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What's New and Happening · United We Scan

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Thank you. Now here are the hosts of the
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Episode 91, What's in the news? Well, as we all know, our new
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evaluations came out yesterday. I know a lot of people were
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panicked early on. There's some been a little bit
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of a delay before they finally showed up in the system.
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And the big one, there appears to be a glitch for those of you
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that have high option and you're low option or what was
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available. So hopefully that gets
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rectified. It's James and I tonight as of
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right now. Bill may be joining us later.
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He had his retirement dinner with his family and whatnot
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tonight, so he's running a little behind.
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If he pops in, great. If not, James and I are going to
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be covering a whole lot of. Information.
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Yes, I will be reading a lot tonight just to forewarn you
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guys, but this is all about, you know, your 4241 ASMS and any
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disputes and whatnots. So on that note, James, how was
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your week this week? Well, it was pretty much
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political fever in the mail today or this whole week.
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It's amazing how many Flyers we get for somebody who says they
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don't trust the Postal Service to deliver on time.
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But yeah, it was a lot of lot of political Flyers, which really
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helped my DPS count, I'll tell you that much.
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But overall, pretty much a standard week for me as it
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stands, had a retirement party or my postmaster who is done as
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of next Friday or this coming Friday.
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So we wish her well and I hope that the next person is just as
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much of a Unicorn as she was when it comes to dealing with
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carriers. And if not, I'll bury them in
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paperwork. But we were getting rains from
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the hurricane up here, very light, but still rains from the
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hurricane, tropical storm, whatever you wish to call it, by
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the time they were getting up here.
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But my, my hearts and my thoughts and prayers and goes
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out to everybody that's been affected by this.
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I know there is here an utter devastation across this country
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and I know a lot of people lost their lives out there.
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And so I, I, my heart goes out to all those people.
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I know several of my friends that are storm facers were down
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there in that a few of them were not being able to be contacted
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for several days and a couple of them still have not been
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contacted yet. We're hoping and crossing our
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fingers that they eventually are able to get contact, but I
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really, this is going to be months before anything's really
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close to being semi normal in some of those areas.
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So I really, I really feel for them this weekend, you know, I
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just hung around the house doing stuff and staying out of the
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rain. But it's pretty good.
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How about you, Kristen? Oh, if it wasn't for political
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mail I wouldn't have had much mail at all this week.
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I feel you James. I do on that one.
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Especially in the DPS. Yeah, it was a week normal for
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the most part. Monday sucked, Tuesday was next
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to nothing. Wednesday and Thursday were
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flats have been pretty heavy, which was usually it's odd in
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the middle of the month to be heavy.
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Usually get them at the beginning of the month but they
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seem to be coming in the middle of the month now so.
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But other than that it wasn't a bad week.
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Got my K day yesterday so it was nice and Ruby and the other half
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we took off and went down to Soaring Eagle Casino and went to
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a concert last night. And yeah, Ruby's first time away
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from the Little 1 and so she was in between bands Facetiming with
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her friend who was babysitting. But other than that it not a bad
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week. So it's just how it is.
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So you were off yesterday, so you didn't get your evaluation
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stuff? But I did find out that I stayed
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the same 40K, so I'm happy with that.
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I would be happier if it went up, just like everybody else
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would be happy if it went up for most people.
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But yeah, I I will get mine on Monday.
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I was off as well yesterday, but I popped into the office
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yesterday afternoon on my way past it.
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I'm heading out of town and shared I had everything printed
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out in an envelopes sealed in envelopes at everybody's cases
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that weren't there. So I popped in and grabbed it
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and Yep I stayed the same too. Still a 46 Ki lost 2 minutes and
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I went from 5458 to 5456 so not too bad there.
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And I'm pretty sure where some of that came from only because I
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was making corrections primarily for my collection compartments
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because when they initially did the mapping the first time
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around on that route, I was not the facilitator for that route
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with the now retired carrier. Our supervisor at the time did
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it and they had put all the hardships as collection
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compartments. And I finally fixed that in
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between these last two mini mail surveys.
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So that took me down from like 14 collection compartments down
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to 8. So, you know, there was a little
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bit of a loss there. I haven't compared the two
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sheets yet to see if there was anything else, but I'm not going
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to worry about two minutes, honestly.
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So yeah, I stayed the same at A46K.
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But those of you who have discrepancies, we're going to
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kind of start off with what you can dispute.
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Let me pull that up. I got everything in hard copy so
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it's easier for me to read. So if you hear paper shuffling
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around again, I apologize now. So the Rural Route Evaluation
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Dispute Process, the US Postal Service and the National Rural
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Letter Carriers Association have agreed to alternate to an
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alternate dispute resolution process in an effort to resolve
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disputes outside the formal grievance procedure following
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the implementation of rule route evaluations.
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Effective October 5th, 2024, the Rule Route Evaluation Dispute
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Process, or RREDP, as we all love those acronyms, will be
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used to address disputes where the assigned rule carrier has
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identified potential errors in the time credits provided on the
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PS Form 4241 A. This process will be used to
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resolve disputes related to the subjects below without the
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filing of grievances. The parties agree that carriers
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may dispute the following an entry of 0 or a questionable
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number in any data field on the PS Form 4241 A that would
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otherwise expect to have a time credit.
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An obvious error in any of the following data fields on the PS
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Form 4241A and those data fields would be route length, regular
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centralized or total boxes, daily dismounts, daily dismount,
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distance, collection compartments, traffic control
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points or TCP daily activities, miscellaneous time,
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miscellaneous time, sorry guys, and office walk distances.
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The Postal Service in the NRLCA will designate representatives
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at the district and area levels to review and adjudicate the
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disputes filed using this procedure.
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These representatives will work in teams of two and will consult
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with local operations personnel to include the District Delivery
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Support Specialist as necessary to review and discuss the
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dispute and further develop the supporting documentation to
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initiate a dispute. The assigned carrier and local
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management representative will complete Evaluation Dispute Form
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1. While completing the form, the
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parties at the local level shall discuss the data field or fields
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in dispute and should they agree that an appropriate credit has
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not been provided, they will annotate the the form
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accordingly. Upon completion, the form with
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all relevant documents will be forward to the Manager, Labor
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Relations at the District and the NRLCA District
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Representative. This form must be submitted no
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later than Friday, October 18th, 2024.
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The Designated Representative at the district level will annotate
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the dispute on the Roll Route Evaluation Dispute Log and
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assign a District Control number.
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Before meeting with the NRLCA District Representative,
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District teams will thoroughly review all relevant factors that
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affect the credit provided in the PS Form 4241 a Data Field in
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Dispute, including any notations of agreements made by the local
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parties. The team will either agree to a
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resolution, agree to excuse me, agree no action will be taken,
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or will impass the dispute and complete the top portion of the
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Evaluation Dispute Form 2, providing an explanation for the
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final decision within 30 days of receipt at the district level.
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If the parties are not able to reach an agreement at the
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district level, Evaluation Dispute Form 1, Evaluation
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Dispute Form 2 and all supporting documentation will be
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forwarded to the Area Director, Labor Relations or their
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designee and the NRLCA Designated Representative.
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The Area Team will jointly complete a review of the file.
