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Thank you. Now here are the hosts of the
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United We Scan podcast. Welcome back everybody.
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What are we at episode 85? We've got some news, some
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updates and more of who knows what.
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So we'll start it off. And how was your week?
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Toasty. My week was pretty good.
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Monday was a solid day, solid regular Monday.
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Tuesday we had ADVO so it went off not too bad.
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And then Wednesday I finally got my edit book back after RO had
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been implemented or the rule route optimization.
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And so I turned around quickly try to re edit it for my line of
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travel because it ungrouped my CD us because of the ones that
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were vacant it didn't recognize as in the program.
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I guess it only takes the ones that are occupied.
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So I had to rearrange my entire line of travel again in the
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correct order and submit that back in on Wednesday.
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So hopefully I get it back here pretty soon so I can change my
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stickers because our new DPS is coming in the quote UN quote
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correct way. Now.
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Other than that, I had Thursday and Friday off, Kids started
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school on Wednesday and my wife actually left Wednesday to
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Vincon, which is the Zumba instructor conference in Florida
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and she's going to be flying back tonight.
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Her flight got delayed so easily.
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Make the podcast and then go pick her up from the airport.
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How about you James? How was your week?
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It was about normal overall for everything.
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I am setting up my route right now for the Subs and I had sent
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my edit book in and asked for new labels because I had changed
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all the names on my labels, added the ones that are missing,
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stuff like that. And AMS came back and said you
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just got new labels because you changed an address.
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Why do you need new labels again?
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And so that kind of got screwed up.
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So new labels will have to come next month and whoever hopefully
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can get that fixed for them. And then I'm going through and
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making sure all my mailboxes are marked.
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I'm actually putting an arrow inside at my corner boxes so
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carriers know where they need to go when they get there.
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You know, like a right turn here or do AU turn, stuff like that.
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Just simple arrows using that and the address numbers inside
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the box so that when they have that open, they can verify the
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address. But other than that, had the air
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show at Pontiac today. So I spent all day out there
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with the air show and had right up on the freight flight line
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watching the stunt planes and planes coming in and going from
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Pontiac. And it was very busy today.
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Lots, lots of planes today. They did have a Ford Tri motor
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there, a 1928 Ford Tri motor was was actually giving rides for
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people. So that was pretty awesome to
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see. It was right in front of us.
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So it kept coming in and leaving right in front of us and but
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then came back home here to do the podcast.
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So All in all, a pretty good week.
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The one thing I do have to note, everybody check your vacants and
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actives on the mapping. The system is marking them
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vacant automatically. When you get a PARS label for
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the address, whether it's an individual or a family, it is
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marking it vacant on the computer, which is against the
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contract because we don't mark them vacant for 90 days.
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So keep track of that. I'm working with, I contacted my
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ADR, my ADR contacted the Dr. The Dr. is contacting the NRO
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and hopefully the NRO will contact the director of Stewart
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Operations. The director of Stewart
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Operations will contact the director of Labor relations and
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they'll file a Step 4 on this because marking them vacant will
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affect your evaluation. So keep an eye on that.
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But anyway, how was your week, Bill?
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Oh my God, after two months off I'm back to work.
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I'm up at the SDC in Wayne, PA in my first A2 miles of walking.
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A Rook at 5.1212 miles walking. That's just in the building
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folks. That wasn't, you know, on the
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rock that was in the building to the parking lot, you know, to my
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truck twice back from the back to that area.
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Thankfully, Tuesday I remembered where everything was and I cut
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it down to 3 1/2 miles. So now I'm only doing 3 1/2
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miles a day in my post office. That is just incredible.
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I and here it is folks. The SD and CS don't work as of
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Saturday. All routes in my for my office,
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the Westchester office were adjusted to account for the new
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footage and the extra mileage. Driving everywhere is now AK
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route. Do not have AK route underneath
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43. Five J routes jumped up 1K route
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jumped from a four. That's how bad this
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miscalculation is on the joy's part in regards to saving money.
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The Phoenixville office, which is a a local post office that's
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permanently assigned to the state, they're half the three
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hours extra on each route. So I'm trying to wrap my head
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around the numbers and say you're you're saving money.
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How? Because you're still post
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offices. The windows are there, boxes are
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there and save me and on top this district manager has.
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If people have got mail for customers that they will pick up
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themselves, it has to be sent to the local post office.
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IBM beer or CA take the whole mail and any parcels and any
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cannibals back up to the original post office so that the
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customers can get them there instead of traveling down the
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wane. Because we don't have a retail
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window per SE in the SD and C. So I, I fail to see how we're
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saving any money whatsoever. Mr. Dejoy, or should I say
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Lewis, I'll tell you what, after being off for two months, the,
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the calves and the thighs, guess what?
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They, they, they were sore at the end of the week.
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I can feel all 214 jumps out of an airplane at the end of the
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week because I was sore. But we we actually had a
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situation on Wednesday when our postmaster stood up and gave a
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service talk to the city carriers and explained to them
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at the local people inside this SD and C don't like us, don't
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want us there, think we're too loud, we make too much noise.
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I mean, you know, everything under the sun.
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And she was basically crying by the end of her speech how much
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they hate having Westchester in their facility.
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And I'm sitting there going, aren't we all mail carriers?
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I mean, folks, what, what the Hell's going on here?
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But apparently they're territorial and they don't like
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us and we don't care. Mail volume was moderate to to
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heavy. Monday, my first day back
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getting oriented everything I finished at 9:11 PM.
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Tuesday I got back by 7 and the next three days I was back right
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before 6, but adding the extra couple hours onto my route for
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the for the week. It's let me tell you, it's a
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wear and tear in your body that you know you don't expect,
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especially traveling down a highway in an LLV and trying to
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do 60 miles an hour so you don't get run over.
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And let's say, Oh yes, does everybody know that Ron, Ron
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Speakman from Fed Up has put up the podcast with his interview
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with me. Oh my God, what gracious host.
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What a great individual. I mean, his summary was just
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magical. It, it was so good that I'm
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going to vote for myself this year.
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Honestly, I'm going to, it's the first time I'm going to vote for
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myself. But I believe in myself now
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because he made me believe in me.
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And I want to thank him from the bottom of my heart for all his
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work, his effort, his guidance and counseling.
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Then you know, I, I, I can see us getting a national position
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for him. How about you there, Kristen?
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How was your week? Well, I ended up working all
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week with the exception of Monday for those.
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I'll do the baby update real quick.
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Sunday contractions died off after she calmed down.
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I think she just kind of overdid it at work.
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So Monday we go into the doctor and doctor was so thrilled that
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he's jumped up above that 10%, cut off up to the 12th percent,
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and we are going in on Monday, August 19th to have this baby
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boy. Oh yeah, that's the baby update.
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We have another full week and then I'll get to be there and
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get her home just in time to leave for Reno.
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So yes, if you're around me at Reno during break time,
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lunchtime, feel free to check in because I will definitely be
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video calling her to see that grandbaby.
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So there's the baby update. I know everybody that has
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reached out to me with questions this week.
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That was usually like the first question was how's your daughter
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doing? And then they went on to what
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they wanted to ask me. So there's the update for
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everybody right now. We have one more week.
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So there we go. August 19th was actually I'm
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kind of, it's kind of cool if you think about it, as long as
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he's born by 11:59 PM on the 19th.
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This is a little scenario I thought was kind of cool and it
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kind of runs between myself and my first born son.
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And, and my birthday as most you know is March 16th.
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My son's birthday is August 16th, which is this coming up
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Friday. So shout out to my son over in
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Okinawa. And Ruby's birthday is October
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19th and little man may be making his appearance on August
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19th. That's kind of cool.
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But other than that, I went back to work Tuesday.
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I guess Amazon made a late appearance.
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Monday was super heavy and so they held over 3USPS APCS apart
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packages so they could get all of Amazon out.
