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Thank you. Now here are the hosts of the
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United We Scan podcast. Welcome back, everybody, Episode
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41. So today we're going to talk
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about do, how doing your cases, your case slots and issues,
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evaluations, a little bit of everything as it's all turning
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out to be lately. So how was your week, Josh?
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Not too bad. I've been training Rca's most of
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the week. We had one that was assigned to
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my route that's getting it really quickly.
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And my little work wife, her RCA is not quite picking up her
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route, but she is a heavy, heavy business route so.
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We think that was part of the hang up.
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So they were going to switch the two of them.
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So I started working with the other RCA on Friday and they
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called her back in to run parcels on a down route in the
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middle of the shadow. So hopefully Monday I'll
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actually get a chance to run her through the whole route so she
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can actually see where she's going on the route and get her
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trained up. James, how was your week?
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Oh, the usual. I had a normal, pretty normal
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week at the office other than you know, management doing
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things that were wrong and had to be corrected on and actually
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had to discuss the trip to door, door, miscellaneous and
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unscanned parcels to my postmaster after I've already
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explained it to them before because of the latest thing that
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management set down about unscanned parcels and getting
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carriers to lower those numbers. So that's the biggest issue that
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we have going on around and we will be talking about that later
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on as part of our issues we're going to be discussing is
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management's continuing use of just the computers to harass
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carriers. Yeah, but other than that pretty
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much an easy week. We did get flat W, flat WSS in
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and they marked it to be delivered on Saturday, but I
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felt like not leaving that for my sub on Saturday.
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So I took it out and literally he had a completely clean case
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when he got back, no mail put up, no nothing because there was
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nothing to put up. So I got everything out for him.
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So that way he didn't have much to do yesterday, but other than
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that, pretty much standard normal postal week and now we're
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here on this again. Phil, how was your week?
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Oh, I'm pretty much like James, except for, you know, my
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management has the ability to mismanage to the next level.
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Let's see. We had a carrier out on medical,
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got his release to return to work on Friday.
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So they didn't schedule on Friday.
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They didn't schedule Saturday, but they forced regulars,
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including myself, in on Saturday and then the preferential son.
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He was scheduled and he's one of the junior carriers, but he
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didn't bother coming in because he's a Penn State alumni and
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Penn State was playing at 7:30 out in Happy Valley, which he
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could have got to because he's usually done by 1231.
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O'clock, but he was allowed to call out.
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And then we scheduled too many people off, so therefore we had
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two open routes. Then when she asked for
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volunteers, I said, well, I'm already here helping, so since
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it's my drop day, I'm not going to help you anymore.
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Of course that annoyed her. Then, you know, 2 seconds later
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another carrier came up with the same excuse that you know, I'm
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working my drop day. So I volunteered enough.
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And I'm telling you, you know what?
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By time she got to the third person, she goes, if you're not
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going to help, I'm going to assign people to to to help
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these open routes and all you heard from my case was good
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luck. And doesn't the MOU state that
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you can't be used if you're already working your relief day?
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Well, I don't know, but because since we don't have a steward in
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there, nobody's no, nobody's posted it up on the board.
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I gotcha. Gotcha.
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But I do. I do know an asshole that has a
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copy of it at their case. And to answer your question,
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yes, you're they're not supposed to use you on your relief day
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because you're already making overtime.
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Yep, Yep. Yep, Yep, Yep.
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So other than that, I mean you know, regular day in
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Westchester, you know? Plus we had that storm blow
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through here so it was nothing. Nothing like trying to put mail
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in the mailbox when the 40 mile an hour gust comes along.
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Oh yeah, isn't that fun? Oh, airmail.
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You got hit by that? That's like when we get
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something rolling in off the lake and I'm up on 23, whether
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I'm lakeside or just across the street, you get that gust of
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wind and Yep, there goes the mail.
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Yeah, I know that one. Yeah.
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Luckily I'm far enough, was far enough inland that I didn't get
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wet, but we did have some wind, but nothing major.
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So thankfully this time. But like my wife said, you know,
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20 some years ago, no one expected Hugo to come this Far
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East or this far wet inland, so I was ready for it.
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Well, if you have a wind problem, just take some vino.
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Different wind mustard on it. Oh, I don't need hot dogs.
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OK, a burger with mustard on it. Oh you heathen.
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Oh yeah, Steve, catch up Mayonnaise.
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No. No, all right, My week went
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pretty much the same except for I did not run my OX route one
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day this week. A regular took it out yesterday.
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Because they wanted to leave me to help the newer guy who was
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running a different route for the very first time.
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And so, yeah, And by the time I got back and checked where he
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was, he was in the last half hour of the route.
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I'm like, yeah, he's good. He called me once and that was
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it. So let's just hope we don't run
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him off come Christmas time. And we got the official word
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that the route is now considered vacant, so hopefully it should
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be posted to bid this coming week.
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Fingers crossed. Woohoo.
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And I need you to steer clear of that RCA so you don't run them
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off like the rest of them, yeah. Yeah, and what else?
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You know you're coming to when you really bite yourself and you
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know. In in the foot Here, shoot
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yourself in the foot as an RCA still holding down a route that
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six days a week that is 53.36 standard hours and you do it in
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44.57 hours the first week and 48.47 hours the second week.
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Yeah, I bet my I shot myself in the foot on that one.
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Yeah, you shouldn't be doing that.
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You shouldn't be running them off.
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Everybody in Texas since the Cowboys lost.
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Ouch. What we save another team now
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down there? You guys ready to get into this
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stuff? Go.
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Go for it. All right.
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So the first topic we're going to discuss is case slot
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situations. A lot of management has been
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trying to lower the number of pieces of equipment in their
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offices. So one of the things I wanted to
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talk about and this actually came up in my office as well,
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was the separations in your case and how small they have to be.
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So for row carriers out of the M 38342.211 says that cases will
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be set up generally with two inch separations and two
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deliveries per separations. Managers may vary the size of
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the separations and the number of deliveries per separation on
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specific routes depending upon the volume and characteristics
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of mail normally received by those routes.
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So this is listed under the one bundle system.
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Now carriers that case their DPS every day would be considered A1
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bundle route. On the other hand, if you take
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the DPS on the side, you're A2 bundle system, so you would have
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to be. It says on that 1/2 inch slots,
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but because it's rural you should stick with the one inch
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slots per address so you have enough space if you decide you
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need to case your mail. Your guys's thoughts?
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I have to agree it should be at at minimum one inch slot per
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address. Problem there is though is there
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is allegedly no equipment for the cases of growth the post
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office few years back started. Eliminating and selling off or
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scrapping unused to quit you know case equipment.