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The Area Team will either agree to a resolution, agree no action
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will be taken, or will impasse the dispute and complete the
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bottom portion of the Evaluation Dispute Form 2.
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If the dispute remains unresolved after the Area
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review, each team member will provide a written recommendation
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for resolution to accompany the file.
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A company of the file, Excuse me.
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A copy of the file will be forwarded to the Director,
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Contract Administration, NRLCA and the NRLCA Director, Labor
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Relations or their designees within 21 calendar days of
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receipt at the Area level. The headquarters team will
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jointly review the file and either agree to a resolution,
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agree no action will be taken or will impasse the dispute.
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The team's decision will be in writing and provided to the
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RREDP team at the area level for further dissemination.
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The parties agreed that if impasse is reached, the dispute
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will be referred to as Step 4 as an interpretive issue.
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The parties agreed to reassess the dispute process prior to the
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next rule Route evaluation effective date to determine if
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any changes would be made will be made to these procedures and
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to update the timelines for submission.
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So that is the newest. Summary So in summary, route
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length, CBU, regular, total boxes, dismounts, collections,
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TCPS, activities, miscellaneous, time and distances are the
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things you can dispute. There are timelines they can
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follow, but sometimes they extend by mutual agreement.
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And I am going to double check my my box totals compared to my
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final when I did my last mapping before I left for national is at
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690. Does seem low so I am going to
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double check those tomorrow to make sure that my LTM print out
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is correct with that 'cause that seems lower than what I actually
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had. Yeah.
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And just make sure make sure you have paperwork to back up your
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numbers. Yes, I will go over that here as
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well. The dispute process issues and
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documentation, all disputes must include a 4241, a 4241 M and the
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LTM data page. There is some more information
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in that, but I see Bill has joined us.
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Yes, I have. How are you, Bill?
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Well, you know, there's nothing worse than waiting for, you
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know, your disputes to get back from the management.
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There is waiting for a table at a restaurant on Sunday night.
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Oh my God, this, this place, Maggiano's.
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I sure because he knows about it and it is packed all the time.
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The food is wonderful. It's abundant.
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The service was just slow because of the amount of people
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in there. And my wife was sick.
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So, you know, I had to pick up the bill, my retirement and
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birthday party. I'm not sure how that works, but
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you know, anyway, I get to see the grandkids and all my sons
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and they're women. And you know, it was just nice,
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you know, to have the whole family there.
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And like I said, the food is excellent.
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So they they make a shrimp scampi and they use the, the
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smaller shrimp that which have the good flavor or not chewy or
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anything. Oh my God.
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And then the Creme Boulet. It's a kill for.
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It really is. I love a good Creme brulee.
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You know it it, you know, basically you know, 2-2 hours
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and 15 minutes dinner and it's like God, but you know, that's
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OK. It's you know, all's good.
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Everybody's home safe and everybody got their fill.
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So that's it. That's the important thing.
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How's everybody doing? We're doing good.
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How was your final week? Oh God, are you kidding me?
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They tried to kill me my last two days Thursday and Friday,
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double hampers of parcels, a political mail at the kazoo.
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The if you saw my Facebook page where I put my adopted son up
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there, He, he, he came over to me Friday with about four inches
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of political mail at 10:30. And I said, put it in the mist,
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Rose. He starts walking away.
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I said, where you going? I'm going to put it in the mist,
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Rose. I said, you wait until I leave.
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Then you put it in the mist, Rose.
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I said, 'cause I don't have to kill you the 1st last day I'm
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here, you know, he started laughing and then and he, oh,
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you're serious, aren't you? My customers, I love them.
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I, I, I almost feel like I'm abandoning family.
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There's, there's eight or nine families I'll stay in contact
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with, especially a couple of the older couples.
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And I, I just, I, I feel like I'm abandoning my family.
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I really do. It's they're, they're not going
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to get anybody like me and I'm going to notice.
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They wrote in cards to me, you know, that that you know, you're
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a character lady posted on a local next door Facebook page
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and, you know, saying that how wonderful I was and all that.
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And I told her I was going to sue her for defaming my
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character. She said, but you're a
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sweetheart. And I said, no, no, I'm an angry
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man. I'm an angry, you know, you
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know, she just, you know, she goes, no, you're not because I
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know that you're just like my husband.
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I said, yeah, don't have that soft side.
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And then I'm going to miss them. I'm going to miss the kids and
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dogs. And, you know, that's it.
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I'm, I'm, I'm not going to miss anything else about the post
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office, Dan. Well, didn't you know, I'm not
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going to miss the money because, you know, that has no bearing on
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my decision. But I'm going to miss my
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customers because they were like a second family to me.
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Completely understand that. Yeah, I, I, I, I even got a
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little teary eyed on one customer.
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I mean, you know, I've gone through, you know, her
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grandchildren getting married and births and losing her
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husband and everything and and she's just a fry 93 year old
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running around doing her yard work all the time.
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And she just you get over here and you give me a hug like you
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mean it. And yeah, that that really, you
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know, it touches your heart, really does.
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And tomorrow morning I don't have to get up.
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It's like strangest feeling. It really is.
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One can only imagine. I came in on the, on the ESN
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there with your description there.
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And, and you know, like James said, you know, make sure you
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get the paperwork because let me tell you.
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But when I explained to people about the dispute process and
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that each dispute has to be processed individually and
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they're like, well, if I have 9 disputes, I said you have 9
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dispute forms. Oh, that's not worth your time
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and effort. Remember, that's your money.
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They better make. Time and effort to file those
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disputes. Which was what I was just going
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to go over here real quick with the disputes.
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This other page that says the Rural Route Evaluation dispute
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process will be used to address disputes where the assigned
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carrier has identified potential errors.
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Local management. The carrier should discuss and
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work together to submit the necessary documentation needed
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to resolve the issue. Listed on the following pages
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are some common issues being disputed.
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We're not going to go completely over those at the moment, but
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I'm going to finish reading this and the recommended
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documentation needed at the very minimum that should accompany
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the dispute. Please remember that each item
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being disputed should be on its own dispute form along with the
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necessary documentation. The dispute and the
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documentation will be sent to the Manager of Labor Relations
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at the district level by the Postmaster and to the NRLCA
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District Representative. Only clear, legible copies
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should be provided to both parties.
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Pictures are unacceptable. Hard copy is requested.
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So when I did my disputes last time, I had 9 disputes on mine.
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And I'm going to tell everybody listening to this, when you
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dispute something, most likely they're going to say no action
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needed. Don't get discouraged by that.
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Always dispute what you believe is wrong because the only way to
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actually get this corrected is to have a paper trail of the
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mistakes. And if they continue to have the
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same mistakes over and over and over, somebody eventually is
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going to pay attention to that. Also, I would recommend that
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when you get the paperwork back to saying no action required,
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you need to talk with your representative as to how they
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made that determination. I'm currently in a situation
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where I have an active grievance for seven days of the time and
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management wants to contend that they're untimely.
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Well, there is no expiration date to the time.
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There is no allotment of the time until you present it to
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management. And with my office, we've gone
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through 1234 postmasters and three supervisors who never
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processed my Z time. My local steward, who is new, is
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unsure about it. And he's, he's trying to, you
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know, resolve my situation for under $2000, which seems to be
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the, the top limit that they'll do it locally.