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So Tuesday I ended up with like 161 scans on a Tuesday.
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For package wise it was the Monday is Tuesday outside of a
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day after a holiday. Mail was light.
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Rest of the week was pretty average.
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Amazon again on Thursday decided they didn't want to show up till
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almost 930 as everybody was leaving.
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Luckily it was light. When I come in Friday and I come
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back Thursday afternoon I only had like a dozen packages.
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I'm like that's not even worth a second trip.
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So I just took it out on a Friday and then I graciously
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volunteered to work my K day yesterday so one of my Co
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workers who hasn't seen AK day in a couple months can have his
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weekend. And that's what I did.
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The supervisor didn't want to hear about it at all when I
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approached her Wednesday on it and her day off is normally
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Thursday. So when she was back Friday and
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the postmaster was there as well, I went to the postmaster
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and she was more than happy to make that work out even though
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the supervisor wasn't happy about it.
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But yes, so I will. Yep.
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And then I'm working Monday through Saturday.
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I got a six day week this week. So and then I'll be off for 2
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1/2 weeks between baby arriving and National Convention.
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Six more days and it's a step away from the from the route for
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a couple of weeks. And I will say to add on to what
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Bill said, I yeah, so Ron is definitely a gracious and it's
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awesome that he's giving us the airtime.
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I did my interview with him this morning.
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We're looking forward to having that released on Saturday the
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17th. So I look forward to that.
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And thank you Ron for doing that.
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That was a good time. And outside of that, that was
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pretty much my week. Nothing too exciting.
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And Yep, no baby yet. Got another week.
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So. Oh yeah.
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In a quick correction, this is episode 86, not 85.
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Other than that, James, what else you got on the agenda for
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tonight? All.
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Right. So the first thing we have, I
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wanted to discuss that the NALC, our brothers and sisters in the
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city craft, had their convention this past week.
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Now a lot of chatter has been going on with the issues with
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their president and the fact that he got away with lying to
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his own craft and other things. But this was a win for the Craft
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in one very important way. The Craft was told by their
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president that the appeals to the decisions against the
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president's charges could not be heard at their National
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Convention. And 2/3 of their National
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Convention stood up and said no. The people of the Craft are the
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supreme body to make these decisions.
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Whatever happened after that doesn't matter because the
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people were speaking. Now, whether you agree or
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disagree with how the people spoke on it, it doesn't matter
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because the people made the choice, which is what was
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supposed to happen. So I wanted to put it out there
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that there was a major victory for the people.
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Now they look forward to their twenty 26th National Convention
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as well as their elections, which are the entire craft
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versus just a delegation like we have.
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So if the craft themselves want to speak, they can with their
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vote when it comes to their twenty 26th convention.
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So I just wanted to put it out there that it is possible for
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the people to stand up against the regime that thinks they are
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untouchable and tell them that no, the body still speaks for
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the craft. You.
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What do you guys think? Oh I agree, I was following
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along. We're good.
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I couldn't follow along as much as some people did, but I was
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definitely listening to the updates and whatnot and the
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daily 8 arbitrations that came on.
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And you know, I, I, I'm proud of our city carrier brothers and
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sisters for, for, for what they were able to accomplish this
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week. Definitely is may have not been
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the best outcome, but let me tell you as standing up and
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uniting and everything that they were able to accomplish, I
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definitely applaud them 100%. So shout out to Corey from for
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made arbitration If you all looked in that discord while
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everything was going on. That thing was.
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Packed. You just try to scroll through
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how many people were listening in just to what was going on.
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And it was, you were scrolling for a good minute just trying to
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get through it all. Of course, everyone was on mute
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and you know, they were just listening in.
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But that's engaging the craft, that's bringing the members in,
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the ones that couldn't make it, the ones that couldn't get the
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time off, the ones that want to be engaged, want to be informed,
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you know, being able to at least hear what's going on, see what's
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being proposed through that sort of communication rather than
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having to wait until the recap or the next magazine.
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There is that open communication brought on by Corey and from
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able to arbitration. So that way people could get
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that information now instead of waiting for it, you know, that's
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a, that's a beautiful thing. Just had to have, I mean, sure,
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the, the, the votes were disappointing.
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You know they, they wanted, you know, a bit of a change, but you
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know, they, they sent a very loud and clear message 100%.
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And I just want to put it out there for the folks that listen
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to us and, and that listened to aid arbitration and was
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following along and listening in to their proceedings and
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whatnot. I'm just going to put it out
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there that we cannot do that. We will not be doing that in a,
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you know, as much as it would be awesome if we could.
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That is something that we will definitely not be crossing that
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line at our convention. As we all know, if anybody is
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caught from our convention doing that, then they are removed from
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the convention floor and we will not be doing that so.
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And I will also with that, I'll throw this out there with that,
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Kristen. And with that, because that is a
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violation of our standing policies, it is a possibility
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that they could actually take action and make the member
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become a member not in good standing.
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Meaning you won't be able to vote, you won't be able to
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participate in voting on things and things like that.
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So you'll be basically like a non dues paying member even
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though you're still paying dues. Correct.
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So because that isn't. Otherwise.
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Go ahead, Bill. So otherwise they're going to
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treat you like Dominic Crooks, right?
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And James, you're right. It it it was win for the the
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body of the NALC because of the fact they stood up and said no.
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We, we have a voice here. We are the voice and we are
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going to be heard. Even though they didn't get to
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basically resolve the issues in the in the manner that we would
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have liked to see them because that would have been a great
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impetus for our craft. It's still proved that the body
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has more power than the board in regards to saying how the
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proceedings go along and that that that was a great win for
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the city carriers. Congratulations to them.
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I agree completely. The next NEWS UPDATE that I have
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is the Postal Pulse survey coming out.
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So according to this is the statement from the NRLCA.
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According to USPS correspondence received by the NRLCA, the
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Postal Service will administer the Postal Pulse Survey August
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6th through September 13th, 2024.
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The NRLCA remains committed to the vision of a better,
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healthier workplace where supervisors and employees have a
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constructive dialogue with each other, where differences are
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recognized and diversity is valued, where we are able to
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work together and unlock the great potential of our
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workforce. The NRLCA reaffirms its
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commitment to workplaces where every employee at every level of
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the Postal Service is treated at all times with dignity, respect
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and fairness. Now, those were two different
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statements. One was MOU 14, the other was
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the Joint Statement on Violence Behavior in the Workplace.
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Paraphrased. But let me just read what the
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APWU has said about the Postal Pulse Survey before we get
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discussing it. The APWU is urging union members
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to refrain from participating in the USPSS Management's Postal
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Pulse survey. Negotiations for a new union
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contract began on June 25th and any information you give them
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can be used in retaliation to hurt us during negotiations and
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arbitration. Regardless of pressure from
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supervisors or managers, letter correspondents, excessive
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emails, or other tactics. Employees are not required to
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participate in this survey. APWU urges you to not
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participate in the Postal Pulse. Please be aware of these new
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changes to the survey. A new company is conducting the
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survey for Septics instead of Gallup.
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There is now a 5 point scale. Questions have been added and
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others refreshed. There will be no more paper
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surveys sent to employees homes. Instead the paper servers are
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being sent to work locations as well as electronically.
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Stay united and don't be fooled by management's tricks created
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to divide us. We want to remind members to
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wear a PWU gear with pride every Thursday until our current
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contract expires to send a powerful message to management
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that we are union proud. Say it loud.
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The APWU Negotiations team is working diligently to secure a
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good union contract for postal workers.
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Stand strong. Don't let management take your
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pulse. Kind of a black and white
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difference there between the two statements of unions on the
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Postal Pulse Survey. Now, I will put this out there.
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I've been talking with a manager who was pushing the Postal Pulse
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survey in a royal carrier associate group, and this
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manager tried to say that it's been 30 years since management
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used the Postal Pulse Survey against carriers.
