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It's the Spring MMS time of year · United We Scan

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  Hey, welcome to the United We Scan podcast.
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  Thank you. Welcome back everybody.
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  Episode 147, Oops, I goofed. It's actually episode 148.
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  Sorry guys, it's been a while. I believe we're going to touch
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  on tonight about the mini meal survey and then there's a few
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  other things that we will address that's been going around
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  as well. But on that note, I know it's
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  been a couple weeks and yeah, it's been a couple weeks from,
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  but other than that, how has been the last couple weeks for
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  you, Josh? Just ducky, you know, just with
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  my best postal life, I can't really think of one way or
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  another healthy, you know, good, bad or otherwise.
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  The other than my management team is, well-being the best,
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  their best selves. We'll leave it at that.
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  How about you, ma'am? How was your last week or two?
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  Week or 2 is OK. Yesterday was rough with the day
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  after the holiday. My mail volumes have been
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  fluctuating between extreme or not or nothing so it's kind of
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  weird. But then today I had three full
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  coverages inside my DPS which was insane.
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  So it's been been interesting. I guess you know, it's just
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  taking it day by day, but how have you been, Kristen?
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  Oh I haven't been working much but I got back in on the route
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  last week on Monday. I went and did some OJT and a
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  nearby office for Tuesday and Wednesday and back to my route
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  Thursday and had Amazon didn't show up.
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  So that was actually kind of nice and got done with the route
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  Thursday and headed back down to my mom's.
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  And yeah, that's where I've been spending all my time off is down
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  at Mom's still trying to get all this paperwork stuff finished.
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  It's been it's been a ride, that's for sure.
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  Definitely has been a ride. Ruby's been going down with me
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  with Little Man and then I gave her a reprieve week on this past
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  weekend and I took Little Man with me.
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  So it was Grandma, Great Grandma and Little Man.
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  And yeah, so I think I'm going down just myself for Friday and
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  Saturday night this week. And mom is she's doing learning
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  to live on her own. This past Sunday would have been
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  their 51st wedding anniversary. So it's living on her own.
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  Plus the battles with with dementia have been I don't sleep
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  much, plain and simple. I don't sleep much.
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  I get phone calls at 2:30 in the morning, 3:00 AM, five AM 530.
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  You know, that's, that's just my life right now.
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  A lot of normal things have kind of been put on the back burner.
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  I just got to take care of mom. But other than that, it's been
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  good. I got back on the route
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  yesterday. It was a day after a holiday
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  that's for sure to get ready to leave and went to start the
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  truck and my truck wouldn't start and my truck wouldn't
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  start and my truck wouldn't start And then the two O 4B came
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  out and the truck still wouldn't start and it still wouldn't
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  start. So they called the local garage
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  that we have the contract through and they came out and it
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  wouldn't start. So then I had to unload the
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  truck and so they could flatbed the truck off and then had to
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  wait so they could go back to the truck garage management to
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  go pick up the Metris for the City side and had the city ox
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  carrier bring back the rural ox truck to get the Metris.
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  So I could use the rural ox truck for my route.
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  But thankfully, because it was pert near noon by the time I got
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  out of the office, I was able to she called in a sub to run on my
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  big packages. So I just drove and delivered
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  smalls and and whatnot and still ended up with 157 scans.
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  So that was, yeah, that was a holiday.
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  Tuesday, Monday, Monday is Tuesday from hell for me all
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  around on three hours of sleep. And today it was still DPS hell
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  and it was all junk. I brought back over 1/2 tray of
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  undeliverable mail because Liberty Mutual and Progressive.
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  That's all I got to say. If you know, you know.
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  So yeah, it's been trying to get back to normal day-to-day stuff,
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  but it's my normal day-to-day is not the same as it used to be.
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  But and that now we're going to jump into, Oh yeah, we have a
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  mini mail survey starting Saturday and we were going back
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  through the episodes and realized we never did a pre mini
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  mail survey episode ever. It's always been either right
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  after it started or when it's been completed.
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  So yeah, we decided this time we're going to do a pre mini
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  mail survey. So, yeah, yeah.
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  About time, right? Yeah, let's get the information
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  out at least a couple days ahead of time this time instead of
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  afterwards. So yeah, Saturday starts the
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  Spring 2026 mini mail survey. So we used to have.
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  I'm going to just start off by saying we used to have a mail
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  count. So if you're new here, there
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  used to be what was called like a two week mail count.
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  That would happen. So a lot of people still try to
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  refer or I'm not going to go in the whole nitty gritty of it,
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  but a lot of people will like to call this the mini mail survey,
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  the mail count, which it is not, it's just a survey.
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  I was just going to say that the count was 2 to 4 weeks depending
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  on which year and time of year. Yeah.
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  But we don't, we do not do that anymore because we are on the RX
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  system which we do this two week mini mail survey twice a year.
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  So the dates for this time frame for this mini mail survey
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  starting on Saturday, February 7th, management could start
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  entering all of the route settings into the program RMSS
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  and they can also start measuring your office walk
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  distance and I'll get into that in a second.
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  Saturday, February 21st, 2026. It's the first day of the mini
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  mail survey and it will. It's a first day of a 12 day
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  mini mail survey and they begin data entry of the daily volume
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  and the miscellaneous time. And then Friday, March 6th, 2026
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  is the end of the mini mail survey and all of the data for
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  the routes should have been being entered each day of the
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  mini mail survey. But that's the end of it.
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  March, Friday, March 6th, 2026 is also the last day for you to
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  have mapped your DPM and LTM mapping.
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  So if you had growth or you needed to make some changes, you
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  should be doing your mapping every month at the end of the
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  month. But if you if you still need to
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  finish something, that's the day that you need to make sure that
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  you have everything in there. The other thing is, is that it
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  is also the last day of the 52 week period.
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  So from our, our new evaluations will essentially be March 7th,
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  2020, sixth, sorry March 7th, 2025 through March 6th, 2026.
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  So just keep that in mind if you're looking at your data.
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  And then Friday, March 13th is the lockout date for the mini
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  mail survey. And so that's the final date for
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  all of the entries, the mini mail survey entries into RMSS
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  and you won't be able to update anything.
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  Let's say management didn't enter something correctly.
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  And I don't know what the time cut off is on that date cause
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  typically it's like middle of the day central time, it cuts
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  off. So getting that done sooner than
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  later is more important. But just so you know.
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  And then Saturday, March 28th, 2020 sixth is when the PS Forms
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  4241 A and 4241 M's should be available and management can
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  print and distribute PS Forms 4241 A&M.
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  And then the effective date of this evaluation is April 4th,
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  2020. Sixth.
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  Now I will put a little mini disclaimer here.
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  If you are a route that was adjusted in the last 52 weeks,
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  you will still have to go through with the mini mail
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  survey, but you will not receive a new evaluation until you have
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  over the 52 weeks. So let's say that management
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  adjusted you like in October or November, then then you No,
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  baby, not right now. Then you you won't receive them
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  like the other routes. And that is if your route was
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  adjusted. Yeah, play a game, baby.
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  That's a hold on one second. I'm sorry guys.
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  So why she's doing that? I wanted to say especially with
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  the mapping with the cut off being March 6th, please make
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  sure you get in and do your mapping.
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  Take the extra time to make sure your park points, your door
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  point, your drop, your delivery points, your your mailbox
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  points, making sure that those are all correct.
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  When you get into the line of travel management, make sure all
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  your traffic control points are there.
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  Really. This mapping is definitely one
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  to pay extra attention to because it's going to be the big
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  part of your new evaluation. This is this is the one, this is
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  the one that makes that counts towards the evaluation.
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  Yes they all are important for your route overall, but this is
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  the one that when they re evaluate you as a result of
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  collecting all the data, this is the the DPM and LTM to vacate
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  the information from for the next 6 months.
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  Yes. Yeah.
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  And when they print those 4241 A's and M's come March 28th, the
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  date that it will say on the top for the mapping date will be it.
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  It will take, it'll show you which one they took all that
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  information from. So, So what is the mini mail
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  survey? It is, it's just us counting
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  like basic mail volume. It's just our raw letters or our
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  our what, what do you call it? Working letters that are not
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  sequenced in order. It is also counting your random
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  flats that and, and I'm going to add this to this.
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  It's typically the things that are given to you at the hot
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  case, things that are not sorted on automation.
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  And then it is also counting miscellaneous letters and the
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  mistakes that are inside of your DPS and the upside downs.
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  But I'll I'll get into that in a few minutes.
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  Every single route are included in the mini mail survey and
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  management is supposed to give you a stand up talk prior to the
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  mini mail survey and it'll be your opportunity to ask
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  questions and confirm like different procedures like if
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  your office has changed anything.
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  We've done this a few Times Now, so we should have more of a
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  routine. But if you're new, this is a
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  good opportunity for you to ask how management is going to be
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  doing certain things. There's I know a lot of
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  confusion with like the NLM or the S99 mail that would not be
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  counted during this. And so there's different
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  procedures that might happen with that if your office
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  rearranged different things. You know, there's there's things
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  that you can ask during that stand up time with management.
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  Located to a SNDC from your old office or station.
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  And regardless of whether or not things had changed in your
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  office, you are still supposed to measure things.
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  And I can get into that in a second.
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  The mini meal survey is just one component used to determine the
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  route evaluations under RX. It's only about 5 to 6% of your
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  evaluation overall, but I know a lot of people will try and
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  diminish the impact that it has. But any you could be a couple
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  minutes away from the next base hour and this min e-mail survey
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  could make or break that for you.