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And, you know, if he does it for $1900, fine, I can't, you know,
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that that's, you know, close enough.
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I'm not worried about it. But if he comes back with, you
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know, like an offer of three days, well, then we're pushing
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it to Step 2. And then I'm going after the Dr.
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to a, you know, in regards to their approach to the whole
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situation because I'm not leaving this in the hands of
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people who are, let me say, distant from the situation.
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So, you know, make sure when you get your, you know, disputes
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back and there is, you know, no action required, talk to those
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people on on our side of the paperwork in regards to how they
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came to that arrangement. Question just came up real
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quick. Is every key term considered a
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central unit? Yes.
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So if you have 3 units together, three different key turns and
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the proper way that they should be in the DPM is each key turn
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box should be under the group mailbox grouping together, even
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though they may all be under one stop, but each grouping, each
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key turn, every box that is in that key turn should be grouped
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together under the box grouping. So we did upload if you guys are
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on our discord, I did upload the 4241 a CHEAT SHEET and as well
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as the dispute process stuff under manuals.
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I'll get them in the Facebook group eventually later on, but
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the probably today or tomorrow, we'll see.
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How did everybody get their eval eval back or not?
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Because I know our office didn't get them out.
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I got mine. I stopped in and picked it up.
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Yeah, I stayed the same. Lost 2 minutes.
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Mine was mine was printed. I was told I was a 40K for my
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postmaster but I didn't go in and get mine.
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I'll I'll get it on Monday. Yeah, I'm I'm interested just to
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see where my route and yes, Nope, it's still my route.
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It'll be my route until I die. It went up with the all the walk
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distances that we have inside the building and out to our
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vehicles, especially since the quarter mile parking lot walk
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has been contested by management since they moved the spots.
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Our local steward wants to argue.
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Well, it was during, you know, during the MMS, you know, study
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itself that they turned around and had the opportunity to
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change our distances, waited until after the mini mail survey
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changed the parking lot distances when they moved our
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vehicles. And he's arguing, well, you
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should have done that before because you had until what was
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it, the 6th September 6, you get that done.
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Yes. And so if not, they're going to,
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you know, they're going to grieve that too.
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Can't win unless you grieve it. Exactly.
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Yeah, and you know, you, if you bitch about it and don't do
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anything about it, it's on you too.
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Yeah, keep saying that. You know, people.
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People have to learn to step up. Definitely, I'm going to be
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double checking my info tomorrow.
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Like I said, I just popped in and grabbed it while I was
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there, but I will be actually going over it this week just to
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double check and make sure my numbers are correct.
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Speaking of numbers being correct, we are hearing from a
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lot of people that went through the rural route optimization as
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well as route cuts that their routes are now over inflated
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using the last 12 months data on their route because it's
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including all the information from the route before it was
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cut. So those individuals need to be
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aware that their routes are overvalued for what they have in
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the most part for some people. Some people are actually still
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overburdened even after route cuts, but some of them will most
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likely drop in the next two surveys.
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So just be aware of that coming. Yeah, as it is a 52 week rolling
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average. So yeah, those that have been
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adjusted, optimized however, especially those that have been
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cut and even new routes that have been formed from the cuts
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or added on to you may be over evaluated or even under
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evaluated in some instances. But you know, give it another
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too many mail survey cycles and it should even out to where it
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should be supposed to. And I would definitely and and
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that was something that I know that has been said in the past
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by union representation that it very well if you were cut from a
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48 to a 43, you very well could go back up under this first mini
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mail survey because it is using that previous data.
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Which is amazing to think that we have such quote UN quote
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accurate systems that supposedly they can tell us the exact value
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of each mailbox we deliver to, but yet when they cut her out
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and move those boxes around, the values don't move with the box.
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Exactly. Well.
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I'll I'll tell you what was concerning me over the last
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couple days and seeing information that people are
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posting up there that they can't compare their flats on their end
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of run report in regards to what's, you know, coming from
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the plant. The 19%, yeah, they're talking
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anywhere from, you know, a couple days to a couple weeks
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out. So, you know, the transparency
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issue is there again, how do you justify the numbers that they're
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utilizing. We are where, where can we prove
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that these numbers are accurate in any, any sense of the of the
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word of accuracy because of the fact that can't match them up
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with what you're kidding. I mean, one, one person that I
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am me that turned around and said, I for four weeks, I've
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counted my RAW, I've counted my bundles.
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You know, if you add to 19%, it doesn't work out.
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If you leave 19% off, it doesn't work out.
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How do I know I'm getting what I'm entitled to?
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And unfortunately, you don't. Yeah, that is the biggest issue,
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I believe with that as well, which and especially with the
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flats and the bundles that could affect your coverage factor #1
27:21
because your percentage. Because as we all know, these
27:25
GPS bread crumbs aren't always accurate when it comes to that.
27:29
And if you don't have mail that's showing up in the
27:31
informed visibility, IE bundled flats, raw mail and you're
27:37
stopping at this box and that's all they had was raw mail or a
27:42
bundled flat, then it's not always showing.
27:46
I mean, my coverage percentage was only 71% for my regular
27:49
boxes and 46% for my CB US. And and don't forget your raw
27:54
flats too. I mean, especially for the CB
27:57
us. And they sit there and say,
27:58
well, if your first one's, you know, doesn't get any mail
28:01
through the informed visibility or through DPS, then yeah,
28:05
you're not getting credit. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
28:08
That does not cover every aspect mail we received for that, you
28:13
know, a particular address. And you, you just can't turn
28:17
around and say, oh, this is more accurate than the old system.
28:21
Well, this was created to to pay us for what we actually do.
28:25
And yet management is hammering us to get the cost down to cut
28:30
down your distances, that cut down your throat, you know, your
28:33
casing time and everything else. I mean, it just, it's another
28:38
money grab. And then they threw this, this
28:40
the third money grab in there with the the optimization
28:43
program. I was like, Oh my God, how much
28:46
more do you need to take out of our paycheck?
28:49
Yes. I'll say our.
28:49
Paycheck because I still consider myself a rural carrier.
28:53
It's it's amazing to me to think that all these managers are
28:57
fighting to cut these routes and yet I heard from another carrier
29:01
who has an aux route in their office that is almost to an
29:05
underburdened route, almost underneath 40H and they won't
29:11
put the aux route on their route because they'll lose a
29:14
supervisor. They're more concerned about
29:16
saving management's job than rural carrier routes.
29:20
Drinks of that. You know, I talked about it
29:22
before, we went from one in 20 supervisors, one supervisor per
29:27
20 carriers, one manager per 20 carriers to one in seven, you
29:31
know, since 1997, too many chief company.
29:36
Exactly and transparency completely lacking across the
29:41
board and we need information. We are in the information age.
29:47
People are listening to those podcasts for information because
29:51
they're not getting information from the sources.
29:53
And we need that transparency. We need these numbers.
29:57
We need a system telling us the values that are coming through
30:01
our route every single day now some printed out sheet of paper.
30:05
We need an app or a computer program or something we can
30:09
actually access to look at to see what our values are because
30:13
otherwise we're sitting here in the dark.
30:16
We do the dispute process, get the no action needed, and then
30:21
we're wondering, were we wrong on that or did they just say no
30:24
action needed because they didn't want to actually pay us
30:26
more money? You know, I'm finding more.