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But yeah, just last year, the Gallup poll, which is who they
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just replaced, had our EIN numbers on there.
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So don't be mistaken by this. There's going to be something on
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that Postal Pulse survey that tracks it back to you.
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They want to know because they've abused carriers over it
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too. Now I open it up to you guys.
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What do you guys think? Which is better, our unions or
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the APWS response to the Postal Pulse?
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I'm not a fan of the Postal Pulse, so I'll just tell you
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that. I like the APW U's response to
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it. Oh yes.
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Well that and I have also heard over the years that management
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get to kick back for every one of those that gets returned out
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of their offices. Whether or not that's true or
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not, I don't know, but I've heard that in the past.
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Yeah, and that is true. Somebody just said this in the
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chat. And because if you have a postal
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e-mail, they send it to your e-mail with a link, what's to
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say that link doesn't have something to track it back to
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you? Or doing it on Blue and doing
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the postal post survey on there. Guess what?
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You've logged into Blue that's tracking you.
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Apparently you can do it on light blue, and that of course
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is tracking you as well. So that is carrier discretion
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whether you wish to do the post to post survey or not.
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But I'm not going to do it on the basis that number one, you
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can't actually tell them what's going on.
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You have to use the one through 5 system.
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That's it. There's no comment section
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anymore anyway. Yeah, I've never.
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Been Is nobody going to ask why Bill so quiet?
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Why is Bill so quiet? I fill out the postal survey all
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the time and I put down my sincere comments that this is a
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waste of time, is a waste of money.
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You don't listen to us and management abuses us.
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You haven't done anything in 10 to 15 years.
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And I put my name on it because I'm Bill May and I'm not afraid
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of anybody. And yes, the APW is doing does
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the right thing for by their membership in regards to this,
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because of the fact that just like the ballots, the mail in
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ballots, I haven't seen any, you know, returned yet this year.
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But in the past you, you could track who was Republican,
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Democrat by the coding on the back.
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Same thing with these damn things.
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I guarantee you, you, you can send it in there with no address
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or anything on there. And that barcode is, is a, you
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know, exactly matched up with your address, your EIN and
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everything else. So no, don't fill it out.
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Don't give them the satisfaction.
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And you know, if anything, you know, throw it in the trash.
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Don't even send it back. I will do as I have in the past
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and put my comments on there and send it back because like I
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said, I, I don't fear anybody. And you know, somebody be
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sitting there getting a good laugh going all this guy's a
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real asshole or he's really pissed off or whatever.
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You know what, He might be an angry bill.
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But the thing of it is, is that it's a waste of time.
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You do not take any of our input part.
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You don't take our input in regards to our line of travel.
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You don't take any of our input in regards to benchmarking for
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unscanned parcels. Oh, you know, you can't have
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more than six. Why?
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Why can you not have more than six?
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Yeah, well, they benchmarked that number.
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Do what you want. Told you what I do, but I
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believe the APW has sent a strong message to their
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membership and I'm 100% behind them.
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Very completely with I always. Like to pause after I'm done
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talking, huh? But.
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I'm making. I'm making sure we're ready to
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move on to the next topic. So now we have we have a
27:41
National Convention update to talk about.
27:45
And that update is we now have another position that has
27:51
opposition and that opposition is to the Director of Labor
27:57
Relations position. Now you have Bridget Boziak, who
28:02
is the incumbent, and you have John Adams running against
28:08
Bridget. Now I'm going to speak for
28:11
myself here. As a Michigander, I support John
28:14
Adams because everybody I've talked to that has dealt with
28:19
this gentleman has never said a bad thing about him.
28:23
Now somebody has something bad to say about him.
28:25
Send me a message, let me know what's going on.
28:28
But I've heard he's a fighter. He has gone to bat for people.
28:33
He has defended people. And when he was a in office as
28:37
well as as a steward. So he and he really cares.
28:42
And in fact, he's one of the guys that I send people to to
28:47
get information. If I don't know who their NRO
28:51
is, he's the first person I send them to because he knows his
28:55
stuff. And that's who I'm I'm pulling
28:59
for in this election. How about you guys?
29:03
Oh, I can speak for the fact that he he's my NRO and I've run
29:08
into him at several of our state functions and I, I basically
29:14
have encouraged him to look at at a higher position, which
29:18
thankfully he's now running for. This gentleman got involved with
29:23
our office particularly because of our fire and us being
29:27
relocated to the SD and C 12 miles away from our Home Office.
29:33
Now mind you that I made a phone call on the Friday morning after
29:37
the fire to my Dr. My DDR got back to me eight days later.
29:46
John Adams was contacted on a Saturday, responded and then
29:53
made a return call on Sunday to the carrier who called them wait
30:00
until Tuesday to get a call from our full time ADR.
30:04
That's the type of individual he is very proactive and he does
30:08
not wait and he is not satisfied with the response time that
30:12
we're getting from the people who are full time
30:14
representatives of the union. And I believe in him 100%.
30:20
He's got the, the personality, the charm, he he has, you know,
30:25
the presence, you know, to be a good national leader and I
30:29
support him 100%. Absolutely.
30:32
When I had the chance to meet him in Orlando and when we
30:35
talked to him a little bit in Grand Rapids last year, I have
30:39
absolutely nothing but positive to say about him and anytime
30:45
that I have talked to him, I have thoroughly enjoyed having
30:49
his company. He is definitely for the craft
30:54
and yes, I I do support John Adams 100%.
30:58
I unfortunately have never been able to meet John Adams yet.
31:02
Looking forward to seeing him at National Convention.
31:06
But I will say that being at mid states with Y'all and hearing
31:13
the responses from questions from the floor to the current
31:17
Director of Labor Relations, Bridge of Boziak, I would I was
31:24
a little frustrated when people were asking, can we get
31:26
something in writing on unscanned parcel, please?
31:29
She said, well, a parcel is a parcel.
31:32
OK, well, you want something in writing to take back to our
31:34
managers so that way you can say please leave us alone.
31:37
Here is the wording, you know, let me do my job.
31:40
I know how to do it. So if from what y'all are saying
31:45
then he's got my vote. Just a little bit of a
31:49
disclaimer here on this. John Adams did not ask for us to
31:53
do this. He never contacted us to do
31:57
anything like this. And he is.
32:00
But this is the type of person that we believe he is.
32:04
So it's important to know that he is running to all the
32:10
candidate, all the delegates that are going to National
32:13
Convention. So just wanted to make everybody
32:18
aware of the fact that he is running now.
32:21
We have gotten confirmation, we have seen his letter that he has
32:24
sent to state officers and NSS people.
32:29
And you can actually view that on our Discord channel.
32:32
We'll put it in, we'll have somebody put it in the topics
32:35
section for people to see if it's not there already.
32:38
So that way you can actually see that we'll also put any
32:41
candidates letters in there that we have found out and gotten
32:46
copies of. So that way you guys can view
32:48
them as well. Anybody else got anything to say
32:52
on that? I don't.
32:54
Think it's been covered pretty good there.
32:57
Not that we're supporting any anybody, James, but we're going
32:59
to give them equal time in regards to posting their
33:03
letters, yes, So people can make up their make up their own
33:06
minds. You know, we want to be fair and
33:09
even feel about this. Like we say.
33:12
Everybody has a voice. This our views and our views
33:15
alone, does not represent the views, opinions, or strategies
33:18
of the United States Postal Service or the National World
33:20
Air Carriers Association. Everybody should do their own
33:23
research to ensure the accuracy of what is being said on this
33:27
podcast. And I take, I take offense to
33:31
that, James, about their strategies because you're
33:34
assuming they have strategies and that's very presumptuous of
33:38
you. They do they.
33:42
Do have a strategy? They do have a strategy.
33:44
It's to take as much as they can.