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So it's hard and far and few between now to get replacement
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or additional which is part of my problem is I had I need at
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least 1/2 wing. I already have 4 full cases and
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not enough. There's not enough slots in it.
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I need at least. Two more shelves, Yeah, a
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minute. I have like 80 somewhere between
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80 and 100 addresses that are in the edit book, say half inch or
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I have 0 space for them because there's no room for them on the
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case or they like some of these dresses.
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I don't case them because it's either a large company and I put
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it tub it out or. The One St. in one of my
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curbside neighborhoods, the city wanted to buy out like 30 to 40
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houses. They're in a floodplain that
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they're just demolishing, and they're never going to build
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anything there again. So I don't have to worry about
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having a slot for them on the case.
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And even with that, I still am short.
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But it's a matter of trying to get the equipment.
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They keep saying there is none to be had.
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Which again demonstrates the foresight, forethought and every
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other force that management predictably operates under in
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regards to growth in areas. Where are you going to get this
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equipment from if you're selling it to the junk yards?
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Oh, we don't need this. As long as they're developing
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and building, you're going to need it.
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I hate to tell you that the housing is not going to go away,
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folks. It's just increasing.
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So you know, they better come up with an idea of some kind of
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game plan in regards to making equipment available and and God
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knows what it's going to cost you because it's going to be so
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costly. You're going to be looking at
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five $6000 for somebody to fabricate 11 centerpiece one
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wing. They all of these new delivery
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centers where they are taking all the routes and putting them
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into one under one roof are getting brand new cases.
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Yeah, but they're cheap flimsy plastic.
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No? I saw nice metal ones in the
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pictures. From the there, it's it's in
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Alc's book. It's similar to what we have,
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but it's blue and they're brand new, which should in theory
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alleviate a lot of old equipment or the offices that are staying
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where they're at in the interim, but we will see.
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Yeah. My thing is when I was going
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through this last time with the cases and we kind of talked
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about this in our post chat typing earlier is, you know, I
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have a very seasonal route. I have a lot of people that have
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their summer homes on Lake Huron and the condos and a lot of them
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don't have mailboxes and she still has them on the case even
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though there's not even a post there.
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So I'm. Gonna be in the process of
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taking those off cuz that confuses me #1.
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And if I'm having to train a new sub and you're getting a piece
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of mail for this address and these guys are worse than
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they're just gonna keep driving because they don't see that
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number and then they're gonna miss the next ones.
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So cuz their mind's focused on that one number that doesn't
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have a mailbox. So yeah, I'm going to take those
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off of there. I mean you know it's not a big
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deal if somebody does put a box up and re adding it down the
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road, I'm not worried about it. And then my businesses, my
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CBU's, my first three CBU's, my businesses get hardly any mail.
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So they don't need single one inch slots between all for all
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those businesses. I'm putting those down to half
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inch. And but then I have the one
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customer we all have that one customer that, you know, you're
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literally grabbing handfuls of DPS out of the tray until they
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don't have anymore. Finally, why does he have 1/2
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inch slot? You know this type of stuff that
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I'm just trying to fix and it's just annoying me because I keep
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finding more and more and more just leads us right into doing
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your edit books right. Uhhuh.
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Getting them correct and making sure that even your slot sizes
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are listed in your edit book. And making sure that you know
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the ones that you don't want on the case, have the the hashtag
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or the pound sign and you know. And if you want to put them back
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on the case, make sure you got to put the red mark through that
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so it gets changed the next time you put your edit book in.
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Here's the biggest thing with edit books.
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Especially if you have a curbside that goes to a
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hardship, or was a hardship now a curbside, make sure you're
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changing that status from curb to other or vice versa in your
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edit books. Because if it's not done there,
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it's not going to be correct on the mapping.
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And even if you change it, adjust it on the mapping, it's
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not going to save till the next time unless it's fixed in the
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edit book and that he makes a huge difference, especially if
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you have a hardship now that's a dismount.
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At the house, it's not a curbside box.
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I mean that's that makes a difference for you on your
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evaluations. Hardship that becomes a
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delivery. Yeah, Yep.
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Because you could have different footage if you're delivering
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parcels to that address that could actually benefit you more
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than just the hardship dismount that you have every day.
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Oh yeah, depending on where the front door is.
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And depending on where that mailbox and where you would
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leave a package is, I know there's one on my primary route,
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his mailbox is on the back porch just right inside the railing.
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But if I they were to have a package, I'm taking it all the
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way to the door another 5-10 feet away.
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So yeah, that's type of stuff. Does make a difference.
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Now, out of curiosity, Kristen, how do you enter that on your
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scanner when you deliver a hardship case?
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If they have a package. Well, no.
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There's hardship cases where you take the mails at the door too.
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So if you have a hardship case for just mail, how do you enter
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that in your scanner? If you have to make more that,
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it should automatically be in there with the measurement
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otherwise. Authorized this meant.
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Authorized this mode if you have to make more than one trip.
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And for a parcel, I actually scanned them to the door.
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So do I. OK, all right.
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Just, you know, said it. The audience knows.
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Yes. And yeah, cuz that's, you know,
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it's, I didn't see the thing about CBU's.
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It just popped up in the chat there.
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Out of my 13 CBU's, eight of them I can pull right up to and
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service them from the truck. So that actually is kind of
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nice, that is. That is nice.
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I used to cover a route that was had that ability mine.
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The closest I can get is 3 feet away from it.
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Yeah, I've yeah, I only have two locations I actually have to
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dismount for the boxes and one condo has 3C BU's and the other
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one only has two. That was the only two I got a
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dismount for. The two that I could pull right
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up to if I got close enough to service them.
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I don't have enough clearance to open the doors.
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Gotcha. Yeah, mine are right on the
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street, so I can just pull right up to it.
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All right, this one actually came to us in the chat.
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We talked about this last week. It's they said what can be done
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about an RCA doing the rec scans properly.
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For example, end load while still at the truck and clocking
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out before casing, curtailed mail, not using unscanned
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parcel, etc. He's they're covering a route
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for two months while the regular is out.
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Ouch. Written in your current resident
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RCA? Well, we're looking for a new
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one as you're going regular to join us.
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Yeah? Can we start this one out?
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Right, all right. As an RCA, especially if you're
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holding a route down or running the same route for a length of
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time, I should say we don't technically don't have hold
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downs in this craft, but on that note, it's.
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End load is when you return the conveyance back inside from
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where you got it. That's when you hit your end
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load. Your load times are measured in
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straight time to be added in to the evaluation, clocking out.
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You clock out when you're done with everything.
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You hit PM casing. If you're casing up mail, that
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was for the next day. Or if you're doing a second trip
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but you do not clock out, clock out until you are done for the
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day. We do not work off the clock at
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all. Ever.
