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Ramblings · United We Scan

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  Now, here are the host of The United, We scan podcast, Welcome
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  back, everybody. I know it's a couple days later
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  than normal but there was a few of us that were down at mid
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  states over the weekends. Think we're officially on
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  episode 22 this week and we've got Josh, and James and Bill
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  tonight. How's it going tonight?
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  Josh? It's going pretty good.
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  We always wanting love him more in the post office.
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  I did want to address last week when we were going over
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  questions, when we're talking about the table 1 table, 2
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  dates. I just wanted to clarify know,
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  we did waiter in the conversation, but when I
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  listened back, what I realized that I said anyone that became
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  regular before November 10 or November 20th, 2010, it's
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  actually anyone that was hired as an RCA prior to that date. is
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  on table one, anyone hired after that, date will convert to table
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  two, And I guess I just wanted to clarify that just to make
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  sure. Thank you for the correction
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  spreading misinformation. Oh my God.
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  How you doing tonight Mill? I'm in Bill form.
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  I'm doing good. I'm enjoying life.
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  And I just I sit there and wonder, you know, you just can't
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  get any dumber and my management goes out of their way to prove
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  me wrong everyday. Yeah.
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  There's got to be a bill, they take and really, that's the big.
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  But other than that, I mean, you know, the weather is here in
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  Pennsylvania is gorgeous. I mean, yeah, you really
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  couldn't ask for anything better and, you know, life is good.
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  It's just good all the way around.
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  I'm happy as can be, that's awesome.
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  I always know you're in a happy giggly mood.
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  When you hit call me when I'm out on the route to say, You
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  won't believe this, James. How you doing tonight?
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  Oh, doing. All right, I mean, Wichita was
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  wonderful. I love the 90 degree weather and
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  then drive the 15 hours back here, and it's 50 degrees and
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  foggy. Yeah, it was an interesting ride
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  home for me, but yeah, it was a beautiful.
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  Full Town, lots of stuff to see and do around there, even even
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  later at night. The conference was very
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  educational and a lot of aspects.
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  There was a lot of a lot of anger in the crowd towards the
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  wreck system. But overall, everybody actually
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  was very respectful and very professional about it in the
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  audience. So it was hats off to everybody
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  that went to that and maintain composure through everything
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  that way. we went on got a lot of information, passed them on
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  to my carriers at the office so they could know what happened
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  down there and I think it's something that if you're a rural
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  carrier, you should go to your Regional conferences.
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  Because not only do you get a lot of information.
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  You actually have the opportunity that if you want to.
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  You can actually speak with your national board at these events.
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  They're actually there for us to talk to them, to ask them
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  questions and things like that. So that's the best time to get
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  information straight from as they say the horse's mouth.
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  Other than that, it was great to see a lot of people that I From
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  my first mid states and Council Bluffs, Iowa.
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  You know, I'm meeting up with people that I met down the first
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  one, seeing them again was great.
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  And the hotel impeccable for customer service.
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  They're really great Hotel. Can't say enough about them, oh,
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  the hotel was awesome. I mean, the rooms were huge.
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  It was that was no, it actually, it was really good.
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  I mean, a lot of them from good information came out.
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  Out. They unfortunately couldn't do
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  all of the questions that were submitted for Q&A because they
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  said, it would been like three days straight of just the
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  questions that they had come in. And obviously, we didn't have
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  three days for Q&A. But yeah, a lot, a lot, a lot of
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  questions about Rex, especially a lot about why this happened,
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  what's going on with it and things like that?
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  Yeah, yeah. A lot of passing the buck as
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  usual but I don't know. Let me look into that.
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  I'll get back to you. Especially that regional manager
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  for the Post Office. Yeah, he I think yeah, they did
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  not. He did, he did not expect the
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  rural carriers that were at mid states to have as much
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  information as they did. Yeah, you can see it on his
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  face. Yeah.
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  He did not expect our craft to actually know about Rex know
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  stuff about it and things like that.
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  I actually pressed him at mid-station.
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  Ask them why are postmasters and district managers who are under
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  his command. We're not trained on this and
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  his excuse was, they don't attend, they don't, some of them
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  don't want to attend training. Some of them turn on the zoom
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  calls and don't pay attention. And but when push comes to
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  shove, it's his responsibility. He to make sure they know him
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  and he couldn't answer the question and that actually sat
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  in me a little bit know that upper management at least the
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  regional level wasn't willing to make management, learn this
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  stuff that they should learn and it just goes with the
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  inconsistency of training across the board.
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  I think, from both sigh, you know, a little bit from both
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  sides and yeah. Yes, the union, put a ton of
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  information out there. And if you went to the website
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  and you found it and you learned it and you shared it with your
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  co-workers and even your management that, you know, there
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  was, but there was still information that came out after
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  that was put out that didn't and they didn't update.
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  And then you find out after the fact or added an extra this or
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  that in there, and it was never in there to begin with, for
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  instance, the rural reach, and submitting the leads with the
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  real reach activity skin. I was never told that many
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  people were never told that and some people were told that right
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  off the bat, but when you go back and look at the
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  information, it's not in there at all, you go back to the eight
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  pieces for hold mail. You know, a lot of carriers out
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  there today weren't around for the 2018, count didn't even know
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  how counts work and then get told near the end of the year.
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  Oh, by the way, if it's got eight pieces of hold mail or is
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  a pieces of a business clothes mail that you get in unscanned
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  parcel for that and you any credit for that?
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  And so for that whole year, nobody was doing unscanned
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  Parcels for that and then you find out about it, what?
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  Two weeks before the Count starts.
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  Oh by the way, that's an unscanned parcel.
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  Yeah, you find that out during the joint training, and that's
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  if you had somebody outside of management from your office, go
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  to the Joint training. Did you even find that out?
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  That's where I found it out at. But here, we're we here at on
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  this podcast we're trying to help you help yourself help you
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  learn to find this stuff help you think about this stuff and
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  ask your local designated union, representative about it, get the
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  information in your area, go to the website because there's a
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  whole tab for wrecks. On the Nash, which I understand
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  was down earlier, I'm not sure if it still is, I haven't tried
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  to get Down there. Is it back up?
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  Yeah. And you log into the national
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  website, there's a whole section just for Rex and it has
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  everything in there. Has the activity sheets, it has
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  the PowerPoint presentation, that explains the different
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  scans. It has the history of how this
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  came about it. I mean, the Q&A that they've
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  done and yes, answers have changed with specific questions.
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  If you noticed, Be one answer early on and a different answer
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  later on things, change all the time.
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  And I know that the biggest issue that people have is the
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  lack of communication from the national board on updates
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  pertaining to Rex, especially with the new evaluations going
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  in and all that other information.
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  And the reason we were told that not, you know, updates were very
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  rare, was a sheer fact that Once they got an update from the post
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  from USPS headquarters and we're you know, right?
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  Okay that sounds good you know getting ready to put that out
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  and then they get a phone call even as soon as an hour later
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  saying nope this is changed. We found the.
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  So we found that and so information was constantly
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  changing and they're not going to put an update out to
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  everybody and then turn around and take it all back because it
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  changed an hour later or the next day.
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  They want to make sure that information is solid before
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  putting it out, which everybody. I mean, I have to, I have to
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  respect that, but at the same time I think the silence is what
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  was really bothering people. I mean, even that explanation to
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  put out, you know, we know you guys are looking for updates.
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  You know, information is coming constantly from headquarters,
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  however, it's changing just as quickly as it's coming,
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  therefore until we have solidified, the information.
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  We're not going to pass it out. Out to you or we're not going to
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  put it out to you until we have something solid, something like
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  that. I think may hit, perhaps have
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  been better than radio silence. I also see their height of it
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  though. Hmm you know if you put out
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  wrong information and you're constantly putting our wrong
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  information and retracting it a lot more people are going to be
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  upset about that too. You know.
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  So it's a double-edged sword. You either don't put out the
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  information and so you have it set in stone and people are
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  upset that you're not communicating or you communicate
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  the wrong stuff and people get upset, but you're telling them
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  one thing and then Another thing, then it's another thing.
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  So unfortunately for our national board they have to tap
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  dance, a fine lines and I understand it completely, it's
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  logical, you know, and on top of that if you put out completely
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  false information and then USPS see is that they could actually
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  use that in contract negotiations against you.
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  So there's even that. And every time they renew a
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  contract, they have to think about the next contract are
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  going to be doing as soon as that one signed him.
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  Ready to go. It's a never-ending cycle so you
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  can you gotta understand both sides of the field you know
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  before going off on a tangent about it.
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  Because unfortunately there's a lot of hidden things that are
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  going on behind the scenes that we can't physically see.
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  But we all get our information from the exact same place.
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  Everybody else does we all get our information from the union
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  website. But why Kristen was saying if We
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  put out okay, we're getting information but it's getting
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  there. Changing it as quick as we get
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  it. We'll put as soon as we get a
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  definitive, you know? Even once I don't want to do
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  once once a week, twice a month, even once a month, just to put
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  something saying, hey, we know where as we're still waiting on,
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  you're going in and out Josh. Sorry, even if like you were
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  saying, even if they put out we're getting information on.
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  What information will put that out, at least, keep us in the
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  loop. So, but yeah, I mean, a lot of
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  good information like I said, And like James, the said reach,
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  I mean, there's a difference between your state conventions
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  and your national conventions, you know, with that type of
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  stuff. Those are pretty much all
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  business. When your Regional conferences,
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  if you're looking for information, those are the ones
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  to go to and you don't have to go just to your specific region.