33:51
Well, I mean, we can infer their strategies from what they say in
33:54
their letters and their statements and what they say on
33:56
the stage. Even if the stage stuff is not
33:59
recorded, there is somebody still paying attention to what
34:02
they're saying. So we can take it from that to
34:04
know what their strategies are. Actions no are the words.
34:10
Yes, like they say, management will climb a tree, tell a lie
34:15
and stand on the ground and tell the truth.
34:17
And when you act like managements that that statement
34:20
applies to you too. All right, the next thing I have
34:26
is it's it's mini male survey time again.
34:33
We did an episode on the mini male survey last year, I believe
34:38
it was last year, and we talked about all the things that are
34:41
needed for the mini mail survey. Nothing has changed from the
34:45
items that need to be recorded for the mini mail survey.
34:50
It begins on the 23rd and it will include the holiday,
34:57
unfortunately. So you're getting technically 11
35:00
days of it, but you get the day after a holiday volume, so
35:05
there's that portion as well. So if they do decide that on
35:09
Saturday they'll run DPS and then on Sunday or month on
35:14
Sunday they'll run DPS and then on Monday they run DPS at the
35:17
plant and you get 2 trays of DPS.
35:21
Guess what The smaller tray is raw mail for the mini mail
35:25
survey. So don't forget that routes must
35:31
be mapped and done by September 6th.
35:37
They will lock them out on September 6th.
35:42
So don't forget that they will be doing that.
35:45
And then Friday September 13th they will lock out the mini mail
35:51
surveys after September 13th. So everything has to be input on
35:57
September 13th or it won't go in.
36:00
And then September 28th should be the 4241 A&M printed and
36:08
distributed and the effective date will be October 5th.
36:13
So we wanted to put that out there.
36:14
Those are the dates that we have from the union on the mini meal
36:19
survey and when it should be done.
36:21
Don't let managers try to say, oh, it's got to be done earlier,
36:24
it's got to be done later. If you can do it earlier, go for
36:27
it. But those are the days and.
36:30
James. Yes.
36:33
It starts Friday the 23rd and goes through Friday the 6th.
36:39
It's not starting on Saturday. So it is 12 days.
36:43
It is 12 work days. 12 days, yes OK 12 work days I I'm still
36:48
thinking I have Saturdays off so I don't.
36:53
Well, not only that, would you, but not only that, but the Union
36:57
did post for about a week before they did the quote UN quote
37:00
official announcement as August 24th.
37:03
So. Yeah, that's true.
37:06
So they confused me. No, I was confused compose
37:11
because of the holiday and that always confuses everybody the
37:14
holidays. But yes, so make sure management
37:19
is doing it by these timelines and make sure it's getting done.
37:24
And I will only be on my route the last three days of that mini
37:28
mail survey. I'm going to leave instructions
37:31
that I want my numbers texted to me every single day while I'm
37:36
in, either in route or at National Convention.
37:45
And I know that National Convention was planned out years
37:51
in advance, but don't you think somebody, somebody that was in
37:55
the planning of the National Convention and also working with
38:00
national on the REC system would have known to adjust it to fit
38:06
the days that they have the mini mail survey?
38:08
So the regular carriers who go to National Convention would be
38:12
able to take the time off without worrying whether Subs
38:15
are actually getting things done right on their route for the
38:17
mini mail survey. As much as I'm.
38:20
I'm going to go ahead, Justin. Great.
38:23
You know I that I'm going to. The one good thing about when my
38:27
sub started was shortly before the spring mini mail survey, so
38:32
he is familiar with what to do. I will be leaving instructions
38:37
if I don't talk to him prior. Since he will be off for a few
38:42
days, I will be leaving. I now have a notebook at my case
38:46
for important information and I will be leaving it in there with
38:53
a note saying please read. That way he knows he has to do
38:56
what he did, why he was covering my route after he first started
39:01
during the Minnie mail survey. And I do want communication on
39:07
what my numbers are each and every day, why I'm gone.
39:13
This is a situation where, again, communication,
39:16
transparency, who on the national board agreed to this
39:23
and not that the post office put that out there.
39:25
I mean, we have started, you know, mail counts, AKA mini mail
39:29
surveys, you know, on a Tuesday and worked it for the 12 days.
39:34
But you've had this convention plan for years.
39:38
Who didn't look at this and say, oh, there's a conflict?
39:42
There's going to be 1200 people at this convention that aren't
39:46
going to be able to verify their numbers, regardless of how well
39:50
you put your notes there. Kristen, you know something's
39:52
going to slip by. You know it's going to happen,
39:54
OK? But the fact of the matter is
39:57
you didn't have the sway to tell the post office to bump it back
40:02
an extra week or you didn't have the balls to this.
40:07
This is the problem with this leadership is that they didn't
40:10
come in there and tell the post office.
40:13
Oh, we need to push this back a week, maybe even two weeks, but
40:17
we're not having it during our convention because you can
40:21
absolutely guarantee how many phone calls are going to be made
40:25
during the mini mail survey to people while they're sitting
40:28
there in their seats and the answering text back and forth
40:31
about this, that and the other thing.
40:33
I guarantee you then phones will be lightened up during the
40:37
convention. That means they won't be paying
40:42
attention to what's going on in the convention if they're
40:45
constantly answering questions from carriers.
40:51
Well, what can I say? A lot of them don't anyway.
40:58
I got a whole stack of about 10 clicker counters for the Rcas
41:02
and for other carriers. So they want to borrow them.
41:04
They know they're out of my case, so that way they can count
41:07
their upside downs and then at the end of the day they can
41:09
count their markup mail with the Fords and everything else that
41:13
was pulled out of the DPS. But yeah, it's not going to be
41:18
fun for that first week, especially with us having a
41:20
couple more new RC as that just got hired on.
41:23
So we'll see how it goes. If I do the same thing, I have
41:28
1/2 sheet that I do that I print out that has all the tracking on
41:32
it and they can actually write everything on it and calculate
41:37
it and all that stuff so they don't have to worry about it.
41:41
I have two cases of Crown Royal so that at the end of the day,
41:44
everybody can eat in the parking lot and drown their woes.
41:52
Oh, did I say that out loud? I'm sorry.
41:55
Those are the 1st celebration on Friday.
41:59
Yes. Oh, yeah, Don't worry.
42:02
We're, we're, we're going to wear Costco out there in Reno.
42:06
And go somewhere just. Yeah, just make sure they they
42:09
have liquor there so that we can celebrate.
42:14
Yep, so. And those that are waiting on
42:18
meet and greet information, things have calmed down.
42:22
I will have that stuff out by next week's episode on where and
42:29
when in Reno. We will have the meet and greet
42:32
and then I'll post it in the group and on the page and
42:34
whatnot. And and for the three of you,
42:38
everything that we're going to get at Costco is on Bill Meg.
42:45
I'm not kidding. We know.
42:49
I just want you to know, I mean, you know, don't worry about
42:52
putting money aside for anything else.
42:54
Take care of, you know, the, the essentials that you have to.
42:57
I'll take care of the the goodies.
43:00
OK. I I got to get my collapsible
43:02
wagon. Yeah.
43:06
I do have, so far one person walking with me.
43:09
If anybody else is interested in walking with any of us, please
43:12
reach out, let us know. We can always work details out
43:15
too, and we get there for those that may be interested.
43:20
Yeah. All right, James, what else did
43:23
you have now that we've sidetracked?
43:25
All right. So earlier I talked about the
43:28
computer system turning boxes vacant automatically and I
43:34
wanted to go in a little bit more detail about that for
43:36
people. So the biggest issue we have in
43:43
directs program with management is the fact that they are doing
43:49
our mapping without us. And this has actually been asked
43:54
to be stressed by several DRS and ADRS that have contacted me.
44:00
Carriers, you need to be doing your mapping especially right
44:06
now because the mini mail survey coming up and if it has marked
44:11
those boxes vacant, then you're going to lose money just like on
44:17
the 1st mini mail survey. And we all, we had 66% of
44:21
carriers drop. Then they turned around and did
44:24
the the route optimization and cut carriers with that.
