weddings and everything. And I haven't seen it in 15
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years. So we went over to a customer's
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of mine and met Teresa Gallagher and her husband Rich, and he
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goes, hi, I'm Rich. I says I know that.
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I said, what do you get stupid or something?
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He goes, well, I didn't recognize you because of the
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hair, but they did a beautiful job on this barn and all that.
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And it was just, you know, my wife just goes, I can't believe
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your customers love you that much.
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I'm like, yeah, I know they'd love me more than my wife.
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Then she goes, well, that's because they see you more than
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your wife, which is a good thing.
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Other than other than that, I mean it, it's been a very
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frustrating week answering people's questions where, you
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know, management can't enter overtime people, you know,
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talking about this, the what's it the 600 minutes and
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everything. So I'm just like over this so
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bad. Now somehow the 600 minutes got
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translated into 200 miles, which is 200 miles times 3 minutes in
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regards to overtime. And I'm just for God's sakes,
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ladies and gentlemen, if you don't know yourself, you know,
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start educating yourself about overtime procedures, you know,
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especially during Christmas and, and help the people in your
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office too, because God, I, I don't know what's wrong with
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people that they're not paying attention to the contract, the
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MMM 38 six O 3 DLM, because this is your damn job.
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And if you don't protect yourself, who the Hell's going
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to? And contrary to what I've read
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before where people say, well, why do we have a union?
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The union can't protect you unless you stand up for
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yourself. And you can't stand up for
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yourself if you don't know the rules.
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So how you going to file a grievance if you don't know a
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grievance was committed? Are you going to get your pay if
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you don't know you were shorted? Case in point, carry my office,
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it's getting a letter of demand for $300.00 from 2022.
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Now, of course, we had the fire in August of 2024 at
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Westchester, so they want him to prove that he didn't get
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overpaid and he put in a request for the original documents, the
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4240 and the entries on rims for his pay, but they can't provide
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them because of the fire. But they still want him to pay
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the money back. You can't make this shit up.
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You really can't. Of course he's fighting it, you
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know, and, and it'll get down to the wire.
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But ladies and gentlemen, please start educating yourself and
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your fellow carriers in your office and watch out for each
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other. OK, How about you, Kristen?
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How was your week? My week wasn't too bad, it was
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actually fairly light this week in my office.
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Well at least for the main zip code.
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I'm not going to talk about the other two because that poor POV
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route which never get the volume that it's gotten in the last
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year and a half. And wow he's been having more
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parcels than I have on my 46K and the only day this week I was
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over evaluation was Monday and I was only over by point O 8.
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Everything else was under evaluation and no assistance at
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all this week. And I did use up my ex day on
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Thursday because I thought I was going to go to my daughter's
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Christmas concert and well, that got delayed because they've had
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snow days Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
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So I enjoyed my day off at home Thursday.
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And then I'm contemplating if I want to burn my last annual
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leave day for Wednesday to go to the make up day for the
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Christmas. Oh yeah, that was pretty much my
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week. Nothing too exciting otherwise.
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About the grandbaby. Yeah, he's going to be four
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months old Friday. Oh, in this past Friday, Friday
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the 13th was my 10th anniversary with the post office.
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Our condolences. I mean, congratulations.
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Yeah, yeah, that's what I was saying.
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I've never worked for a more abusive employer.
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I must be a glutton for punishment.
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Yeah, so. Yeah, it's, it's, it's hard to
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explain to people that you're saying while putting yourself
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through this, you know? Oh I know, it really is
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sometimes. Good Segway Bill, good Segway.
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I just posted about a picture of an LOV of ARCA who is out
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delivering in the dark. Got hit by an SUV causing the
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postal truck to roll over. The RCA had to be extra
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extricated and life flighted to the hospital where the RCA is
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still in a coma. I'm still getting details on
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this, but management's response to this was to send out a safety
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stand up talk of wearing your seat belt and not using your
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cell phone while working. This RCA was out in the dark
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driving this LOV and I didn't see in the picture that it had a
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strobe light on the top. Now it could have fallen off or
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not, but you literally only have 6 lights around this truck when
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you have the flashers on to warn people that you're there and
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that the driving lights. Oh yeah, you got headlights, you
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got marker lights, but they're incandescent garbage most of the
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time. Some of them are LED, but
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there's very few lights on this vehicle as it is.
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There aren't even clearance lights on them like UPS, FedEx,
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and Amazon have. You know, I really do like the
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rear light of the Rivian that Amazon is using that wraps all
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the way around the back of the truck.
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It makes it a lot more visible than the back end of a postal
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truck or even the front end of a postal truck.
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Something has to be done for the safety of these carriers.
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This isn't the only story I've heard about, but this is the
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first one we're going to talk about.
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This RCA was out there in the middle of the night and some of
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these carriers in this office, they're out there past 10:00 at
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night. And the postmaster tried to
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curtail packages because they had gotten over 12,000 packages
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in their office. And so the manager was trying to
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curtail packages so carriers could get out of the office and
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get back at a reasonable hour. And that postmaster got APDI
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from the district manager. You know, and is that postmaster
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I'd have taken that PDI for my carriers, but then we're, we're
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not normal people, OK? We, we, we would cover for our
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employees. Most of them won't.
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Yeah, we, we had a news report here in New Jersey.
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The 74 year old crossing guard was hit and killed.
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Now the worst part was he he's going across the the
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intersection. He's got the big yellow vest on.
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He's got the red stop sign in his hand as he's escorting these
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two students across the traffic. The first car goes by and almost
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hits them. As he pushes the two students
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away, a second car comes along and plows right into them.
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Broad daylight. OK, now here we're talking
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about, you know, a carrier being out in the dark.
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If people aren't paying attention in broad daylight, you
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imagine they're paying even less attention in the dark.
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And you know, our our prayers go out to this carrier because you
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shouldn't have to put your life on the line unless you're
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picking up a weapon in the military.
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But God, carriers do every damn day, every day.
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And and this just pisses me off to no end.
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Yeah, it brings brings home the point that this is a very
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dangerous job and a lot of people don't recognize that.
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They think all we do is just sit on our behinds and stick our
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arms out the window into a mailbox.
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There's so much more that goes into it.