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Kristen, in the case of your like, right now you're covering
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your route. Yes.
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You get back. You finish all of your duties in
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office for return to duty, yes, or your end of shift, they say.
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Kristen, I need you to go out and help Route 12.
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Do you clock out on the scanner for that route and then go to
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the green card or is that stay under PM casing?
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Me personally, I clock out and then do a green card.
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It could be done either way, Union the union.
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Has I know it would be green card either way, but again all
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this size doesn't affect me so I don't know and I know I may be
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asked at one point from an art one of these Rca's.
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The union has stated that if you are going to go help out on
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another route, you go into PM casing on your scanner and then
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you change the route on the scanner, go do that other route,
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then come back and then clock out.
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You don't don't clock out until you're done for the day, but you
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put it on a green card. The PM casing stops the clock on
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the route, so your routes no longer adding time to the
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evaluation, but you are still on the clock in the scanner and
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that adjusts with your green card time that you're putting on
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the green card. So the green card time starts
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when you hit PM casing and stops when you clock out for the day.
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That's what the union said to do.
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Most the time I've already hit clocked out when I'm told I need
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to go back out, so that's where my issue on that is is.
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I hit clock out, and then I'm getting ready to hang the
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scanner up and I get oh wait, I need you to go do this.
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Yeah. And that's when you say, oh, you
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should have told me 5 minutes ago, I'm already clocked out.
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I'm already out the door. Yeah, yeah.
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Life of an RCA still. Yeah, you're a pushover.
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I can't say no just yet. I still got to wait that one
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out. I'm counting down.
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While you're on return to du time go hunt for your manager,
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do it on the on the clock time and find your manager and be
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like is there any other work for me?
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And when she says yes, go out and help this route then switch
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over to PM casing. Now you're helping your
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evaluation and staying in the clocked in state.
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Yeah, yeah. Or you clock out and you sneak
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out real quick, you know. Yeah, I tend to do that.
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But when I can, usually, yeah. I don't know what that place
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would do without me. Honestly, it'd fall apart.
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Next item for discussion. So Saturday started the sign up
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period for the relief day work list and the Sunday volunteer
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list for Amazon for Rcas and offices that have that.
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Would you guys like to discuss what it means for a carrier to
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choose to be on the relief day work list versus not being on
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the relief day work list? Well, correction it was last
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Saturday. Well past Saturday, so it's
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still up, but it's coming down next week, this Friday.
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Yeah, because Friday the 29th, yeah.
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So we want to wanted to just put top touch that topic really
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quick again and remind people why you might want to or might
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not want to sign up for the release date work.
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Let's see. Bill says no.
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All right, I'm going to chime in and explain the difference for
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being on it and not being on it. If you sign it, you are going to
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get called first. To come in, when your sub is
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needed for something else, it should rotate.
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By seniority it should rotate. Bullshit.
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It should, but you know when you're supposed.
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To. It's supposed to, supposedly.
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But when you have one RCA for 5K routes, everybody works anyways.
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So, and then if you are on it, as well as being the first to be
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called in, you get the choice of DACA 3, which is 1/2 day's pay
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and a next day, or DACA 5 which is over time 150% for the day.
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With no other compensation, you have to work.
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You work 6 days through. Correct.
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If you are not on it, you can only get a deck of three half
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day's pay and a next day if you are forced to come in not being
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on the relief day work list. Unless you have uninformed
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management and you write 150% on your 4240.
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And they push it through. Your management is good like
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that. Hey, have you back.
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And see, here's and here's the bummer part is I will it comes
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down Friday. I will still be in RCA when it
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comes down and I have no Sup. So, yeah, well.
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Well, we have a response response about H routes can't
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work it, but they still can sign.
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We're released a work list. Yes, yes, they can.
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Our H route carrier did sign it, yes.
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And there's a possibility with the evaluations coming out that
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your route could go up to a J route or a K route, depending on
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how things work out with with their nondisclosed system.
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So we'll get into that in a bit. Yeah.
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Now also on the relief day work list.
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If you're on it and you don't want to work a particular day,
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you still have to work it and then then remove yourself from
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the list and you can't go back on until the next posting for
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relief they work with. Correct, you can go.
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You can sign on to it twice a year.
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But you want. If you are on it, you can have
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yourself removed at any time. It would just be at the end of
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that is at the end of the pay period or is it the end of the
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week? So if you're already scheduled
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to work it, you still have to work it.
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Pay period. Pay period.
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OK, and if you want to have your release day off even though
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you're on the relief day work list, take the Friday before
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off. If you take the Friday before
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off, they cannot make you work your relief day.
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Or the Monday it. Just it has, presuming you up a
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Saturday, it has to be. You have to take leave in it
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adjacent to the relief day, yes. And that can be sick leave,
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annual leave or next day, yes. Or on a 3971 and saying you
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absolutely have to have that day off.
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Yep. So before we go into our next
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topic, I did want to make an announcement.
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They have just announced that the next wave of free COVID
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tests have come out. So they're still free to order
30:35
through the Postal Service. So it would behoove you for
30:38
extra scans on your route to tell your customers to order
30:42
their four free COVID tests. I know it's a pain in the butt,
30:46
but those scans benefit your route.
30:49
So you could help your route by helping convince your customers
30:53
whether they want them or not. Just say, hey, they're free,
30:58
they help me out, and you can do with them what you want, but
31:02
they're free. So they don't pay for them, but
31:05
it benefits you in the scan count, so it's a good idea to
31:08
try and convince people to order them on your route if you want
31:12
to help your route out a little bit, carry your discretion. 75%
31:16
of my route is retirees. They'll order them anyways,
31:22
yeah. Or they've been getting them
31:24
this whole time through their health plans, so just send them
31:28
out randomly and that benefits your route completely.
31:34
So, all right, next one. We we we can also discuss my
31:38
options at the end of the podcast.
31:43
That's a big carrier discretion there, folks.
31:47
Yeah, we'll do that in the Post Show.
31:49
We'll do that in the Post Show. And that that just means that if
31:53
people want to participate, they need to actually come and and
31:57
listen to us record this live on our Discord channel #shameless
32:01
plug. It's OK.
32:06
It's OK, one of the. The website action will open up
32:11
tomorrow to start ordering them, so once this podcast goes live,
32:17
they'll be open to order. Yes, Monday the 25th, yes.
32:25
Bearing that there is no editing issues, correct?
32:30
And if there are, then then the ordering will definitely be open
32:33
by that time. It was a good thing I put the
32:36
date in there, huh? Yeah.
32:39
Because nobody knew yet. Tomorrow is the 25th.