44:31
Now they're going to do it with the mapping by cutting boxes out
44:37
of your route. On my route alone, one box
44:41
equals 3 minutes of evaluation, 1 box equals 3 minutes for me.
44:48
So if I lose so many boxes I could go down an hour and if I'm
44:54
not doing my mapping and this computer systems doing this, I
44:58
could lose that hour without even knowing it.
45:01
You have to go through your mapping because.
45:06
Go ahead. Because if you don't, you are
45:10
taking money out of your wallet, as Bill would say.
45:13
And I have a postmaster that has never mapped with the carriers,
45:23
and the carriers don't want to map with this postmaster because
45:29
of how toxic she is. That's when they need the union
45:33
needs to step in and bring in an outside mapping facilitator.
45:37
Yes, Yep I agree and but I got to put it out there.
45:42
Do your mapping because there are some managers that are now
45:46
turning around and getting forms created for you to sign that you
45:51
don't want to do your mapping for carriers that say, oh, just
45:55
go through it and clear it. It's your money now.
46:00
Go ahead, Kristen. Also on that with the boxes
46:04
being converted to vacant when a Parge label is made, I'm going
46:10
to say not only double check with your mapping, but if you
46:14
get double check your edit sheets in your edit book.
46:17
If you order new edit sheets at any time, skim through those and
46:22
check as well. We had an instance on one of our
46:26
routes, did a route inspection and there was three active boxes
46:32
that was marked vacant on the paperwork that the postmaster
46:35
had and they were never vacated. They had had forwards come out
46:41
of them, individual forwards, not family forwards, and had
46:45
never been vacant. In fact one of them always got a
46:47
ton of mail. I used to do a sub on that
46:49
route. And so double check when you're
46:52
doing your edit books for the month always, and especially if
46:57
you get new edit sheets, skim through that thing too, just to
47:00
double check and verify prior to submitting it in.
47:04
And then double check when you're doing your DPM and LTM on
47:07
that electronic edit book there on the side, double check that
47:11
as well. And yes, mapping is big, big,
47:17
big, big. And if management's not mapping
47:21
with you or you don't want to map with that manager because of
47:24
a toxic environment, contact your Dr. immediately.
47:29
And if it's an issue, especially with a toxic environment or them
47:32
just not doing anything with anybody, they can pull an
47:36
outside facilitator to come in and do the mapping with you.
47:40
I know of facilitators that have gone around to other offices to
47:43
help get these offices where they should be with mapping.
47:47
So definitely contact your DRASAP on that.
47:51
If you're not getting responses, go up to your NRO and to tack.
47:55
On to this I'm. Not sure if James was going to
47:57
go into it later, but with the new rule route optimization, I
48:03
for me this is what happened to me.
48:04
It may not be the same for everyone.
48:06
My route is about half CBU, half curbside.
48:10
When it did the RO, it had me do what I used to do, which is my
48:14
rule part first and then all my subdivisions basically.
48:19
So what I used to do, we'll say I went on Main Street, I did 300
48:24
block, 800 block and I turn into one of the new subdivisions.
48:28
Well, the first couple of boxes in that subdivision in that CBU
48:33
are vacant because they're still being built out.
48:36
The houses that are moved in are about 1224 deep in that CBU stop
48:44
when the new RO has me do the 300 block in Main Street 800 and
48:47
then turn left into a different subdivision.
48:51
But on my edit book it shows the 300 block, 800 block Main
48:55
Street, the first vacant boxes in the CT.
49:00
Subdivision. Instead of the first open boxes
49:05
at the we'll say Swanson neighborhood across the street
49:09
that it has to be turned into. So you this is completely messed
49:13
up my mapping because now I can't group my CB US correctly.
49:17
And when you can't group your CB US correctly, you can't get the
49:20
correct CBU credit because not only do you get credit for the
49:24
open boxes in the CBU, you get credit for the key turn As for
49:29
the collection departments and you get CBU credit for actually
49:33
opening up and servicing ACBU. So opening the doors, unlatching
49:39
it all, that is another credit. So you have to make sure that if
49:43
you went through this program, this optimization program, that
49:46
it didn't put those boxes somewhere else because in
49:49
another part of the subdivision, they put, we'll call it Adam St.
49:54
And it put that before my very last street at the end of my
49:59
route, which is nowhere close to where it should have been.
50:04
So which is why I had to turn in a line of travel on Wednesday to
50:07
put everything back in its correct places.
50:10
So that way I can group my CB us correctly so I can get the
50:12
correct credit. And then of course trying to do
50:15
my dismount list, that was another mess because it
50:18
completely deleted everything. So it deleted how many parcel
50:22
lockers I had, it deleted the footage and it was just a mess
50:26
so I had to turn around. I couldn't even do my DPMLTM
50:30
because I had to fix that first so that once it gets corrected
50:35
then I can go back in, regroup everything and then re put in
50:38
all the dismount measurements you can resequence.
50:42
In the DPM, if need be, you just have to change the sequencing
50:47
number. It can be a pain in the butt
50:49
when you're doing a lot of them. But just so you know and the
50:52
edit the electronic edit both side of the DPM, you can
50:55
resequence it what using the sequence numbers it was about
50:59
100. Boxes that were Yeah, that that
51:03
one might just. Be easier to be uploaded by AMS.
51:06
And yeah definitely with the mapping because I know I am on
51:10
leave all of next week. Not this coming week, but
51:13
starting the 19th and obviously I'm leaving Thursday for Reno
51:18
and I'm on leave as well for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday with
51:21
the new baby coming. But I am actually going to go in
51:24
on my own time. Why I'm on leave to make sure my
51:27
mapping is done because I don't trust anybody else to do my
51:31
mapping for my route. I would rather go in after the
51:36
carriers have all left. So you know, it's nice and
51:39
quiet. I can go in, get logged in since
51:42
I was trained as a mapping facilitator.
51:45
My postmaster just lets me do it by myself.
51:48
She comes in, enters in password when it's needed to go to the
51:52
next. Other than that, I am completely
51:54
owned on doing my mapping so I will be going in on my own time
51:58
to make sure that my mapping is done prior to leaving for Reno.
52:03
Bill's been awfully quiet. Well, technically I'm on leave
52:07
so. I'm not worried about the off
52:09
the clock thing, I just want my mapping done before I go and I
52:14
know a update until after the 20th.
52:18
I don't like them being done. Sooner than that, even though
52:21
our plume tries to push them to start sooner than that.
52:24
I refuse to do it sooner than the 20th because then it will re
52:27
update anyways and then you have to go back in and redo it.
52:32
Well, Angry Bill would just like to go.
52:34
Around and. Who's working off the clock?
52:38
Because of the fact that, you know, they just, they don't pay.
52:42
Attention, You know they, they. Don't care.
52:44
It's it's all in their own self-interest.
52:46
It really is. And I actually have one carrier
52:50
who needs to be out early so that he can get his kids at
52:55
23245 at daycare every day. Well, ladies and gentlemen,
53:01
we've been fighting that story for years.
53:03
And as you know, especially a lot of single moms, so excuse
53:08
the expression, but don't cry on my shoulder about your
53:13
situation. If you know you can't get there
53:16
in time, then pay for after school, daycare, whatever.
53:20
But stop cheating yourself, chop, stop cheating the Subs,
53:23
stop helping management. And, and technically down the
53:27
road these engineers will come back and say, wow, we need to
53:30
change the time standards. Look at this.
53:33
Well, This is why I always say when you take 100% of anything,
53:36
you take 5% at the top, 5% of the bottom, you throw them out.
53:39
The other 90% will give you your average because there are you
53:44
know those unicorns top and bottom that affect us the same
53:49
way it did with the mini mail survey.