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And especially on today's roads, you know, even in your normal
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personal vehicle, when you're just driving normally, crazy
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things happen out there. We just had ice come through our
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area and several area other states in the Midwest, and it's
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now up into Pennsylvania as well.
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You know you're talking about a job where you are out in the
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elements and you are at risk not only from the elements from but
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from every other Rd. user around you.
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We've had carriers that were rear-ended by semi trucks,
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carriers during the morning 6 to 9 play.
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They were rear-ended because they weren't expecting a vehicle
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to be sitting halfway out in the roadway delivering to a mailbox
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at 6:30 in the morning. They don't, you know, and out
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there at night, carriers working 15/16/19 hours in a single
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shift. When is somebody going to step
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up and protect these carriers? When is somebody going to say
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enough is enough? It's time for us to actually put
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our foot down, get with management to get away, to put
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people in these jobs, pay them decently and protect the most
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valuable asset of this company, which is the very people that
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deliver the goods and services that you depend on to make your
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money. And in my former office they are
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getting hit so bad right now with parcels.
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Everybody's comparing it to COVID but worse.
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My ex rap had four hampers yesterday. 4 hampers.
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I haven't even ever seen 4 ampers. 3 ampers and a stack.
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Couple stacks but not 4 ampers. This shit's out of control this
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year. It really is.
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And y'all, you know you're the most important delivery day.
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Fuck that toilet paper. Or that, you know, air fryer.
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Whatever else you have to deliver.
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If you hit the 12 hour mark, get your, you know, 11 1/2 hour mark
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as an RCA. Get your ass back to the office.
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If you're regular, just site safety.
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And I will say this, I've, I know carriers that are fighting
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for this right now. And while it's going through the
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grievance process, management is still telling them, well, until
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it's settled, you still have to go do this, grieve it again if
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you have to, but keep doing it. You know, you have, you have
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managers out there that are telling the district manager
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that their carrier can't do it anymore.
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And the district manager is telling them either you do it or
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I'll fire you and the carrier. Yep.
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Enough's enough. When is our district reps going
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to step up to these carrier, to these management jerks?
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And when is our national office going to do something about it?
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You know, they put these articles in, in the magazine
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saying if you're out there past eight, contact your district
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Rep. The district Rep should be
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contacting national. National should be putting a
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boot to the butt of management and getting them to stop forcing
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carriers to be out so freaking late.
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And that, that's the, I, I think that's the biggest crux of this
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problem is that you can push it up the ladder, but when it hits
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the top of the ladder and nobody does anything, you've got a
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problem. You got a problem with
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representation, and you got a problem with these people
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realizing who the hell they work for.
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And that's you and me. And it's me too.
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Because, you know, even though I'm retired, I pay dues.
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So yes, you know, you, you have to find a way to change the
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entire atmosphere, the national board and the NSS and go after
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postal management. Kristen, your thoughts?
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Oh, I think you guys have pretty much nailed the yeah, but you
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you guys have said pretty much all of it.
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I really don't have anything to add on what you guys have
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already said so. Yeah, we made.
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A woman speechless. I have one more.
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Unfortunately, I was actually contacted by a city carrier who
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used to work in this office and it's about a / a month ago that
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this happened. But a rural carrier was getting
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harassed by management on the daily and one day they took it.
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Took it too far with this carrier, and this carrier
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brought their route back after about halfway done with it and
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parked the truck, went home and they were never seen again.
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They took their own life because of managerial harassment.
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All of this has to stop. All of it.
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But when I'm getting calls even from city carriers, this is not
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right. And that's happened with the
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clerk in our office, too. It's not just our craft, it's
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it's across the board. And it boils down to management.
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It's, you know, we've been dealing with ours off and on,
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off and on, off and on to the point where people are actually
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finally tired of dealing with it and are stepping up finally.
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But yeah, it, it is. It's happening everywhere.
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And it's sad that it has to happen everywhere.
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There's no reason for it. I mean, we have so many
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documents that that state, you know, about harassment and
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bullying and all that stuff. And a lot of it's geared towards
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employee to employee, but you know, management still has to
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follow those guidelines too, more so now than ever.
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Well, we, we just had a situation.
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We had a situation in our SD and C with a highway contractor.
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The highway contractor son works with her in the office.
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They have 3 routes and he was bringing over 3 hampers and the
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district manager who is a a bit of a Hitler type individual
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grabbed third hamper and told him it was unsafe.
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And you know he turned around and said whatever dude.
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So he goes on to, you know, the cases where the highway contract
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rallies and the son said, you know, that guy is on a
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motherfucking power trip. And that's when the DM got up in
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his face. Now allegedly, physical violence
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was the spoken towards the DM, which ended up with the highway
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contractor carrier, you know, being removed from the office
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with the threat of police being called to the office.
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This has been building up. Because of the animosity that is
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displayed towards my Westchester office at this SD and C.
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Now you want to talk about mismanagement.
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They brought in, you know, some of you know, older cases, but
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you know, they're adjustable cases to, you know, give us so
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that we could put our raft up when the fire happened.
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This guy won't spend the money for this, that, or the other,
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but he's buying all new blue cases for all 88 Westchester
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office routes. You you want to talk about why
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the post office is leaving? Losing money?
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Because this guy wants the whole office to look uniform.
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This guy doesn't want you carrying three hampers if you
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only have two people working 3 ramps.
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I mean 2-3 routes and you can safely transport 3 hampers,
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what's the big fucking deal? But this guy's attitude, like
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you said, his, his, you know, Hitler persona that exhibits on
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the floor. I mean, he was actually
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threatened by this highway contractor to the point where he
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he was going to have to call the police.
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Well, if you didn't start it, if you didn't provoke the
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situation, it would have never probably escalated to that
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point. But the problem of it is that
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this is where we have people who should not be in management.
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If you want to be treated nicely, treat people nicely.
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All these joint statements on our workplace are for both sides
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of the of the fence, the employee and the employer,
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management as well as the crafts.
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And yet we're the ones that bear the brunt of it.
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Yeah. And it's one of those things
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that we need to hold management to the higher standard that they
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hold us to. They're not afraid to turn
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around and quote the Elm to us. And now we all know everybody
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here on the on the presenter side knows that management
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doesn't just know that stuff off the top of their head.
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They all contact the labor side of of management to get the
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breakdown of the questions they want to ask people in order to
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try and pin them with whatever violation they want to do.