32:45
And my wife writing my birthday is on Friday so.
32:49
Shut up My birthday Saturday. My birthday Saturday.
32:54
The 30th. Yeah, well, we wish you a happy
32:58
early birthday on this podcast, and then you could tell us all
33:01
about how your birthday went on the next podcast.
33:05
It'll start with a pound of Habersett Scrabble night.
33:10
And I will miss next week because I will not be here.
33:15
What? What?
33:17
We'll have to talk to our editors to make sure he actually
33:20
remembers. Unless, I mean, I can try to be
33:25
on, but I'll be at the machine shop for a concert in Flint, so
33:30
I don't think it would. Yeah, you wouldn't hear me too
33:32
well. I think you need to get your
33:35
priorities straight. Yeah, I'm taking some me time
33:38
for a Sunday evening. That's my priority.
33:42
You deserves this. She's working six days a week,
33:45
every week. She deserves it.
33:50
So. All right.
33:51
Yeah, since discussions have gotten very lively in multiple
33:59
places, not just on this podcast, but in the groups that
34:02
we work with, we need to talk about why carriers need to be
34:10
involved now instead of just when it's close to national.
34:15
Why is it so important that we get people stepping up now,
34:19
getting involved now, going to meetings, going to conventions,
34:23
going to boosters, things like that?
34:25
Why is it so important for them to start getting involved right
34:29
this moment? Bill, you're you're the one that
34:35
I would pegged to be the big one to talk about this.
34:38
Why do they need to be involved now?
34:41
Let's start off with the fact that you know if you don't get
34:45
to know the delegates, you don't know who's representing you.
34:49
I'll take one of our podcast members.
34:53
Maybe if you went to a local meeting you might notice the Dr.
34:56
showing up an hour late and remember they're still getting
35:00
paid the time and the travel to that local meeting.
35:06
Let's let's get involved because of the fact that if you are
35:08
involved, you'll find out who the retirees are and how long
35:13
they've been retired and. What input they have in
35:17
Pennsylvania, we have several good retirees, but we have
35:20
another 20 plus to take up positions that don't represent
35:24
the craft anymore, have not represented the craft for years
35:27
and wouldn't know an MDD scanner if you stuck in their face.
35:32
They aren't familiar with the rec system because they've been
35:34
retired that long. You want to be involved now
35:39
because you want to select delegates who are going to
35:41
represent or maybe even yourself volunteer to be a delegate so
35:45
you can represent the craft, the the problem with this union and
35:51
it. One of the easiest ways to
35:53
examine this is that this is a pay to play type situation and
35:58
and the easy example that I can give you is if you go back over
36:02
the last 10 years and look at all the people.
36:06
At the National Convention on the selected committee, Finance
36:11
Committee, the appeals committee, the the the tellers
36:14
committee, you're going to find out it's the same people over
36:18
and over and over again. And a lot of them have nothing
36:23
to do with the daily trials and errors that we go through in the
36:28
course of the day as a carrier. That includes people in the NSS
36:33
and people at the state level. It's pretty apparent in the
36:39
state of Pennsylvania that our entire state board is basically
36:46
a mirror of the national board and to to justify that comment,
36:54
I can say that every time we go to a convention we hear this
36:58
this saying to better reflect. And align ourselves with the
37:05
national board. We're changing this language
37:10
this way. We're changing this language
37:12
that way. We want to align ourselves with
37:14
that. This is why we have different
37:16
state. So that you can do your own
37:19
thing. You can make up your own mind.
37:21
You can dictate where your state constitutions represent the
37:26
carriers, not the national board.
37:29
We we don't reflect them. Remember folks?
37:32
They work for us, not the other way around.
37:38
Yeah, I can relate on for what Bill was saying too about the
37:42
state board and aligning languages, aligning more with
37:47
national board, it's quite similar in my state as well.
37:51
Now, I can understand aligning some things to be with the
37:55
national board, but you can't align everything because each
38:00
state is different. For instance, here in Michigan
38:03
we deal with a ton of snow, especially in our northern
38:06
portions. I'm sure Kristen has dealt with
38:09
2-3 feet of snow in her area plenty of times, whereas in
38:13
Texas you got to deal with three or four inches of of sand or
38:18
dust or things like that, or you have to deal with a lot of
38:21
tornadoes in Oklahoma or Kansas, places like that.
38:26
Each state is a small microcosm of the Union as a whole, but we
38:34
do have different things that we deal with in each state and
38:38
different things that we deal with on a national basis.
38:42
It's just like with our country. Our national government sets
38:48
down a primary example, and then the states create their own that
38:53
matches but also supersedes the national.
38:59
There's a lot of things that are different in each state.
39:02
It's the same for the union. So we need to make sure that
39:09
everybody's getting involved, getting their voice heard,
39:12
voting, getting involved as a delegate, stepping up to be a
39:17
local steward in their office. You're more than welcome to tell
39:20
them that it's because of this podcast that you became a
39:23
steward. We'd be appreciative of that.
39:26
Things like that. You know, doing your duty as a
39:30
union member, the union is not here for you.
39:36
The union is you, along with every other craft member across
39:43
the board, whether they're dues paying or non dues paying.
39:47
It's the same union and we need to step up now, get involved now
39:55
so we know what's coming. When I go to my county meeting,
40:00
because I only have a county, I don't have a region like some
40:03
areas I have a county. I see 8910 people of the 2222
40:11
hundred we have in the county. Those nine or ten people being
40:17
involved would be better delegates than the other 30 that
40:23
are involved. That's what you need to do to be
40:28
involved. Going to your boosters, your
40:32
state convention, going to your regional convention.
40:36
Expand your mind as to who's actually being involved in this
40:39
union. There are some people that go to
40:42
those events that just go because it's an event to go to
40:45
and they're paid to go. But there are some people that
40:48
go because they actually care about this craft and you'll
40:52
notice them in the audience. They're the ones sitting there,
40:55
paying attention, taking notes, learning, figuring out what's
40:59
going on. Those are the people you want to
41:02
know. Those are the people you want to
41:03
listen to because they are actually paying attention to
41:05
what's going on. But being involved doesn't mean
41:10
you have to go to the meetings, doesn't mean you have to go to
41:13
the conventions. But being involved in knowing
41:16
what is going on in this union makes you a better union member
41:23
and as we always say, a well informed carrier scares
41:29
management. And a well informed carrier
41:35
gears, the national board, you know, we know a lot more about
41:45
what's going on than most carriers and a lot of board
41:50
members do. I've asked questions to board
41:53
members, but they couldn't answer or they didn't want to
41:58
answer. I'll get back to you on that.
42:02
Send me an e-mail and I'll get to an answer.