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  It could be the difference between thousands of dollars
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  that a route is owed. You know, it could.
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  You're going from A43K to A44K and especially now with our new
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  contract because we are grow as you go.
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  If you were that close you know and you've activated a few
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  addresses, you know that might be what changes the evaluation.
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  So every little bit is significant in this.
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  So I know I, I feel like right now there's a lot of people who
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  are just like complicit to it and they like, why should I
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  care? But it's we all need to be
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  diligent to make sure that we are capturing this volume
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  because it's our money. And it's not only just the arm,
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  the regulars money, it's the Subs money.
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  That is a cool painting baby and it is also used in conjunction
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  with other data gathered from automated stuff like on the
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  scanner and the route mapping stuff.
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  The only people who are allowed to conduct the mini mail survey
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  are EAS employees who have a 1723 on on file.
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  Any rule carrier who is conducting it has to be in a
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  2O4B capacity. But you can us as rule carriers
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  have the ability to verify what management counted.
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  And I would encourage you to just for your own records and if
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  there's any disputes that happen, there's 12 RX office
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  walk distances that will be measured jointly by the manager
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  and the assigned carrier. So if you're the regular on the
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  route, you'll be walking with management.
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  If you're an auxiliary RCA that's still holding down a
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  route, you will be the one that is assigned with that hold on
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  one second. Are you OK baby?
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  OK, sorry, I heard my kid fall. And then management will be
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  entering the, the, the data that they're doing daily and they
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  have to do it in a timely manner no later than close of business
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  on the current business day. So if you have a manager who's
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  trying to tell you, oh, we'll enter it all at the end, that's
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  a no, no. Only the following items are
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  counted during the mini mail survey.
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  So it's just random letters, random flats, the office walk
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  distance and then the miscellaneous office activity.
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  The PARS labels are now were counted during the mini mail
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  survey, but now they are aren't any longer.
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  They're counted through a 52 week average.
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  And then the management management will use three
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  different forms. One of them is going to be the
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  office walking distance data collection form, which I'll go
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  over here in a second. And then they'll have a daily
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  volume worksheet. And then there's a miscellaneous
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  activity worksheet that they will use daily to collect some
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  of those miscellaneous activity things.
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  So on the office walk distance form, and I'm going to just say
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  all of these forms are also located on the union website and
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  they're under a mini mail survey section in the news or What's
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  new section. So if you ever wanted to look at
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  any of them, they're there. But management also has these
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  available to them off of RMSS and they also have them
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  available off of like the blue page for them.
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  So the RX AM walking distance data collection form, it has
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  like your facility, your zip code on there, a finance number,
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  your roll route number, the manager who's conducting it and
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  printed and then they will sign it and date it.
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  The carrier's name printed and then you will also sign it and
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  date it. As she was mentioning, they're
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  supposed to be entering those numbers daily, and either that
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  day or first thing the next morning they should be giving
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  you a copy of what they entered in the system so you can verify
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  for yourself. Yes.
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  So that you if there is an error, you can get with
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  management to correct it immediately instead of all of it
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  at the end. Yes, OK.
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  So on this forum it underneath of it then it'll say does this
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  route receive withdrawal credit Now if the route receives
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  withdraw, it's most offices in the country are withdraw
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  offices. If you have to leave your case
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  to go and get any piece of mail that management or the clerks
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  are not bringing you 100% of of these things, then you are are
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  what is considered a withdraw office.
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  So just you just won't have any footage to go to some of these
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  items. But if you all or it's all or
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  nothing, sorry, it's not all or nothing.
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  It's, well, all or nothing in the sense that management or the
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  clerks have to bring you everything now.
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  The next part of this walking distance segments you will
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  measure the round trip distance footage required for the carrier
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  to complete the segment where applicable.
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  Office walking distances only applies to activities performed
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  in the AM when the carrier is in the office prior to departing
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  for to the street for delivery. Activities performed in the PM
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  after carrier returns to office from delivery are included in
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  end of shift duties. So the first thing is the
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  scanner storage area and you will also I'll just read it as
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  I'm going and it'll it's from the scanner storage area to the
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  carrier's case. And it is from the point where
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  the carrier stands when retrieving the scanner to the
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  point where the carrier stands when casing mail #2 from the
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  carrier's case to the raw letter or raw flats distribution case.
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  From the point where the carrier stands when casing mail to the
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  point where the carrier stands when retrieving raw letters or
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  raw flats, whichever is further. Include walking distance to
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  obtain a conveyance if typically required.
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  And that's for withdrawal routes only.
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  So if you're an office that does not have like little hampers or
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  buggies and you need to get a conveyance to go and retrieve
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  them, then the measurement has to include you getting that
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  conveyance in this number. 3, the kit from the carrier's case
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  to the DPS letters distribution rack, from the point where the
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  carrier stands when casing mail to the point where the carrier
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  normally stands when retrieving the first tray from the DPS
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  letter rack. Include walking distance to
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  obtain a conveyance if typically required, and then again for
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  withdrawal routes only #5-A carrier's case to the parcel
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  hamper retrieval from the point where the carrier stands when
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  casing mail to the location where the carrier normally
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  stands when grasping the handle of the parcel hamper for
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  transport to their case. Now, I'm going to add a little
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  disclaimer here because there's a little bit of confusion that
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  happens here. There is some routes I know that
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  have a lot of mail volume and you're going to have to go and
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  get a parcel hamper twice. RX has a system that if you are
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  retrieved, if you have over a certain amount of of parcel
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  scans, then you are automatically credited with
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  getting a second parcel hamper. So again, this is only one round
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  trip and then hold on one. 2nd, I believe that 60 or 64 parcels
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  it's. It's 62.
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  I, I, I think and I think it says yeah, and I think.
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  It's on your. It's also 142. 41M So, so just
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  make sure that you're only getting measured one round trip
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  here. So carry.
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  So the number six is carrier's case to the assigned location or
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  typical location for inspection of government vehicle from the
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  point where the carrier stands when casing mail to the point
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  where the carrier stands when opening the driver's door of the
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  parked vehicle. Use the assigned parking if
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  there is one or the typical location if there is none.
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  Now we, I'm going to add another disclaimer here in RX, we get
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  credit for vehicle inspection time that is not included in
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  this footage for us walking out there.
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  This is just so that you're, it's, it's the measurement of
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  the footage for you to complete another task essentially.
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  So #7 from the carrier's case to the CFS markup, MMM centralized
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  hold mail and then to the carrier's case from the point
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  where the carrier stands when casing mail and follows their
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  normal path to the CFS, the markup case, the M&M location,
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  centralized holds, and back to the carrier's case.
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  Note the order of the locations may vary according to local
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  practices. Now by office.
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  Personally, we keep our holds at our case because we have enough
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  room. But if you're a office where you
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  have your holds in another location that you have to take
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  them to, you'll just measure it in this round trip that you're
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  doing for your CFS and all of those other things.
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  Number 8, So from the carrier's case to the accountables
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  distribution point, from the point where the carrier stands
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  when casing mail to the point where the carrier receives
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  accountable mail from the clerk in the morning.
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  Now, if like your clerk sits in one location and you guys all
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  walk there, or if it's like on an accountable card that comes
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  around, it just depends upon your office and, and the
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  procedures that you do #9 from the carrier.
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  'S case. Well, we're on with with the
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  accountables like for example with us in the morning after we
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  do clock into the safety service talk and then we go to the
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  accountable cart to get our vehicle key and then go out and
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  check the vehicles and then sometime after that they bring
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  the accountable cart around. Would you in your opinion say
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  that my measurement is to where the accountable car is in the
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  morning to get my vehicle gate for that measurement?
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  I would include your measurement to go and get your key, your
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  vehicle key in with your vehicle inspection time or sorry, you're
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  in #6 the assigned location or typical location for inspection
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  of government vehicle. So I would use it.
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  It would be like from from your case to that cart of where the
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  key is located and then to the vehicle.
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  OK. Does that does that make sense?
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  Yes it does. Yeah, OK.
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  I would. Agree with that as well.
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  Because if, I mean, I know that you're having a safety service
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  talk, but that's going to be another footage in another
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  location that I haven't gotten to yet, but also management,
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  they decide that they don't want to have a safety service talk
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  that day. Well, that that was the question
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  wasn't so much about the safety service talk, but it was for the
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  measurement to the accountables because our vehicle keys are on
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  the accountable cart and stationary in one spot in the
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  morning when we get the vehicle key.
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  And then typically they, depending on who it is that
• 27:22
  brings the accountable card around, either walks to each
• 27:25
  case or parks it at the bottom of the row and tells it, you
• 27:29
  know, says for everyone to come get their key, they're
• 27:34
  accountable. OK.
• 27:35
  So when you measure for this accountables distribution point
• 27:40
  on #8 here, it'll be the what's most common.
• 27:44
  So Matt, that's, that's partly why they have that stand up
• 27:47
  because management needs to make that determination of what are
• 27:51
  they going to be doing consistently.
• 27:53
  Because they, they, they a lot of them tend to forget that we
• 27:59
  are not paid hourly. We are paid by footage,
• 28:01
  especially in the morning and different tasks.
• 28:05
  So they need to make a decision about what they're going to do
• 28:09
  consistently so that you're getting the proper credit.
• 28:13
  OK. The number 9 is from the
• 28:16
  carrier's case to the hot case. So from the point where the
• 28:19
  carrier stands when casing mail to the point where the carrier
• 28:24
  stands when retrieving hot case mail?