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But it is our job and our responsibility to know this
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stuff and be able to hold management accountable
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ourselves. Here we go.
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Yeah, it's funny because the gentleman that I said that was
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as of Friday, apprised of not coming back to the office.
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He, he's having a fit because his supervisor and his
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postmaster and the district manager, they're all getting
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this from the region. When this hits national in
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regards to his situation, it's going to be going like this.
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Are you people stupid? He has medical documentation
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that we already agreed to give him assistance on his route and
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now you sent him home without pay in direct violation of his
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OWCP agreement that we signed. How stupid can you be?
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Answer that, because no matter how stupid you think management
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is, they'll prove you wrong and go further.
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Yes they will. They have that ability.
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Oh yes. Yes, they do.
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Yeah. It's it's crazy to think that we
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as carriers have to be so knowledgeable in our own jobs to
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be able to hold management accountable.
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And there you go, Bill. There's there's the grandbaby.
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There we go. And everybody, everybody
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watching this will be able to see the grandbaby.
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Grandma, what the hell you doing putting me on this show?
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It's not 1513. It it's all day mommy.
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Leaves and I get. Cranky Mommy leaves and I get
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cranky, so Papa just passed me off to grandma.
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Yeah. Yeah, don't become a rule
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carrier. That's the future of the royal
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craft right there. Third generation.
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Oh God. Management stupidity is an
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extreme sport. No, I've I've come to the
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conclusion, and this is through the years of research that I've
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done and Bill will probably most likely agree with my very next
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statement, that management failing to know the rules and
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regulations of the post office is no longer just a fluke.
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It's not a management made a mistake, it is purely malicious
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and intentional. They do it on purpose because
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they want to get away with it, to see how far they can push
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you, See if they can turn you into a city carrier because Lord
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knows they don't like the rural contract.
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It's too complicated for them. It has too many details for
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them. Just pay them hourly and call it
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good. Make it so that they have the
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hour office time, the five minute end of shift duty, you
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know, where they can micromanage us to death because we're
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working hour by hour. We can't let them do that.
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We can't let them beat us up. And and to that point, James,
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you are correct that it's an intentional.
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I've actually had supervisors and postmasters say, I know it's
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against the contract, but this is what being told to me from
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above. And they still go ahead and do
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it. Even though they know they're
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going to lose the grievance on the get go, they still do it
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because they're afraid of losing their jobs.
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And if you, if you can't convey that to the person above you
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that this is going to cost the post office money, there's
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something wrong with your skills.
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Yeah, I did. There are these guys who are ego
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tripping pieces of dog dirt and you know you're not going to
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argue with them. Like like the one guy was
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saying, I want no excuses. If your supervisor screw up or
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anything, I'm holding you responsible.
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There is no forgiveness. It you know you will be
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disciplined. How do you inspire the people
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below you with threats? The same way how does management
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inspire the craft with threats? I'm sorry.
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I'm one of those people. When you threaten me, I come
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back at you and I'm always twice to three times dirtier than you
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are. That's just the way I'm made.
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And they broke the wall. All right, we're going to change
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gears here a little bit and talk about our brothers and sisters
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in Canada. Somebody's not happy we're
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changing gears, but our brothers and sisters in Canada are on on
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over a month long strike and there's been an update and I
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have to put this out there. They are going Richard Nixon on
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them. The Canadian government is
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putting out there that they want the Canadian version of the
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Labor Board to force the postal workers back to work, just like
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they did tried to do with the Postal Service in the 70s, and
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just like they tried to do with the air traffic controllers.
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It worked better against the air traffic controllers because the
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National Guard actually worked air traffic control for their
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own air. The Air National Guard worked
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air traffic control for themselves, but the National
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Guard couldn't deliver the mail. Now the postal, the Postal
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Service in Canada is going to be tried to be forced back to work
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by the national government. That'll go over like a lead
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balloon. Oh yeah.
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The interesting thing about that is, you know it it stems a lot
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to what just happened to the railroads in our country and how
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they forced them back to work. So here we go again.
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Government interfering with the rights of the people.
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And I don't know about you guys, but that is something that
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should not be done because contract negotiations are the
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epitome of workers rights and the best way for labor to be
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able to continue to work for these kinds of companies.
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Would you guys agree? Yeah.
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My question is, is that is the Canadian Postal Service a
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government agency in in entirety or do they like?
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Us it's a Crown corporation, so it's basically a separate entity
30:49
'cause they did the Canada Post Crown Corporation Act of 1981
30:52
abolished the Post Office Department and created the
30:56
present day Crown corporation that provides Postal Service.
31:03
Canada Post operates as a group of companies called the Canada
31:07
Post Group and employs approximately 70,000 full and
31:10
part time employees. The corporation holds an
31:14
interest and Purolator Courier in ANOVA Post Progistic
31:18
Solutions and Canada Post International Limited.
31:26
It's a it's a hang on, let me just see.
31:38
The Crown Corporation are organizations in Canada with a
31:46
mixture of commercial and public policy objectives.
31:48
They are directly and wholly owned by the Crown, IE the
31:53
Government of Canada or a province.
31:58
So it is a government agency underneath the Crown of Canada.
32:05
OK, Yep, it does sound like USPS.
32:16
But we stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters up in
32:22
Canada and their fight for living wages.
32:25
They're only looking for hang on. 23%.
32:33
They were looking for 23%, but I believe their last negotiation
32:41
if I'm not mistaken, let me just verify here really quick,
32:53
believe it said that they were looking.
32:55
They had just tried to go with 19%.
33:10
And even. Only 12 1/2 miles past us, the.
33:14
Union Leader said above the Labor minister's announcement of
33:21
the time out. He said, I feel like he's
33:23
treating us like children, you know, But hopefully they come up
33:38
with some kind of amicable solution to all this.
33:41
Because I just had a news article out of my area with the
33:48
County Sheriff's Department and the costs associated with
33:52
localities farming out their police services to the county.
