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And welcome back. We took a week off for the
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football game last week, but we're back.
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Today, we are double digits today, episode 10, and the
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regular crew is here. Why don't you go ahead and say,
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hi, Mike. Hi Mike, R, Mike.
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Hi Mike, How was your week, Mike.
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Let's see this past week. Wasn't wasn't too bad.
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I had an off day on Thursday to go to a go to a meeting and I
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am. So I was telling you in the
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pre-show, I'm on site for the Kansas Spring booster meeting.
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So if you any of you are going to be there tomorrow, say hi to
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Mike. Josh, how was your week?
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Oh wasn't too horrible. Finally got them to start
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training. The end of run report.
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Now I just have to get them on doing the radar report right
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there with you. Bill Bill, how was it?
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How was your week? I loved it.
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It was a four-day week work week except for Monday every day
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would like we're getting minimal.
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Amazon like everybody else and you know, our management hit a
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new low for intelligence. Is that possible?
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Every time I think that they can't they prove me wrong.
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Just every time you think they've just when you think
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they've hit the bottom of the hole, they continue to dig.
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All right. I'll give you one.
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Quick example. Everyday carrier takes mail and
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Parcels to the back of the Office, which is 250 feet away
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because the prison in our in his on his route that picks up the
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mail and they have to go through it and everything.
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She told him that they're not measuring that because it's not
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that type of count. Yeah.
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No. I would have to get would
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intercede. I would have to agree with that,
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because that isn't that at least, miscellaneous time?
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Yes, it is. And I had a lot.
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I had to do it for you. I have to do a PDI on Tuesday
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with him, because he looked at her and said, are you fucking
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stupid? Oh my God.
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And the answer is, yes, she is. Yes, I guess that it's, it was
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it was a very light worker, my office, this week as well.
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Ran my Ox Route 3 days this week for a change on top of helping
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out the newbies. Yeah, that's been my week.
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I didn't have any Amazon on the 48k Iran yesterday though.
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I do know we have a contractor, delivering Amazon up in that
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area. Only because I was like oh
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there's my Amazon packages as I'm dropping off something else
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or driving past a house but yeah it was pretty late this week
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too. So I'm interesting to see what
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Tuesday is going to hold for me on that 48k.
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Don't worry, those Amazon package will be bad.
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I don't doubt it. I mean I've ran into the guy
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once I haven't had a chance to talk to him.
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He was getting back into his pickup truck.
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That just had Amazon Parcels tossed into the bed.
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Not covered at all. I do live in In Michigan.
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You know, we do get snow, we did get rain, we got seven and eight
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inches of fall on us, Thursday night, it happens, you know,
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driving down the road sideways and then I ll be yesterday.
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That's always fun because it wasn't plowed yet.
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But yeah, that was my week. So, do we think that?
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I mean, I was trying to describe this to somebody else that when
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they hear mail, count or mail survey, and people start
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thinking, oh, male count. And that the same old games,
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they used to play in preparation for the male, count are going to
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be played. IE, Parcels get diverted to
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Arkham. To our competition Flats, try up
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and DPS. Comes in light and Christine.
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You know, I hope that's what it looks like it's happening.
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I do I, you know, the parcels, is it really going to matter?
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Well, not, you know, I know. But yeah.
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The I kind of already noticed a difference in the DPS a little
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bit. The last few days Arena has been
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lighter but it has been a little bit more pristine.
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We did have a thick Tuesday, there was a mailer that went out
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from one of Local grocery stores and every single piece of that
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was upside-down and 3/4 of Rome where insufficient addresses.
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And but after that. Yeah, I think I think as we come
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into this last week before the survey starts, we're going to
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see our mail. Getting I think they're going to
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turn the speed down on those machines.
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Just a little bit and we're going to be seeing stuff come in
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looking a lot neater than it has.
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Up until I can totally see that. Although although I will say,
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all right. I will be in heaven now.
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Although I will say, I have noticed more this last week,
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I've had three or four occasions where parts of the DPS have been
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jammed in the in the Sorting machine.
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Yeah, so you get the rubber dust and the the part up looking and
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crumpled mail and the ripped open envelopes.
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And yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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I love delivering that when they're standing at the matte
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box going, this looks a little ripped up.
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Yeah, that's how it came to me. Yeah, yeah.
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That's just how I pulled it out of that.
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DPS. Sorry.
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Yeah. It's and I think a lot of people
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I mean especially those of us that have been around for
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previous actual mail counts. Are we overthinking this?
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Oh God. Yes.
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I mean I've been through two three male counts.
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I want to say personally yeah I can see I could see where people
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are. Overthinking it, but it, yeah,
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it'll be interesting to see how this actually goes.