30:28
Go ahead, go ahead. I was going to say I'm finding
30:32
go. Ahead.
30:37
I, I, you know, as I'm kind of perusing through stuff and I'm
30:40
finding more Rex stuff, information that I know many
30:47
people have not read and it is important to get on there and
30:52
read it. One that I just came across and
30:55
it's a USPS job aid and it's the RREX maintenance and it is
31:03
several pages long, 13 pages long.
31:06
I'm not going to read all 13 pages, but I'm going to read the
31:10
first page here. This is the first page of the
31:13
job aid, and this is important for everybody.
31:17
The overview Rex maintenance is the ongoing process of updating,
31:23
recertifying across AM, SDPM, and LTM.
31:27
After first Rex mapping is complete, carriers should make
31:31
updates based on any qualifying changes to the route to ensure
31:36
that Rex properly credits and compensates the carrier for the
31:41
route activity performed. Once effective, the job aid will
31:45
provide an overview of steps on how to complete Rex maintenance,
31:50
Qualifying route changes. Route changes that require
31:53
completing routes Rex maintenance include not an
31:57
exhaustive list. Adding, removing delivery
32:00
locations to and from the route. Activating, inactivating
32:05
seasonal delivery of specific addresses.
32:08
Changes to the line of travel. Changes to the route longer than
32:12
30 days. Addition or subtraction of
32:15
dismounts to the route. Changes of vehicle type POV to
32:20
government owned vehicle. Changes to inner unit service
32:23
points. Additions or changes to traffic
32:27
control points. Addition and removal of a detour
32:31
without a change in delivery sequence.
32:34
Some route changes require Rex maintenance updates across both
32:37
DPDPM and LTM. Others require Rex maintenance
32:42
updates in only LTM. The situations above that are
32:45
marked with an asterisk next to them are those that require
32:48
updates in only LTM, which is your traffic control points and
32:52
your additional removal of detour without a without a
32:55
change in delivery sequence. Check for required Rex
32:58
maintenance at the new LTM homepage.
33:01
Check whether DPMAMS alignment issue alert is present.
33:05
If present, this means that at least 20 or more active
33:08
addresses are out of sync between the most recently
33:11
submitted DPM edit book and the latest AMS edit book sent to
33:15
LTM, which requires Rex maintenance to resolve.
33:19
Resequenced addresses do not count towards the 20 bucks
33:23
threshold. Click on the alert to review a
33:25
side by side comparison of the DPM Edit book in the AMS Edit
33:29
book at the DPM AMS Edit Book Alignment Details page.
33:34
This table will indicate whether an address was unchanged, added,
33:37
inactivated, deleted, or assigned a different order
33:41
resequenced in AMS when compared to DPM.
33:45
This table also reflects details on complex parent child routes
33:50
such as the source route of an address.
33:54
So that is just the first page. I'm not going to read all 13
33:58
pages. It goes into detail.
34:00
I will make this one available to our Discord under manuals.
34:04
But yeah, guys, I mean, definitely you're a Juice Paying
34:07
member. Get on that website, go on the
34:10
main page, click on the the Rex resources and the Rex training,
34:15
both of those tabs. And that's where you're going to
34:19
find a lot of good information, especially those that are
34:26
struggling with your routes and have lost a lot of hours and
34:33
want to do all that stuff. I mean, there's even the latest
34:36
MDDTR release from July and some of that updates that stuff.
34:43
That is all available to you. And it's all right on the main
34:47
page under the tabs, you'll see the welcome tab, the members
34:51
resources. Then you have Rex Resources and
34:54
Rex Training in a year and a half into this.
34:57
Come on, especially for newer carriers as well.
35:00
It is there available to to see all of this and a lot of it.
35:06
The the CHEAT SHEET was updated. The 4241 a CHEAT SHEET was
35:12
updated on April 1st. The delivery point manager user
35:16
guide was updated November of 23.
35:19
You know, it's good does have the dates of when it was
35:22
updated. The MDD activity scan Quick
35:25
guide was updated May 31st of this year.
35:28
We will be going over that in a future episode as well.
35:33
We'll update on that. But you know the the 2024 mini
35:38
mail survey resource page was updated August 8th.
35:41
You know they they are keeping this updated.
35:44
So definitely get on there and get that information.
35:48
It's it's right there. It's available.
35:51
And not only are are are people supposed to be on top of this
35:54
every month, Kristen, but if if I hear one more person, I'm not
36:00
going to mention Don Matson my name tell you that, you know,
36:03
the decrease in in mail volume, AKA the DPS, which is not worth
36:08
anything on a per minute basis. You need to be on these numbers
36:12
for your flat. You know, whatever's coming in
36:15
on these reports because of the fact that money on those flats,
36:18
whether they're bundled flats or what, whether it's political
36:21
mail, whether it's a local newspaper dropping things off.
36:25
Those are the numbers that are that going to affect you greater
36:29
than the DPS. Cause the DPS values are so low.
36:32
You could have, you know, two trades of DPS and drop down to
36:36
one or three trades, drop down to 1 and it wouldn't really
36:40
marginally affect your pay because the values are so
36:45
little. But the flats and the parcels,
36:48
the scans, the stops he turns, the parcel lockers, the
36:52
deliveries to the door, all those things add up.
36:57
Yes they do. I'm so surprised to still see
37:00
where people are dropping two and three hours after the 4th,
37:04
you know, mini mail survey and I'm not understanding why, you
37:08
know, there's such a dramatic drop because technically you
37:11
could have one tray of DPS and it wouldn't affect your your
37:14
route by hours. Well then you know, and under
37:17
the 4241 CHEAT SHEET I which I suggest y'all go look at because
37:23
it does tell you where your information from the A can be
37:26
found on the M. The M is the breakdown and then
37:30
under that CHEAT SHEET, it also has the breakdown for the M and
37:35
where it's found on the A. I'm just going to give an
37:37
example since I have both of mine right here with me,
37:41
especially when it comes to package delivery.
37:43
I want to give you guys. And this is where your your
37:46
mapping comes into key point and where you're mapping your park
37:50
point and your delivery point for to the door.
37:55
And when you look at your 4241 M, it's going to say, let me
38:02
find it under your parcels, it's going to say you're out of route
38:07
drive. That's your mail stop to your
38:11
parking point. And then underneath that is your
38:14
out of route walk, which is your parking point to your delivery
38:18
location, to your door pinpoint. I mean, when I look at mine and
38:22
my 12 month average activity frequency, my out of route drive
38:27
says 9168.86, my auto route walk says 2455.62.
38:36
I mean I can look at that because my parcels on my 4241 A
38:40
says 495 point O 8 minutes. So those are the values you
38:46
really that really add up and that's my street volume time.
38:51
My office time for parcels is 258 point O 7 minutes.
38:55
I mean that, that that's how those correlate that street
38:58
volume time with your parcels and you're verifying your mail.
39:02
And you know, like I said, those that CHEAT SHEET, I mean,
39:06
obviously it's kind of hard unless I was able to do a
39:09
PowerPoint or a point presentation to record it.
39:13
But those Cheat Sheets are available on the website.