33:58
And one county got a raise of $1.5 billion in the million
34:03
dollars, $1.5 million, excuse me, it went from 4 million to
34:10
$5.5 million. And the cited reasons by the
34:15
county for that was they're coming up on negotiations of the
34:19
sheriff's officers salaries and they are expecting A4 to 5%
34:25
increase in wages a year in their next collective bargaining
34:31
agreement. So that 1.3% that they offered
34:36
the city carriers is looking tiny now compared to everybody
34:40
else that is negotiating and collective bargaining that we
34:43
know of. But Speaking of that, in
34:50
collective bargaining, people have been, it's been going all
34:54
over the news everywhere. Every organization, news
34:57
organization has been talking about the privatization of the
35:00
Postal Service. Yeah, they talked about it 30
35:07
years ago. They talked about it 13 years
35:09
ago, they talked about it eight years ago.
35:13
You know that there's. They've been talking about it.
35:18
They've been talking about it since the Great Postal Strike.
35:22
Privatization of the Postal Service has been talked about
35:25
since the Great Postal Strike, when our brothers and sisters of
35:29
the City Craft decided to step up, stand up and hold management
35:34
accountable and fight for the rights of every single postal
35:38
employee in the country. They've been talking about
35:43
privatizing the Postal Service. It's not going to happen because
35:49
you need 2/3 of Congress in each set of the Congress from the
35:56
House to the Senate. 2/3 need to agree to it, and once they agree
36:00
to it, they have to change all the laws associated with the
36:03
Postal Service involving that. And then they have to convene a
36:08
constitutional Congress of all the states, and 3/4 of the
36:15
states have to pass the ratification of the
36:19
Constitution. Otherwise it doesn't work and
36:23
you can't privatize the Postal Service.
36:25
And you don't darn well one side or the other is not going to
36:29
agree with the other person because anything one side
36:32
suggests is a problem to the other.
36:36
So yes, the fears of privatization will not be
36:41
realized even in the next 4 years unless you can get 2/3 of
36:46
the House and 2/3 of the Senate to be one party.
36:52
Yeah, that ain't happening. Nope.
36:58
And Leah, like, like a lot of the chat forms have said, who,
37:01
who wants to invest in a losing venture such as the post office?
37:08
I mean, look at it right now. The joy says, oh, we're building
37:14
on the success building going into the Christmas season.
37:17
Your success was a $10.1 billion loss for last year.
37:26
James, that's not funny. Hey, I saw it on the House.
37:33
I got to do it. Yeah.
37:34
It's up in the chat too, OK, But you know, here, here we go
37:39
again. You know, if you're going to run
37:41
a business, OK, you have to get people's cooperation to make it
37:47
successful, to make it financially sound.
37:49
How you doing that when you're threatening your, your, your
37:52
base employees all the time? How are you doing this with
37:56
vehicle that are 40 plus years old out there or a lack of
38:01
vehicles? I've I've seen chats where
38:04
people are being asked if they want to switch the POV routes on
38:09
Table 2 money. Are you kidding me?
38:12
There's no way you can afford a brand new POV.
38:15
Now, you know everybody's buying all these, you know, used cars
38:20
and converting them, but even still you're putting the money
38:23
out for the repairs. And most of you are out in rural
38:26
routes where if you don't have 4 wheel drive, that vehicle is not
38:30
going to last. But it's OK because you can turn
38:34
around and not deliver certified letters that are 7-8 dollars
38:40
each and have to refund that money.
38:43
You can turn around and send out bundles of boxes for free, but
38:48
you have to pay the clerk to put the label on there.
38:50
You have to track them. The carrier has to load them and
38:53
deliver them and you're getting Jack shit for him.
38:57
But if Kristen walks in the post office to buy that same box,
39:01
she's paying 7 bucks for it. If you're moving, your mail is
39:07
to be forwarded. Why?
39:09
Well hold it. Didn't we deliver it or make the
39:12
attempt to deliver it to the address on the envelope?
39:16
Yes, we did. Therefore, our service has been
39:19
rendered through that address. If you want it forwarded, you're
39:22
paying $20 a year to get it forwarded.
39:25
If you want to put your mail on hold, it's $5 to put it on hold.
39:30
We are a delivery service, not a storage center.
39:33
We're not a warehousing office. We are a delivery unit.
39:39
Generate the income where you can.
39:42
How hard is this to do? And how about this?
39:46
I owe the contract so that you're not paying out millions
39:51
upon millions in grievances because your management team is
39:55
uneducated or your management team's stupid enough to listen
39:58
to their bosses and the grievances get filed and then
40:02
their bosses sit there and go, oh, I didn't get a bonus because
40:04
we had too many grievances. Who's the idiot that filed the
40:08
damn district or directives, huh?
40:11
Who? Who's the lemmings that just?
40:14
Follow the other big Rd. Follow the other big road, and
40:17
off the Cliff you go, rushing into the ocean because somebody
40:20
told you to and you were afraid to stand up and say no.
40:27
Well, we're saying no. We've been saying no for years
40:31
and we're going to keep saying no.
40:34
We're not taking this shit anymore.
40:40
I feel like I should start playing that Twisted Sister
40:44
stone, but I might get us in a copyright issues.
40:51
There, Yeah, we can get a copyright strike on that.
40:54
Yeah. You know, it's crazy to think
41:01
that there are opportunities for a lot of improvement in this
41:06
whole organization. And a lot of it just comes down
41:13
to people who don't want to listen to the people who
41:19
probably know more than they do because they look down on them.
41:25
They would rather ignore people who bring facts and truth to the
41:31
forefront and live in their own happy little world thinking that
41:36
they're untouchable. The time's coming where they
41:39
won't be untouchable anymore. The time's coming where people
41:43
are going to stand up and hold them accountable.
41:46
And it is our job as carriers in this organization to hold the
41:50
people accountable when they make these mistakes because 99%
41:56
of them are intentional mistakes.
42:08
And say goodnight to the wife. Tender a little moment there.
42:20
Oh. Yeah, Ruby came and got picked
42:25
up, little man, and he left me. With yeah, no.
42:28
Split up on my shoulder. Well, better than.
42:39
And no, exorcisms don't work on me, OK?
42:42
Yeah, we know. Yeah, if you, if anybody ever
42:48
remembers back to the 70s with Flip Wilson saying the devil
42:51
made me do it. So we, we, we had a comment on
42:57
our Spotify today, not today, three days ago, so this week,
43:03
and I haven't replied to it 'cause I figured that'd be a
43:07
good one to do on air. And this person says, how do I
43:12
get involved to make a change? Please reach out to me, I'm
43:15
ready to fight. Start with your local meeting.