• 28:27
  No, not applicable. If performed in conjunction with
• 28:30
  load time #10 from the carrier's case to the location to obtain
• 28:36
  an additional piece of empty equipment rolling stock or like
• 28:41
  a a vestibule or you know something, you need to move
• 28:45
  rolling stock prior to loading a vehicle.
• 28:48
  From the point where the carrier stands when casing mail to the
• 28:52
  average point location to obtain an additional piece of empty
• 28:56
  equipment rolling stock prior to loading vehicle.
• 29:00
  Note this only applies if this additional piece of equipment is
• 29:03
  required for loading #11 from the carriers case to the storage
• 29:10
  location for excess trays and tubs.
• 29:13
  From the point where the carrier stands when casing mail to the
• 29:17
  location where excess trays tubs are stored after mail has been
• 29:21
  loaded for conveyance to the vehicle.
• 29:24
  And then #12 is from the carrier's case to the location
• 29:29
  of where the safety service talk is given.
• 29:31
  From the point where the carrier stands when casing mail to the
• 29:34
  designated safety service talk location.
• 29:38
  So that is the office walking distance.
• 29:44
  After management has put in all of this, they'll write down all
• 29:47
  the footage and then management will enter it into RMSS and in
• 29:52
  the computer you'll sign this form and then it's up to
• 29:55
  management to hold on to this. For each mini mail survey I
• 30:00
  usually make management make me a copy of it for my own records.
• 30:04
  Because if management entered a bunch of big fat zeros into my
• 30:08
  walking distance, I'm going to rage because I know that I have
• 30:11
  footage for most of these things.
• 30:14
  So that is that part of that. And management does not need to
• 30:21
  wait to start doing these measurements for the mini mail
• 30:25
  survey to happen. That's why what was it?
• 30:29
  February 7th was the date that they could start doing this and
• 30:32
  they can start entering this information into the computer
• 30:35
  and have it all ready to go so that they don't have to worry
• 30:38
  about it during the mini mail survey.
• 30:43
  And then the other thing is, is that management will have a
• 30:46
  thing on there and it's it's route settings confirmed by a
• 30:49
  manager on the DIS, the dismount distance data collection form.
• 30:54
  They're going to confirm whether or not you have a left hand
• 30:57
  drive, government vehicle or POV, like if you're a rule route
• 31:02
  that's driving a pro master because I know that there's
• 31:05
  some, they would put that in there.
• 31:10
  And then like I said, the copy of the completed form will be
• 31:13
  shared with the carrier. So next we're going to get into
• 31:17
  the daily volume. So there's a daily volume
• 31:19
  worksheet and management will have like the route numbers and
• 31:23
  then they'll have the letters manual, flats, manual,
• 31:27
  miscellaneous activity. And then for the reason and then
• 31:31
  they'll have the miscellaneous activity actual time.
• 31:36
  So for random letters and flats, random letters include letters
• 31:43
  that have not been ran on any type of automation, meaning like
• 31:51
  you're miss sorted letters that you've gotten from other routes,
• 31:54
  especially from the hot case, your NLM or your 999 mail will
• 32:03
  be on your radar and end of run report.
• 32:06
  And so you can actually verify those numbers and those are
• 32:08
  counted year round B letters from manual distribution cases
• 32:14
  and then C is we will also be counting DPS letter mail errors.
• 32:22
  So meaning your three M mail, your high rise without secondary
• 32:26
  addresses, CFS, RTS of them hold mail close business.
• 32:32
  A good rule of thumb that I have said since the beginning is you
• 32:38
  treat that DPS that you are delivering like it is the most
• 32:41
  pristine DPS you have ever had in your entire life.
• 32:45
  You can just look at the letter, verify the address and deliver
• 32:50
  it. The moment that you have to do
• 32:53
  something else with that piece of mail, it now becomes a piece
• 32:57
  of raw. And so those letters would be
• 33:01
  counted if it's a miss sort, if it's a hold, if it's business
• 33:06
  closed, if it's a album because that customer doesn't live there
• 33:10
  anymore, if it's a forward, the the moment you cannot just look
• 33:14
  at that letter, deliver it, it becomes raw.
• 33:18
  And if management has an issue with that, I mean we do not get
• 33:24
  credit in RX for DPS other than to verify the address, we do not
• 33:31
  get credit for casing it. So hence why anytime you have to
• 33:36
  over handle a piece of mail you're getting this raw letter
• 33:40
  random letter credit. A note for this too is you will
• 33:47
  not include any of the walk sequence saturation mailings or
• 33:51
  box holders in this because you will be entering those as the
• 33:56
  letter saturation mailings per RX for the 52 weeks.
• 34:04
  The other thing is, is that if you have if your DPS, you're
• 34:10
  going to flip through it too. For every four upside down
• 34:16
  letters in your DPS, you get one random letter credit and you're,
• 34:25
  you're going to have to figure out the system that you want to
• 34:28
  do with your manager. A lot of the managers are you
• 34:32
  pretty good with you counting it and looking through it and
• 34:35
  keeping a tally of it yourself. I would recommend if like half
• 34:41
  the mail that day is upside down, first thing I do is I go
• 34:45
  over to the manager and I go, hey, I'm going to have a lot of
• 34:48
  upside down letters today. So and they'll look through it
• 34:54
  and unders like verify it, you know, so that they can see it.
• 34:58
  So the random flats that we are counting in this are the flats
• 35:04
  that have not been run on automation and they're the flats
• 35:09
  from the manual distribution case and they are flat size
• 35:13
  mailings not received in the white tubs or from local
• 35:16
  distribution cases. It's typically again, the stuff
• 35:20
  that managed that the clerks have sorted and is in the hot
• 35:23
  case. So the postmaster or manager
• 35:27
  who's conducting the count should sign every day and the
• 35:31
  carrier should receive a copy every single day of the the them
• 35:39
  entering these numbers in if management's just giving you
• 35:42
  some sticky note and not having an official, I think it's a
• 35:48
  4241A or no, it's a 4241 M another version of it and it'll
• 35:53
  show you hey, on on 2/21 you had 100 letters and 50 flats.
• 36:05
  It'll it'll show up on there. But if you have an issue with
• 36:09
  management and management is not wanting to count something or
• 36:15
  you should try and document. I mean, we get like they're
• 36:22
  these like Costco WSH letters that are raw and the clerks will
• 36:30
  manually sort them for us. And they are not on any of the
• 36:33
  NLM or the NI, the S99 mail. And we've had a dispute
• 36:39
  essentially with management over it.
• 36:42
  And we monitored all of the end of runs and my managers
• 36:47
  eventually ended up counting it for our survey.
• 36:50
  So you just need to communicate with management and, and if
• 36:54
  there's a piece of mail that management is not wanting to
• 36:58
  count for whatever reason, I mean, you can ask management,
• 37:02
  well, then how am I getting credit for this?
• 37:04
  And you have to essentially get really meta.
• 37:08
  And so management needs to show you, you know, how, how are you
• 37:11
  getting credit for this? So then the next thing that
• 37:15
  we're gonna have is called miscellaneous time.
• 37:19
  And there's not a lot of different items that will be
• 37:23
  included in here, but you're gonna have that miscellaneous
• 37:27
  activity worksheet every single day.
• 37:29
  And I got into the habit of giving it to the managers every
• 37:32
  single day. It says like what area you're in
• 37:35
  district your MPU if you know, and then your office and then
• 37:40
  the route. And so some of these
• 37:43
  miscellaneous activities are required customer communication
• 37:47
  time, good job baby time required if if required by
• 37:53
  management to answer customer questions across the counter or
• 37:57
  over the phone if such duties occur daily or weekly.
• 38:00
  So just keep in mind, if this is something that you're doing
• 38:04
  repeatedly, then you're not getting credit for it unless
• 38:07
  you're getting this time during the mini mail survey.
• 38:10
  If you have electronic parcel lockers, record actual time used
• 38:14
  daily to service EPL's. Actual time begins once all
• 38:19
  parcels are located at the EPL and carrier signs in on the
• 38:23
  keypad and continues until the carrier signs out on the keypad.
• 38:28
  If the carrier is required to wait to gain access to the
• 38:31
  keypad, that time is also recorded as actual time.
• 38:35
  So let's say that an Amazon driver or UPS driver is at that
• 38:38
  location and they're already used using the locker.
• 38:41
  Then your time waiting for them is where you will put this
• 38:47
  reloading A satchel actual time to reload a satchel if required
• 38:51
  for multiple dismount deliveries.
• 38:53
  I know I've heard of a couple rule routes that are actually
• 38:58
  walking routes and so they really heavily need that
• 39:02
  reloading satchel time. If management has limited how
• 39:07
  many authorized dismounts you have and they are requiring you
• 39:10
  to use a satchel and they want you to reload it for you to do
• 39:14
  this sort of thing, that's where this would come into to play non
• 39:20
  personnel unit and PU time. Those carriers who serve a non
• 39:24
  personnel rule unit receive a minimum allowance a 15 minutes
• 39:28
  daily for each unit served. So if you are a rule carrier
• 39:33
  who's delivering to a non personnel rule unit and there is
• 39:40
  extra time that you are needed to do certain items there,
• 39:44
  that's where you would have this located at.
• 39:49
  Now on the bottom of this it will say other daily or weekly
• 39:53
  reoccurring activities. So these items must be approved
• 39:59
  by the rule district DSS delivery support specialist and
• 40:05
  an explanation must be entered. So for example time associated
• 40:10
  with end of shift activities not completed for the prior day.
• 40:15
  There is also things where like. Train time, that's a big one
• 40:23
  that's on here. The union has Step 4 settlements
• 40:26
  regarding the train time. The rule DSS will actually look
• 40:32
  at your route to see if if you've consistently had it and
• 40:37
  if you have train tracks on your route.