42:05
Yeah, let me look into it. And then they won't get back to
42:08
you. We'll get back to you.
42:12
We'll find an answer for you. That's what we do as union
42:17
members. We help each other out.
42:22
And and if I can be a little controversial here, you always
42:27
are. Ladies and gentlemen, it If
42:32
you're listening to the podcast and you don't know what to do or
42:37
how to do about situations in your office, OK this podcast and
42:44
other podcast, the national website roleinformation.net.
42:49
I mean there there are plenty of resources out there for you to
42:52
glean the information, but what really gets me is that in my
42:58
office often the biggest complainers are the ones who who
43:03
aren't involved, whether they're union or non union, the ones who
43:07
have the biggest rights. The most bitches about the post
43:12
office or the union are the ones who aren't involved if you want
43:17
change. You have to step up.
43:20
You can't wait for somebody else to step up because it won't
43:23
happen and you may not have the personality that we have here on
43:29
on this podcast. It definitely would scare me if
43:33
anybody had any more personality than me and James.
43:36
But. But the fact of the matter is,
43:39
is that you have to step up. The first person who's going to
43:44
protect your rights is you. You do.
43:49
And even you know if you can make it to, you know, if your
43:54
state has booster meetings and stuff like that, I am really
43:57
bummed that I can't go. That is just, it really bothers
44:03
me. I to the point I am like about
44:06
ready to reach out to Rcas and other nearby offices to see if
44:09
any of them are available that weekend because I enjoy going
44:14
because this is more information that you know.
44:18
Could hit possibly has come out since in between, you know
44:22
there's different seminars, there's different speakers you
44:26
know it's and then hearing about what's going on in other offices
44:30
and kind of getting idea here, there and the other and they
44:34
usually do a Q&A with the Dr. and the Adr's.
44:41
They have a presentation. So yeah, it's a lot of
44:44
information and I'm really bummed I can't go next month.
44:48
So, OK, I'm you have it back now for our state booster, we have a
44:55
person coming from the Better Business Bureau to come talk
44:59
with us. We're having the district
45:02
manager from Michigan to coming. So I'm sure we're going to get
45:05
more cities carrier stats like the last one we went to.
45:11
There's going to be a Steward topics section.
45:14
Of course there's a Rex section. Don't know why they're even
45:17
bothering a dispute process, bidding light blue 2080 and
45:25
2240, and then they're having a Q&A that'll be fun.
45:31
And don't forget the usual stuff, the pack and legislative
45:34
updates. It's going to be the 14th and
45:39
15th of 2023 at Great Great Wolf Lodge in Traverse City, MI. 13th
45:49
and 14th of October, which is after the new evaluations go
45:54
into effect and they're going to talk about disputes.
45:58
Yeah, OK. Yeah.
46:00
OK. Thanks for thanks for that
46:05
segue. What was?
46:09
It real quick. Obviously the other reason to
46:11
get involved now if you want to be involved and you want to try
46:17
and be a delegate, this is how you would get your name out
46:20
there for people who are involved and do vote to see who
46:27
you are and that you are willing to participate.
46:34
Yeah, I've only been involved in the union for what 2-2 years
46:39
now, 2 1/2 years and within those two years I went from
46:45
bottom of the list to being a delegate.
46:50
It's it's not difficult if you do it the right way and get in
46:53
there and get known to people. Now we are working on getting
46:59
lists for the state. We're working on getting lists
47:04
for every state of delegates that are going to be involved
47:07
for people. I'm going to rely on people from
47:11
every state to listen to this podcast.
47:14
We're going to put it up in our podcast group when the delegate
47:17
lists come out to help assist carriers on figuring out who is
47:22
who. It's an informal list.
47:25
We are not suggesting that you actually vote for any specific
47:28
person, but we'll let your people from your state explain
47:34
who they would vote for on those sections.
47:36
But we'll put that out when those come out.
47:39
Just the FYI is that coming up, but getting involved now is the
47:43
most important part. So now that we skipped the segue
47:47
and went right back to that other topic, the next one is
47:53
waiting on evaluations. They're coming out this Friday,
47:58
slash Saturday, depending on when they finally tell
48:01
management, hey, it's open. It's supposed to come out on the
48:04
30th. So what are our hopes out of
48:09
this evaluation now? I know from previous
48:12
conversations with our panelists here that we're across the board
48:17
on what we think is going to actually happen.
48:20
You have the top end, which is myself thinking that a lot of
48:24
people are actually going to go up with this next evaluation.
48:28
You have the bottom side, Bill, who thinks it's just going to
48:30
get worse and everybody else is in between.
48:36
I did not say that I want a retraction on that.
48:44
I'm going to say, OK, I'll retraction that you're going to
48:47
send me fam mail. Make sure it's certified.
48:49
I will. Not certify a bull.
48:55
Same thing. With return receipt.
49:00
Darn it, get it right. Oh yeah, I'm sending.
49:04
I'll give him a receipt. All right.
49:06
I'll give him a WWE receipt. No, big boy.
49:11
Oh dear Lord. No, I I I said it's gonna be
49:14
marginal because of the fact that in between the many mail
49:18
surveys people will pick up, you know, doing their scans and
49:22
being aware of what the, you know, look for.
49:25
In regards that are mailed during the mini mail survey
49:27
which won't affect that much because it's a two week sampling
49:32
that is factored into the previous 52 weeks.
49:35
Therefore, there's not going to be that much pain.
49:40
And I said, but most people will go up a little bit marginally.
49:47
OK, I issue my retraction then. OK.
49:52
So how about you, Kristen? What do you think?
49:58
I kind of think it's a little bit of both.
50:02
I mean I can see some of these, you know these routes that we're
50:06
doing all the scans and doing everything prior to the first
50:10
one are probably going to probably stay roughly around the
50:14
same. Now some of them that weren't
50:17
doing them drop big. You know, maybe a little bit of
50:20
an increase. You gotta remember this is only,
50:23
I mean with a 52 rolling week, so you're only got 6 or you know
50:27
six months of new data. I think any of those to see real
50:31
change will have to be the next many mail survey.
50:36
So I think you know it could be across the board it.
50:41
How about you? Josh I'm similar to Kristen.
50:46
I think there's going to be some bounce back.
50:49
But it's not going to be a huge jump up because for the same
50:56
reason it's only 26 weeks worth of new data where people were
51:00
actually doing the scans versus the 1st 26 weeks where they
51:07
weren't. Yeah, I'm.
51:11
I'm positive that the people that weren't doing scans before
51:16
and started doing the scans after are going to go up.
51:19
They're not going to go up the full amount.