53:51
The problem with the mini mail survey, the first one we had
53:53
were 66% of the carriers drop taking 5% out of there was
53:59
approximately 12 + 1000 dollars the carrier.
54:05
That's a huge 5% to drop at it versus the other end that went
54:09
up the 8 hours, 5% of them was almost half of those carriers.
54:15
So stop it. Just just stop it played by the
54:20
same rules as everybody else is supposed to play by.
54:23
OK. And you know, normal Bill, the,
54:27
the, the conservative one, he turns around and he just files a
54:31
grievance with the management. He talks to him once.
54:33
The second time it happens, he files a grievance and there's a
54:36
$200.00 panel. It's been paid once in my office
54:39
this year. They don't want to pay $200.00
54:42
again to every carrier. And it's not just.
54:45
The rule carriers because. The settlement said every
54:48
carrier in Westchester, so that's inclusive of city
54:51
carriers, that's close to $20,000 they have to pay out
54:57
and. Even they don't want to do that.
54:58
And even if you. Have no.
55:00
Edit book changes for the month or a month or any month.
55:04
At that point, you don't have any edit book changes.
55:08
Then still do your mapping. That gives you the chance to
55:12
make sure that your pinpoints are where they need to be, that
55:17
they haven't moved on you. I've had some end up in weird
55:20
spots. It, you know, still take that
55:24
time each month even if you don't have an edit book change.
55:27
I understand some routes don't change very often at all.
55:30
I understand that, but still take that time to run through
55:34
your mapping and definitely, you know, find tweak those things
55:38
that may need to be moved back into place.
55:41
Or you may notice during an LTM that something looks wonky, like
55:45
you're driving in a circle because a a box pinpoint is out
55:49
of whack. You know, still go through and
55:52
make sure that that is all correct on those months that you
55:56
don't have any edit book changes.
55:58
Kristen, you gotta. Remember.
56:00
Yeah, we've. Heard enough stories from
56:01
carriers across the country that you know that they're having
56:05
traffic control points disappear on them.
56:07
They're they're having cluster box, you know, credits disappear
56:10
for parcel lockers and and mail collection units, dismounts, the
56:15
dismount distances, even if you haven't changed anything, these
56:18
things are just randomly disappearing.
56:21
And James says, you know, you get a pars label, which is a
56:24
change of address. All of a sudden you have a
56:26
vacancy. Well, no, it's not vacant.
56:29
I just received this last week. It's 90 days.
56:32
What the hell is wrong with the system?
56:34
So unbelieved just because you didn't change anything that
56:39
there aren't changes being made to the system you should check
56:42
with every month because every month that's money.
56:45
That's money out of your pocket. Absolutely.
56:49
I have a new build going in. You know, they, I, I got the,
56:54
the, the no stats notice for management.
56:58
It's a new build. I didn't know they had moved in.
57:01
In fact, I found out on Facebook, one of the local,
57:03
local groups that they just moved into the new place and I
57:08
was like, I don't even think they have a box up yet.
57:10
It's a new bill I went by, no box.
57:11
I click no, it's, it's vacant. The very next day I got a hold
57:15
card for them. So I'm like, OK, but yeah, you
57:19
know, you definitely, like I said, even if you don't have any
57:22
edit book changes that you make yourself, definitely go through
57:25
your mapping and double check and make sure everything is
57:27
where it's supposed to be, whether it's active inactives or
57:32
pinpoints, making sure that these don't move.
57:35
I've had some that ended up in a Creek.
57:39
Yeah, 1/4 of a. Mile from the box.
57:41
Where the actual boxes? How that happened I have no
57:43
clue, but I had to go in and change it.
57:46
And I'm going to say it's been the past.
57:48
Two months that I've noticed that it was doing the marking of
57:52
vacant. Last month it happened.
57:54
I kind of threw it off as maybe a fluke, something just got
57:58
wires got crossed or something, you know.
58:01
But this month it was an address that I had known the people had
58:04
moved out, had sold the house, knew people had moved in
58:08
literally the next day. It was funny because the person
58:13
that bought the house put in there forward to start ahead of
58:18
time and literally came in the day after they moved in to the
58:23
post office asking where their mail was and that was the first
58:28
piece of mail that day I had gotten for their address was
58:30
that specific day that they came into the post office and it.
58:35
Marked it vacant. This past mapping, so I had to
58:39
turn around and tell my postmaster I'm going to have to
58:43
file on that because that's the second month in a row it's
58:45
happened and all of them are. Verified they were.
58:48
Because of pars labels so. That's why I've passed.
58:52
It up the chain, I'm going to see if up tops going to say
58:56
anything if not, no, this week I'm filing the grievance because
58:59
I want it to be timely. Whether they get back to me or
59:02
not on that is up to them and their response is and I don't
59:07
want to. I'll get back to you on that.
59:08
We'll look into it or any of that.
59:10
It's going to be file the grievance or give me a Step 4 on
59:14
it. One of the two.
59:16
It's like I said one at least. I know for sure you know with
59:19
the one route in our office that one address had had their kids
59:23
had moved back out and had forwarded out they still.
59:28
Live there, it was just their. Kids, it was individual forwards
59:31
and it was vacant, marked vacant.
59:33
And he's like, this has never been a vacant box ever.
59:37
So yeah, they had. Three of them like that.
59:40
Yeah, definitely pay attention and like I said, double check.
59:43
If you get new edit sheets, definitely take that time and
59:45
double check those as well. In God we Trust.
59:49
All this pay cash pretty much. All right, I had.
59:55
One more thing come across my desk and then I'll be done for
59:58
the day. I have in my hands a.
1:00:05
Date of. Award of July 5th, 2023 National
1:00:10
Association of letter carriers versus the United states Postal
1:00:13
Service in arbitration and. The issue at hand?
1:00:19
Was management had changed the start time from 8:00 to 8:30 and
1:00:25
they filed agreements on it and it went to arbitration with
1:00:29
them. Now I will post a link to the
1:00:36
arbitration decision and in discord for people if they want
1:00:42
to read it. But in summary, I find that
1:00:48
management violated Articles 5 and 19 of the National Agreement
1:00:52
in a of the NALC and M 39 Section 122.11 when it won
1:00:58
unilaterally change the start time at the JFK facility from
1:01:02
8:00 AM to 8:30 without considering the factors in M39
1:01:06
and failed to bargain over the effects of the unilateral
1:01:09
change. This grievance is granted.
1:01:12
Management shall immediately reinstate the original start
1:01:14
time of 8:00 AM for the carriers at the facility.
1:01:18
This is a big win to start times and the grievance was on
1:01:29
November 19th, 2022 was when it when it happened.
1:01:34
So think about it was July 5th, 2023 that this answer came out.
1:01:39
So it was almost a year later, but this right here on the start
1:01:44
Times and this includes our 10 AM start times on Amazon
1:01:48
Sundays. I want to know if our national
1:01:50
office agreed to the changes across the nation of 10:00 AM
1:01:56
sit. Excuse me, I sneezed.
1:02:01
I'm sorry. That's OK, we know you have.
1:02:04
Allergies. It's all right.
1:02:08
Bullshit to bullshit. Yeah, so.
1:02:15
That's the biggest thing that I can say is start times should be
1:02:20
following all procedures. When it comes to that.
1:02:24
I'm going to post it in the topics section for everybody to
1:02:31
follow. And that's all I have for the.
1:02:35
Day. Oh, next week everybody get.
1:02:41
Your questions in. We want to do 1 final carrier
1:02:47
Q&A of the candidates. Is there any candidates?
1:02:51
Out there that want to join. In feel free let us know we'll
1:02:53
get put it out so they can hear us.
1:02:55
But Kristen, you have the question form still.
1:02:59
Yep, I figured we repost. Those and get those up.
1:03:04
In fact, I was just thinking that this evening while I was
1:03:08
working on the buttons that we should do one final round.