• 40:39
  You know, that's that's my biggest one that I will usually
• 40:42
  have. Another thing is that I don't
• 40:47
  see on the sheet this time, which is interesting is if if
• 40:52
  you have like a key card entry to a location or you have to
• 40:57
  enter into a keypad to access a certain building.
• 41:02
  Those things would be miscellaneous activities that
• 41:07
  and, and typically what they're going to do is they're just
• 41:10
  trying to make sure that there is no other RX area that is
• 41:14
  accounting for these activities that you're doing on a daily or
• 41:19
  weekly basis. If it's something that's random
• 41:22
  out of the ordinary, it might not end up being here.
• 41:27
  It might be something that could be considered 8127 time.
• 41:31
  It just depends upon the circumstances.
• 41:34
  But I hope that that kind of gave you a generalized thing of
• 41:39
  the things that I know I've personally seen become
• 41:42
  miscellaneous. Other examples would be if you
• 41:47
  go to a business and have to ring the bell.
• 41:50
  Yeah, extra time dismount. For them to answer the door if
• 41:54
  you have to ride an elevator to get to this business, a
• 41:59
  particular business, we on a daily or weekly occurrence.
• 42:05
  If you have to wait for a security guard or a gate check
• 42:08
  in to enter into like a like a gated business area, you know
• 42:15
  there's certain things that that would qualify.
• 42:21
  Right. Or in a gated community, if you
• 42:24
  have to wait for the gate to open, yes, to be able to pass
• 42:27
  through that, that minimum amount of, you know, whatever
• 42:30
  amount of time you know, 10/20/30 seconds for the gate to
• 42:34
  open for you to be able to drive through.
• 42:38
  So then so again, management should be entering these these
• 42:44
  this data into the to RMSS daily.
• 42:48
  The other thing that management has the ability to do if you
• 42:51
  have a high option, I'm just going to say this right now
• 42:54
  before I even get to this form for the end management has the
• 42:58
  ability right now for them to check mark if you want high
• 43:02
  option or if you don't. And granted, they're going to
• 43:06
  want you to sign the Saint the 4241 at the end of the mini mail
• 43:11
  survey, but typically the managers forget that they have
• 43:16
  to choose inside of RMSS high option, yes or no.
• 43:20
  So just make sure if you're somebody who is wanting high
• 43:25
  option that you watch management toggle the thing in RMSS.
• 43:31
  And I would ask them to show you it just so that you have Peace
• 43:34
  of Mind because every single mini mail survey I've seen it
• 43:38
  where one person did not get high option.
• 43:42
  And I'm so tired of management being stupid about it.
• 43:46
  So just going to say that before I say the end of this.
• 43:49
  So at the end of the mini mail survey, there's going to be APS
• 43:54
  Form 4241 that you are going to receive and you should be
• 43:58
  receiving it every single day because it'll show you
• 44:01
  management actually entering the volume into the computer.
• 44:05
  If management is just handing you the sheet with it just being
• 44:09
  hand wrote on there, do not trust that management has not
• 44:13
  entered it into the computer. So it will show you each date,
• 44:18
  it'll show you the letter size manual pieces, flat size manual
• 44:22
  pieces. And then it'll have the
• 44:23
  miscellaneous activity, actual time and it'll say total in
• 44:28
  minutes and seconds. And then it'll have the total on
• 44:31
  the bottom of the entire thing. And then complete the following
• 44:37
  information on the last day of the mini mail survey.
• 44:40
  It'll say high option yes or no. And then it'll have like the
• 44:44
  disclaimer about article 9.2 dot C .7 dot a of the national
• 44:50
  agreement for the leave commitment if you're wanting to
• 44:53
  choose the high option. And then on the bottom of it,
• 44:58
  there is another square that says survey data certified to be
• 45:02
  correct. And it's you, the carrier
• 45:05
  signing it and you putting the date and then the manager
• 45:08
  signing it and then putting the date.
• 45:10
  Now I know a lot of people will go, I don't want to sign that.
• 45:14
  I don't want to sign that. You are just signing that.
• 45:18
  The information and the data that was collected during this
• 45:22
  mini mail survey on this sheet of paper is correct.
• 45:27
  It's not saying you agree with RX, it's not saying anything
• 45:31
  along those lines. But if a manager just entered a
• 45:34
  bunch of big fat zeros and then they brought you this form and
• 45:38
  said sign this, you are not certifying it to be correct.
• 45:42
  So I would not sign it then and I would and then management can
• 45:46
  write refuse to sign and then you go through the dispute
• 45:49
  process and there's all that. So that's your choice of whether
• 45:54
  or not you sign that form. I usually do and I will tell
• 45:58
  management I'm not signing it until you correct this date
• 46:02
  because there'll there'll be like 1 date where they forgot to
• 46:06
  enter something you know. So it's on you as the carrier to
• 46:11
  verify these numbers. I would recommend if because
• 46:16
  management should be supplying you with the summary of your
• 46:21
  totals on a daily basis, that you should be keeping track and
• 46:27
  going through and correcting these things as you go.
• 46:31
  So again, the carrier may count their own mail as a verification
• 46:38
  of management's counts, and there's no additional
• 46:41
  compensation for rule carriers doing that.
• 46:44
  Sadly, management the if you are a regular carrier, you can also
• 46:52
  come in and observe the survey, but you will not be compensated
• 46:57
  for any of it and you cannot touch any mail.
• 47:00
  You can just sit there as an observer.
• 47:02
  You can't manage or do anything along those lines.
• 47:10
  Again, the credit for random letters is 1 for every 4.
• 47:17
  We should also like come Friday. I know in the old mail count
• 47:22
  system people used to freak out because they're like the plant
• 47:26
  is holding all the mail back. I as a rule carrier, whenever
• 47:31
  it's like right before a mini mail survey and even in the old
• 47:34
  mail count I used to do this is I would walk around the hot case
• 47:39
  just to see what was there. And if management is curtailing.
• 47:45
  If if you're going into the mini mail survey clean like they they
• 47:50
  made sure there was no mail left from Friday, then that means the
• 47:55
  last Friday of the mini mail survey we go out clean, you go
• 47:58
  in clean, you come out cleaned. The normal flow of mail should
• 48:03
  be insured. No extra effort to clear out
• 48:06
  mail before count. No curtailment of cork hours on
• 48:09
  the last day of the count of the survey and the Mailer requested
• 48:15
  delivery date should always be honored.
• 48:20
  And trying to think of what else on here that was about the
• 48:25
  withdrawal and it's on management to meet with each
• 48:32
  carrier just to discuss if if you want the high or the low
• 48:37
  option. I know a lot of the managers
• 48:40
  are, I don't want to say Stoop, but they are.
• 48:43
  They don't understand the difference between a high and
• 48:45
  low option. So the high option is higher pay
• 48:48
  but less time off. So it's a high J or a high H
• 48:53
  route. A low option is lower pay but
• 48:55
  more time off, which is AK or a lower J route.
• 48:59
  And you have to have 10 years from your retirement computation
• 49:03
  date in order to qualify for that.
• 49:06
  I still have two more years until I qualify for that and
• 49:11
  there's. Some routes just need it.
• 49:14
  Yeah, but I but. There's they still have 7 1/2
• 49:18
  years to make that. Yeah, yeah.
• 49:22
  And there is some routes if you are over A43K, there is no low
• 49:29
  or high option, you are in the high.
• 49:32
  So if you're over that 43 K threshold, typically there is no
• 49:39
  46, excuse me, there's no 46 day option.
• 49:44
  Thank you. If disagreements occur and they
• 49:49
  cannot be resolved locally at the carrier and the manager will
• 49:52
  fill out the appropriate part of the dispute form.
• 49:55
  So if you and the manager still couldn't come to an agreement
• 49:59
  over an issue in the mini mail survey, you guys, you're going
• 50:02
  to have to end up doing a dispute over them.
• 50:06
  And so just keep documentation for things.
• 50:10
  And granted, we're not going over disputes right now, but we
• 50:15
  could probably do that at another time.
• 50:17
  But you're going to need documentation to prove what
• 50:19
  you're saying and why you should be getting that credit.
• 50:26
  And again, I just want to say like it takes all of us to make
• 50:31
  sure that this mini mail survey and the credit that we are owed
• 50:35
  is be that we're, we're receiving it.
• 50:39
  And like, I can stand here and preach to you all I want about
• 50:45
  the importance of it. But ultimately, like it's, it's
• 50:48
  your paycheck. And if you, you can just go
• 50:56
  whatever, you know, but then like you were only like 2
• 51:00
  minutes away from being like A44K and you have a bunch of
• 51:06
  zeros in your mini mail survey because you didn't care.
• 51:08
  Like that's going to that's, I mean, that's on you at that
• 51:12
  point. Like the onus is going to be on
• 51:14
  you. And I know a lot of people get
• 51:17
  frustrated that we're having these mini mail surveys twice a
• 51:20
  year. But it is important for us to
• 51:23
  make sure that we are capturing the the little bit of mail that
• 51:26
  is not on automation and these miscellaneous things that we are
• 51:29
  not getting credit for in RX for the 52 week average.
• 51:34
  I hope like personally that eventually, like, you know,
• 51:38
  there's some of the things in the in the miscellaneous time.
• 51:41
  I wish that there was an RX activity scan for like me
• 51:45
  personally like I my route is delivers to a rail yard like a
• 51:52
  train. There's railroad tracks and I
• 51:55
  get stuck by a train twice a week at minimum.