39:17
I just made them available for those of you that are on
39:19
Discord. But that will tell you how your
39:22
4241 M correlates to your 4241 A totals.
39:27
And that's why the mapping is so important on making sure that
39:32
your your your mail stop your your mail delivery point.
39:36
Your mailbox point is correct, as well as your park point and
39:41
your delivery point, your to the door point, because those could
39:45
those can make a big difference as well.
39:47
As you know, your your load time is an average over the the exact
39:53
time, the straight time. And then it's an average for
39:56
your load time and your end of shift time is an average of the
40:01
straight time of your end of shift time.
40:04
Now think about how those can affect it.
40:06
But your end of shift duties, I mean, that's taking emptying
40:10
moment. You shut that truck off, you hit
40:12
return to DU that starts your end of shift time.
40:16
That's empty. That's unloading the truck at
40:18
the end of when you get back. That's putting everything away.
40:22
That's your case, maintenance. That's your your.
40:25
Your your edit book. If you have holds going up for
40:30
the next day, that's when I do mine.
40:32
If I have a hold that I have the card for the next day, I'm doing
40:35
those when I get back and putting those up under my end of
40:38
shift. That's your mapping.
40:41
Your mapping is supposed to be done end of shift to be built
40:45
into your evaluation. I know there's a lot of offices
40:51
out there who have done it during 8127 time in the morning
40:55
or or. Under loading time.
40:58
Under loading time, Technically it's supposed to be end of
41:02
shift, but I mean if you're doing it under loading at least
41:07
you're getting the time towards the evaluation.
41:09
However, the 8127 time is not going to do anything for you for
41:12
your evaluation and your if your office is not mapping like
41:17
they're supposed to be doing every month, you need to contact
41:21
your Dr. File a grievance if that's what it takes, file
41:26
multiple grievances if it's still not getting done after the
41:29
first one's processed, and if management's still having an
41:33
issue, contact your Dr. and see if there is a mapping
41:36
facilitator available to come to your office to help you get that
41:40
assistance. Here's a Here's a comment that
41:43
lot of officers told to go on PM casing as well, no.
41:47
Contact. Your local representative that
41:50
that's not the agreement. No PM casing stops your end of
41:55
shift duties. You're end of shift time.
41:58
You're still on the clock our. National Magazine put out the
42:02
article. Mapping is the most important
42:05
part of the mini mail survey. It's right there for everybody
42:08
to read in black and white, and it explains that it's
42:12
management's responsibility to get it done every month.
42:16
Yes, it is important. Your driving is the biggest
42:23
factor in your evaluation. That mapping determines your
42:29
driving. On your evaluation, you're not
42:32
taking care of the driving portion of your evaluation.
42:35
You're practically cutting your route in half in evaluation.
42:39
Yeah, those park points and to the door points are huge as well
42:44
as making sure, yes, your, your mappings, your your, your mail
42:48
stops those, those are big that that is, I mean that DPM and LTM
42:53
are huge when it comes to your evaluations.
42:56
I. Can my time question?
42:59
Go ahead since. I don't have a BOV, are are they
43:03
still doing line of sight travel from a mailbox to a resident?
43:08
No. No.
43:11
They're not. No.
43:12
They're using. You're using the mapping, and
43:14
it's actually the measurements between those boxes on the
43:17
mapping that determine the drive speed between the boxes.
43:22
So if your box is further from the box before it, then it
43:27
should be. You could be putting yourself
43:29
into a different speed matrix bracket, a different level on
43:33
the speed matrix that you're missing, and the distance is.
43:38
You're missing the point, James. James, If I have a box on the
43:42
street and I'm delivering it to a house and it's a quarter mile
43:46
away, but the line of sight is an eighth of a mile.
43:50
No, there, there is no line of sight.
43:52
It's up to 1/2 mile regardless. OK, so.
43:56
Because like I said, I don't have APOV so.
43:59
Yeah, we have the. Realize whether or not they're
44:01
getting the mileage on that. No, they're not getting as it as
44:06
it comes to mileage still any deliveries with POV.
44:10
Your your your mileage. Your EMA calculation mileage is
44:14
the driving of the route. Any time going down driveways to
44:19
deliver packages is still not included in your mileage for the
44:23
POV and. That's not right.
44:26
Oh, and I agree. Hold on, it's not included in
44:29
the mileage for the POV, but it is included in your route
44:34
evaluation for out of route miles, Yes.
44:37
So you do get some compensation on that where before we never
44:41
got compensation for. That yeah, the outer route drive
44:43
is where it falls under. But the outer route drive and
44:46
then the outer route walk also gets on there too so you get
44:49
time for walking to the door. Straight line for bulls but
44:53
still. Cause mapping doesn't discern
44:55
roads obviously. We found that out with our Rd.
44:58
when it was putting it through people's backyards.
45:01
We're across Creek Center and there's no bridge.
45:04
Yeah. Oh, hold it.
45:05
If you're in North Carolina, there's no roads anymore.
45:09
Them four people. Oh my God.
45:11
Too soon, too soon, too soon. I'll.
45:13
Tell you, I'll tell you what I no, I'm, I'm serious.
45:17
I I just I my heart goes out to them people.
45:20
I I can't believe that road is gone.
45:22
Is it route? 40 I can't believe yeah, I
45:25
thousands are gone. Five 40s gone.
45:27
Yep there's actually I saw just saw a picture of a road that got
45:32
washed away just from the water running down the ditch.
45:36
The entire 2 lanes wide gone cause of the ditch.
45:40
It wasn't even a stream or a river, it's just the runoff from
45:43
the road washed the road away. It's just.
45:47
I have a friend of a friend of a friend in North Carolina.
45:53
They were in their house when the mudslide hit.
45:57
They were able to escape safely along with their pets, so they
46:03
are safe, but they were in their house.
46:06
And the picture that I saw is just absolutely devastating.
46:10
You see this little peek through the mud, a car up against a tree
46:14
and just imagine that they survived that and were able to
46:18
get out with their animals is just, it's a blessing.
46:22
So yes, my, my heart goes out to everybody that eastern
46:25
Tennessee, western North Carolina that have been
46:27
absolutely devastated. It's just, yeah.
46:32
And, and the worst part is those two parts of the country never
46:36
really saw it coming in that direction.
46:39
They they were not ready for this.
46:41
And it just the amount of rain that came down so fast that that
46:45
caused the flash flooding and the mud slides and just is it,
46:51
it's, it's heart wrenching. And not to mention failures of
46:55
dam dams too. And even even if even if the dam
47:00
is still standing, if the water eroded the sides of the dam and
47:05
got around it that way, it's still considered a dam failure
47:07
because the water is lower behind the dam than it the dam
47:11
would hold held back. But Even so, with the amount of
47:13
water they got with it overtopping the dam, it wouldn't
47:16
have mattered. So it's just these people were
47:20
completely unprepared for any of this because they've never
47:25
considered anything like this ever happening in their area.
47:29
I mean, they've had plans for stuff like that in their
47:32
emergency operations center and stuff, but it's never been
47:35
something like, oh, we get almost 2, two feet of rain in a
47:40
single day. They never planned for that.
47:43
It does nothing Your. Emergency operation center gets
47:46
washed away either yeah, I. Mean through old.
47:48
Towns just disappeared. That's that's heartbreaking.