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  If your specific region doesn't fall in a time that you know,
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  you can take off, but in another region, maybe not so far away.
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  You can sign up and go to any region, you can go to all of
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  them if you want, you don't have to stick to your specific
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  region, to go to the conferences.
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  And they're all informational and Sunday is usually a business
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  day, but that's just for that region and planning on the next
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  one. The next conference and whatnot,
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  and they have their own business agenda.
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  Before that stuff that you go through, if you stick, you know,
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  if you're there for that. But the main day is that's the
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  meat and potatoes of it. It really is and on top of that
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  because it's a union thing management has to approve your
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  time off, as long as there are Subs available.
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  Yeah, it's still a protection under article 24.
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  Yeah, so they have to give you the time off, as long as Subs
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  are available. Well, let me play devil's
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  advocate here for a minute, okay.
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  Sure. First of all, this is introduced
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  back in 2012. It was supposed to go online
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  2015. Yep.
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  It didn't get placed in 2018 when we had the last count and
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  Amazon started to slam us. Now, let's just go from 2018 and
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  say, you've had five years to definitively set this in stone.
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  You've had three different intellectual genius, engineer's
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  coordinate and certified. This is how it's going to go.
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  This was all supposed to be agreed upon by the post office
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  and the national rural letter carriers Association on the
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  findings of three Engineers, one from each and then one, they
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  settled on, as an arbitrary engineer to settle disputes per
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  se. And in the five years, they
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  couldn't come up with a definitive explanation of
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  everything. That is six years after they
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  started with an additional five years that they couldn't get it
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  completed after the additional six months from September where
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  they pushed it back again. Now tell me why they couldn't
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  get all these questions answered in the 11 year time frame that
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  they had available to themselves.
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  Tell me why they had to go back and forth on stupid little
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  things. Like the you BBM, the wsh, the
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  WSS, the carrier pickups two pounds, not 2 pounds priority,
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  not priority. if you have a understanding with management to
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  make pickups that at certain locations without a carrier,
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  pick up sheet, Why couldn't this been done in 11 years?
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  Why didn't the union get this resolved in 11 years?
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  Why was all this information being bounced back and forth?
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  Before it actually was implemented and now we're still
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  in the same situation with teh justification.
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  Verifying the numbers, verifying the evaluations to this day.
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  I've got my third 4241 with another time on it and it and to
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  this day, I have my two third 4241 that says, I have this, and
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  I have that and I've never had them is, as far as my time
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  allowances are concerned. No.
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  So I don't want to hear that you know they would say one thing
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  bounce back and forth and and you know Rectify it and then
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  come back and say no we wrong. This should have been done years
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  ago. And we should never never never
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  have settled that. It's pay adjustment from the
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  post office on May 6. Well, yeah, I mean, let me
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  answer that. So, as somebody who's done minor
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  programming and program, crimp creations and things like that,
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  look at this as like will use Facebook for an example.
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  Okay, Facebook went First came out was a simple platform.
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  Slowly over time, got more and more stuff added to it and you
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  keep getting new and improved updates to it eventually,
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  Facebook got so big that they overran their server.
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  Their servers couldn't handle, the volume of information, that
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  was flowing, through them on a daily basis.
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  So Facebook had to go out and get more servers, give more
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  server, space, get more Cloud, space things like that.
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  And as they did, they had to update the programming in their
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  systems and there were Bunches of bugs that occur with that.
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  So the way I look at it is the test offices were like your
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  Alpha version, your very first version and as they were going
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  along, they kept. Eating the system changing
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  things, things like that. And now we're right now on the
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  beta version, we don't have the definitive version that actually
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  does everything we needed to do, but it's enough of a version to
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  actually put it out there and use find the flaws and fix the
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  flaws. And there are some flaws that
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  even with test officers, you can't find him in a lot of that
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  like parent-child roused missing information on the parent-child
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  routes, that's one of them getting House.
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  That have only one ZIP code that are labeled as parent-child
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  routes, which is the number that they gave out of Ralph's of
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  errors are ones that were one ZIP code routes, that were
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  listed as parent-child Realms. That was talked about amid
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  states. There are so many different
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  fluid things in this and management is trying to find a
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  way to take as much money as possible off the evaluations as
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  they always have. Which is of course, the way the
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  supposed to do it, they want to find a way to To do mail
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  delivery as cheap as possible in the union, wants to do it at the
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  most pay possible for carriers and it's that back and forth
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  that we have. And one of the reasons why we
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  need a union in the first place that part is the issue here, the
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  back of forth between the two parties instead of coming
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  together. Finding an amicable solution
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  that works for both sides. We have postal management that
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  sat on its haunches until Amazon started, delivering its own
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  stuff and took away from the offices that has a high volume
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  Amazon and stuff like that. Back in 2018 until they could
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  actually say, okay, now these rocks have lost a lot of
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  packages. Now we can implement this and
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  save the post office, a bunch of money.
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  Well, that's a that's a fine argument in regards to the
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  servers and updating the algorithms and everything else.
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  The problem of it is that they've had The years to do this
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  that they numb. The servers were capable in the
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  first place though. Yeah.
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  Where are we? Where was the union saying?
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  You know, look, but let's put some money into the servers so
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  that we can get more reliable information.
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  So we can run more reliable, algorithms in regards to all the
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  nuances that the rural carriers do.
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  I mean, yeah, I think anybody knew I don't think anybody knew
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  that this was going to happen this way.
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  Well, whoa. We had three genius Engineers.
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  Remember we had dr. Miracle.
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  Yeah, we still have dr. Mericle on retainer.
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  Exactly. Yeah, but you know any of these
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  guys get their asses out into an office for a month at a time to
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  study this shit and the answer is no, we don't know, we don't
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  know because we weren't there, we weren't in the room when it
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  happened. Well, it's just like you know,
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  the same way to get your you have your national board
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  explaining to you, how the scanners and everything else
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  work and their asses aren't out in the on the road either is,
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  isn't that true? Okay, I mean, you know, don't
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  tell me how to do my job if you don't do my job and especially
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  for the people in the national board who have no idea how to
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  even set up a scanner, let alone work it.
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  Yeah, cuz I think wasn't a former board member last year
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  that was trying to explain the scanners and had no experience
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  with them. You may be correct in that.
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  Yeah, I think he said. He said he had no experience
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  using it. Yeah, they did a mid to it so
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  I'll give him that. But that's well.
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  Okay, let me go from my background.
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  Okay. I'm pretty well versed in a
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  certain field that we can't discuss because people might be
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  threatened by it. Yeah, but if I tried to explain
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  it to You over the phone versus showing you how I do it or the
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  on the table, with all the parts laid out and everything.
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  You would have no comprehension of what to do, how to do how
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  things go back together again. How to come apart, how you clean
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  them? How you maintain their?
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  You would have no idea whatsoever.
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  Correct. Correct, I'd be better hands on.
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  Yes. So if if I bring you into my
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  house and show you demonstrate and then you know, break
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  everything Back down you'll at least have an understanding of
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  how things go that are taking apart put together and how they
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  work. Correct but you don't touch the
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  damn scanner. Don't tell me how to use it.
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  The the problems with the server's goes all the way back
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  to with Joey Johnson back in you know Grand Rapids and it's time
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  we were there and you know again here we are in a predicament
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  where the post office is so Learn about the new NG TVs.
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  What they were trying to actually get out at that time
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  instead of wringing their systems up to speed.
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  And, and the worst demonstration of their recombinants is just an
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  HR. We have people in h.r., who are
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  putting those jobs right now, for my district who have no age
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  or experience. They don't want to be an HR, but
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  it was either go to HR in the post office where you've been
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  for 28 years or go out in the real world and get a job.
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  So it was easy just to transition over to HR.
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  Now, you have a job that you don't know how to do.
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  We have a problem posting around.
• 25:25
  Three months. Finally, a guy had to come up
• 25:27
  from d.c. to show them. And then when the route gets
• 25:30
  awarded, I have to file a grievance for three months of
• 25:33
  salary that somebody didn't earn because HR didn't do their job
• 25:37
  in a timely fashion. Why?
• 25:40
  Because they don't know how to use the system or the system
• 25:43
  won't let him do this. You've got a terms, you got
• 25:45
  racks, you got mmse, you got the LTM DPM and and these bigger fit
• 25:51
  people don't even know what the acronym stands for.
• 25:54
  We actually had a job fair today.
• 25:57
  Okay. And it and the lady, put the job
• 26:00
  fair on comes back and says, does anybody know what a PT f
• 26:04
  is? And I says yes, why she goes
• 26:07
  what we're trying to hire City carriers and they're looking for
• 26:09
  a PT F position and we don't have anything like that.
• 26:13
  We have cca's and plc's and all this stuff but we don't have any
• 26:17
  pts. I'm like okay.
• 26:20
  What department do you work? I'm an idiot.
• 26:23
  I'm an HR Delaware Phu District. Okay.
• 26:28
  You know and that was a thing is the presentation that the
• 26:33
  regional headquarters guy was giving when he was given us, the
• 26:37
  mail volume declines, all the little charts and everything, it
• 26:41
  was all city data. There was no rule data
• 26:44
  whatsoever and the reason that we got for that was oh, I had it
• 26:54
  written down here because the world system is still being
• 26:58
  built and only shows stuff for 12 to ice a year with with the
• 27:04
  volume, still coming in the data.