• 51:59
  And it just depends on the time of day and it's so sporadic.
• 52:06
  And like, I've even had management question like why I
• 52:11
  had a stationary event and I'm like, I was stuck by the train.
• 52:14
  Like you can literally watch me sitting there by the train
• 52:19
  tracks, you know, like, so I just, I wish that eventually
• 52:22
  with RX that there's gonna be the ability for them to, to
• 52:25
  update some of that technology. And, you know, maybe I, it is
• 52:33
  what it is now. And I think that we just have
• 52:36
  to, if, if you're refreshing your brain and you're
• 52:41
  remembering what you need to do for these mini male surveys,
• 52:44
  then they're not as stressful, I would say.
• 52:50
  But you still need to make sure that you're paying attention.
• 52:54
  It's a part of our jobs now and it's all of our pay so.
• 53:00
  And for those I. Go ahead.
• 53:03
  Well, I was going to segue into you.
• 53:04
  I would say I, I agree is a a little bit of a pain having to
• 53:08
  do this every six months. But I would say, for example,
• 53:11
  with you, Kristen, you, your office at the time got Amazon,
• 53:18
  would you say 224 weeks after the count ended?
• 53:24
  Yeah, and 20, the last actual mail count, 2018, it was two
• 53:28
  weeks after the mail count ended that Amazon came into the office
• 53:33
  and nobody got credit for that until the 1st mini mail survey
• 53:38
  in 2023. Right.
• 53:39
  So that this way it's at most six months that you're going
• 53:45
  without getting any credit. Yeah.
• 53:47
  Well, and one of the interesting things with this new, with this
• 53:53
  mini mail survey, and granted, we're not counting it during the
• 53:55
  mini mail survey, but you'll, you get to see the health of
• 54:00
  your route. And I, me and Josh have talked
• 54:04
  about this a little bit like I'm kind of a nerd on the tangible
• 54:10
  data collection that I can actually look at now over the
• 54:13
  course of the last few years for my route evaluations and seeing
• 54:18
  what's fluctuated in either direction.
• 54:22
  You know, like my parcels have gone up, I've gotten, I've
• 54:25
  gotten new addresses. But one of the most interesting
• 54:29
  things about this mini mail survey is that we just regained
• 54:36
  the UPS parcels again. And so that will, we saw the dip
• 54:43
  happen and now we've, we're going to see, I think the
• 54:45
  increase a little bit again. And then, you know, come, come
• 54:52
  time for October, then there will be that, but we'll see the,
• 55:01
  we'll see what the volume does in that direction, you know, or
• 55:05
  if you're in office, you know, I'm, there's, I know people
• 55:08
  complain about Amazon and stuff too, but there's some offices
• 55:11
  that have lost the Amazon and I, I do worry for them because I,
• 55:15
  you know, we as postal employees want the revenue to keep
• 55:20
  increasing and stuff, but. What's up?
• 55:24
  I don't. Oh, here, I'll come look with
• 55:25
  you. But that's the mini meal survey
• 55:28
  though. I think that's all of it.
• 55:30
  I think somebody made a Jacqueline on the moon there.
• 55:34
  Somebody made the moon on there, yeah.
• 55:37
  I was going to say, you know, as a way, especially for the newer
• 55:42
  ones that maybe haven't been through a mini meal survey or or
• 55:46
  whatnot, when you're counting your inverted out on the street.
• 55:51
  I know some use little tick marks on scrap paper.
• 55:55
  I have a tap counter app on my phone.
• 55:59
  So every time I get an inverted, as you know, I put it in the
• 56:03
  mailbox, I tap my phone and for however many that way, I have
• 56:07
  that number, divide it by 4 when I get back.
• 56:11
  So, you know, those are just kind of little extra tool hints
• 56:14
  to, you know, trying to keep. Specially of.
• 56:17
  The inverted if you don't case you're DPS, you take DPS to the
• 56:20
  street. Counting those inverted a tap
• 56:23
  counter is a great is a great tool to use.
• 56:27
  Or like I said, using little hash marks on a piece of scrap
• 56:30
  paper or something like that notebook.
• 56:33
  I do. I do a little tick marks on the
• 56:36
  back of A tag from the DPS tray. I knew someone that actually had
• 56:42
  a counter. You know, the hand we with a,
• 56:45
  you know, we put it on the back of their finger, you know, on
• 56:48
  the one hand and just click every time they had it.
• 56:51
  Yep. Yeah, I tried using one of those
• 56:55
  the the counter, the clickers or as an app.
• 56:59
  I just couldn't get into, you know, It wasn't for me.
• 57:03
  No, you know not. For everybody and I prefer it
• 57:07
  because back I have two of them actually because my RCA days
• 57:11
  would if I be running docs route with a regular route, that way I
• 57:15
  could just flip to the other counter for the other row.
• 57:19
  So, but right, yeah. Yeah, you just have to.
• 57:23
  Figure out, yeah, what works best for you, whether it's a
• 57:26
  hash mark on a piece of prep paper, an app, a handheld
• 57:31
  clicker, you know, anything like that will definitely help you
• 57:35
  out. Yeah, I'm somebody who takes my
• 57:37
  DPS to the street and I figured out that I needed to sit with
• 57:44
  the tray of DPS before I go to the street and count my upside
• 57:47
  downs. Otherwise I will not do it.
• 57:49
  And I'll get like really angry. So I just do it automatically
• 57:54
  like in the beginning. But I don't know, we'll see.
• 57:57
  Sometimes I, I like the first couple days of the survey.
• 58:00
  I, I figure out something that works, but then, you know, it
• 58:03
  just depends on, on my mood, I guess.
• 58:07
  The other thing that you could do, and I've been debating if I
• 58:10
  wanted to do this, the mini mail during what is it on the union
• 58:16
  website, they have a thing that's you can do a test of your
• 58:21
  coverage factor percentage. And I've debated doing it during
• 58:27
  the mini mail survey just so if I wanted to dispute my coverage
• 58:32
  factor, then I have actual data to back it up.
• 58:36
  But that's kind of a a side quest mission there.
• 58:42
  Yeah, I would totally think about doing that too if I was
• 58:45
  working my K days. But as of right now, I'm, you
• 58:49
  know, I'm off. And so if it was to a point to
• 58:53
  where, you know, they need to work The Saturdays, that's fine.
• 58:56
  But with everything going on in my life right now, I'm
• 59:00
  fortunately I'm not going to do it this time around.
• 59:03
  Yeah, yeah. And I think that if I like, I'm
• 59:06
  on a growth route and I granted this last survey I went down,
• 59:10
  which I was very upset about. But if I wasn't and I was
• 59:15
  concerned about different things in my evaluation, then maybe I
• 59:20
  would. But I mean, like my personal
• 59:24
  opinion honestly, is that the I don't like the coverage factor.
• 59:28
  I think it's fair for the curbside boxes, but I think
• 59:31
  we're getting screwed over on the CB us and the set those
• 59:35
  those, But that's a whole other that's a whole other rant
• 59:38
  conversation. I could go on right now, but.
• 59:41
  Yes. Yeah, so but.
• 59:45
  All right, covered that. You want to cover the other
• 59:48
  things real quick. They should be quick.
• 59:50
  Yeah, so there was a, there's been floating around for a
• 59:55
  couple weeks now. There was an MOU that was signed
• 1:00:00
  by the Postal Service and by the NRLCA about having rule carriers
• 1:00:06
  in South Carolina test doing a doing the census.
• 1:00:13
  Which I thought was very interesting.
• 1:00:17
  I know that there's been a lot of mixed feelings about it.
• 1:00:21
  People that were like, I don't want to have to do the census,
• 1:00:26
  but like me personally, like the way that that MOU was drafted,
• 1:00:33
  if you've seen it, it's very much in the carrier's favor
• 1:00:37
  other than the working from home portion.
• 1:00:39
  I did not like that, but the rest of it seemed to be more in
• 1:00:46
  our favor. And you know, given the
• 1:00:51
  possibility of us losing Amazon, different things, the Postal
• 1:00:57
  Service in general needs to find different different revenue
• 1:01:03
  streams. And if, if there's a way, if
• 1:01:09
  that's one of those revenue streams, I mean, the, the NRLCA
• 1:01:15
  as a whole is the goal is for us as rule carriers to have these
• 1:01:21
  revenue streams. So I know there are some people
• 1:01:26
  who are like very skeptical about it.
• 1:01:28
  And I, I understand the skepticism of it.
• 1:01:31
  It's unknown. We don't know what's really
• 1:01:34
  going on with it. It's just a test for right now,
• 1:01:39
  but I mean it, it's only a test for now and granted it wouldn't
• 1:01:47
  be like an RX and stuff too. But I, I just wanted to read
• 1:01:52
  this little bit because I think a lot of people forget this,
• 1:01:57
  that the NRLCA constitution under purpose.
• 1:02:01
  The Association is established upon the long recognized need of
• 1:02:05
  roll letter carriers to organize and create a united force,
• 1:02:08
  advance the interests of all members, ensure job security,
• 1:02:12
  enhance opportunities, and assure our full share in the
• 1:02:15
  success of the United States Postal Service to which we
• 1:02:19
  contribute so substantially. The Association self seek, with
• 1:02:22
  all of its resources at its command, to assist its members
• 1:02:26
  and the realization of their highest aspirations as workers
• 1:02:30
  and as citizens. Such aspirations are a right and
• 1:02:34
  shall be protected against all threats.