47:53
Or like Florida, where they got rid of getting grants for the
47:56
emergency operation center. Yeah, yeah.
47:59
Yeah, there really is no way to actually plan for that.
48:02
I mean just. You can do worst case scenarios
48:05
and emergency operations, but until it's actually truly
48:09
happening, you can't fully prepare for the extent of it.
48:13
You can plan for a lot of it and plan resources and things like
48:18
that. Like I will tell you the lineman
48:21
from up here left two days before the storm even was a
48:26
hurricane. They were already heading down
48:28
that way. So there's a lot of resources
48:31
from our area from out West, from way up in Maine, all down
48:35
in that area trying to help get this country put back together
48:38
and at least operational so they can clean up.
48:42
But it's going to take a long time and it could be even years
48:47
before everything is back to full normal.
48:50
Oh hell yeah. Oh, at least, at least it's.
48:55
Prayers, their prayers are with them and you know, if, if you
48:59
can, you contribute to perf so that you know, help some of the
49:02
carriers out, you know. Goodwill.
49:05
Red Cross, whatever, do whatever you can.
49:09
Especially for the RCA. Yeah, yeah.
49:13
Yeah, there's there's. Directed in that fashion, but.
49:16
Yeah. But I can tell you that our RCA
49:19
especially are the ones that are hit hardest by this stuff.
49:23
There's provisions for emergencies for career
49:26
employees, but I'm not totally versed on the ones for non
49:30
career. But I will tell you this, out of
49:33
everything, our rural carriers and our city carriers are the
49:38
backbone of normalcy after these things happen.
49:41
So once they allow us to get back to to normal work, we're
49:46
going to be the stewards of comfort in a time of crisis by
49:51
showing them that the Postal Service is there and it's a
49:56
normal thing they can see. Donations to PERF can be done
50:01
online at postalrelief.com or you can send in a check made pay
50:07
payable to Postal Employees Relief Fund and that address is
50:13
Postal Employees Relief Fund, PO Box 41220, Fredericksburg, VA
50:24
two, 2404-1220 by contributing to PER for the combined Federal
50:31
Campaign, CFC designate number 10268.
50:37
I will post that information on both the page, the group and the
50:42
Discord in a little bit. And the postal, the, the PERF,
50:46
the Postal Employees Relief Fund.
50:48
So National Disaster strike, postal employees are welcome
50:52
sites delivering vital supplies and mail, but who takes care of
50:54
them? Postal employees, Postal Service
50:57
employees who are victims of national disasters, fellow
50:59
postal employees. So I will set up and I think
51:05
that, yeah, there is a link for that as well.
51:08
I'll put that up there for everybody.
51:11
And if there are any carriers out there in the affected areas
51:14
that are listening to this and want to tell their story of what
51:19
happened, how, how your management handled it and things
51:22
like that, feel free to reach out to us.
51:25
We'd love to tell your story, even.
51:28
If it's even if you don't want to come on and talk, we
51:31
understand. Send us an e-mail united.
51:34
We scan podcast@gmail.com. Go ahead, send us an e-mail.
51:38
We will be happy to read that. We'll keep you.
51:42
You know, if you don't want your name and location out there,
51:44
that's fine. We don't have to do that.
51:46
But you know, definitely if you want to share that, we will be
51:50
happy to read any emails that receive or if you want to come
51:55
on and talk, if you're available to come on and talk, you're more
51:59
than welcome. Just reach out to us and same
52:01
e-mail address and we'll set something up with you and you
52:05
can do it from your phone if you want to.
52:08
I'll figure out a way I think I can hook up my phone to the
52:11
sound box. I'll have to play with that a
52:14
little bit. So even if somebody could call,
52:18
reach out and I'll let you know for sure if I can get that
52:22
working or not. And I maybe it will just hook up
52:24
the phone and do it as a phone conversation as well.
52:28
Or message they paid, message us on social media.
52:34
We're all available to reach out to if you want to tell your
52:36
story to us or anything that's going on concerning what
52:43
management's doing after the storm too, because it's
52:47
important for your stories to be heard.
52:49
And even if, if, if there's essentials, if you have a place
52:53
that something could be sent to. I know, you know, newborn
52:57
clothes, we're, I mean, if there's something like that
53:00
that's needed, that people have extras of stuff, clothing or
53:04
anything that's been lost, you know, let us know.
53:07
We will put something together to get stuff, addresses or
53:10
something in PO Box. We'll, we'll help one way or
53:15
another. We'll pull our resources.
53:17
We'll, we all take care of each other.
53:18
We all know that, you know, we'll figure it out.
53:21
I mean, look at what has been done with in Florida in the past
53:25
with hurricanes in getting people necessities.
53:28
I mean, we reach out to everybody in the country.
53:30
So if there's something you need that needs to be replaced, that
53:34
can be done. We will help facilitate that.
53:38
Not a problem, I thought it was great there was.
53:41
A store down there, a large like most farm feeds type store and
53:48
they, they were, they have a large parking lot and they were
53:51
offering people, you know, places to park their RV's or
53:55
their cars or whatever they needed to.
53:57
They were offering them showers. They were offering food,
53:59
everything they had clothing being donated and everything
54:02
that's, you know, everything that's going to be free if you
54:05
need to just, you know, give them a call.
54:08
They they had charging stations set up all over the parking lot
54:12
for people. It's, you know, it's nothing
54:14
like a natural disaster. Bring out the best of people and
54:17
the worst. But you know, the thing of it is
54:20
that the best of people rises to the top.
54:22
And, you know, that's one, one thing about this country is that
54:27
we come to each other's aid. Amen to that.
54:30
Absolutely. All right.
54:31
Guys, do we have anything else we want to go over this evening?
54:35
I got stuff for next week, so we're good on that.
54:37
OK. Oh, suspense.
54:43
Got to keep people in. Suspense to listen to the next
54:45
episode. Right, right, right.
54:47
You know, they went a little. Crazy when they went a little
54:50
crazy. When we weren't on for a.
54:51
Couple weeks, so yeah. Well, hopefully we won't have to
54:57
do any midweek episodes or anything like that.
55:00
So hopefully it'll be hopefully it'll be a good week this week
55:04
and we can just do our standard episodes.
55:08
If not, we'll be in midweek. If so, you know you never.
55:14
Know you know, it could be anything.
55:17
You never know. We'll do what we can when we
55:22
can, that's for sure. That's why you always take each
55:25
day as it. Comes because you never know
55:26
what tomorrow brings. Absolutely.
55:30
And somebody says to me, I. Remember to tell everybody that
55:33
you love, that you love them because tomorrow's not promised
55:36
to anybody. Yeah.
55:38
Ain't nothing like hugging your grown ass sons on your
55:41
retirement birthday party and telling them that you love them,
55:44
you know? Yeah, one of.
55:47
Those things that you know you don't.
55:49
Know, like I had, I had a customer, 93 years old, him and
55:55
his wife were in the kitchen Monday and they're preparing
55:58
dinner and he heard a thud. He turns around and she's on the
56:01
floor and passed away. It's just, you know, one day
56:05
they're there, one day they're not.
56:06
And you know, don't take every any any day for granted.
56:10
Absolutely no, you can't take any day.
56:12
For granted. That's right, Mr. Johnson, if
56:14
you don't feel safe. Turn around.