• 27:05
  From Rex does not transfer to the finance side of stuff.
• 27:09
  So, I Understand there was this pandemic that happened.
• 27:16
  And everybody went worked from home.
• 27:18
  So why couldn't we have worked on database and interface at
• 27:23
  that time? Why couldn't this stuff have
• 27:26
  been resolved? Prior to all this.
• 27:30
  If you knew that you didn't have a way to track that, like you do
• 27:34
  the city side and you knowing that you're trying to implement
• 27:38
  this new pay structure that relies on that data.
• 27:42
  Why wasn't that interface taken care of in the beginning?
• 27:46
  The same thing reason why, you know, during the two two plus
• 27:50
  years of covid. What why wasn't the national
• 27:52
  board down on the front steps of the US Postal Service will Avant
• 27:57
  Plaza. demanding the stuff being done, yo, that the servers the
• 28:03
  information, you know, the evaluations of each time
• 28:08
  standards that they were trying to implement I don't stay
• 28:13
  because you weren't traveling around the country.
• 28:14
  Going through all the conventions and conferences.
• 28:17
  So you had plenty of time while living in Alexandria, to be
• 28:21
  there every day. So why weren't you down there at
• 28:25
  L'Enfant Plaza? Looking out for our interests.
• 28:30
  Oh, that's right. You weren't in Alexandria, you
• 28:33
  were back home, working remotely.
• 28:36
  It's hard to get up to get the joys of tension and when you're,
• 28:40
  you know, South of the Border there.
• 28:42
  I mean, you know, I'm sorry for being the angry man, but folks,
• 28:46
  you know, we deserve better. How many we're the ones who had
• 28:50
  our asses out there every day through the entire covid period.
• 28:55
  And then, we were the ones being questioned about why we would
• 28:59
  call out sick if we had covid symptoms.
• 29:02
  Well, because we didn't want to take it home to our families,
• 29:05
  right? We didn't want to get it
• 29:07
  ourselves or spread it to our co-workers or our customers, but
• 29:11
  we were out there every damn day, weren't we?
• 29:13
  We were, we were definitely out there every darn day.
• 29:17
  So when my local management you know, comes to me with the
• 29:22
  situation. And I explained to him that
• 29:26
  well, you know, quite frankly that's not my concern, that's a
• 29:30
  management problem when they all helped me out.
• 29:33
  Where were you when you know, we were helping you out during jove
• 29:37
  it. When we were short staffed when
• 29:40
  we, when we were down to two RCA's for our office, where were
• 29:45
  you where were you? When we were working you know,
• 29:49
  10 11 hour days, In the dark and the cold in the rain.
• 29:54
  Where were you? You were home with your families
• 29:58
  so please don't ask me to give anymore because frankly,
• 30:02
  Scarlett, I don't give a damn Josh.
• 30:06
  You're being quiet over there Wallace little bit, try not to
• 30:11
  make background noises to make editing easier with what you
• 30:18
  were saying about with all this. And Getting the data in the
• 30:23
  servers and everything. Ready?
• 30:26
  I asked a few you know when they first we got our first 4241 A's
• 30:30
  and they told us that they had to delay it because he got it
• 30:35
  wasn't there. I said it then.
• 30:37
  Why didn't they upload prior to all this data into the system?
• 30:44
  Yeah, it's unfortunately Unfortunately, you know, none of
• 31:00
  us were, we don't have those answers at all.
• 31:05
  So we just kind of go with the information that's passed on to
• 31:09
  us. Yes they're stressed. at this
• 31:18
  point, I hate to say it is what it is and I know those you guys
• 31:22
  that are looking to file disputes, definitely file those
• 31:28
  but make sure that you have The data to back it up if you know
• 31:35
  for certain that you didn't get credit where credit was due or
• 31:38
  credit was supposed to be that you get all that information for
• 31:43
  when it's ready to actually file those they did tell us that
• 31:47
  there was supposed to be a dispute form and a dispute
• 31:54
  process type outline possibly along with the form up on the
• 31:59
  website. They're hoping by Monday I No
• 32:01
  that hasn't happened yet. So hopefully by the end of the
• 32:04
  week, I'm sure once that comes out we'll all get the blast and
• 32:08
  then you guys can all go to the website and get those new
• 32:10
  dispute forms and dispute anything and everything that you
• 32:17
  need a dispute. That's basically all I can say
• 32:20
  on that one. I mean, really, I mean, not
• 32:26
  yeah, it's some of those. I was talking to other carrier
• 32:29
  friend of mine that she went. She was one of those.
• 32:31
  Went from a 44 or 45 Cato, a 44h.
• 32:35
  Those are big drops and definitely look over your
• 32:38
  information to make sure opens s skin.
• 32:43
  Don't we have until this upcoming Monday to file?
• 32:45
  That's when they released it right there.
• 32:49
  Not on the timely thing. I think there's an agreed
• 32:54
  extension for file. Yeah, for filing because of
• 32:59
  getting the new It process. I know it had been something
• 33:03
  that was going to be agreed upon between both parties before they
• 33:06
  released it to us. So once they get that agreement
• 33:09
  and they release it to us, then get those disputes going.
• 33:12
  So yeah. Well that's interesting because
• 33:18
  I know this is a whole new system and they have to create
• 33:21
  everything new judges gear around this.
• 33:25
  But previously with the old count system you had they gave
• 33:30
  you your information. Your tentative numbers and you
• 33:34
  had like that week or whatever. It was whatever the timeframe
• 33:38
  was. To submit your disputes to get
• 33:42
  it. Try and get it corrected before
• 33:45
  the new evaluations went into effect.
• 33:50
  This point, the new evaluations are already in effect.
• 33:53
  So if you have just use and they're valid disputes and your
• 33:57
  management says, yes, this is a valid dispute or they're going
• 34:00
  to go and back pain. That has not been like, I know
• 34:07
  it's a rhetorical that they said, that's what they said, is
• 34:10
  admits. He was around.
• 34:11
  He said it Miss States. Is that disputes?
• 34:14
  And then they can go through and they can correct it and they can
• 34:16
  do back, pay on people and one of the people commented.
• 34:19
  Yeah, an eight to ten months, like car back.
• 34:21
  Pay for the contract. Oh yeah.
• 34:25
  Hopefully, they'll expedite it and it won't take that long.
• 34:28
  We can hope for that but you never know on the other side.
• 34:32
  Side of that. Also is they don't want people
• 34:35
  who are disputing it just because they just don't like the
• 34:37
  evaluation that they got. Yeah that does.
• 34:40
  It is going to be it will not fly once at all.
• 34:43
  Yeah, neither management or the union are going to accept
• 34:47
  anything. Without fact, the back it up.
• 34:49
  So make sure you, if you feel like your package count is low,
• 34:53
  count your packages every day. Make sure that you're recording
• 34:57
  how much you have, because that's the way to prove it,
• 35:01
  whether it's right or wrong. You can take a week of my
• 35:04
  packages or two week amount just like an old male count, two
• 35:08
  weeks and average that out per day and figure out whether
• 35:13
  that's what's on your 4241 or not.
• 35:15
  I know it's not going to be heavy volume like holiday season
• 35:19
  or anything like that. But the more information you
• 35:22
  have to say, hey, look, I'm still getting 110 packages a day
• 35:27
  on this route, but my evaluation only says I'm doing 70 a day.
• 35:31
  Then you've got a It right there, same with your Flats.
• 35:35
  You know, if you count your flats for two weeks and you see
• 35:38
  that it's not the number that you actually have on your, on
• 35:41
  your 4241, M for your daily volume, you can dispute that.
• 35:47
  But if you turn around and just say, I got to love an
• 35:51
  evaluation, I don't like it. It's not going to fly.
• 35:55
  Yeah. But you know, and make sure that
• 35:57
  you're asking management. For those end of run reports,
• 36:00
  your radar report your PTR report was actually use your
• 36:04
  Parcels for the day. You know keeping up with your
• 36:07
  daily account if there's any missing data at all if they're
• 36:11
  zeros where there shouldn't be that's definitely something you
• 36:15
  need to dispute. If your distance measurements
• 36:17
  aren't correct. If your safety service talks
• 36:20
  aren't getting entered into our MSS.
• 36:23
  You know that type of stuff is Definitely one another route.
• 36:30
  Yeah, that happened to my office blue boxes.
• 36:34
  Got moved to another route. M.
• 36:37
  And if you have a CB you that the first address is vacant at
• 36:42
  CBU is not recorded in your system as being an active box.
• 36:46
  So you're not getting credit for that whole CD.
• 36:48
  You, you can dispute that as well.
• 36:50
  Yeah, they're working on the trying to figure out something
• 36:54
  for the inactive, CBU anchors. Also, they're trying to
• 36:59
  recalculate a coverage factor for CB use, that is separate
• 37:04
  than those of curbside. Isis.
• 37:08
  But basically, the main thing is is they're going to start
• 37:10
  watching for benchmarks for your scans.
• 37:13
  So if you didn't have, you know, very many unscannable partials
• 37:19
  before and then your new evaluation comes in.
• 37:24
  And now you're getting 200 unscannable Parcels a day that's
• 37:29
  going to Red Flag. Mmm.