• 1:02:35
  In God we trust, the Association is dedicated to the discharge of
• 1:02:39
  its responsibilities and the achievement of its objectives in
• 1:02:44
  accordance with the democratic principles embodied in this
• 1:02:46
  Constitution. The object of the Association
• 1:02:50
  shall be to improve conditions of Labor with the United States
• 1:02:55
  Postal Service, advance, advance the methods used by roll letter
• 1:02:59
  carriers, and promote fraternal spirit among members.
• 1:03:02
  This Association shall not affiliate or merge with any
• 1:03:05
  other organization or group without a majority vote of the
• 1:03:10
  delegates at a National Convention.
• 1:03:12
  Now, I'm the reason I'm saying that is that MOU for rule
• 1:03:18
  carriers doing the census falls in line with that.
• 1:03:25
  So if the, if the test works out, hopefully we get
• 1:03:29
  compensated for it. I'm, I'm sure we probably will,
• 1:03:34
  but we'll, we'll cross that bridge when we get there.
• 1:03:36
  Do you have anything you want to add on it?
• 1:03:39
  Did I lose you guys? No, no, I'm here, OK.
• 1:03:43
  And you know, I am. I'm kind of along with you with
• 1:03:45
  that too. I mean, it's we don't know.
• 1:03:48
  Again, it's a test. It's a test in one specific
• 1:03:51
  location, just to test it out to see if it's something that's
• 1:03:55
  gonna be feasible, maybe, and if it's even gonna be worth rolling
• 1:03:59
  out across the board. Yeah, exactly.
• 1:04:03
  You know, and so we'll see how it.
• 1:04:05
  I would say as you mentioned in regards to the you not liking
• 1:04:10
  the fact of working from home, but in that Mou it specifically
• 1:04:15
  stated that they're still working out how that
• 1:04:18
  compensation would be for to work at home.
• 1:04:21
  Yeah, exactly. So that's already something
• 1:04:25
  that's been taken in consideration and they're trying
• 1:04:28
  to work that out on how they're going to compensate those
• 1:04:31
  carriers work. Exactly, yeah.
• 1:04:34
  And I think the other thing that's in the favor with it is
• 1:04:38
  it's just another shield against privatization of the Postal
• 1:04:42
  Service. So it's it's honestly, I know
• 1:04:47
  people don't won't necessarily like doing it, but like it's
• 1:04:52
  it's it really is honestly our favor.
• 1:04:54
  So we'll see what happens with it.
• 1:04:56
  I'm kind of interested to, it was a little fluke thing.
• 1:05:00
  I've actually never seen an MOU that was as pro carrier, you
• 1:05:06
  know, like if they're like all 8127 time making sure we're
• 1:05:13
  getting compensated even if you have to go do additional fill
• 1:05:16
  UPS on your vehicle. I thought that was pretty, it
• 1:05:21
  was pretty detailed in it. So the second thing was that
• 1:05:27
  there is a test that's going on that they are testing whether or
• 1:05:33
  not they're going to start rolling out the scanners to take
• 1:05:39
  pictures of the parcels when we're where we're delivering
• 1:05:43
  them at front doors. And there was a stand up talk
• 1:05:48
  that was given and it the the scanner actually it will
• 1:05:54
  automatically photo capture for parcels delivered to front door
• 1:05:59
  or porch and delivered to garage or other location and address
• 1:06:03
  scans. And I think front desk reception
• 1:06:05
  was the other one and it's just another customer service sort of
• 1:06:10
  thing. It's something that FedEx and
• 1:06:15
  Amazon already do. I was just going to say every
• 1:06:19
  every other delivery service including DoorDash does it.
• 1:06:25
  And the scanner has the ability to to do that.
• 1:06:27
  I know some people are already paranoid with the scanner as it
• 1:06:31
  is. I mean, our phones are always
• 1:06:35
  listening to us. The scanner's probably listening
• 1:06:36
  to us, you know, all kinds of things, right?
• 1:06:39
  But the only thing that I there is offices that are in each area
• 1:06:44
  of the country that are testing this out.
• 1:06:47
  And so what'll happen is that when you scan the parcel and you
• 1:06:50
  hit delivered and you notate delivered to front door or to
• 1:06:58
  garage or other location at address and then you hit the zip
• 1:07:02
  code. After you hit the zip code
• 1:07:04
  enter, it will have a proof of delivery feature.
• 1:07:08
  Launch up on the on the scanner and it'll have a camera mode and
• 1:07:12
  then a new 3 second countdown timer will start automatically.
• 1:07:17
  To capture photo of package location, perform one of the
• 1:07:20
  following. Before countdown has elapsed,
• 1:07:23
  wait for automatic capture 2. Tap camera shutter button on
• 1:07:28
  screen or three, press either side buttons, black enter button
• 1:07:33
  or yellow scan button. After the countdown finishes,
• 1:07:37
  the camera pauses and displays a message.
• 1:07:40
  Please keep steady and wait for the image to be saved to ensure
• 1:07:43
  a stable final capture. User is unable to retake or
• 1:07:48
  review photo on the device once the capture is completed and
• 1:07:51
  then it'll have the information recorded successfully.
• 1:07:55
  Display briefly after processing and then returns to the scan
• 1:07:58
  barcode menu. The captured photo will be
• 1:08:01
  uploaded to rims in real time. So then when management's doing
• 1:08:07
  the customer three 60s, they'll be able to, I'm assuming.
• 1:08:12
  And when they're pulling up rims, they'll be able to see the
• 1:08:15
  the photo location of where the parcel was delivered.
• 1:08:18
  And so if there's any issues in those terms, management can be
• 1:08:23
  like, we'll see like it was. You see the picture there, you
• 1:08:27
  know, is that not your porch or those sorts of things?
• 1:08:31
  My only issue that I personally like and I think is, is an issue
• 1:08:39
  is that in RX we are only given a certain amount of credit for
• 1:08:43
  that front door or a garage or other location at address scan.
• 1:08:50
  And I it in these offices that are doing these tests, they
• 1:08:57
  should be asking for 8127 time for these parcels.
• 1:09:01
  And I don't necessarily know how I I haven't done it, but it's
• 1:09:08
  the way that it's looking to me is 3 seconds minimum for each of
• 1:09:12
  those front door parcel scans. But it, but it's looking like it
• 1:09:16
  might be like, you know, there's a three second countdown, but
• 1:09:20
  then there's more seconds after that for you to wait for the
• 1:09:24
  camera to take the picture. So there's, you know, there's
• 1:09:31
  different factors that are in there.
• 1:09:32
  And I hope that the Postal Service and the union come to an
• 1:09:36
  agreement before the if and I'm, I'm assuming that they're going
• 1:09:39
  to roll this out nationally, but I, I hope that they come to an
• 1:09:44
  agreement before it's rolled out nationally and that this credit
• 1:09:49
  is given to the routes because we're going to be owed.
• 1:09:52
  It's not going to be a lot of time, but it could add like a
• 1:09:55
  couple minutes to a route, Especially like if you're
• 1:09:58
  delivering a bunch of parcels to, you know, garages and, and
• 1:10:03
  businesses and those sorts of things.
• 1:10:05
  If you have a lot of front door deliveries, then it, it could
• 1:10:10
  increase things. So Oh yeah, definitely you.
• 1:10:12
  Could see whatever time standard that they're going to affix to
• 1:10:17
  taking the picture would be put into your parcel time.
• 1:10:22
  Yeah, yeah. And it's really interesting
• 1:10:24
  because since the roll out of RX, we really haven't had
• 1:10:30
  anything other than the pars labels changed.
• 1:10:34
  There hasn't been any really significant things in, in that
• 1:10:38
  regard. This is the first inclination of
• 1:10:43
  something that could potentially change the time standard of
• 1:10:47
  something so of an item. So we'll see hopefully.
• 1:10:52
  Come on. So if you're listening, Postal
• 1:10:54
  Service in the union come to an agreement now before it gets
• 1:10:58
  rolled out. Yeah, I could really see this is
• 1:11:02
  something that may roll out, you know, across the country where
• 1:11:06
  is, you know, the going back to the previous one with the
• 1:11:11
  census. We don't know.
• 1:11:13
  That's why it's only one location that's testing it out
• 1:11:16
  right now. That may not be worth going
• 1:11:18
  across out, but I could definitely, you know, keeping up
• 1:11:22
  with the times today that we'll be doing the photos and, you
• 1:11:29
  know, eventually the customers will get it on their receiving
• 1:11:32
  end too. I could see that tying into the
• 1:11:35
  informed deliveries section. Yep.
• 1:11:38
  Yeah. Completely.
• 1:11:40
  I mean, you already get text messages when it's been
• 1:11:42
  delivered if you choose to or emails and something's delivered
• 1:11:46
  to, you know, Hey, that was coming through the post office.
• 1:11:50
  So what's one more of looking at?
• 1:11:52
  Oh, there's Yep, that's my porch.
• 1:11:55
  I mean, I many people I know across the social webs, Hey,
• 1:11:59
  anybody recognize this porch because FedEx or Amazon must
• 1:12:03
  delivered something. You know, I'm looking for my
• 1:12:05
  package that it was delivered here.
• 1:12:06
  That's not my door, you know that that's the worst thing I'd
• 1:12:12
  hate to see for any of us to happen.
• 1:12:15
  But I mean, that's eventually what could happen with the photo
• 1:12:20
  rollout. But we all knew that may
• 1:12:21
  eventually be coming anyway. Is it wasn't.
• 1:12:24
  Then the blue I had a service talk.
• 1:12:26
  Ability as well. Was that?