56:16
Yep, your safety is the. Number one priority for
56:19
everybody. Yep.
56:21
And once you hit that street? Safety is your call as a carrier
56:25
and that's what that Form 1767 is for.
56:28
When you get back to the office, don't ever, don't ever risk.
56:32
Your life for a piece of paper or an Amazon package?
56:36
Not worth it because they'll replace the Amazon package but
56:39
your family can't replace you. And remember if.
56:42
Something doesn't feel right. If you're uncomfortable for half
56:47
a second about something, that's when you make the decision to
56:50
turn around because that is the moment where you know you're
56:54
either going to make a critical mistake or you're going to make
56:56
the right decision. I could tell you some stuff from
56:59
my life that let me tell you, it just takes a moment to turn
57:05
wrong. Turn left instead of turn right
57:08
and you don't know what you're stepping into.
57:10
So if the hairs on the back of your neck or if your gut starts,
57:14
you know, boiling over, you get a little queasy, that's when you
57:18
need to make that U-turn and go back, yes.
57:23
And that includes delivering to a house if something feels off
57:27
as you're headed into the house, stop.
57:29
Don't go up that driveway. Leave a notice.
57:32
Yeah, you reminded me of something.
57:35
We did have a letter carrier, Scott in Wisconsin for
57:42
delivering the person's political candidates
57:46
opposition's advertisement. Oh my God, yes.
57:51
And this is that time of year where people's opinions get very
57:59
opinionated and that person is going to go away for life and
58:08
the carrier survive. Just so you guys are clear,
58:11
carrier survive. But that's a risk we take every
58:14
single day out here. And we cannot wait for them to
58:17
pass this bill. Protect our letter, protect our
58:20
letter Carriers Act because stuff like this has to stop.
58:24
These are just people running for a position.
58:27
They aren't life and death. They aren't the end of the
58:29
world. They're just people and we're
58:32
just doing the jobs. Delivering what's?
58:34
Addressed to the. Address no matter what position
58:38
you are. Running for No matter what you
58:40
are doing in this situation, you are still just a person.
58:44
You can have your opinions, but you should not use violence to
58:49
push your opinions. No matter no matter what you
58:52
think about the other people, it's just not right.
58:56
You shouldn't be. I just I'm.
58:59
I'm a I'm beside myself that somebody would take a 10 cent
59:04
Mailer and use that as an excuse to try to take somebody's life
59:10
and all we were and all they were doing.
59:12
Was doing their job of delivering the mail, what they
59:14
were paid to do and the person. Paid for that flyer to go to
59:17
that person's house. Whoever the the agency was, that
59:21
paid for. It this is a scenario where that
59:25
person, instead of pulling a trigger, should have just took
59:29
it and threw it away, Yeah, you know, it's not the carrier.
59:33
'S it's not the. Carrier's fault and
59:36
unfortunately you know it it it is sad.
59:39
Thankfully they survived, but they will forever be changed.
59:42
They might not ever come back to work because.
59:45
Of it because I can tell you the fear, the fear of going back to
59:51
that route specifically in that office, even that office maybe,
59:56
but that route specifically will most likely cause them post
1:00:00
traumatic stress and they may never work the route again.
1:00:05
And if they're the ones assigned to that route and management
1:00:07
says, well, we can't take you off that route because that's
1:00:09
what you're assigned and there's no other option that person will
1:00:13
have to because of PTSD. We'll have to take disability
1:00:17
retirement due to PTSD. And that was up what I was going
1:00:20
to point out to you. James, I mean, there are so many
1:00:23
situations where your carriers have been attacked by dogs and
1:00:27
mawed and can't go back onto the route that they served.
1:00:31
You know, they can't go back to a route period, because they go
1:00:35
to a new route. They don't know the dogs on that
1:00:38
route and they don't know how they're going to react.
1:00:40
Or, you know, in the situation that we had where a carrier
1:00:44
struck and killed a small child and he, he lost it.
1:00:50
He, he just, he, he mentally lost it and could not get back
1:00:55
in the vehicle. I went back in the same way.
1:00:58
You know, he actually, you know, chased up his.
1:01:00
Route one day after, you know, being off probably two or three
1:01:04
weeks and all aced up his vehicle, pulled it down and went
1:01:08
down to the, you know, to the truck, opened it up and realized
1:01:12
if he went out there, he was going to go on on the route
1:01:14
where he killed it and he just lost it right there in the
1:01:16
parking lot. I mean, I, I'll tell you what,
1:01:19
you know, I might be angry, Bill, but there, there's no way
1:01:23
I, I could go back out there if I ever killed a child.
1:01:26
No, no, I couldn't. You know, I, I don't know how
1:01:29
you, you know, live with, you know yourself, let alone try to
1:01:32
go back to your job after that, even if it wasn't your fault.
1:01:36
Yeah, and it wasn't. It wasn't.
1:01:39
It wasn't, it's their fault and you know, but you can't bring
1:01:43
that child back. And whether it's your fault or
1:01:45
not. And you, you know, you've owned
1:01:48
that responsibility even though it wasn't yours.
1:01:52
And God, God, you know, help you if it ever happens because you
1:01:56
know, an old fart like me, OK, he deserves to die.
1:02:00
But but you know a four year old child.
1:02:02
No, I can say that I. I, I I.
1:02:06
Qualify as an old fart now since I'm retired, don't worry.
1:02:11
Don't worry that your Walker. 'S in the mail, but it's got to
1:02:14
go through Palmetto that that's oh, thanks a lot I.
1:02:18
Won't see it for five years, so I have at least five years to
1:02:21
live waiting. For my Walker, sorry I had to
1:02:26
finish. This on a little bit.
1:02:27
More positive note because but so I just got an update on the
1:02:34
rain volume that was dumped over the United States approximately
1:02:39
during this hurricane. 40 trillion gallons of water.
1:02:44
To give you an idea of what it would be, it would fill
1:02:47
approximately 60 million Olympic size swimming pools.
1:02:53
If you were to put the water in a football field size area it
1:02:57
would be 1800 feet deep. 40 trillion gallon could supply
1:03:04
over 1.3 billion people with water for a year.
1:03:10
The state of Texas would be covered in three feet of water
1:03:14
and it could fill Lake MI more than 18 times.
1:03:20
That's how much water was dumped by this system.
1:03:23
Wow, that's a lot of water. In in a very short amount of
1:03:26
time, yes. Yeah.
1:03:28
Yes. And and technically.
1:03:31
Considering the area, it was in a very small area.
1:03:35
I mean, you're considering the state of Texas, 3 feet of water
1:03:39
and some areas recorded 2 feet of rainwater at least.
1:03:42
Yeah, that's amazing. That just came across my news
1:03:47
feed. Mother Nature is a bitch.
1:03:50
And that was all. That was one. 100.
1:03:55
Percent Gulf of Mexico water water that evaporated out of the
1:04:00
Gulf of Mexico that means the Gulf of Mexico is. 6 feet
1:04:04
shallower. Well, you got the Atlantic Ocean
1:04:07
feeding into. It for the ocean added to that
1:04:09
so you're probably looking at about a foot lower yeah, yeah,
1:04:14
but yeah, that's. A.
1:04:15
Lot of water, and now it's all making its way back to the
1:04:18
Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico from the mountains.