1:03:12
Must be we're around the same wavelength there for a moment,
1:03:16
James. And yeah, definitely I was
1:03:20
thinking the same thing. We'll get one more Q&A in in
1:03:22
next week. I will get those posted up
1:03:25
tonight. As a matter of fact, I will get
1:03:29
on that as soon as I stop recording and whatnot.
1:03:35
Sorry for all the if I got any background noise.
1:03:37
I've been trying to get all this stuff together and and I'd like
1:03:42
to put a shout out to my daughter.
1:03:44
This past week. This girl has been a button
1:03:47
pressing machine. So all the lovely buttons that
1:03:51
you'll see for all four of us candidates on there, as well as
1:03:55
podcast buttons, small ones, some of the bigger ones.
1:04:00
This girl has pressed over 600 buttons this week.
1:04:06
So she a big shout out to Ruby on that one.
1:04:12
Thank you Ruby. Thank you Ruby.
1:04:16
She is from Godfather. Bill.
1:04:18
Yeah, right she is. Still thinking about joining the
1:04:22
craft this fall, so we'll see what happens.
1:04:24
Oh, I know, I know isn't quite swayed away yet.
1:04:30
She, you know, she, she as much as she would love to come to
1:04:33
Reno, I am not traveling across the country with a newborn.
1:04:36
So nor was she'll be ready to travel across the country
1:04:40
either. But well, that's why they make
1:04:42
them roof. Carriers, you know, I have one
1:04:45
of those, but yeah. But no, we yeah, she she's done
1:04:53
a lot of work for for all of us this past week.
1:04:56
And that I will have button key chains for the podcast.
1:05:01
I will have both the 1 1/2 inch and the two and 1/4 inch buttons
1:05:06
for the podcast. I do have some limited magnets
1:05:12
and bottle opener slash magnets, very limited like 14 each.
1:05:18
I think I might save those out for the meet and greet or select
1:05:22
individuals. We'll see how that goes.
1:05:25
I thought about ordering more, but it just was not financially
1:05:27
feasible to do that for the amount they want, for the stuff,
1:05:32
for how many I get. So, but I do have limited
1:05:36
amounts of those. But we'll have the button key
1:05:38
chains and the buttons and of course the campaign buttons for
1:05:41
all four candidates. Yeah, it it should.
1:05:44
Be. You know, it should be fun.
1:05:47
What do you guys think? You looking forward to?
1:05:49
Reno as much as I am. Oh God, yes.
1:05:53
Thank you. Can't wait to meet.
1:05:55
Everyone I I'm so hyped up that you know.
1:06:01
We could actually change this craft and and, and bringing
1:06:04
everybody back together in the fold.
1:06:06
Really exactly. It's like it's.
1:06:09
It's like being. It's like being a steward.
1:06:11
You got to represent people that you don't particularly like or
1:06:14
people that don't particularly like you.
1:06:17
Doesn't matter. You do the same job.
1:06:19
And and that's the problem with our national board.
1:06:22
They they forgot they're in a position of service.
1:06:27
It's not a matter of leadership because of the fact that you're
1:06:31
in an elected position. You're our leader, You're a
1:06:34
spokesperson. That's right.
1:06:36
You're supposed to speak on our behalf and they don't.
1:06:40
I mean, we had the first mini mail survey.
1:06:44
At what point did anybody on the national board lose money?
1:06:48
Oh, it doesn't matter. They're not in the craft.
1:06:50
They're not paid by them. But, and I saw somebody who
1:06:53
said, you know something about the board pays the NSS, we pay
1:06:58
the NSS, we pay the board, we pay the NSS, we pay for the
1:07:02
consultants, the lawyers, the engineers, we pay for every damn
1:07:07
thing that this union occurs as an expense.
1:07:12
It comes out of our dues money. And guess what?
1:07:16
I'm sick and tired of getting a poor return on my investment.
1:07:21
It's not even an investment. It depreciates as soon as they
1:07:24
get it. We need the.
1:07:27
We need to change it. We need to change it this year
1:07:31
and we need to change it before we get to a contract because Don
1:07:35
Madison will sell us down the river and say, well, this is the
1:07:39
best we got or we couldn't persuade them so went to
1:07:42
arbitration. This with the arbitrator awarded
1:07:45
us before it gets to arbitration.
1:07:49
You ought to be hammering these bastards because we deserve it.
1:07:53
Table 2 needs to disappear. Table 4 needs to disappear.
1:08:00
Rcas need a age step program so that if you're in there for 15
1:08:05
years, you're not making the same money as the guy hired last
1:08:08
month, James says. PTFS let's realign their their
1:08:14
allotment the half of what a regular carrier pays because
1:08:19
they're not getting full time hours every week they're only
1:08:23
guaranteed two to five let's get this union turned around let
1:08:27
let's get RCA is paid time and 1/2 for Sundays and holidays
1:08:32
about that ladies and gentlemen no especially the fact that
1:08:35
they. Created a position specifically
1:08:37
for holidays and Sundays the the the arc position.
1:08:42
So now if you're having city or excuse me, you're having Rcas
1:08:47
and PTFS running packages on Sundays and holidays, they
1:08:51
should be doing it at a premium. You have a position specifically
1:08:54
for that job? Yep.
1:08:57
It's time to enough is enough, guys.
1:08:59
It's time to stand up. It's time to fight.
1:09:00
It's time to make sure our voices are 100% heard when we
1:09:05
get to convention. If you're a delegate, remember
1:09:09
you're responsible for 100 dues paying members.
1:09:14
That's how our constitution is broken down.
1:09:16
You represent 100 other carriers.
1:09:20
Make sure you know. Which 100?
1:09:22
You're representing. Yeah, it's funny.
1:09:25
To think that right now we are at a precipice with the royal
1:09:31
Craft when it comes up to the contract that's coming up and
1:09:38
you've got people out there that just like the last one, say you
1:09:41
need to vote for this contract because if we go to arbitration,
1:09:44
we'll lose. You know, arbitrations shouldn't
1:09:49
be a loss. You should go into arbitrations
1:09:53
expecting to win. I understand like Corey says,
1:09:57
you go in, it's a 5050 crapshoot whether or not the arbitrator is
1:10:00
going to rule for you. But to be losing arbitrations,
1:10:04
78% of arbitrations means you're not going in there properly.
1:10:10
You're not properly prepared. You're not prepared with what
1:10:13
the adversary on the other side of the aisle is going to bring
1:10:16
up. You're not prepared for what's
1:10:18
going on in society today. Our arbitration losses are way
1:10:25
too high. How is it that every other craft
1:10:30
has way better arbitrations than we do when we're using almost
1:10:36
all the same language in the contracts?
1:10:38
Most of the contracts are nearly identical in a lot of languages.
1:10:43
So I don't understand how it is that people can go into
1:10:47
arbitration and not be fully prepared for them in that
1:10:51
aspect. And when we're talking about
1:10:53
contract arbitrations, you can win a contract arbitration.
1:11:01
Yes, you're going to lose on some points, but you're going to
1:11:06
have to sit there and fight to win your argument.
1:11:14
And you have to know what management's going to put
1:11:17
against you. Because if you can sit there and
1:11:20
say, Mr. Arbitrator, this is what they're going to tell you.
1:11:24
This is what they're going to say, but this is the actual
1:11:27
truth to what they're saying. Do you know how many
1:11:31
arbitrations are won with just the fact that the person arguing
1:11:34
their point knows what their adversary is going to say and
1:11:37
tells the arbitrator what their adversary is going to say?
1:11:41
All of them. Remember you lose 100% of the
1:11:46
fights. You don't fight or you lose 100%
1:11:49
of the fights. You don't even go into all.
1:11:52
Right, guys, we ready to wrap this.
1:11:54
Up for The Tonight, ready as I'll ever be.
1:11:58
All right, go ahead, James, your.
1:11:59
Final words for this evening. Pay attention.