• 1:12:28
  I think so. I said I think the blue brick
• 1:12:31
  scanners had photo capability as well.
• 1:12:35
  Camera building. I'd have to look at 1:00
• 1:12:39
  tomorrow. Yeah.
• 1:12:40
  Or Friday. I could be wrong but.
• 1:12:42
  If they actually had a camera. But yeah, these both have front
• 1:12:46
  and rear facing cameras. Yeah.
• 1:12:48
  So but yeah, it's we got you know, I can remember a year ago
• 1:12:53
  during a service talk, this is 1 supervisor said it was coming,
• 1:12:58
  taking the pictures I'll be delivered back as this.
• 1:13:03
  Yeah. It's been, you know, going
• 1:13:04
  around for quite a long time. But now it's finally into the
• 1:13:09
  testing phases because I think that was one of the things that
• 1:13:11
  they did bring up when they introduced the the the scanners
• 1:13:14
  that we have now was the fact that it did have photo
• 1:13:17
  capability. Yep.
• 1:13:20
  So let's use that photo capability, I guess.
• 1:13:22
  Yep, Customer, customer service, you know.
• 1:13:25
  Josh, you had a couple things that you want to touch on.
• 1:13:29
  Yeah. Let me pull them back up.
• 1:13:31
  What they were just looking on Facebook real quick.
• 1:13:35
  There were two things, two posts that I saw.
• 1:13:39
  One is what is the rule on posting district jobs in office?
• 1:13:44
  I can't find any resources. Any time there is a bid, whether
• 1:13:50
  it's in office or district wide, a hard copy must be posted in
• 1:13:55
  the office. Every single for for everyone to
• 1:14:00
  see. Any visible location too, not
• 1:14:03
  just stuck on, you know, a board somewhere where nobody walks
• 1:14:09
  past it. Right.
• 1:14:11
  Like if you have a rural board, you would hope that they would
• 1:14:15
  say in a service talk there was a posting up, it's on, it's
• 1:14:21
  going to be on the rural board notification board.
• 1:14:24
  But the only requirement is that it has to be posted somewhere
• 1:14:28
  where it's visible. The other thing was can
• 1:14:33
  management change your trips to door in the computer since they
• 1:14:37
  don't want you to have too many? No, they cannot.
• 1:14:42
  Local management does not have access to that.
• 1:14:46
  No, and you have the ability so that's why I was saying that
• 1:14:51
  date earlier too. So March 7th, 2025 until March
• 1:14:57
  6th 2026. If you want to, you can ask
• 1:15:02
  management to provide you with all of your activity RX scans
• 1:15:07
  from the last year and you can look at it.
• 1:15:10
  I periodically go and look at mine just to make sure, you
• 1:15:15
  know, just for Peace of Mind. It's a part of us verifying that
• 1:15:19
  data. And I know, and I'm saying this
• 1:15:23
  as somebody who has, I have anxiety and there are certain
• 1:15:28
  things with RX that I also get anxious about.
• 1:15:32
  And so you can only control the actions that you do and you
• 1:15:38
  taking control of it and you going to management and show and
• 1:15:42
  being like, please show me my RX scans just for your own Peace of
• 1:15:47
  Mind, you know, do it, You have the ability to do it.
• 1:15:51
  It's you just, it's just a part of the, the process of us being
• 1:15:57
  diligent with it. There was a period of time where
• 1:16:03
  management was testing the ability to edit the RX activity
• 1:16:09
  scams and but then they disabled it on the local level.
• 1:16:13
  They didn't roll it out nationally.
• 1:16:15
  Thank goodness. Yes, yeah.
• 1:16:19
  And we we have talked about that before where you know, where you
• 1:16:24
  Kristen have said I could see if.
• 1:16:28
  Hey, Mr. Supervisor, I just want to let you know, at 123 Main St.
• 1:16:34
  I accidentally hit 6 instead of three trips to door.
• 1:16:39
  So they could go in and correct that.
• 1:16:42
  But then there was the, you know, on the flip side of that
• 1:16:45
  with the issue of in the case of this post, where can they, you
• 1:16:50
  know, can they do that and take them away because they think you
• 1:16:52
  have too many? Yep, and and you know that
• 1:16:55
  feature was disabled on the local level.
• 1:16:58
  So no, the only thing that they can go in and change is your
• 1:17:02
  time inputs for clock in. The 6th.
• 1:17:06
  Yeah, Yep. The six entries that are on your
• 1:17:09
  4240. Yeah, your, your, yeah, your,
• 1:17:13
  your times, times. That's the only thing that they
• 1:17:15
  can go into a job. All right, guys, that was a
• 1:17:18
  whole lot for. Yes, it was.
• 1:17:21
  It was. But it was, but hey, we we owed
• 1:17:24
  it to him because it's been a couple weeks, so.
• 1:17:28
  Yeah, and then yeah, definitely yeah.
• 1:17:31
  And share this with if you're if you're a newer sub or share this
• 1:17:37
  with your your Co workers so that it's just a refresher for
• 1:17:41
  the mini mail survey. And I'm hopeful that like I mean
• 1:17:46
  this this is going to be a resource for you to use to re
• 1:17:49
  listen to for the next few years.
• 1:17:52
  I mean, I've done different other ones too.
• 1:17:55
  And I, I've even taken notes for my own self about the mini meal
• 1:17:58
  survey and, or they're not going to go away.
• 1:18:01
  So just if once you get some of this stuff embedded into your
• 1:18:05
  head, it's good to have a little bit of a refresher and get back
• 1:18:09
  into that mindset for that. And but look out for, you know,
• 1:18:15
  if you see a new sub in your office, please like encourage
• 1:18:19
  them and show them and just talk to them a little bit too.
• 1:18:24
  If you've seen somebody struggling with the mini mail
• 1:18:27
  survey, sometimes people walk in on that first day and forget all
• 1:18:31
  the way about it and just be like remind people just we all
• 1:18:35
  gotta look out for each other and.
• 1:18:39
  Well like I think in discord this past week someone said it's
• 1:18:44
  it's time to start counting the errors just to get in the habit
• 1:18:47
  of doing it. Man I really wish today's DPS
• 1:18:51
  was part of the mini mail survey.
• 1:19:00
  I pulled 30 missed cents before I even left the office because
• 1:19:04
  of where they were stuck in the back of my DPS trays.
• 1:19:08
  Yeah. You know, stuff like that is I
• 1:19:12
  always complain when water bills come in raw or, you know, you
• 1:19:16
  get the progressive and Liberty Mutual like today that they send
• 1:19:19
  them out to people who aren't even alive anymore, haven't
• 1:19:22
  lived there in decades. And and you know, you're
• 1:19:26
  bringing all that back. And it's like, you know, there's
• 1:19:29
  only four weeks a year where I really don't complain about it.
• 1:19:33
  Yep, I might not. Not happy.
• 1:19:39
  I may not like it while it's happening, but I'm not going to
• 1:19:42
  complain about it for those two weeks.
• 1:19:44
  Yep, 4 weeks out of the year that I I don't complain about
• 1:19:48
  it, but I may grumble underneath my breath because it's a pain in
• 1:19:52
  the butt anyway. But general, yeah.
• 1:19:55
  So that starts Saturday guys for this round.
• 1:19:59
  Fun to see what happens. Curious.
• 1:20:02
  Yeah, what what Meow was talking about with asking for a copy of
• 1:20:07
  your activity scans? That'll give you a clue.
• 1:20:10
  And if you know if your knee replacements are doing scans
• 1:20:15
  accordingly as well. Yes they will and you can also
• 1:20:20
  ask management to get you the radar report for the last year
• 1:20:23
  too and radar results. Are still supposed to be posted
• 1:20:26
  daily. Every single day.
• 1:20:28
  They are. Didn't tell you the last time I
• 1:20:34
  saw one posted. Oh wait, I think it was the last
• 1:20:36
  mini mail survey. I did get some some printed out,
• 1:20:43
  but no one. I still can't get anyone to tell
• 1:20:46
  me where they're supposed to be posted in the office.
• 1:20:50
  I gotcha. All right, guys.
• 1:20:53
  Gosh, your final words for this evening.
• 1:20:58
  Just the weather's starting to change again, so dress in
• 1:21:04
  layers, hydrate, be safe out there, especially with the the
• 1:21:10
  mini survey coming up. Don't get overwhelmed.
• 1:21:13
  If you do take a step back, take a deep breath and step back in.
• 1:21:19
  Have a good week. We'll see you next time, meow.
• 1:21:22
  Well thank you guys, it was good to chat with y'all.
• 1:21:27
  I hope this helps people's if you do end up getting
• 1:21:32
  overwhelmed, especially with the mini mail survey coming up
• 1:21:35
  again, the phone number for the employee assistance program is
• 1:21:41
  1-800-327-4968 and that's 800 EAP the #4YO U.
• 1:21:51
  And they can help you or anybody in your household if you're
• 1:21:55
  needing any extra assistance with any of that.
• 1:21:59
  I'm going to leave you with a little bit of a weird disclaimer
• 1:22:02
  today too. There's a lot of really bad,
• 1:22:07
  I've noticed an uptick in AI rule carrier answers on the
• 1:22:13
  Internet. Please do not rely on Google
• 1:22:20
  Gemini to answer a rule carrier complexity question.
• 1:22:26
  Please download the NRLCA app, find your or go to thenrlca.org.