51:21
They're only going to go up partially, maybe at most 1/3 to
51:27
maybe between a third and a half on that because they don't have
51:34
the full six months in there between the two evaluations
51:38
because of all the back and forth over what the evaluations
51:41
were after the mini mail survey. So there's a smaller window for
51:47
this mini mail survey that they were actually doing a lot of the
51:51
proper scans and some of them were probably missed at the
51:54
beginning of it as they were learning this stuff on the fly,
51:57
things like that. But I do believe that a lot of
52:01
carriers that drop significantly will bounce back a little bit.
52:06
On the other hand, I do know that there are some routes that
52:11
will go down this next evaluation.
52:15
And the case in point is a route I know of that was gutted when
52:22
they did a cutback on it from an overburdened 48 down to a 43
52:28
just before the 1st mini mail survey.
52:32
And so since they were using the data from before the six months
52:35
before on that route, he continued at a higher rate.
52:41
But I think it's going to drop again this evaluation and
52:45
there's nothing that we can do about it.
52:47
There's nothing he can do about it.
52:48
So there are going to be some that go down.
52:51
There's no if the other butts about it.
52:53
But I believe a majority of the routes that didn't change
52:56
anything will be going up. So I'm going to be the +1 here.
53:02
Well, I'll put it out there that I'll take any bets that 66% of
53:06
our routes don't go up. Any takers I could see?
53:17
Maybe, yeah. No, I was gonna say 10% of that
53:20
66 maybe. But yeah, no, I ain't gonna even
53:25
try on that one. So now I've been positive.
53:32
So now I'm going to go into our hostile work environment.
53:36
Discussion management has been getting on carriers for
53:44
unscanned parcels especially during the mini mail survey and
53:49
after it. I know a lot of officers had a
53:52
stand up talk about the unscanned parcels after the mini
53:55
mail survey or during depending on when they're district
54:00
managers got it out to their postmasters.
54:02
And even though some some local managers deny that they got it
54:06
from their boss, there's too many consistencies across the
54:10
nation for it to have been just a single individual saying we
54:15
need to talk about this. But carriers are getting
54:20
harassed just for the data on the computers.
54:26
Management's not going out and checking.
54:29
Management is not doing their job to verify whether they have
54:33
it or not. They're harassing the carriers
54:37
and I need to remind every single carrier out there.
54:43
It is management's job to prove your guilt, not your job to
54:49
prove your innocence. Again, management has to prove
54:56
your guilt. You don't have to prove your
55:00
innocence, but they're going to harass you.
55:06
They're going to get on you. They're going to say your
55:08
numbers are too high. Because we benchmarked this and
55:13
benchmarking is wrong, especially with the data that we
55:18
have. You need.
55:23
I would please tell them to kiss my ass.
55:28
Or you could be a little bit more political about it.
55:32
No, no. Just tell them to kiss my ass.
55:37
Yeah, because they have no proof that you didn't have those
55:41
unscanned parcels. They don't have proof that you
55:45
didn't have so many parcels that day that you scanned.
55:52
They don't have proof that you didn't take something to the
55:56
door multiple times. You didn't.
56:01
They don't have proof that it took you 9 trips to do an
56:05
authorized dismount because of the heavy mail volume you had.
56:10
The harassment needs to stop, and it takes grievances to do
56:16
that. What do we do, Bill?
56:19
File file file. And file some more.
56:28
Then cut down another tree and file some more.
56:31
Well, you let ladies and gentlemen, you got to remember
56:34
if they're going to pull you in for a PDI on these situations.
56:38
First of all, make sure you have your local union representative
56:42
with you. Second of all, remember this is
56:45
just an interview. It's a It's a predetermination
56:49
to see if there's any further action required.
56:53
On the disciplinary level, so it it's, you know when I tell
56:58
people, when I used to tell people as a steward about PB
57:02
I's, I just tell them, you know, yes.
57:03
No, don't elaborate on any answers, don't make things up,
57:07
don't lie, don't cheat, don't steal.
57:10
Just get it done and you walk away from them, you know.
57:13
And if if it goes on you know in the future, then you know we
57:17
have a concern. But.
57:19
PDI is just an investigation to see if there's warranted action
57:23
for disciplinary procedures, so don't sweat it if they're not
57:28
going to sit there and go through everything in your
57:30
hamper and qualify it as a parcel or a flat.
57:34
If it doesn't go into your case like a a letter or a flat
57:38
carrier. Discretion.
57:40
It's an unscanned parcel, somebody commented our post.
57:49
Our postmaster is going around and checking but limited us to
57:52
five. There is no limit.
57:56
That's benchmark. There never will be.
57:58
That's benchmarking. And there is a grievance that a
58:04
lot of district representatives have put out about benchmarking.
58:09
And you can actually grieve that because management is
58:13
unilaterally deciding that this is the number you're going to
58:17
have, and that's it. And that's wrong.
58:21
It's a unilateral decision. And you can grieve that as an
58:25
Article 5 violation. Don't let them tell you, oh, you
58:30
only can have five a day. You can only have three a day.
58:33
You can only have 10 a day. I heard somebody say on another
58:37
group that it can only be in factors of 5.
58:40
You're going to have 510 or 15. And if it's over 15, then you're
58:44
going to have an interview that's benchmarking and
58:48
harassment. Don't let them tell you how many
58:53
unscanned parcels you have. It is carrier discretion as to
58:57
what is a parcel and it says specifically in the rec stuff,
59:02
whether it's on the resource guide or in the 99 page manual
59:08
to what is an obvious parcel. It doesn't explain what an
59:13
obvious parcel is. So if a carrier determines it is
59:17
an obvious parcel that does not have a barcode or barcode
59:22
numbers to input, then it's an unscanned parcel under carrier
59:25
discretion. Now, case in point, my office,
59:31
we had these things called Boys Town.
59:34
Oh yeah, I got them too. They they they were kind of soft
59:37
sided, OK? But they were actually thicker
59:40
than the one inch U lines and I got questioned about it because
59:45
I had 23 unscanned parcels and I said you check my 4240 and I had
59:51
written on their Boys Town and they said, well what's that?
59:54
And I said that these things were thicker than EU lines,
59:56
wouldn't fit the case with the other mail.
59:59
Well, we we don't approve of that.
1:00:01
I said I don't care whether you approve it or not.
1:00:04
That's the way it's entered in there and if I don't see that on
1:00:07
my my PTR. I says we're going to have a
1:00:10
problem. Of course it showed up on the
1:00:13
PTR. Don't back down folks.
1:00:19
Don't get bullied. Stand up to the bullies.
1:00:21
Yeah, we just had those Boys Town and then the Medicare books
1:00:25
last week. What's up my scanner?