• 37:30
  So basically guys just do your job is normal scan
• 37:35
  appropriately. And then you know, run your
• 37:38
  route is normal it. I mean I've seen a lot of people
• 37:42
  comment you know well my evaluation used to be nine hours
• 37:46
  know it's seven and a half and so when I get to seven and a
• 37:51
  half, I'm going to call it quits.
• 37:53
  No, just just do the route guys. Do the route is you normally ran
• 37:57
  the route before. You know, making the accurate
• 38:01
  scans that's really all you can do.
• 38:04
  I mean, don't be one of those that's going to make things
• 38:08
  detrimental to yourself down the road.
• 38:12
  Just just do your job as you've always done it.
• 38:16
  I'm going to say this even though you're only getting paid
• 38:18
  seven and a half hours right now and you may be working eight and
• 38:21
  a half. You're working on your next
• 38:24
  evaluation already. Everything you put in Now is
• 38:28
  working towards your next evaluation that's coming up in
• 38:30
  September and we get them in October.
• 38:34
  So even if you got lamb basted on your route, Do your scans do
• 38:41
  them. As honestly as you can, you
• 38:44
  know, do what you think is the best?
• 38:48
  Remember, carrier discretion. Make sure you're doing.
• 38:52
  If you think there's a scan that should be done, there's probably
• 38:55
  a scam that should be done. Don't leave money on the table
• 38:58
  for your next evaluation because a lot of us did leave money on
• 39:02
  the table for this evaluation because either we didn't know we
• 39:06
  had to do these scans or we didn't know that these scans
• 39:09
  were for this thing. Hang tough like that so be sure
• 39:12
  to ask your local designated union.
• 39:16
  Representative about the scans that you should be doing and do
• 39:20
  them. Daily get yourselves involved.
• 39:23
  Your subs may may turn around this little something I saw
• 39:26
  earlier. Your sub, may turn around and
• 39:28
  say, well, it doesn't really bother me.
• 39:30
  I don't need to do the scans. Well, when you go to become a
• 39:34
  regular, Guess what? You're going to get.
• 39:37
  The smallest route in the office and is probably the route you
• 39:39
  didn't do the scans on. So you're going to cut your nose
• 39:42
  off just because you want to get done with this and move on to
• 39:45
  the next route that you've got to do because your office is
• 39:47
  short-handed. Well, when you go to become
• 39:50
  regular now you got to work a year before you get to the
• 39:54
  actual evaluation of the route. You know.
• 39:58
  And that's one of the things I want to try and get a series up
• 40:02
  for RCA's. Get it going, get it started and
• 40:05
  One of my biggest things with our Cas is still being an RCA
• 40:09
  currently is what I step into a case and I don't care what route
• 40:14
  it is. Whether it's my primary route,
• 40:16
  my my Ox route. I'm having to run somebody
• 40:20
  else's route that day because there's no other coverage.
• 40:23
  When I step into that case, I take ownership of that route.
• 40:27
  I'm going to treat that route as if it was my route all the time.
• 40:33
  And I don't think a lot of RCA's nowadays have that mentality.
• 40:40
  You know, if this is something that you're looking of going,
• 40:44
  the long road with and becoming career down the road, you need
• 40:49
  to take ownership of that route. Yes.
• 40:53
  Right, every regular has their own system, I know some regulars
• 40:56
  that, okay? If you get pars labels, you
• 40:58
  know, leave them here for me, I'll take care of them when I
• 41:00
  get back because I you know they have their certain way.
• 41:02
  Ways now to problem, I'm still going to look at that parsley
• 41:05
  able and be like okay so and so okay.
• 41:08
  That's not going to affect me today.
• 41:09
  Oh yep, they're forwarded out starting today.
• 41:12
  I'll make sure I take care of that.
• 41:14
  Now, you know, holds you know double checking.
• 41:17
  Making sure there's the holes that are going back that you got
• 41:20
  those ready to go if they're a delivery and not a pickup, you
• 41:24
  know, I even try to pull the holds that go back the next day
• 41:27
  if the regulars work in the next day.
• 41:29
  You know, that that is in that kind of goes along with the
• 41:32
  What's with the wrecks in the scans as an RCA treat that
• 41:37
  route? As if it's yours and it doesn't
• 41:40
  matter. If it's not yours and you're
• 41:41
  just filling in for that day. Truth, that route is if it was
• 41:45
  yours and do what you would do is if that was your own route,
• 41:50
  I've got an example of that. I have a route in my office that
• 41:54
  the regular carrier wasn't going to do the scans unless he was
• 41:58
  paid to do them and no matter how much convincing I I tried to
• 42:03
  do, they weren't going to do those scans, unless management
• 42:06
  told them they were being paid for them.
• 42:09
  And luckily, the RCA that ran that route albeit, overzealously
• 42:16
  made. Sure to do this scans on the
• 42:19
  route and that route came back as a j route because of that sub
• 42:25
  in RCA can make a difference on a route.
• 42:28
  They specially with these scams, you know?
• 42:31
  And And that's the one thing. I like I said, it didn't matter
• 42:35
  what route. I run that day, you know, if
• 42:38
  they had a pet postage, due if I remembered, I'd put that postage
• 42:42
  to scan in. I forgot one today.
• 42:44
  I'll admit it, that's still my weak spot right there is those
• 42:46
  postage dues. But, you know, if we had box
• 42:49
  holders that day, I made sure the Box holder went in.
• 42:52
  If we had, you know, holds going back and it was the proper
• 42:56
  amount to go back as a nun. Scandal will parcel.
• 42:59
  I make sure I scanned it that way, you know.
• 43:02
  You treat those routes as if they were your own.
• 43:07
  You know, I think if more can do that, more regulars will learn
• 43:14
  to appreciate you a bit more. Every regular in my office will
• 43:18
  come up to me and let me know if changes on their route that way
• 43:21
  the next time I run it or I may see there are see a before they
• 43:25
  do. I can relay that information or
• 43:28
  hey so and so I was put in a box up, okay, cool may not see
• 43:31
  you're out for a month but Good to know.
• 43:32
  There's gonna be a new box up there.
• 43:34
  Are you know someone's those forwarding out but you know
• 43:36
  they're going through a divorce. So don't deliver their mail but
• 43:40
  deliver the other ones male, okay.
• 43:42
  You know. Cool thanks.
• 43:43
  You know, it's than me trying to keep that straight when I go and
• 43:46
  run that route the next time to something totally different but
• 43:49
  you want to build, even just a working relationship with a
• 43:53
  regular communication is key and that goes for regulars to, you
• 43:57
  know, regulars communicating with the RCA's.
• 44:00
  That are the relief. Is that necessary RCA's PT f as
• 44:03
  well that are running your route.
• 44:06
  I know when I first started and I think this is something I'm
• 44:10
  going to incorporate when I go regular we had a notebook at the
• 44:15
  desk and anything pertinent information at somebody should
• 44:19
  know about we wrote it down in that way if the regular was gone
• 44:23
  for like a week or something on vacation or doing whatever you
• 44:28
  know. And I started Heavens snow holds
• 44:31
  or you know Snowbirds were coming back or, you know, I can
• 44:34
  write so-and-so's back or so-and-so forwarded out.
• 44:36
  It's just an individual not a family or it's a family, you
• 44:40
  know. We put those we dated it, we put
• 44:42
  those pertinent information in there then we just had a little
• 44:44
  bookmark to say. Okay, this is where you open up
• 44:47
  to, to start with for today. That way there was always
• 44:49
  constant communication even though we didn't see each other
• 44:52
  all the time. Well, I'm just thinking because
• 44:55
  you know, you're talking about the one year, you know, changing
• 44:59
  all that and I know most of us realize, but even in my office,
• 45:06
  people didn't realize that all this information that went into
• 45:09
  this current rally valuation started, two years ago, that
• 45:15
  that's, that's set the footprint for the year 2022.
• 45:20
  And then the 2022 was the start of the actual compilation of
• 45:24
  data. And I explained it to the
• 45:28
  people. I mean, I couldn't be more
• 45:31
  simple about it. Scanner one hand.
• 45:33
  While in the other hand, what goes in the scanner goes in the
• 45:36
  wallet? You don't put it in here.
• 45:37
  Don't cry about this, because it's up to you to protect your
• 45:42
  paycheck and explain to the subs to the same way.
• 45:46
  You're going to be paid on the evaluation based on what goes in
• 45:49
  that scanner. If you shortchanged that route
• 45:53
  and I'm the regular, I'm going to be upset if you're a sub and
• 45:58
  your regular is shortchanging, I would be upset as this up.
• 46:02
  Yeah, it's working together to get the most out of the routes
• 46:07
  evaluation. You know, you're you were
• 46:10
  talking about the unscannable packages Parcels of, you know,
• 46:13
  200 of them. You know, luckily I keep mine
• 46:15
  down at 42 a day but I had one today but it wasn't you know it
• 46:22
  was a parcel wasn't a priority mailer with a metered thing on
• 46:27
  it and no scan. I'm like, oh yeah, that's
• 46:29
  definitely unscannable. But you know, that's Making that
• 46:33
  correct call and doing the scans correctly.
• 46:37
  Don't over your yeah, whether Union or not, I don't care.
• 46:42
  Yeah, I'm trying to help you protect your paycheck and your
• 46:46
  subs paycheck, okay? So I'm going to help you as much
• 46:49
  as possible. I mean, you know, I can't tell
• 46:51
  you how many times I've put it off something home, because I
• 46:54
  don't have time to do it at the post office.