43:26
Start with your local meetings. There's the delegate ballot in
43:29
the national magazine. You can apply to be the
43:32
national, a national delegate and nominate yourself.
43:36
And when the ballots come out, vote for yourself and engage
43:41
other people in your craft in your state.
43:44
Go to those meetings, go to your state convention, go to your
43:47
boosters if you have them, anything that can get you
43:51
involved more with your union and be sure that we're behind
44:00
you on that. We're behind you learning more,
44:05
but start by getting involved at the local level.
44:08
If you need to know if you have a local meeting or something,
44:11
you can contact your state secretary, you can contact your
44:14
union Rep. Your union reps should know if
44:16
you have an area meeting coming up or something like that.
44:24
Right. And from my point of view, get
44:27
to know your contract, get to get to know Rex and
44:30
understanding that I mean, Rex is so important now to your
44:34
paycheck that you know, you would be ill served not to know
44:39
the insurance and outs of Rex. I mean, here we are on our 4th
44:43
mini mail survey. You know, we're basically, for
44:46
me, five years into the implementation of Rex and from
44:50
my office and people still have questions about second trips,
44:56
trips to the doors, unscanable parcels.
44:58
These are all things you have to become familiar with.
45:01
I have a gentleman that bid on to my vacant route.
45:04
He'll be taking over January 11th.
45:07
And he was like, well, how does Bill get a, you know, such a
45:11
big, you know, evacuation? I'm at 67 hours on my route
45:15
because I do everything every day.
45:18
I don't skip a day and I only put in information that is
45:22
accurate and factual. I don't give them any leeway
45:28
when it comes to the unscanable parcels.
45:31
If I can't case it without manipulating the hell out of it,
45:34
it's an unscanable parcel. You want to argue it, then you
45:37
know, guess what? Let's have APDI or an eye and I,
45:41
whatever. But I'm going to show you
45:43
exactly how I work my mail. And if I can't stick it in my
45:48
case without bending it over four times into Wednesday, it's
45:52
an unscanable parcel, folks. OK, also contract, learn the
45:57
contract, what they're allowed to do, what they're not allowed
46:00
to do, the order of consideration, one of the most
46:03
important documents in regards to having relief or in your
46:07
regards as an RCA where you're placed.
46:11
If you're scheduled for an office, you are considered
46:14
unavailable for any other duty. Hello, black and white.
46:19
No interpretation. Now learn 10 minutes a day, Read
46:26
The Six, O3M38, the Elm, Rex, whatever.
46:31
But put the effort into protecting your paycheck.
46:34
It's your paycheck. Not mine, not James, not
46:36
Kristen's. It's yours.
46:39
So if you want to get paid for everything you do know what
46:42
you're supposed to be paid for. Kristen, I've been there.
46:49
Oh yeah, definitely, definitely getting more involved.
46:52
I got involved from the get go. So my, you know, just like this.
46:58
The gentleman said, you know, go to a local meeting, you know,
47:02
start getting to know people at your local regional meetings,
47:06
district meetings, However, they're broken up in your area.
47:10
Go, you know, go to a a state booster if you have them go to
47:16
your state convention. That's that's the easy stuff
47:19
right there. You know, nominate yourself to
47:22
get on the ballot to go to national.
47:25
I was going to read it off. We had some pretty good ones in
47:29
the listener chat, be it become informed, you know, that comes
47:33
back, you know, getting to know your contract.
47:36
I mean, I would even for an easier start, maybe go with the
47:39
Arcam because it's got some explanations there too.
47:44
And you know, read in the PO6O3 and there there's so many out
47:50
there. I mean, a lot of it's, you know,
47:53
get on to the national website and go to the steward reference
47:56
guide. That's where you can search
47:58
everything by goes by alphabet. You choose a letter of something
48:04
you want to look for. Don't look for hostile work
48:08
environment. By that you're going to have to
48:10
look under harassment, work place, climates and environment
48:17
and violence in the workplace. Trust me it it can be confusing.
48:26
But we all know no sections. Yes, it can be confusing to
48:32
navigate, but once you kind of get an idea how it works, you
48:36
then will not have to spend as much time looking for certain
48:39
things. That's definitely a huge
48:42
resource to learning everything, including, you know, everything
48:45
there is printed on Rex is on the website as well.
48:51
And, you know, cautionary there, it says, you know, follow the
48:55
postal groups on Facebook. But just like everything we say
48:59
and everything the union says and management says, you take it
49:02
with the grain and salt and make sure it's factual.
49:05
I mean, there are some very good Facebook groups out there.
49:09
But we're human and we all make mistakes and, and at least we'll
49:12
admit it. But the fact of the matter is
49:15
that you still have to do your research.
49:17
That's a good place to start. But make sure you research
49:20
everything. Yep.
49:24
So, so, so let me finish going through the list real quick
49:27
before I sidetrack again. Become informed delegate for
49:30
state national. Be willing to stand up for
49:33
yourself that that is very important.
49:35
And if nobody else in your office stands up for themselves
49:38
and they see somebody starting to stand up for themselves, they
49:41
will shortly follow after that run for office, whether it's,
49:45
you know, local state office, become a steward.
49:49
I mean, that's you get a lot of resources there as well.
49:54
I mean, you get help, you get resources, become a steward, you
49:59
know, stick it to management every chance you get.
50:01
Oh, and the biggest one, remember to join the union.
50:05
If you're not a member, that's that's the only way you're going
50:10
to get onto the website to get all that information for sure.
50:14
I mean, there are other avenues, but to get everything that
50:17
you're looking for, possibly for that, definitely you have to be
50:22
a member and logged in. Yeah, and if you can't, if
50:28
you're not able to access the union website as a non deuce
50:31
paying person, there's rail info, Rail info posts, a lot of
50:36
stuff that is good information for you.
50:38
Again, like Bill said, take it with a grain of salt.
50:42
Do your own research, make sure that it's an actual postal
50:46
document. If if they quote a postal
50:48
document, guess what, it's available online because postal
50:53
documents are public record. So if you quote.
50:58
Something. Yep look it up and compare it
51:02
exactly. And now you have a framework.
51:06
This the start your knowledge base and don't stop there.