1:00:29
The WS H Medicare books, which are 15 books per bundle.
1:00:36
I had 21 bundles for my route. Wow, That's like 300.
1:00:45
Yeah, I did that without my fingers.
1:00:49
And mine were in reverse order. Oh, you poor thing.
1:00:57
Mine was one wrong address in every single bundle.
1:01:01
It was in the wrong spot. Nope, I didn't have that issue
1:01:04
at all. I only.
1:01:06
Miss. One too.
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The Medicare books fit in the case, most often for a lot of
1:01:12
places without a problem. They aren't.
1:01:14
They weren't even an inch thick, but carrier discretion and
1:01:23
always be discretionary to your favor.
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Yes, Yep, Every discretion is to your favor.
1:01:29
Otherwise you're leaving money on the table and Bill says
1:01:32
that's a no no. I leave money on the table and
1:01:38
it disappears. So yeah.
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And that's what management will do with your money if you leave
1:01:44
it on the table. Yeah, baby.
1:01:46
You just have to get better at playing cards.
1:01:51
Gotta know when to hold them, know when to fold them, know
1:01:54
when to walk away, and know when to run.
1:01:55
Oh God, we could have done without that.
1:02:01
I might prefer. Planet Texas.
1:02:07
That was classic. Thanks for the setup, Josh.
1:02:10
Oh. Boy oh boy.
1:02:19
He's leaving the money on the table.
1:02:22
Yeah, You never leave money on the table.
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Never. Oh no.
1:02:30
I have. I have a teenage daughter at
1:02:32
home. You never leave money on the
1:02:34
table. Next item before we become a
1:02:36
karaoke bar. OK, well, I mean, we can keep
1:02:43
some music and try and go for it.
1:02:44
I don't know. I have one last topic.
1:02:48
And we can't do that because we could actually get a copyright
1:02:51
strike on our podcast. So we don't want to really do
1:02:53
that. Yeah, that wouldn't be good.
1:02:57
We're already not being paid, so we're not.
1:03:01
But oh, screw this. All right.
1:03:06
We'll double your pay, OK. All right.
1:03:09
It is Sunday. I should get double time.
1:03:13
All right. So the last thing I have is
1:03:18
disputes are finally flowing out.
1:03:21
We just finally getting back in time for the next evaluation in
1:03:25
two weeks. And they've decided to finally
1:03:29
put out all the disputes that they've been holding on to, or
1:03:32
at least some of them. And carriers are getting them
1:03:37
back, a lot of them, of course, our management will fix the
1:03:40
issue. Management will do this with the
1:03:42
carrier. Management will take care of the
1:03:44
carrier on this one. Some of them are coming back
1:03:48
with a higher evaluation. Yes, we had one in my office.
1:03:53
But. You only get that evaluation for
1:03:56
your next paycheck and. No, we actually got retro pay.
1:04:01
And hope and pray that they give you the retro pay.
1:04:05
Yeah, came on the very next paycheck.
1:04:07
Oh wow, that person got lucky. There are some people that
1:04:11
didn't get the retro pay and their routes went up.
1:04:14
Yeah, yeah. The effective date.
1:04:17
The effective date was May 6th. What do you guys think of this
1:04:23
timing of this, these kids coming back, they've had them
1:04:29
for six months. Why are they all of a sudden now
1:04:35
just getting around to them? Well, I wouldn't know because in
1:04:40
my district we're still sitting on the ones from back in May and
1:04:47
as of now we aren't even getting the new form.
1:04:51
More disputes of this many mail surveyed till tomorrow.
1:04:58
And you can't do anything till you get your 4241 A's and M's,
1:05:01
right? And I still have two routes I
1:05:07
have to go over. I know in this area part of the
1:05:13
holdup was labor kept getting sidetracked or pulled away for
1:05:19
other things. Rather than sitting in on those
1:05:22
disputes. Oh, I'm sure it's.
1:05:28
One excuse or another, it's not right.
1:05:36
Our Director of Labor Relations should have been getting down on
1:05:39
them to get this done because these carriers deserve this
1:05:45
money. These carriers deserved to have
1:05:48
their evaluations correct. And these disputes should have
1:05:53
been settled with a Monetary Fund instead of settling for
1:05:57
management will take care of it. That's not even a slap on the
1:06:01
hand for management. That's not even telling them
1:06:04
they won't do it again. And they could have been
1:06:09
settling these for the last six months.
1:06:13
Our Director of Labor Relations should have been sitting with
1:06:16
Labor and going over these every single day.
1:06:21
Not trying to go after a podcast.
1:06:26
It should have been taken care of in a timely manner.
1:06:31
But nothing's done timely in this.
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Hasn't been done timely. They're not being held
1:06:38
accountable. What more can we do, sit, sit
1:06:44
here and talk about it? Well, James, if you go on the
1:06:49
national website, it still has up there in their their windows.
1:06:53
That mapping is the most important function.
1:06:56
But yet routes are out there that still haven't been mapped.
1:06:58
But that's okay, because we'll follow the bread crumbs, even if
1:07:02
the bread crumbs are incomplete because of the cell service
1:07:05
that's, you know, unreliable in a lot of areas.
1:07:09
But don't worry about it. We got your back.
1:07:14
Or they got the dispute back. Mapping will be done with the
1:07:17
carrier and that solves what, six months later?
1:07:24
Yeah, the time for excuses is over.
1:07:31
It's time for people to step up and do their damn jobs.
1:07:35
Hold on, you forgot my favorite one that we brought up last
1:07:38
week. Which one?
1:07:42
The this dispute was denied. Due to the fact that training
1:07:46
material was on the national website.
1:07:51
Yeah, apparently a non dues paying member was supposed to
1:07:54
access the union website to get the information.
1:07:57
Oh wait, it's locked behind a login and you have to be a dues
1:08:01
paying member to be able to see it.
1:08:07
And I understand there's a lot of dues paying members out there
1:08:10
that think that non dues paying members or scabs are useless.
1:08:15
Don't do anything for the union, things like that.
1:08:18
But I'm sorry, you're affecting the union by doing that.
1:08:24
You're affecting the craft by doing that.
1:08:31
It's time to step up or step down because these carriers want
1:08:38
you to have their backs and instead.
1:08:43
Signing these as management will do whatever is supposed to be
1:08:46
done like they were supposed to be doing is telling carriers you
1:08:51
don't have their back. Telling them they had to have
1:08:56
the information from the union website when people can't even
1:09:01
access it is a slap in the face and doesn't make them want to
1:09:06
join the union. But my personal opinion on that.