• 46:57
  Yeah. And they're copiers are, you
• 46:59
  know, not as nice as mine. So, you know, I give you all the
• 47:04
  information but I can't make it. Let you can't make a horse.
• 47:09
  Want to drink. You can lead them to the trial
• 47:11
  but you can't make him drink. Yep.
• 47:13
  Same thing. I can give you all the
• 47:15
  information but it's up to you to act on it. and I think a lot
• 47:20
  of people who are upset about the routes going down, Are the
• 47:24
  ones who, you know, kind of poop odd, the whole thing and said,
• 47:28
  you know, it is what it is. Are you worried about?
• 47:31
  I got to do the six cans folks, there was a lot more than six
• 47:34
  cans in there that you had to do, or you should have done.
• 47:39
  And there are some, there are some that did all their scans
• 47:43
  did. Everything they were supposed to
• 47:44
  and still lost in this and I'm some routes unfortunately did
• 47:51
  deserve to go down. Yeah I mean it's hear me out on
• 47:55
  this hear me out on this if if they did a count every time we
• 48:00
  were able to do account for the contract, we would have had 10
• 48:05
  counts between the last count in 2018.
• 48:09
  And now there have been 10 cows if you take that and you take
• 48:13
  one hour off for each one of those pounds.
• 48:16
  That's 10 hours right there. So if your route went down 10
• 48:18
  hours, it could have gone down one hour every single count.
• 48:23
  That's a possibility. I'm not saying it's a blanket
• 48:27
  for everybody. But that is a possibility, right
• 48:31
  there, another side of it is there were losses on values.
• 48:36
  You know, you have the speed Matrix now which killed a lot of
• 48:39
  long-distance routes, see the use of our big issue with this
• 48:43
  whole system as well. You know, it's amazing that the
• 48:46
  first box that's anchored on a CB you.
• 48:49
  If it's vacant, makes the whole CBU vacant, but yet a mailbox,
• 48:53
  the first mailbox on an anchored set of mailboxes.
• 48:57
  Doesn't make it the whole anchors set of vacant of
• 49:00
  mailboxes. So I don't know why they're
• 49:02
  having such issues with that when they're basically the same
• 49:04
  program running on you, but I think they also have a coating
• 49:15
  of them. I think because those are
• 49:18
  Different values. Yeah well that's it.
• 49:20
  Go along with the values though to a means you went from an en
• 49:24
  el status of two minutes per box or an ell status of 1.8, two
• 49:30
  minutes per box down to one point two minutes across the
• 49:33
  board for everybody. So if you were an en el status,
• 49:37
  if you were a nun, ell status route at 2 minutes, a box taking
• 49:41
  that down to one point two minutes, that's a big loss.
• 49:45
  Yep, that is a huge, huge loss and I know that was one of the
• 49:49
  biggest things off my primary route, 478 boxes and 93 miles
• 49:56
  that was 95 minutes a week right off the bat right off the top,
• 50:00
  just in the Box value along. And then the drive speed Matrix
• 50:04
  on top of it. You need?
• 50:06
  That was that was, that was the three-hour loss.
• 50:09
  Yeah. Back in the day, if you had
• 50:11
  miles you got paid. And now you know when they put
• 50:14
  the speed Matrix in there your mileage or the like a trucker,
• 50:18
  it's that they're dead head miles or not paying anything.
• 50:22
  They are but my point nine point two, two minutes a mile.
• 50:28
  But now it's, you know, if you're doing 45 miles an hour
• 50:31
  and, you know, your Going over a 20-mile stretch.
• 50:35
  Guess what? Folks.
• 50:37
  You just got one third of what you used to get.
• 50:40
  Yeah. Like maybe like my work out to
• 50:43
  12 minutes, a mile, I believe it was 12 minutes of my, oh yeah,
• 50:46
  12 minutes, a mile. And now we're with the highest
• 50:50
  highest speed. You have to be doing an average
• 50:53
  of 47, miles an hour, and you get paid nine point two minutes
• 50:57
  per mile for anything. That's if I believe it's just
• 51:00
  under a mile, it's close to Almost close to a mile distance.
• 51:04
  So anything over a mile would be at nine point two minutes per
• 51:07
  mile, but creep time, it was increased to 20.8.
• 51:14
  I believe it was a calculation 20.8 minutes per mile.
• 51:19
  Yeah. So those are Worrell status as
• 51:23
  you know they can get hurt as bad.
• 51:25
  No nowhere near us. I mean, we're talking about, you
• 51:28
  know, my primary routes 10 miles to the first box, my Ox route
• 51:32
  itself. If is 10 13 miles to the first
• 51:34
  box and 10 miles from the last box back to the office, you
• 51:40
  know, 23 miles. You're going to be nine point
• 51:42
  two minutes per mile. Yeah, and the same with the
• 51:45
  other one with the primary, it's 10 miles to the first box and
• 51:49
  13, miles back to the office again.
• 51:52
  Another 23 miles, that's straight dead head and hmm.
• 51:58
  You know, it's that very few minutes a mile that you're
• 52:02
  losing. Yeah, yeah here, if you're in a
• 52:05
  town that at the speed, limit is 25 miles per hour, the whole way
• 52:09
  through that time, you're losing money because you supposed to be
• 52:13
  doing 47 for that distance. Yeah, I think I my primary said
• 52:18
  10 minutes of drive time to the first box half the time.
• 52:21
  It can take 10 minutes to get outside of town before you have,
• 52:25
  you know, can pick up to speed because You got a couple
• 52:29
  stoplights and if it's one especially in summertime traffic
• 52:34
  and all that other stuff. So winner, ya know, in the
• 52:38
  winter? Yeah, exactly.
• 52:40
  Where you can't even go above 30 because of the snow.
• 52:43
  Yeah, again, this is where, you know, Engineers.
• 52:47
  Yeah. I haven't been out in the route
• 52:50
  and so guess what those factors aren't taking into
• 52:54
  consideration. Yep.
• 52:56
  And it said, make sure you're doing Doing everything you can
• 52:59
  to put the money from the table into your wallet.
• 53:03
  Yeah. Alright.
• 53:04
  Remember, money from the table means be accurate as accurate as
• 53:08
  you possibly can. And run your route as normal as
• 53:13
  you normally would do, the whole route Drive.
• 53:17
  The whole route, don't cut the corners but I want to bring up
• 53:22
  something kind of been silently reminded us.
• 53:25
  That the food drive is this weekend.
• 53:28
  Saturday is the food drive there.
• 53:32
  It we have always done this as a volunteer.
• 53:37
  It's for a good cause there is nothing to put And the scanner,
• 53:42
  when you pick up food, nothing to put in the scare you, while
• 53:45
  you can put the Box holder in for the cards.
• 53:47
  If you get the cards. Yes, if you've passed out the
• 53:50
  cards and or bags, Then yes, you get a pot holder.
• 53:55
  Yes, you get a box holder letter for the cards and a box, holder
• 53:58
  flat for the bags, but not parcel.
• 54:01
  No, and picking up food is not parcels and it's not carrier
• 54:06
  pick up. They're not there on unscannable
• 54:09
  Parcels. No, they're not unscannable
• 54:11
  Parcels. Nor is it a carrier pick up it?
• 54:16
  I've seen that so much going around and you know this it
• 54:20
  comes around every year and every year it's the same Same
• 54:23
  thing. So you can you get you can pick
• 54:26
  out your favorite foods that you collect, right?
• 54:30
  I'm gonna leave that to carrier discretion.
• 54:36
  The the correct answer would be. No, I did that one year.
• 54:41
  I had at least 20, some bags of stuff in my truck and I'm
• 54:45
  unloading and going through each bag and I'm sitting stuff off to
• 54:48
  the side. And the lady asked me what I was
• 54:50
  doing Isis, I'm not getting paid for this so I You get some kind
• 54:53
  of renumeration he rises. So yeah, I want the stove top
• 54:57
  stuffing. I want the Green Giant beans,
• 55:00
  254 needy Isis. You have worked for the post
• 55:04
  office, she goes, no, I said, I need this.
• 55:08
  Now, I actually had one of the customers I have said, I haven't
• 55:10
  ran my primary in quite a long time.
• 55:12
  Let alone on a nice day less time I ran, it was raining.
• 55:16
  So I didn't see anybody. So I got to see quite a few
• 55:18
  people today, you know, it's kind of, hey, stranger long
• 55:21
  time. No.
• 55:21
  See. And one of my guys was like, so
• 55:25
  Saturday, I'm like yeah he goes bags boxes.
• 55:28
  I said, whatever you choose to do, he's like, okay because
• 55:31
  we've got a whole bunch because I'll help you load it though
• 55:33
  when you get here. I said, that'll be good because
• 55:36
  I actually get to run my primary route again on Friday and
• 55:39
  Saturday. So that it looks nice little
• 55:41
  changes rewards. Weird, happens on my route, this
• 55:46
  is the first year, I can definitively say every address
• 55:50
  got a card in the 7. Years I've been on the route
• 55:55
  now. We're the food drive.
• 55:57
  I think I've collected a total of ten cans of food.
• 56:02
  We already have a pumpkin full of food.
• 56:05
  That's already been collected early so far in our office is we
• 56:11
  usually get four five pumpkins, full her our office.
• 56:14
  Yeah. But we've already have one so
• 56:15
  far that people have put out early this week.