51:13
When you know, pick up your six O 3 and read that it's supposed
51:17
to be changed, but it hasn't been changed.
51:19
It's supposed to be amended, but until you know they agree upon
51:22
it, it's the six O 3 still stands.
51:25
We don't agree by that anymore. It we haven't changed it yet.
51:28
Nothing's been signed and dotted and everything else.
51:31
I mean go by the six O 3, the Elm, the M38, get to know their
51:36
handbooks as well as they do because they don't know shit.
51:40
Yep, that M 38 is way outdated. It's like last.
51:45
Oh gosh, yeah. 1980 but there's definitely some good information
51:51
in there that you could definitely use against
51:52
management. And you definitely can use it
51:56
against them. Definitely.
51:57
Yeah, don't be afraid to use their own manuals against them.
52:00
They're breaking their own rules.
52:01
Hold them accountable for it. Just like they hold the Elm
52:05
against us. Yeah, we can hold it against
52:09
them too. Don't don't you love when you,
52:12
you get APDI and they, they quote the Elm for loyalty to the
52:16
post office. And, and you know, I had a girl
52:20
in for the PDI one time and they brought up the loyalty and she
52:27
just quietly said, look, motherfucker, I show up every
52:30
day. I don't want to hear about
52:32
loyalty. I see you motherfuckers more
52:34
than I see my family. I fell off my chair.
52:38
I I I had to stop the meeting there.
52:42
I like it. Yeah.
52:44
She. She's 100,000% right.
52:48
Yeah. But I, I, I couldn't stop
52:50
laughing. I mean, I had to leave the
52:51
office. Yeah.
52:53
And. And she, you know, I grabbed her
52:55
and pulled her out with me. And I said please don't say it
52:58
anymore. Oh, God.
53:04
But it's so true. It is, yeah.
53:07
You spend more time with with your work family than you do
53:11
your actual family. Yeah, yeah.
53:16
I, I mean, I got a message from a carrier today.
53:19
I'm not going to read the whole message.
53:21
I'll read it off air though, for the funny parts.
53:24
But you know, they, they just needed a vent and didn't know
53:26
who to bother on a Sunday, so they bothered me, which is fine.
53:29
Not a bother. It's OK, I actually was talking
53:34
to my local steward when I read it and he got a kick out of it
53:36
too. So it says.
53:39
I've been volunteering for Sundays to help the Subs.
53:41
We're down to three with 12 routes, one of which is being
53:45
held down because the regular just retired and they are
53:50
fucking rock stars and deserve it so kudos to them.
53:57
But I've been coming in at 10:00 time, which is they're supposed
54:01
to be their start time and seeing them all loading and
54:04
working off the clock sucks. I make points of it, but the
54:06
same time how can you blame them from trying to get that work
54:09
life balance? It just sucks at the place we
54:11
work for. There's so little about that.
54:14
We've been to Amazon contractors, wills that the
54:17
hardest workers of them all choose to lose money for more
54:21
time with their families because they can't clock in early, can't
54:24
start early, so they're working off the clock so they can get
54:27
done earlier, be able to go and spend the rest of the day with
54:30
their family. I understand it.
54:32
Is it right? Absolutely not.
54:36
But it's sad that it has to come down to this.
54:41
It really is. And, and as regular as you can
54:46
empathize that they're working Sunday and you don't have to,
54:51
but they're hurting themselves as much as anybody else in doing
54:55
this. And that that's, you know,
55:00
pissing me off about this 10:00 horse shit.
55:04
You're still getting done in the dark.
55:05
A lot of these carriers on a Sunday.
55:09
Who the Hell's expecting the postal vehicles out there on
55:12
Sunday? Yeah.
55:15
Yeah, same. Same way the Amazon guy almost
55:18
got shot at my front door the other day, 9:24 PM, hanging on
55:24
the door and then drop the stuff.
55:27
Well, no, me, you know, I came to the door and I have my right
55:32
hand behind my back. And then the guys, I see the
55:35
guys standing there taking the picture.
55:37
He goes, have a good night. I said, well, be safe out there.
55:42
Yeah. I mean, you know, I'd hate to
55:43
tell you if it had been anything else except for the Amazon guy.
55:49
They've been a a different night for me.
55:53
Yeah. But yeah, I mean it, it's, it's
55:57
crazy that, I mean, my Amazon showed up really early
56:02
yesterday. I wasn't, I knew it was
56:05
expecting, but I was not expecting it as early as it
56:08
showed up at my door. Didn't even know that they had
56:11
been here until I checked my e-mail.
56:14
My, my wife gets the alerts on her phone and you know, she got
56:18
an alert that, you know, there's a package coming late.
56:23
So, you know, of course, I, I, I was ready for it, you know, I'm,
56:26
I'm still downstairs and, you know, but when the, when the
56:30
banging on the door started, OK, Amazon usually doesn't bang on
56:34
the door. They hardly even ring the
56:35
doorbell. So, you know, like I said, I was
56:39
prepared for any situation. But you know, God, thank you.
56:43
I don't want to hurt anybody coming around that time of
56:45
night. I mean they're just trying to
56:47
make the living like we are. You know, nobody should be out
56:52
that late and and I don't care what John Adams says about this
56:57
eight 8:00 PM with the and contact your DRI just thought in
57:01
the message area about the Dr. saying, you know, well, you can
57:05
put cease and desist, but it's going to keep happening.
57:08
Well, with that attitude, yes it will keep happening.
57:12
You know, if the Dr. has that attitude, who the hell you know
57:16
up the line is going to do anything about it?
57:19
That right there is just wrong. The Dr. is supposed to contact
57:22
National when carriers are out past 8:00 PM.
57:25
That has been the rule since before 2021.
57:30
Why are we still fighting over this?
57:34
Why the hell has a National file to Step 4 on this?
57:38
National is aware that people are out past eight.
57:41
In fact, President Masten even touted that they're able to
57:46
track who's working past 8:00 PM themselves.
57:51
So where is our Step 4 on this? Where is our national board on
57:55
this? Where are the people that are
57:56
supposed to protect these carriers from being out there
57:59
this late? And what are they doing to get
58:01
more butts in the seat to get this covered?
58:05
Well, how are you going to get butts in the seat when you can't
58:08
get people in the damn door? You can't get them in the door
58:11
because you know, a they need to have POVSB.