• 1:22:35
  Locate your union steward. Just familiarize yourself with
• 1:22:41
  who your union steward is and the people who are the officers
• 1:22:47
  of your state and educate yourself in the constructive way
• 1:22:53
  versus using AI. Because AI may be OK for some
• 1:23:00
  images and stuff, but I'm sorry but Google Gemini AI is not
• 1:23:07
  going to tell you how 8127 time and RX complexities are for your
• 1:23:15
  rural carrier salary on your pay stub.
• 1:23:18
  So Siri Siri's not going to know either.
• 1:23:23
  AI in general so I it can be good for a couple things, but
• 1:23:31
  that is not one of them. So please just keep that in
• 1:23:35
  mind. So and.
• 1:23:36
  That's one of the reasons why I turned off the AI bot and the
• 1:23:40
  Facebook group too. I never even activated it.
• 1:23:43
  Like Nope, don't want this. It is, yeah.
• 1:23:47
  It is not jolly. So just look out for each other
• 1:23:53
  guys. And I hope you guys all have a
• 1:23:55
  good and safe week. And oh, oh, and I'm going to say
• 1:24:01
  this the next pay stub, the next paycheck we get February 27th
• 1:24:07
  are it's supposed to have our back pay on it.
• 1:24:09
  So if anybody else asking, I've had it, I don't know how many
• 1:24:13
  times I've said it today to different people, February 27th
• 1:24:17
  will carry your back pay. So on that note, all right,
• 1:24:20
  Kristen. Thank you.
• 1:24:22
  And on that rule, carrier back pay, everybody's back pay is
• 1:24:27
  going to be different because it's going to vary between how
• 1:24:31
  many hours you've worked and if you were doing OT or deck of
• 1:24:36
  fives, deck of threes, whatever. Stepping 3 is, you know, all
• 1:24:42
  the. Changing of routes, changing of
• 1:24:44
  eval. Yes, all that is, is is a
• 1:24:48
  variable for leave replacements. It's going to be based on how
• 1:24:52
  many hours that you worked when you started.
• 1:24:55
  If it was, you know, during, if you, if you are no longer with
• 1:25:00
  us and you, you know, you could still be getting a back paycheck
• 1:25:05
  if you worked in the times where it was.
• 1:25:08
  The amount is supposed to be calculated between those dates.
• 1:25:11
  So yes, the the the variables are going to vary differently
• 1:25:16
  for every single carrier. So there is not a set amount of
• 1:25:21
  back pay. It's not a lump sum based off of
• 1:25:25
  this figure. It's going to vary for every
• 1:25:28
  single world carrier. Leave replacement and that would
• 1:25:31
  be that would be any increase from May 2020 first 2025 until
• 1:25:43
  I'm sorry 2024 until when was that June or July?
• 1:25:49
  It would be when. The 2020.
• 1:25:51
  Took effect it. Would be when the.
• 1:25:53
  Well, it's the same effect. Any increases from the date of
• 1:25:57
  the increase between the end of May of 2024 until they signed
• 1:26:05
  it, which was and I know I just saw the date it's recently.
• 1:26:10
  You need to pull out the. July of 2025.
• 1:26:15
  Yes, pull out the contract, the new one 'cause you're gonna be
• 1:26:19
  getting and you need to look at the articles that have the new
• 1:26:24
  contractual increases and the new COLA increases and determine
• 1:26:30
  the dates from that. And Google AI or any or Siri or
• 1:26:36
  any sort of AI is not going to be able to calculate your back
• 1:26:40
  pay for you either. So no, it's not.
• 1:26:44
  So what do we get out there? There is no one answer for how
• 1:26:51
  much back pay is going to be because it's going to vary on
• 1:26:55
  step increases and any overtime that you may have worked.
• 1:27:00
  Our CAS is going to vary on your hours that you worked and all
• 1:27:05
  that stuff. So there is no simple answer to
• 1:27:08
  how much back pay is going to be plain and simple.
• 1:27:12
  OK, Because I see that all the time.
• 1:27:17
  And it's just like, Oh, my back pay will not be the same as
• 1:27:22
  Meow's back pay, which will not be the same as Josh's back pay
• 1:27:26
  because number one, Josh is on Table 1 and Meow and I are on
• 1:27:32
  totally different steps. And yeah, it, it, it's going to
• 1:27:36
  be completely different based completely based on the carrier.
• 1:27:39
  So, and that note, I want to thank you guys for taking up
• 1:27:46
  your evening this evening. I know it's getting kind of late
• 1:27:48
  for us on the Eastern Time zone, but I appreciate it.
• 1:27:53
  I appreciate everybody's patience is episodes are going
• 1:27:56
  to be a little sporadic for the unforeseeable future is my life.
• 1:28:01
  Is. Took a turn that I was not
• 1:28:03
  expecting it to turn, but you know I.
• 1:28:07
  I wouldn't say. Go ahead, Josh.
• 1:28:09
  Obviously the only other thing I would add is and after the back
• 1:28:16
  pay, the COLA I believe was announced to be about $250 which
• 1:28:23
  is what you'll get on table one or step 12 of Table 2 and then
• 1:28:30
  it's per rated down from there. Step 15 of Table 2.
• 1:28:35
  Oh, I forgot it was 15 steps, I apologize.
• 1:28:38
  Yes. So, so those of us who are, you
• 1:28:41
  know, step threes, we're going to see, you know, 50 bucks but
• 1:28:48
  on table too. So yeah, you know, colas are
• 1:28:52
  coming out eventually. But remember, that's not a lump
• 1:28:54
  sum payment that rolls into your salary for the year.
• 1:28:58
  So you may notice a little bit of an increase or you may not.
• 1:29:02
  It just depends on, you know, the table and the stuff on table
• 1:29:06
  too that you're on. So not going to go into a lot of
• 1:29:09
  detail on that. One is go there.
• 1:29:12
  I'm going to wind down for today, but you know, again, I
• 1:29:15
  want to thank everybody for their patience, the sporadic
• 1:29:18
  episodes and I appreciate everybody.
• 1:29:21
  I've gotten cards from a few people out there and I, you
• 1:29:24
  know, thank you greatly, really appreciate it.
• 1:29:27
  It's definitely not an easy time right now and my life just I
• 1:29:33
  don't know, I'm, I'm plugging away.
• 1:29:34
  I, I have some personal time coming up, which I'm so looking
• 1:29:37
  forward to, but yeah, a rough time right now, but we're,
• 1:29:43
  we're, we're pushing through. So on that note, guys, yeah,
• 1:29:46
  this weather's been crazy. I mean, just today alone, I had
• 1:29:49
  rain, sleet and snow and yeah, so it'd be safe out there.
• 1:29:56
  As you know, Mother Nature again, can't make up her mind.
• 1:29:59
  What she wants to do is we're getting closer to springtime and
• 1:30:04
  you know, make sure when you're doing your mapping this month
• 1:30:06
  that you're, your IS crossing your T's, double checking all
• 1:30:10
  your pinpoints, your, your traffic control points, you
• 1:30:13
  know, all that good stuff sitting down and actually doing
• 1:30:16
  the mapping. Don't let management get away
• 1:30:18
  with not mapping with you. That is your pay.
• 1:30:20
  I mean, mapping is a big, big part of your pay.
• 1:30:24
  And I'm still seeing our offices saying, well, we haven't
• 1:30:27
  carriers haven't mapped since we first did it.
• 1:30:29
  Excuse me, you know that that that's huge.
• 1:30:34
  And if you're having issues with getting mapping done, please
• 1:30:37
  reach out to your DRS Go all the way up to your DRS.
• 1:30:40
  If you're not getting mapping done in your office, management
• 1:30:43
  tends to try and go in and Willy nilly.
• 1:30:45
  So they're off somebody's list, but you, the carrier, are
• 1:30:49
  supposed to be there every month with them.
• 1:30:51
  So and that's important and stay safe guys, always stay hydrated.
• 1:30:57
  And we will be back the next time when, I don't know, but you
• 1:31:04
  know, the episode will pop up and we'll get you.
• 1:31:07
  We'll get it out to you. But we can't and.
• 1:31:11
  We will try and give you advance notice if we will be on the
• 1:31:14
  stage. Yes, so these middle, you know,
• 1:31:18
  middle of the week stuff we're not going to do live.
• 1:31:21
  We're just that way we can just put it out and, you know, try to
• 1:31:25
  keep up. I know Meow and I still have to
• 1:31:28
  work on our history of the NRLCA series.
• 1:31:33
  Yes. Yes, yes.
• 1:31:35
  So I still, I really, really want to do that soon.
• 1:31:39
  So I guess I could take my history and stuff and when I'm
• 1:31:42
  do my research when I'm in my mother company, so.
• 1:31:47
  Yes, it would be a good little project for you too.
• 1:31:50
  Yes, yes. And I was going to.
• 1:31:54
  Bed I'm. Trying to get to bed at decent
• 1:31:56
  times because now that I've been home again for a couple days,
• 1:32:00
  I've been getting phone calls in the middle of the night.
• 1:32:02
  And, you know, when I'm staying at her house, I'm, you know, I,
• 1:32:07
  I'm laying in bed with, you know, sharing a bed with my mom
• 1:32:09
  because she's just, you know, they were married 51 years.
• 1:32:13
  Not quite almost. It was 51 on the anniversary was
• 1:32:17
  Sunday. And, you know, dad's birthday's
• 1:32:19
  coming up April 4th. So it would have been my dad's
• 1:32:28
  75th birthday. So yeah, I'm looking forward to
• 1:32:31
  see what the Minnie Mouse survey does for me on that day.
• 1:32:35
  But guys, you know, stay safe, stay vigilant, and we'll be back
• 1:32:42
  when we get a chance to hop on together again.
• 1:32:44
  So take care, everybody.