• 56:18
  So yeah, mr. Johnson the qualify Why is
• 56:23
  question about the test office is lost a lot because mine was
• 56:28
  it one of the original test offices and we had two routes go
• 56:31
  down. Three hours average became J
• 56:36
  Ralph but every route including the age routes for all almost
• 56:40
  overburden k-rails now. Yeah, I started I started in a
• 56:45
  test office and you know, scans changed periodically.
• 56:51
  During the testing might only three and a half years.
• 56:55
  I was there, they had some at they brought in took somehow
• 57:00
  said, okay, we're going to do this one for six weeks and then
• 57:03
  we're out. And I want anymore, and they
• 57:05
  were and do this and do that. And so, it changed quite a bit.
• 57:10
  I definitely know what we have today.
• 57:12
  It's active is different for the most part from the test study
• 57:19
  offices from when they first started doing that, it I'm not
• 57:26
  sure exactly how my old office went.
• 57:29
  I know, there was some of them that did end up going into
• 57:32
  overburden status, but again, that office is mail volume in
• 57:36
  general is a lot more than the current office.
• 57:38
  I mean yeah and if we if we have offices out there like mine,
• 57:43
  where the postmaster says, Hey, the mail volume hasn't changed
• 57:46
  from 2018 but the routes went down, you know, that's something
• 57:52
  that needs to be looked into and I made sure that when I was at
• 57:55
  Mid State, I told Ronnie and Jeanette to look into my office
• 58:00
  because the volumes haven't really changed since 2018 in it,
• 58:04
  but almost every route in my office went down.
• 58:07
  Uh-huh. So something's going on there,
• 58:09
  that they need to look into, you know, an example of a office
• 58:16
  that has somebody who actually cares my postmaster actually
• 58:20
  cares. To say, hey look the mail volume
• 58:23
  hasn't changed. Why have these routes gone down?
• 58:26
  Obviously, thanks to that regional manager.
• 58:28
  We know that they're not getting the answers from the regional
• 58:31
  manager, so I put it to Ronnie internet to take a look into it,
• 58:36
  see if maybe the union can do something in my office for it.
• 58:41
  Yeah, I think that's where you just kind of instruct all your
• 58:43
  carriers to go through their 4241 M's with a fine-tooth comb,
• 58:48
  and write all the discrepancies down.
• 58:51
  Exactly. And I have a carrier that
• 58:53
  actually records, all the packages that she delivers for
• 58:56
  the day on her calendar, on her case.
• 58:59
  Uh-huh. So she knows exactly how many
• 59:00
  parcel she's had for the last year.
• 59:02
  Pretty much, so we can use that to determine whether her
• 59:05
  personal volume is correct or not.
• 59:08
  Little things like that facts. Finding a special way to do it.
• 59:12
  Yep. We're not allowed to have
• 59:14
  challenges that our case because that's considered a personal
• 59:17
  item. It's a postal calendar.
• 59:20
  It's still a personal item. How does our assistant assistant
• 59:26
  postmaster, custodian made that determination of the custodian.
• 59:32
  That wanted your trays off the floor so he could do his work
• 59:35
  without having to move anything. Yeah, the, because 30 in the
• 59:38
  now, has a note taped to my case saying that the postmaster
• 59:41
  approve, these being here in a neat and orderly fashion as of
• 59:45
  58 2023. Yeah.
• 59:50
  And I also put on there that, you know, anytime you need to
• 59:53
  apply floor black to our floor, notify us.
• 59:57
  We'll be glad to put our case trays and tubs up on our cases,
• 1:00:00
  to be out of your way because we wouldn't we wouldn't want them
• 1:00:03
  to get dirty, right? Right.
• 1:00:05
  This is the best dress custodian.
• 1:00:07
  I've ever seen in my life. I've never seen you dirty.
• 1:00:10
  Never seen him dirty. Yeah, we don't we don't we also
• 1:00:13
  don't want to blowing out his back trying to lift, five trays,
• 1:00:17
  empty trays. Yes, five empty trays.
• 1:00:21
  Yeah. I just, you know, I just sit
• 1:00:25
  there and laugh as you know, who's running this place.
• 1:00:31
  Yeah, we just we want you guys to know that everything you do
• 1:00:35
  and everything. Everything we talk about here in
• 1:00:39
  in this podcast is 100% for us to have fun with you guys.
• 1:00:47
  And we bring this information to you to get you to get into
• 1:00:52
  discussions with your carriers, in your office, with your Local
• 1:00:56
  Union, steward with your management with everybody.
• 1:01:01
  I want you guys to go on the national website, an RLC a.org
• 1:01:06
  and look up this information, we want you to educate yourself
• 1:01:10
  because the the strongest Union is the most educated Union I get
• 1:01:17
  active. I mean, that was our think our
• 1:01:19
  number one goal when we started, this was to get people to be
• 1:01:22
  active. I mean, even in one capacity or
• 1:01:26
  another. I see all these people that are
• 1:01:28
  wanting to get out of the Union, that's not going to make the
• 1:01:31
  union and you stronger. I see people and in fact there
• 1:01:34
  was a question posted der, you know, during mid states on what
• 1:01:38
  would happen if the union was decertified I mean, honestly you
• 1:01:44
  do not want to be left at the mercy of USPS know, you don't?
• 1:01:51
  I mean if you want to know what, what if you want to know what
• 1:01:55
  happens when the union gets decertified, think about all the
• 1:01:58
  stuff, the union has actually defended you carriers on.
• 1:02:04
  If we didn't have the union, Rex would have been implemented last
• 1:02:09
  year. I think it would've been whether
• 1:02:12
  or not it had errors or not. It would have been implemented a
• 1:02:16
  long time ago. On top of that, we probably
• 1:02:19
  would be off the evaluated system on hourly pay.
• 1:02:22
  Some people say that's great, but we'd be on hourly pay and
• 1:02:27
  you would have to do whatever management says, when management
• 1:02:31
  says it. And the only protection, you
• 1:02:35
  would have really would be yourself.
• 1:02:40
  You wouldn't have a Union steward that could come in and
• 1:02:43
  file, a grievance against management for you to get
• 1:02:46
  yourself paid. Like the carriers that got paid,
• 1:02:50
  the new evaluation on their current paycheck.
• 1:02:53
  Even though, it wasn't in effect, yet the Union's fighting
• 1:02:56
  on that already. We wouldn't have the benefits
• 1:03:00
  that we have. We wouldn't have the insurance
• 1:03:02
  available. Able to us that we have
• 1:03:04
  available. There are so many other
• 1:03:06
  underlying things that are in there, you know, we're not at
• 1:03:09
  the national office to see what they do on a daily basis, you
• 1:03:13
  know, and I posted something on the Facebook page and the
• 1:03:17
  Instagram earlier and it really kind of touches home to what you
• 1:03:24
  see out there. You know, it was Morgan Freeman.
• 1:03:28
  I just absolutely adored it says just because they disagree with,
• 1:03:30
  you does not mean that I hate you.
• 1:03:33
  We need to relearn that as innocence in our society, and I
• 1:03:36
  think we need to relearn that in our Union, as well.
• 1:03:39
  As we know that, we're not always going to agree.
• 1:03:43
  And we may always have different opinions with the leaders that
• 1:03:49
  have been voted in by the, by the delegates of the membership,
• 1:03:53
  but we still need to respect them, you know?
• 1:03:57
  Yes, they have been carriers in the past, they have been on the
• 1:04:00
  board for several of them for many years.
• 1:04:03
  Years. They are doing a job that they
• 1:04:06
  were elected to do. If you're not happy with a job
• 1:04:11
  that they are doing. Then you need to get involved,
• 1:04:15
  you need to be active, you need to voice that out.
• 1:04:19
  You need to vote for who you think would do a better job?
• 1:04:26
  You need to be active in order to do to make that difference.
• 1:04:31
  You need to be active Of and if you think you can do a better
• 1:04:35
  job run for office. Yeah, get our name out there.
• 1:04:39
  I mean, it in front of people, get yourself, active involved
• 1:04:44
  and show the people that hey, I got a better idea how to do this
• 1:04:48
  vote for me. They get out there and talk with
• 1:04:53
  the people, you know, I did run for national office last year, I
• 1:04:57
  am not formally running for office for national office this
• 1:05:00
  year. It was kind of brought up to me
• 1:05:04
  by a couple people in my state, and I may be running for a state
• 1:05:08
  board position this year, but I had several people approach me
• 1:05:14
  at the conference this weekend during social time, not just
• 1:05:18
  from my home state but from other Dates that were asking me
• 1:05:21
  if I was running again this year.
• 1:05:24
  That actually I was quite surprised.
• 1:05:26
  I got that. You know they've got I'm
• 1:05:28
  standing there talking to Mike and somebody else approaches me
• 1:05:31
  and Taps me on the shoulder and was like, hey are you running
• 1:05:34
  again this year? You know, and I'm just like, oh
• 1:05:37
  wow. Okay, you know, I talked to
• 1:05:39
  somebody one of the people that is running this year and they
• 1:05:43
  asked me if I was running again. So it really, you know, you can,
• 1:05:49
  it's a, it takes time to get your name out there, but you
• 1:05:52
  have to put the work into it. I mean, I've been doing that for
• 1:05:57
  since the beginning. I've said on local boards, I was
• 1:06:00
  a local treasure for four years. I am now, my local VP Iran for
• 1:06:06
  National last year. I had no expectations of
• 1:06:09
  winning. I mean, you're not gonna get
• 1:06:10
  very far on 38 votes, but I learned a lot I really did.