58:14
They can make more money at Bucky's or Wawa.
58:18
You know they they don't have to put up with.
58:20
The Doc's Cabinet fear 1.3. Is not going to come.
58:26
I mean no, Wawa is a regional. I'll say stop and go type shop
58:31
with gas stations. You know like Bucky's or
58:33
Speedway. I forget what the other ones
58:36
are, but the fact of the matter is that they, they pay people
58:42
$18.00 an hour, OK, less money than they pay the post office.
58:48
And yet they have a lot of young people in there and you never
58:51
see any of them disgruntled. They're very helpful, they're
58:54
very polite. Now, they might go through a
58:57
better hiring process. They don't have to use their own
58:59
vehicles, They don't get switched store to store or
59:02
anything like that. But the fact of the matter is
59:04
they're working for less money and they're happy.
59:08
What does that tell you about the post office when you're
59:10
paying a little bit more money and people aren't happy?
59:17
Yeah, $20.00 an hour and maintain a vehicle as an RCA.
59:21
And if you're in one of those offices that you know is
59:26
sufficiently staffed, you're not going to be working all but
59:31
maybe a couple days a week. No, you know, that's a little
59:36
bit less wear and tear on your vehicle, but still, it doesn't
59:39
help if something major goes down because more than likely
59:42
that vehicle that you're using for APOV is probably going to be
59:46
your daily driver. I've been there.
59:49
And then, and then you get the ones that are working seven days
59:53
a week, 1012 hours a day, and something happens to their
59:58
vehicle and they're getting reprimanded because they don't
1:00:01
have a vehicle right now because it's got to get fixed.
1:00:04
Well, I'm working seven days a week, 1012 hours a day.
1:00:07
When's it supposed to get fixed? And that goes for regulars too,
1:00:13
with POV routes that you know there is no you, you know you
1:00:19
can't get your relief day. You're, you're, you're going in
1:00:22
on Sundays to help out because there's nobody else.
1:00:25
And now you're getting in trouble because you got to take
1:00:28
a day off and there's nobody to cover because you got to get
1:00:30
your POV fixed. I went through that Christian
1:00:35
about 15 years ago and my van needed a transmission.
1:00:41
It was you know, like 3 weeks to get it fixed for the parts and
1:00:44
everything and they were telling me why I had to supply my own
1:00:48
vehicle. And in the meantime there were
1:00:50
two LL VS sitting in the parking lot being not being used for
1:00:55
carriers who hadn't been trained to drive LL VS yet.
1:00:59
But they sat there for those 3 plus weeks.
1:01:02
In the meantime they had a sub filling on my route and was
1:01:06
giving him an LOV every day. Now I don't know what you think
1:01:13
you would do, but this asshole turned around and filed a
1:01:16
grievance and I got paid for three weeks of of work because
1:01:20
of what they did and they were having a fit about that sorry
1:01:24
disparity of treatment. You require people to have PO VS
1:01:29
guess what? So does the sub.
1:01:32
Yeah. And you know, you know, I don't
1:01:34
want to hear about it. Well, he wasn't hired on a POV
1:01:37
route. If you're hired in an office
1:01:39
with POVS, you better have a POV available to you.
1:01:43
Yeah. You're not hired just for a
1:01:45
route. Out of the four Subs that we
1:01:48
have now, the only one that has a POV is the new one that just
1:01:54
finished up Academy last week, two week and a half ago there.
1:01:59
He's not doing OJI training OJT until after the holidays, but he
1:02:03
is running parcels. He's the only one that actually
1:02:06
has a PUV route worthy for a new hire.
1:02:13
And I will say that go. Ahead.
1:02:17
I have a I've got a notification from an another carrier that an
1:02:22
RCA quit and the reason why they quit is their last year's
1:02:27
paycheck was $11,000. They spent $12,000 repairing
1:02:33
their POV last year, so they lost $1000 working for the post
1:02:40
office. Yeah, when in debt job, let's
1:02:48
see where does that make sense at?
1:02:51
Just the post office. Nowhere.
1:02:53
Just the post office, Yeah. You know, PO, I, I think PO VS
1:03:03
there are situations where PO VS are good, but if we can get
1:03:08
vehicles that are actually decent for rural carriers in
1:03:12
rural areas, that would be great.
1:03:15
You know, my L, our LO VS you know, Kristen can attest that
1:03:18
we've gone through some some stuff with these LL VS that they
1:03:22
probably shouldn't have made it through.
1:03:24
Oh, I got stories. Oh yeah, you know there are
1:03:29
there are 4 wheel drive FM VS out there.
1:03:33
But we definitely need a rural specific vehicle for delivery.
1:03:40
The NGDV. You give me an NGDV on my route,
1:03:44
I'll RIP the bottom out of it in a week.
1:03:47
It's too low to the ground on my route.
1:03:50
Yeah, you know, and, and I've looked at some of the other
1:03:54
options they have out there and really the canoe is probably the
1:03:57
only vehicle that has the ground clearance to handle rural
1:04:01
routes. But it doesn't have the capacity
1:04:04
for a lot of these rural route packages that we get because
1:04:07
Amazon's still not delivering in most of the rural areas.
1:04:11
Amazon's drop in the dog food bags, the large groupings of
1:04:16
toilet paper boxes and things like that, and paper towels on
1:04:20
these rural routes. I've seen pictures of carriers
1:04:23
who have their second and third trip is a completely full postal
1:04:30
LLV and it's crazy to think that we can't figure out a solution
1:04:38
that works for rural when everybody at national office is
1:04:42
focused on city delivery. Yeah.
1:04:48
And, and what's wrong with, you know, getting these canoes out
1:04:51
there? Cost.
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Bus. Cost.
1:05:00
Are they a bus? No, they're so they're an
1:05:04
electric vehicle, so you'd have to have the infrastructure.
1:05:09
Well, all of them. All of them.
1:05:13
Well, the ones that they're testing at the Postal Service
1:05:15
are electric. Right, yes, their their their
1:05:19
first model was a, you know, internal hybrid engine and they
1:05:24
had 4 wheel drive options on them.
1:05:28
That would be great. I mean having a vehicle that is
1:05:31
specific for just rural delivery would be a big benefit overall
1:05:36
because rural carriers need assistance with their vehicles.