1:04:22
All right, guys, time to wind this down.
1:04:24
Tonight sounds like a plan. Go for it.
1:04:27
James Hell. Pay attention.
1:04:29
To your numbers. Pay attention to what management
1:04:32
is doing. Do your mapping.
1:04:35
We keep pushing this, so does our union national office keeps
1:04:41
pushing. Do your mapping.
1:04:43
It's the most important part of your evaluation.
1:04:47
Aside from the numbers of mail that you get in packages and
1:04:52
stuff. Mapping is the most important
1:04:55
thing that you can control. You control where the mailbox is
1:05:01
placed, you control where the park point is, the door
1:05:05
delivery, and sometimes the mail stop if it's a dismount
1:05:09
location. But mapping is integral to your
1:05:13
evaluation and it's part of your end of shift duties.
1:05:17
Very management and paperwork. If they will not let you map, it
1:05:24
doesn't matter if you have no changes to your route
1:05:27
whatsoever. You need to do your mapping.
1:05:31
Because like I found and grieved in my office that the system is
1:05:37
changing houses vacant when I get pars labels so I grieved it.
1:05:43
Pay attention to your mapping. It's not just your vacant, it's
1:05:46
also active. It'll turn boxes active.
1:05:50
If you get a first class letter for the address, even if the
1:05:53
house is vacant and you're sending it back to to the
1:05:57
sender, you're returning it to the sender.
1:05:59
It's marking it active. That'll affect your coverage
1:06:03
factor because if you're only getting that one piece for the
1:06:07
year, your coverage factor is going to go down.
1:06:10
So you got to pay attention to all your addresses in your
1:06:14
mapping. Make sure you're delivering to
1:06:16
the door every day because it will move your door delivery
1:06:20
location. I found this out as well myself.
1:06:23
It's moved my door delivery location, especially if I
1:06:27
sometimes put it at the covered porch or at the garage depending
1:06:31
on whichever the customer wants me to do.
1:06:33
It'll change that location if you do it.
1:06:35
Scan it further up the driveway or up the sidewalk a little bit
1:06:39
from the front door. Pay attention to your mapping.
1:06:43
Pay attention to your traffic points because if you are not
1:06:47
delivering to a location for a while, it may cut off that
1:06:51
section. So if you have a road that you
1:06:53
don't go down and say the winter time, it may cut it off.
1:06:56
Pay attention to it. Mapping is very important.
1:06:59
Your numbers are in. Management should have gotten
1:07:02
them to you Saturday. They didn't.
1:07:04
They need to get them to you Monday.
1:07:06
If they do not have them Monday when you ask, file a grievance.
1:07:10
They should have been printed Saturday and they're going to
1:07:13
argue, oh, it wasn't available in the morning.
1:07:15
It was available after 11:00 AM for everybody.
1:07:19
They rolled out two offices slowly between 8:00 and 11:00 to
1:07:23
try and not overburden the system.
1:07:25
So should have been there. Be safe out there.
1:07:29
Everybody. Stand together, stand united.
1:07:32
Because when we stand together, we show management we're all in
1:07:36
this together. Bill.
1:07:37
Well, I'd like to say I'm retired.
1:07:39
And don't give a shit and have nothing to contribute.
1:07:42
But that's not how I am. I'm still involved.
1:07:46
I'll, I'll still be helping my local office and other areas
1:07:53
around the area, even though I'm not a steward.
1:07:56
But the fact of the matter is they can't do nothing to me.
1:07:59
So screw them because that's one of the things I do.
1:08:03
I help people and I will continue to, as long as I'm
1:08:07
involved in union and I'll be involved with our local union,
1:08:10
our state union and maybe even the convention next year.
1:08:13
I don't know. I yeah, I haven't decided yet,
1:08:15
but we'll be involved with this podcast and my people and my
1:08:20
customers, everybody listening because of the fact that, you
1:08:24
know, might be an asshole, but I'm a caring asshole and I'm the
1:08:29
best asshole I can be, you know, for the carrier's sake, because
1:08:33
that's, you know, they're, you're, you're all the people
1:08:35
that I care about. And, you know, it's touched me
1:08:38
over the years, all the condolences and congratulations.
1:08:42
And you know, I like I said, I feel like I've abandoned my
1:08:45
customers thing, you know, to some unknown entity that's not
1:08:49
going to serve them like me and they won't because there's only
1:08:53
one bill made. So remember, you know, you are
1:08:56
the most important delivery of the day home safely to your
1:08:59
loved one. And you know, just you know,
1:09:03
send a prayer to out to all our brothers and sisters in the
1:09:07
states have been affected by this hurricane.
1:09:09
They're going to need it, especially like James said, the
1:09:12
RC as thank you guys. It's.
1:09:15
Been it's been a week and definitely my heart goes out to
1:09:19
everybody affected by the hurricane.
1:09:22
Touching on what James was saying with watching your boxes
1:09:25
and stuff. When you turn your edit books in
1:09:27
each month you can request new edit sheets, and when you get
1:09:32
new edit sheets, compare them with your active boxes and your
1:09:36
inactive boxes to your prior edit sheets.
1:09:40
Before you replace them in the book, take a look at them and
1:09:43
see if something's been deactivated that shouldn't have
1:09:46
been. Definitely look in it.
1:09:49
You know, double check when you get new edit sheets, double
1:09:51
check them against the old ones to make sure that they are
1:09:54
correct. Because that's going to be the
1:09:56
first time we, I had a route in my office that had four of them
1:09:58
that were as inactive. He never inactivated those ever.
1:10:03
And I said, did you check your edit sheets?
1:10:04
And he's like, no, I haven't. Is it double check them, get new
1:10:08
edit sheets and double check them.
1:10:10
So definitely pay attention to that as well.
1:10:12
End of shift duties, guys, do it on end of shift duties.
1:10:15
Get your 4241, your 4241 A and 4241 M look over them during end
1:10:21
of shift duties, go through them.
1:10:23
Then that's your end of shift duties stuff.
1:10:26
That's all included in that. Now, do those, if you got stuff
1:10:30
to dispute, make sure that you're getting hard copies of
1:10:33
all the information that you need to do those disputes.
1:10:39
Again, those disputes have to be in by December 18th, which is a
1:10:43
Friday. And I'm trying to think if there
1:10:48
was anything else I wanted to go for.
1:10:51
My mind's running a mile a minute right now, guys.
1:10:54
But yeah, on that note, again, congratulations to Bill on your
1:10:57
retirement. Yes, happy for you, definitely.
1:11:03
And everybody stay safe out there, stay vigilant and take
1:11:09
care of each other. That's, that's the main thing.
1:11:12
We have to take care of each other.
1:11:14
We have to be able to make sure that each one of us gets home
1:11:16
safe to our loved ones each night.
1:11:18
And we, we have to, we have to do that luck out for each other
1:11:22
as well. So on that note, guys, stay safe
1:11:25
this week, stay vigilant. Go through your, your new
1:11:29
evaluations, make sure everything is correct.
1:11:32
I know I'm going to be double checking mine over the next
1:11:35
couple days and yeah guys, we'll be back next week and stay safe
1:11:41
guys, have a good one. Can you hear me now?
1:11:59
I can hear you now. Hasn't changed.