• 1:06:16
  I've been approached by couple people in my state about running
• 1:06:20
  for my state board this year. You know, if I run and if I get
• 1:06:24
  it, great, that just means if I get nominated on the floor at
• 1:06:28
  Nashville, I will decline it. If I get elected to my state
• 1:06:30
  board, if I don't get elected to my state board, as I told them,
• 1:06:35
  I said, I'm not formally running, you know, this next
• 1:06:37
  year is my daughter senior year of high school kind of want to
• 1:06:40
  be around for that, but if I was to be nominated on the floor, I
• 1:06:44
  would not turn. In it down.
• 1:06:46
  And the only reason I would turn that down now is if I did get
• 1:06:49
  elected to my state board. So I'm just putting it at that
• 1:06:52
  out. There is, you know, you have to
• 1:06:54
  I mean we got one person that's running for executive committee.
• 1:06:56
  Men who actually just went full as a full-time regular.
• 1:06:59
  I think he told me last year a year and a half ago, something
• 1:07:02
  like that. You know, he as an RCA he was on
• 1:07:06
  his state board. He I think he was president of
• 1:07:08
  the state board at one time. He was saying, he did couple
• 1:07:10
  different positions on his skateboard.
• 1:07:12
  He's been, he's an ADR. You know, you can do that as an
• 1:07:17
  RCA. Even you can be involved, you
• 1:07:19
  can be a local Steward. You can apply to be an area or
• 1:07:22
  an ADR, you can run for your state board, you can sit on your
• 1:07:26
  state board, your local board, you can run for a national if
• 1:07:29
  you feel you need to do. So anybody can do that.
• 1:07:32
  As long as you're in a member of good standing, anybody can step
• 1:07:36
  up to run, you can step up to run.
• 1:07:38
  You can go to your your Regional conferences and ask questions,
• 1:07:43
  you can go to bake. Conferences.
• 1:07:46
  You can go and ask questions there, you can go to your
• 1:07:48
  National Conference ask questions there.
• 1:07:51
  You can contact your local designated union representative.
• 1:07:55
  Ask questions there, get them involved with, you get to know
• 1:07:58
  them, get friendly with them because when you need
• 1:08:03
  information, they should be providing it for you.
• 1:08:06
  You shouldn't. You shouldn't be relying on
• 1:08:08
  social media to get your answers.
• 1:08:11
  You should be getting it from the people who get their
• 1:08:14
  information. Directly from the national board
• 1:08:17
  because they're going to be the ones who can guide you the best
• 1:08:20
  out there supposedly, thank you for that qualification.
• 1:08:28
  Now my carriers come to me and ask questions and I don't have
• 1:08:33
  the right answer that's on me, but if I don't have the right
• 1:08:37
  answer here on the podcast and you're not willing to go and
• 1:08:41
  research it yourself, that's on you.
• 1:08:45
  You're the one who has to find the information for yourself,
• 1:08:48
  whether it's through going through the national website or
• 1:08:51
  going through your Local Union steward.
• 1:08:54
  It's on you. This is just fun for us to get
• 1:08:58
  information to carriers that we believe to be accurate.
• 1:09:01
  At the time, we talked about it and we get corrected all the
• 1:09:04
  time we make mistakes. We're only human, but your union
• 1:09:09
  stewards are the people, you need to be going to get your
• 1:09:12
  information from. You know what, any
• 1:09:15
  misinformation that we have put out there may have just been
• 1:09:19
  part of due to the inconsistent information that's been handed
• 1:09:23
  out across the board. But you know, if we miss speak
• 1:09:26
  on something you know, will turn around the next episode and
• 1:09:30
  correct ourselves now to problem doing that.
• 1:09:33
  No, you're not, especially with the information coming from
• 1:09:39
  management from the NRL see a your ADR.
• 1:09:44
  Your Dr. Yeah, you're getting it from so many different sources
• 1:09:47
  on top of, you know, the different Facebook groups, you
• 1:09:50
  know, the rule in Veneto info dotnet, you know, all these
• 1:09:55
  sources out there all have different perspectives on this
• 1:09:57
  stuff and, you know, they put their own slant on it if it's
• 1:10:01
  not in black and white then it's gossip area.
• 1:10:05
  You know, you can we do make mistakes which?
• 1:10:09
  Yeah. Or you know, we usually
• 1:10:11
  self-correct. Yo, among the are Group.
• 1:10:15
  But if we, even if we still do, make a mistake and you know,
• 1:10:18
  guess what movement to it? Because we're big enough to do
• 1:10:21
  that. And we also responsible enough
• 1:10:24
  to say we made a mistake. This is the corrected version.
• 1:10:27
  This is how you should go forward because we want you to
• 1:10:30
  have the most accurate up-to-date information to do
• 1:10:34
  your job. And we correct it here on the
• 1:10:37
  podcast where we set it, we don't correct it online, we
• 1:10:41
  don't correct it on Facebook, be corrected.
• 1:10:44
  In our podcast because this is where we set it, this is where
• 1:10:48
  the correction needs to be, that's it, bottom line.
• 1:10:52
  All right, you know, I misspoke a little bit, you know, we did
• 1:10:59
  correct it last week by the end of that segment with that
• 1:11:03
  question. But I just wanted to make sure
• 1:11:06
  and clarify, you know what, the, you know, with that situation to
• 1:11:11
  make sure that it was clear. Of what was said, or what was
• 1:11:16
  intended to be said? Yeah, we may, we may say here
• 1:11:20
  and just constantly talk and suffer from oral diarrhea, but
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  We're here just having a blast with each other talking about
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  rural craft stuff. That's what we do.
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  That's what we do in our office is.
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  That's what we do at home to the dismay of our significant
• 1:11:40
  others. Definitely.
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  I hear about all the time. Don't talk shop?
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  Don't talk shop. Don't talk shop.
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  But yeah, but we are passionate enough about our craft and about
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  our fellow brothers and sisters. Stirs that we want to talk about
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  it with each other and let you guys hear what we have to say.
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  Well, we compare why we come here and we compared notes to,
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  you know what, you know, if Phil's been told one thing, Josh
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  told something else. James told something else, I,
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  you know, here's something else. You know, we all compare notes
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  and we're be just like, wow, that's not unlike what I was
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  told. But okay, you know it, that's
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  the inconsistency. And it said to have that
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  inconsistency. But when you have a service that
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  is as large as ours with over 600,000 employees, you're going
• 1:12:38
  to get in the constituencies 82,000 routes.
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  Yeah. Just on the roadside alone on
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  the rural side. Won't just just our craft alone.
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  Yeah. And you add in the city side.
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  Then you add in the clerk's. You add in your main Maintenance
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  people including vmf janitors, Building Maintenance your truck
• 1:13:02
  drivers here, where your management to gets included in
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  that count. Even management has to get their
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  information from somewhere and everybody's inconsistent on it
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  and bits and pieces, get out here and there to each
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  Beachside, we're just saying, Do your research, go on the Union
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  website. If you don't have access to the
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  union website, rural info dotnet post, most of the information
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  from the union website itself because they link 1 link to the
• 1:13:37
  website and that information is there for your consumption and
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  our get with your you get with your friend that is or another
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  co-worker that is you know, has access See if ya see if they
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  can, you know, be like hey you know, or join?
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  You know that's good or join. Yeah, that's the best way is to
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  join in and get the access yourself.
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  But you can always talk with your local.
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  Dues-paying member in your office and say, hey, I heard
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  this came out on the Union website.
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  Could you print it off for me? So I can read it or can you text
• 1:14:16
  me? A screenshot or something?
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  You know, it's there's ways out there.
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  It's the best way is Is to join the union and help your fellow
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  brothers and sisters of The Craft with going to ease these
• 1:14:28
  Union conferences and going to your local meetings and stuff
• 1:14:32
  like that. And I get it.
• 1:14:33
  Some people they can't afford to they can't afford to join the
• 1:14:37
  union because they've got a six hundred dollar car payment that
• 1:14:40
  they're making now plus their house payment plus their kids
• 1:14:44
  feed feeding their kids putting clothes on their back things
• 1:14:46
  like that and some people can't Antarctica.
• 1:14:52
  Our payment. Yeah, I mean, you can't drive
• 1:14:55
  all the way to the closest local meeting, they can't afford the
• 1:14:59
  gas to go three hours down to the, to a city, where
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  everybody's meeting for the local union, meetings and stuff
• 1:15:06
  like that. But there's ways you can get
• 1:15:09
  into that stuff and get involved and find out the information
• 1:15:12
  that you need to know. Because you got the basic
• 1:15:16
  information at your orientation, you got basic information from
• 1:15:21
  your OJT, it At your office but it in any job.
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  It's up to you to perfect your craft and take ownership in your
• 1:15:29
  paycheck. It's your money waiting for you
• 1:15:33
  to come, get it. But yeah, but those I mean, like
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  I said those routes it took a huge hit and those that were
• 1:15:38
  doing the scans definitely go through your numbers with a
• 1:15:42
  fine-tooth comb. I mean, preferably end of shift
• 1:15:46
  time but we all know how management can be with that and
• 1:15:51
  you're going to go across I turn.
• 1:15:52
  Look at that in a hurry, you know, if you could just, you
• 1:15:56
  know take your time and go through that stuff and make sure
• 1:15:59
  your information is correct and if it's not then dispute it.