1:09:13
Should be that if it's anything that has to do with your pay,
1:09:17
with your wages, regardless if you are a member, dues paying
1:09:22
member or not, it's that information should be made
1:09:25
available to you You, just like you can get a copy of the
1:09:29
contract without being a pays dues paying member and you can
1:09:32
look up your local steward, you should be able to have access to
1:09:36
that training material. Sit there and tell me you're
1:09:45
helping the union out by excluding craft members at this
1:09:51
point in time. There are states that are
1:09:55
getting rid of right to work, and in those states, those union
1:10:00
members in private sector can actually can actually be forced
1:10:07
to pay dues. Now it's not on the national
1:10:10
level yet. But you could endear a lot more
1:10:15
people if you just gave enough information to entice them to
1:10:21
come to the union. Entice them to be involved,
1:10:24
Entice them to be craft members instead of leaving them in the
1:10:30
dark. Instead.
1:10:32
Not only are you leaving them in the dark, the comments you're
1:10:36
putting on these dispute forms is making people leave the
1:10:39
union. I've had a lot of people tell me
1:10:45
that their dispute came back. It was wrong and they're tired
1:10:48
of the union treating them this way.
1:10:50
So they're pulling their dues and the only thing keeping them
1:10:53
in this union is this podcast. Do you know how much that breaks
1:11:02
my heart to hear that? That the only reason they're
1:11:08
involved still in the Union, is because of us?
1:11:12
Not because of leadership. Not because of state leaders.
1:11:15
Not because of Dr's, Adr's, or even their local stewards, but
1:11:20
because of a podcast put on by a group of people who actually
1:11:25
care about this craft. You can sit on your high horse
1:11:30
in your little office space and make three times the amount of
1:11:33
money I do, but until you start stepping up and taking care of
1:11:37
this craft, you're useless. You're not doing your job and I
1:11:50
think it's time to wrap it up. Bill, do you have anything to
1:11:56
add to that? No, I I I just agree with them.
1:12:00
You know, he says that he's heartbroken.
1:12:02
My I'm, my cockles are worn by the people who, you know, stayed
1:12:07
in the union, have become stewards and everything because
1:12:10
of this podcast. Well, I'm not arguing that.
1:12:13
I'm just saying that I'm heartbroken that our leadership
1:12:16
doesn't realize that. Well, they're a bunch of
1:12:18
dumbasses anyway, and don't edit that out.
1:12:28
No, no, we're going to keep that.
1:12:29
That kind of just goes with the flow of what James was just
1:12:34
saying and. Our editor just said, oh, it's
1:12:37
getting evident out. I find you.
1:12:43
I have a copy. But no, it seriously.
1:12:51
I mean, I like I was saying, if it's something that affects
1:12:56
everybody's wages, everybody's, it needs to be available to
1:13:01
everybody. They shouldn't have to rely on a
1:13:07
friend. To give them that information.
1:13:10
That is one of the few things that should be available for
1:13:15
everybody, because obviously you can't count on management to
1:13:24
train. I don't think that word is even
1:13:28
in their vocabulary properly anyways.
1:13:36
But yeah, we should wind this down tonight, guys.
1:13:40
Josh, your final commentary. Yes, yes, that's.
1:13:52
It. Yes, well, he wanted to start
1:13:56
with something different than. Go ahead, Josh, everyone.
1:14:07
Come on, boy. Come on, you can do it.
1:14:16
Come on, you can do it. Speak.
1:14:24
Come on. Come on.
1:14:25
Speak. Speak.
1:14:27
It's gonna go there, but I was trying that too.
1:14:34
Come on. Be Daddy's little boy.
1:14:38
Oh my God, you sound so much like my boyfriend right now.
1:14:41
It's. OK, take a deep breath.
1:14:44
Step back in and don't listen to Bill.
1:14:59
Oh God, I think he's done. Me too.
1:15:13
Stick a fork in him. He's done.
1:15:19
It's your daddy's little boy. Did you do Wiggy?
1:15:22
Wiggy, wiggy. Oh God, God, I can't wait till I
1:15:31
get a drink in me. I know, I'm completely sober
1:15:35
too. Well, almost.
1:15:36
But yeah, I haven't been drinking tonight.
1:15:38
All right, James. Wow, it's hard to follow that
1:15:46
up. I know.
1:15:48
That's why I was kind of glad we got a little bit of a lighten,
1:15:52
enlightened moment there. The Yeah.
1:16:01
But just remember, folks. We're all in this together.
1:16:05
We're one craft united with one goal and that's to make the
1:16:08
rural craft better for every rural carrier.
1:16:12
And we just need to step up and do the right thing, be accurate,
1:16:17
be honest and take care of each other.
1:16:22
Everybody, have a good week. Hopefully everything goes
1:16:26
smoothly for you and we'll see you next week.
1:16:32
My bodyguard after you. Bill, do you have anything else
1:16:36
tonight? Don't think I have anything
1:16:39
else. OK.
1:16:41
I was just. I was just checking, hey, you
1:16:45
know, hey, no, let me. I got a couple syllables,
1:16:52
everybody. You know, do your jobs to the
1:16:55
best of your ability. Of course, if it's questionable,
1:16:59
use carrier discretion and look out for each other.
1:17:04
You know it it. It's like, you know, being a Big
1:17:08
Brother or big sister in the office.
1:17:10
At times somebody's got to do it.
1:17:13
Don't wait for somebody else to step up because it'll never
1:17:15
happen. Everybody be safe, have a good
1:17:19
week, do the job the best you can and remember you're the most
1:17:24
important delivery. Get home to your loved ones.
1:17:29
And just a reminder, I will be absent next Sunday night.
1:17:35
I will pray for all of you. I will leave you in the hands of
1:17:38
the gentleman. Exactly.
1:17:45
In here. Yeah, Y'all get to have a good
1:17:49
time without me next week. That's okay.
1:17:53
I'll be back the following week. I just need to.
1:17:57
I have a moment, an evening for myself with some heavy metal in
1:18:00
a small venue. That's all I need and if you are
1:18:03
the prank type out there, please pray that this route goes up.
1:18:06
Forbid for me this week, please. Let me actually try this again.
1:18:13
I didn't mean to cut you off. I'll sacrifice a small animal in
1:18:17
your favor. Thank you.
1:18:20
You know, the more they scream, the better.
1:18:24
I'll do an I'll do an unscanned parcel for you.
1:18:30
I had a dorm miscellaneous the other day, actually, yeah, but
1:18:35
I'm not. Everybody stay safe this week
1:18:37
and the guys will be back next week.
1:18:42
God help us. Yeah, yeah.
1:18:46
Everybody have a good week. If you get overwhelmed, take a
1:18:51
step back. Take a deep breath, step back
1:18:53
in. Good night.
1:18:56
Night, Night. Good night.