1:05:43
It is not cost effective for carriers to support APOV of
1:05:49
modern times. Sure you can go out and buy a
1:05:52
2025 year old vehicle, but you're still paying almost
1:05:56
double price for parts these days for even those vehicles.
1:06:01
And it's if you can find them locally, otherwise you're stuck
1:06:04
having to order them and who knows how long that could take
1:06:07
to get to you. Yeah, it's it.
1:06:12
I know. I drove my, my best POV I ever
1:06:15
had was a 93 Oldsmobile Cutlass Sierra that lasted me almost
1:06:20
five years. You know, the only reason I got
1:06:24
rid of it is because the timing went and I had don't put quite a
1:06:28
bit of money into that car. The Fort N wagon was pretty
1:06:33
decent too. I know a rural carrier who
1:06:37
bought a 93 Jeep Grand Cherokee right hand drive and is still
1:06:41
driving it to this day and may retire from the post office.
1:06:45
Yeah, yeah, that's what the brand new RCA got was the one of
1:06:51
the, I don't know what year it is, but it's one of the
1:06:53
Cherokees and it's in really great condition.
1:06:57
I don't know where he got it, but you know, and he's not even
1:07:01
going on the POV route, but then.
1:07:06
You know, it gets me. You say, yeah, you're you're
1:07:08
talking about repairs on these vehicles.
1:07:10
OK, how about just the regular maintenance on them, getting the
1:07:15
time off for that? I mean, you know, that's what
1:07:19
keeps you from getting into these repair situations is
1:07:22
maintenance. All you know, I need you to work
1:07:24
your drop day. I'm getting my vehicle worked
1:07:26
on. Not this week.
1:07:28
Well, you know, next week if I put a transmission in, guess
1:07:32
what I'm coming after. You.
1:07:37
Yeah. All right, guys.
1:07:42
Do we have anything else? No.
1:07:52
This man as hell, you know, you see comments about ADR is not
1:07:55
pursuing things. Yeah, our, our national board
1:07:59
not pursuing things. The post office just dumbasses.
1:08:04
It, it just, it's very frustrating.
1:08:07
It really is. And I, and I can understand
1:08:09
like, like I said in my, in my SD and C that the highway
1:08:12
contractor going off on the district manager, they're there
1:08:17
to do a job and the two of them are handling 3 Hwy. routes for
1:08:23
the last four months. And you're going to get on this
1:08:28
guy's shit for, for bringing over 3 ampers at once instead of
1:08:32
two. Yo, God help you, you be
1:08:35
efficient, right? The, the egos, the arrogance of
1:08:42
these people is just astounding. Oh, earthquake, I'm sorry I
1:08:52
farted. Oh, boy.
1:08:55
All right, James, your final thoughts for this evening?
1:09:00
Well, this has been a very exciting episode this week,
1:09:07
going from really depressing to angry to fun to angry.
1:09:15
But the biggest thing that I want to take everybody to take
1:09:18
away is out of all of this, the three of us here on this podcast
1:09:25
stand with everyone of you. We're here for you.
1:09:29
As you heard, every single one of us has talked to carriers
1:09:32
this week and weeks past and stuff like that.
1:09:35
And we're coming up on the worst week just before Christmas for
1:09:43
package deliveries and things like that.
1:09:45
You know, people are wanting their last minute items
1:09:47
delivered to their house quickly.
1:09:50
If you're feeling overwhelmed, if you're feeling stressed out
1:09:52
and you need somebody to talk to, reach out to us.
1:09:56
We're here for you. And don't think that it's a
1:09:58
burden or a bother if it's if it if we're not available, we're
1:10:03
not going to respond, but we'll respond when we're actually
1:10:06
available. So reach out, because at the end
1:10:11
of the day, we're all in this together, Bill.
1:10:16
And he and he's right, you know, even though I'm retired, I'm
1:10:22
fielding more calls and messaging than I ever imagined.
1:10:25
And you know what I'm happy to do So I, I, I'm, I'm more than
1:10:31
willing to help pitch in for the fight that's ahead of you,
1:10:36
that's ongoing. And if I can be of service,
1:10:40
message me. Call me if you have my number.
1:10:43
If you don't have my number, don't call me, but the fact of
1:10:46
the matter is that we are here for you and we do this every
1:10:51
week for you. I'm, you know, sure that James
1:10:55
and Kristen, you know, would find other things to do, but the
1:10:59
fact of the matter is we prefer to give our time to you.
1:11:03
No pay, no accolades, no praise, just so we can be a service
1:11:09
because you know what it's like to be out there.
1:11:13
We sympathize and we empathize and we understand.
1:11:17
So anytime you want to reach out, we're here.
1:11:20
We don't get back to you right away.
1:11:22
We'll get back to you because unlike your national board, we
1:11:27
care. Everybody be safe.
1:11:30
It's going to be a rough week coming up.
1:11:33
Just do the best you can. Do it safely, professionally,
1:11:38
get your ass home because you're the most important delivery at
1:11:40
the end of the day, Kristen. Thank you, guys.
1:11:45
Yeah, definitely. Today's episode has been kind of
1:11:49
all over the place. But yeah, no, definitely, you
1:11:55
know, stand up for yourself, you know, help urge those that you
1:12:01
work with to stand up for themselves, you know, be the be
1:12:05
that one that leads the way and it inspires everyone else to, to
1:12:11
step up as well. But yeah, that's, you know, this
1:12:15
week. I know this past week was super
1:12:18
light for me. The week before we got hammered,
1:12:23
you know, the week before Christmas OT starts, I was
1:12:25
working 10/11/12 hour days a week.
1:12:30
And then last week I was at evaluation or under with no
1:12:36
help. I have a feeling I'm going to be
1:12:39
walking into hell tomorrow. So everybody in house, stay safe
1:12:44
out there. You know it gets to be 8:00 PM.
1:12:49
Safety is your call, plain and simple.
1:12:52
Safety is your call out on the route.
1:12:54
It doesn't matter if it's Blizzard conditions, darkness,
1:12:58
ice, you know, tornadoes, God forbid.
1:13:03
Safety is your call once you get on the out on that street.
1:13:06
So make that call to stay safe and we shall be back next week
1:13:14
guys. Everybody have a good one.
1:13:29
Macho, macho man. I want to be your macho man.
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