• 1:16:04
  But yeah, we're going to start winding it down and it's been a
• 1:16:09
  little bit. Yeah so much.
• 1:16:13
  So much information out there available and even if not you
• 1:16:18
  know you should have a PO 603 at your case.
• 1:16:22
  Yes, that is your duties and responsibilities.
• 1:16:25
  That's one of the things that you should read and learn is
• 1:16:28
  everything that you can do for your job, and make sure that you
• 1:16:33
  are doing it to the best of your ability.
• 1:16:35
  Because the only person, now that's capable of changing your
• 1:16:42
  evaluation in a meaningful way. Is yourself.
• 1:16:47
  No longer do we. Have these two accounts where
• 1:16:50
  they bring in a bunch of postal managers to count everything.
• 1:16:53
  Now, it's everything you do every single day.
• 1:16:58
  So make sure you're doing what you need to do to protect your
• 1:17:03
  salary. Now in the next, mini mail
• 1:17:06
  survey, it's going to go 52 weeks back, you're always going
• 1:17:09
  to have peak season included in, so just remember that.
• 1:17:14
  It's a 52-week rolling average. So, where you didn't know
• 1:17:21
  because you weren't properly trained uncertain scans.
• 1:17:25
  And now, you know, That is going to.
• 1:17:28
  It may take a year to catch up with you but you know, just just
• 1:17:33
  keep in that stuff and taking the ownership of it.
• 1:17:37
  Including the RCA's. Yes, you're just as important
• 1:17:42
  take ownership of that. And you know, it'll work itself
• 1:17:47
  out. I mean, that's really, you know,
• 1:17:49
  unfortunately some routes we're going to go down regardless when
• 1:17:51
  you haven't had any sort of male count in five years, things
• 1:17:54
  change and five years is a long time.
• 1:17:57
  I'm not to count. And I know that a lot of people
• 1:17:59
  are hurting right now. Even in my office, they're
• 1:18:03
  hurting because this is a gut punch for a lot of people.
• 1:18:10
  And I know September is a long way off for a lot of people, but
• 1:18:16
  when we reach September, it's yeah, you're counting down the
• 1:18:20
  days to that. Yeah, I'll be going regular
• 1:18:23
  about the same time, the next Evaluations?
• 1:18:28
  What I come in. But the key here is, is those
• 1:18:32
  routes that are under a value undervalued right now, because
• 1:18:37
  we didn't put in the scans, we weren't trained on them, we
• 1:18:39
  didn't have them. We weren't told to use them.
• 1:18:43
  If you're doing your scans, and your route is undervalued right
• 1:18:47
  now, you're working more than what your route is evaluated.
• 1:18:50
  At, when these countless count happens is September.
• 1:18:53
  And the numbers come back in October, most likely your routes
• 1:18:57
  going to go back up. Most likely Maybe you may not
• 1:19:01
  think so it won't go fully back up because you're going to still
• 1:19:05
  have six months of no scans on there.
• 1:19:08
  But you're going to going to start creeping up towards your
• 1:19:10
  actual evaluation and I know that's not a consoling
• 1:19:13
  situation, it doesn't Comfort anybody, but hopefully with
• 1:19:19
  that. Also we can argue that.
• 1:19:21
  Well we've got proof that it's gone up three hours here and it
• 1:19:25
  was evaluated this now it's gone up three hours.
• 1:19:27
  If we take that and we tabulate it up, it means is that Ralph's
• 1:19:31
  probably going to go up four and a half five hours by the time
• 1:19:34
  it's all said and done. Maybe, let's just depends on
• 1:19:37
  what happens with the mail volumes.
• 1:19:40
  And we can hope we can hope and pray that if that's the case the
• 1:19:45
  union has something on the side with management that says hey if
• 1:19:49
  these guys go up on their next count, we should pay him
• 1:19:53
  something for this. Last six months, don't hold your
• 1:19:56
  breath, on the may not, it may not happen but we can always
• 1:19:59
  hope for that. We hope for the best and prepare
• 1:20:02
  for the worst is I don't hold your breath on anything like
• 1:20:05
  that. But on that note, we are going
• 1:20:07
  to wind it down for tonight. So So James or any other last
• 1:20:11
  final words tonight. Just remember everything is
• 1:20:14
  Carrier discretion on these scams and supposedly the
• 1:20:19
  resolution of the dispute form will come out shortly, and then
• 1:20:24
  we can use that to file our stuff.
• 1:20:26
  Just make sure you're being accurate.
• 1:20:28
  Make sure you're being honest and just do your job to the best
• 1:20:32
  of your ability because the most important person on this
• 1:20:36
  evaluation is you whether you're a regular RCA ATF or even an
• 1:20:42
  arc, that's running packages your important to us.
• 1:20:48
  You are the rural crafts. You are our brothers and sisters
• 1:20:51
  out there in the field. Working your job tirelessly day
• 1:20:54
  in and day out and just know that no matter what we're here
• 1:20:58
  for, you just like everybody else.
• 1:21:02
  Josh you have any last commentary for this evening?
• 1:21:07
  Just like the rest. Make sure your you take the
• 1:21:12
  time, check your sheets and your numbers.
• 1:21:17
  Do the skins that you know are valid scans like James said,
• 1:21:23
  come September, if you doing scans that you just recently
• 1:21:29
  learned between now and September.
• 1:21:33
  You'll recoup at least part of what you want a 10.
• 1:21:40
  Come next March April. Hopefully, you'll be back to
• 1:21:46
  where you were if it was the scan that caused the issue.
• 1:21:53
  Obviously loss of volume is loss of volume and the lower time.
• 1:21:59
  Stan? Don't you don't help, right?
• 1:22:02
  You know, but I know they said, you know, yes that some standard
• 1:22:08
  went down but there are a lot more standards now and there's
• 1:22:14
  some standards that this standard went down but it's tied
• 1:22:18
  to other standards elsewhere and I still don't quite understand
• 1:22:23
  all that so I'm not even gonna touch on that but If you get
• 1:22:29
  overwhelmed, take a step back. Take a deep breath.
• 1:22:32
  Step back in, have a good rest to your wheat, and we'll see you
• 1:22:37
  on the other side Bill. Yes.
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  Dear, you're your final statements for this evening.
• 1:22:51
  Well if nothing else folks, this an email survey should serve as
• 1:22:56
  a wake-up call to everybody 66% of our fellow carriers lost
• 1:23:02
  time. Some lost dramatically.
• 1:23:07
  So this this is a good sign for you to say, okay, I'm going to
• 1:23:12
  be more involved in my career. I'm going to be more involved in
• 1:23:16
  my protecting, my salary, my family, my future.
• 1:23:22
  If you haven't been doing all the scans Step it up.
• 1:23:26
  Okay. If you have questions, ask them
• 1:23:30
  if you have doubts. Yeah record them in regards to
• 1:23:33
  the radar reports according to your end of run reports your
• 1:23:39
  Parcels everything. I mean question question
• 1:23:42
  question. You know and get the information
• 1:23:46
  if you don't record it, you can track it if you don't track it,
• 1:23:50
  you can't prove that you have a case and you know the case is
• 1:23:54
  that you know your route. Under evaluated, you know,
• 1:23:58
  unfortunately in my office we've all been under evaluated for
• 1:24:03
  about five years. So you know, all I can say is,
• 1:24:07
  you know protect yourself and your salary and your family's
• 1:24:11
  welfare as well as the routes value to because you may, you
• 1:24:15
  know, bid on another route and I would like you to take into
• 1:24:19
  consideration the next person that made step into that case
• 1:24:23
  and and you know, be considerate enough.
• 1:24:25
  If to say, you know, I'm going to make sure they're getting
• 1:24:28
  full value of what this route true, you know, salary is in
• 1:24:33
  regards to compensation the work, everything it goes into
• 1:24:38
  performing your duties, professionally and efficiently
• 1:24:40
  everyday. If you don't put it in the
• 1:24:43
  scanner it doesn't go in the wallet.
• 1:24:46
  Everybody go out, do the best job.
• 1:24:48
  You can be safe, you know, get back and to shift duties clock
• 1:24:54
  out. Go home to your loved ones.
• 1:24:55
  Is your the most important delivery the day.
• 1:24:58
  Make sure you get your ass home to the people who truly care
• 1:25:01
  about you and the people that you represent the reason why you
• 1:25:06
  go to the post office every day. Some people may say it's just a
• 1:25:09
  job, some people consider a career, it doesn't matter if
• 1:25:13
  they're paying you to do a job, do it to the best of your
• 1:25:16
  ability. Exactly.
• 1:25:18
  And do the full job. You know, it's Hey, what's still
• 1:25:24
  trying times? Are still a lot of uncertainty.
• 1:25:27
  We're waiting on, hopefully, they can work out the bugs, by
• 1:25:31
  the time we do our next mini mail survey, that's our hope.
• 1:25:34
  Anyways, what reality will be. I can't say at this time we will
• 1:25:41
  on that note. We'll see you guys back.
• 1:25:43
  I think we're going to do normal day and time.
• 1:25:46
  Next week guys, sounds good to me.
• 1:25:49
  All right, and thank you guys for your patience on this being
• 1:25:53
  a A few days behind since the three of us were out of
• 1:25:58
  availability with the conference and also will see you on the
• 1:26:02
  next time. A few days behind since the
• 1:25:55
  three of us were out of availability with the conference
• 1:26:00
  and also will see you on the next time.