1:12:03
Guys, these next three weeks are very important.
1:12:09
These next three weeks, not only leading up to National
1:12:13
Convention but also through National Convention, are going
1:12:17
to be the most important weeks for the Royal craft.
1:12:22
Not only do we. Have a national.
1:12:23
Convention during the mini meal survey, which is very important
1:12:27
as well for all rural carriers. But we're at a precipice when it
1:12:33
comes to contract negotiations. We know that the city craft is
1:12:37
almost 2 two years without a contract, but it's time for the
1:12:41
rural craft to stand up, time for us to get together, time for
1:12:48
us to. Show management.
1:12:50
The rural national officers and the world that the rural letter
1:12:58
carriers who stand up prove that we're all in this together.
1:13:04
Toasty. Go ahead and stay safe out.
1:13:07
There guys, it's still getting pretty hot, especially in my
1:13:10
area and thankfully it's gone from one hundreds down to the
1:13:13
90s. Stay hydrated If you've got I
1:13:17
know we were talking pre show about water spouts and rain and
1:13:21
storms and hurricanes right now. Turn around, don't drown.
1:13:24
It's not worth it for just the male you.
1:13:28
Safety relies on you. You know that you have your
1:13:31
training if you've been given training.
1:13:36
Make sure that you always look out for yourself.
1:13:38
Make sure that you look out for your brothers and sisters, of
1:13:42
the craft, of your neighbors, of your family.
1:13:47
Look out for each other. How about you, Kristen?
1:13:49
I was going to go to bed. What about?
1:13:51
Bill. OK, Bill.
1:13:52
Bill Yeah. Thanks.
1:13:54
Thanks a lot, Toasty. Damn.
1:13:57
You know. I've been.
1:13:59
Too quiet on. Here, that's the problem.
1:14:02
Well, you know, I, I, I've been. Pensive.
1:14:04
I mean, I've got a lot on my plate right now, but you know
1:14:08
that that's OK. My feelings aren't hurt.
1:14:10
Toasty. I'm not sensitive like the rest
1:14:13
of them. I'm sorry anyway, the build off
1:14:18
of what Tosi said in regards to looking out for each other, look
1:14:21
out especially for for the Subs. The RCA's OK because if their
1:14:26
new hires are you know, they're 5-6 months into the job.
1:14:30
They can be intimidated and and always explain to a carrier if
1:14:37
the hairs on. Your back of your neck are.
1:14:38
Going up if something just doesn't feel right in regards to
1:14:41
traveling in bad weather and don't do it.
1:14:46
Don't put yourself at risk. Not for the male, not for
1:14:49
somebody's parcels, not for their medication or anything.
1:14:53
Because guess what? You know, if anything happens to
1:14:55
you, can't replace you. We can replace everything else
1:14:59
in that truck with you. So, you know, pay attention to
1:15:03
your your feelings, OK? If you don't feel safe, then
1:15:06
you're not safe and turn around and fill out a 1767 and cover
1:15:11
your ass for it. And it's a judgement call.
1:15:13
Management can't make it for you.
1:15:14
You are the only one can make that judgement call at the time.
1:15:19
So exercise discretion. Like James says, the next three
1:15:22
weeks are going to be critical for this union and the direction
1:15:26
it goes into and the representation of the craft.
1:15:30
But please take that to heart. If you're a delegate listening
1:15:34
to us, please don't go along with the sheep.
1:15:38
Vote your conscience. Vote for.
1:15:40
What you believe should be the direction this craft is going
1:15:45
into regards to representing the craft, the entire craft, all
1:15:51
120,000 plus carriers because if we.
1:15:55
Continue down the. Path we've been going, if we go
1:15:58
with the status quo, you're going to get the status quo
1:16:01
raises, you're going to get the status quo protection, you're
1:16:04
going to get the same type of information and lack of
1:16:08
information, I should say, and the lack of transparency that
1:16:12
we've been getting from our national board for the last 15
1:16:14
years. This is your opportunity to
1:16:17
change that. This is the opportunity to take
1:16:19
your union back, make it your own.
1:16:23
I will guarantee you, just like we endorse John Adams, we will
1:16:28
be accessible. It's almost. 24 hours a.
1:16:32
Day seven days a week, we get some sleep in there somewhere,
1:16:36
but the fact of the matter is if we get called on a Saturday or
1:16:40
Sunday, we're going to respond on a Saturday and Sunday because
1:16:43
you're entitled to that service and for what they're paying
1:16:47
these individuals. Thank you for checking my
1:16:51
language there Kristen, we deserve more.
1:16:56
We. We deserve a lot more what we're
1:17:00
paying. Our dues.
1:17:02
New week coming up. Get your edit books done, get
1:17:07
your DPM, your LTMS done. Sooner the better.
1:17:11
Mini mail survey coming up. Pay attention.
1:17:14
Train your Subs you know to pay attention to.
1:17:17
Look for what to enter, where to enter it.
1:17:21
Protect your paycheck, ladies and gentlemen.
1:17:22
Educate yourselves, educate your Subs, educate your fellow
1:17:26
carriers. We are in this all together.
1:17:30
And with that, be safe, be professional, be efficient,
1:17:36
because you are. The most important delivery.
1:17:38
Of the day and that's to your loved ones.
1:17:41
Have a good week. Thank you guys.
1:17:44
I appreciate. It and you know, whatever what
1:17:48
are you shouldn't one of these gentlemen have spoken to tonight
1:17:52
as well? I have to agree with, you know,
1:17:55
these next three weeks are pretty crucial.
1:17:57
I have one more week left at work and like I said, I'm going
1:18:01
to go. I'm going to make sure my
1:18:03
mapping's done. Whether it happens as much as I
1:18:06
really don't want to do it before the 20th, if I have to do
1:18:08
it Saturday, I will. Otherwise I will say, hey, I
1:18:11
will stop in and do my mapping real quick.
1:18:14
You know, I know what I. Have a difference I.
1:18:16
Keep a pretty good eye on my mapping every month, so it
1:18:19
shouldn't Take Me Out much more than maybe 15 minutes.
1:18:22
But at that spot, guys, especially if you're in offices
1:18:26
where management's doing the mapping behind your back, don't
1:18:30
let that continue anymore. Make sure you take the time to
1:18:34
do that mapping. It is critical for your route.
1:18:39
Evaluation the mapping. Is it?
1:18:41
It's a big, huge portion. It's it affects more than you
1:18:44
realize, you know, it's still. August, the weather.
1:18:48
Is kind of crazy. It's been kind of cooler here in
1:18:51
northeastern Michigan. I mean, it was really great
1:18:54
yesterday. I didn't have to turn the fan on
1:18:55
in the LOVI, just had the other window rolled down a crack and I
1:18:59
enjoyed the day. But it's still hot in some
1:19:02
areas. You know, stay hydrated.
1:19:04
Even if it's cooler, stay hydrated, you know, do what you
1:19:08
got to do to protect yourself because you know, as Bill says,
1:19:11
you are the most important delivery today.
1:19:13
Getting home to your loved ones and watch out for each other.
1:19:17
If you know somebody's having an issue with the heat or even if
1:19:20
it's in the office, you know, let them know, let somebody know
1:19:25
if somebody's not handling something well, have each
1:19:27
other's backs. That's the very least you can do
1:19:30
for your Co workers is, is to have their backs in, in, in in
1:19:35
times of need. So and I go stay safe this week.
1:19:38
We will be back next week. I will get the questionnaire
1:19:42
posted. We will do one last trial by
1:19:46
fire Q&A for the four candidates that are on here.
1:19:50
And then, yeah, then we'll be off to Reno early after I have
1:19:56
that grandbaby. Updates for that will be on
1:19:58
Discord, not Facebook. Sorry guys, but.
1:20:02
On that note, take care everybody, stay safe and we will
1:20:05
be back next week. You hear that?
1:20:20
We got groceries. For under $100.