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And I'm curious what evaluations will end up turning out to be.
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Well, I figured this point I'm going to no harm no foul
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situation. Yeah.
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If we are the, the fear mongers are right, and everyone's
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dropping two hours, suppose me down 2046, so I'm sleep.
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Yeah, some of those routes though we don't want to see him.
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Drop down that low. I you know if it goes how I
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think it might I'm getting cut. Anyway, I'm already over 48.
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I think the ones that I can see that are actually going to lose
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the hours or those that ones that had Amazon at the last
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count, five years ago and no longer have it.
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I think those are the ones we're going to see, but I think in
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those majority of those offices that got Amazon, after the last
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male count like mine, a particular I can see probably
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breaking even maybe a little Kris just because the mail
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volumes drop so much. well, you know what l I, Agree that I
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agree with you to an extent. But it's the ones that aren't
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doing the scans except for the six mandatory.
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Yes, that that makes a difference.
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I've been trying to remember the post I do ones.
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That's my biggest one but I you know, the unscannable parcels
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and especially trips to the door.
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I am right on that trip to the door.
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One that I don't think I've ever missed one on that one.
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But yeah, I can yeah if you're not doing the extras, mostly
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mine. But I will admit sometimes a
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little forgetful and or lacks a daisy.
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Oh about some of the skin. However, like I said at this
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point, I'm not overly worried about it because what we're my
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route is right now. Yeah, I know I shouldn't be like
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that but I'm confident my routes going to going to stay about the
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same ordeal. Our has told us you know North
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Carolina just took The 4400 routes give you know give or
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take. Yeah.
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In the last key gets a scan report everyday from District.
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In the last three weeks or so. there has been no less than 1400
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routes that only had the six cans again.
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Wow, sorry, yeah. They'll be on occasion some days
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where you don't have anything extra, that's a lot.
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Usually one in the last three weeks there was one day where it
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was 2500 last more than hand that's more than 50%.
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So you say you know, In a two to three-week.
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Period. the minimum the smallest number of routes that only had
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sex was working under that's 25% on an average because you know,
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Twenty-five percent of North Carolina of the North Carolina
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District which I'm sure transcends across the country.
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You know between all the districts that are not doing
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anything but a six mandatory and in some cases there's routes
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aren't doing that. Yeah for whatever reason I think
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the best thing though is is when people you know figure figure it
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out, what they're supposed to be doing.
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Well, what they Have been doing all along that it should, you
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know, it won't take. But maybe six months to really
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build the route back up, just a little, it'll take until this
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time next year in September and October effective date.
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We'll see an increase, yeah. So they go from.
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I'm just picking numbers here. They go from 25 down to 41 now,
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In september/october, oval recoup to like a 43 and then
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next march they'll be back to that 45 if they actually start
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doing everything. They're supposed to.
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But I have polite. But, you know, I do do extra
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extra scans, you know, because I have I have certain spots that,
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you know, I just can't, I just can't.
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I just can't do like it's a cc B.
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You and I just can't seem to get it done.
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A lot of days without making at least two trips 14 Parcels one
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for mail and then I had, you know, I had the customer last
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week who got ten big boxes from Academy Sports that I had to
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take them all to the door and it took me six trips.
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Yeah. Right.
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You know and I did also and I scan them all at the door like
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you're supposed to but you know, You know, our Escape out our
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nine number of trips six. Boom, you know what was the
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other one I had recently? I guess that's it.
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And then just remembering to do unscanned, parcel.
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If you have a vacation, hold your taking out, Oh yeah, I
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remember that yesterday they had a big bundle of male going out
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and I did, I had to, I did let you know.
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The carriers are reminded them that if it's eight pieces are
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more and that hold mail going out.
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It is an unscalable partial Yep. Yes I had to I had to yesterday,
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I have to that. I bundled up for delivery
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tomorrow because people have been going on their spring
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spring break break vacations. They're coming starting to
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trickle their way back. Now here's a here's and what's
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nice if hold mail is eight pieces or more going out as an
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unscalable parsable. What about those?
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Those houses that we get that, get two to three handfuls of DPS
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or A day and they get all the flats.
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You know, they get 12 pieces 12 to 30 pieces of flats a date,
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you know, the day or I mean I I know of a couple of them on the
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outside run, man. Literally, you know, you're just
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grabbing handfuls until you stop seeing as male, you know.
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Oh yeah, I get the customers that, you know, I see there at
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the see, BU going through their mail and you just Get to the
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point. You're like effort find the last
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piece. Yes.
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And then the next and then the next day they're like, oh this
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isn't mine. It's like yeah.
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I know I got tired of going through the you know the other
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two inches of mail you my I couldn't hold it in my hands
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anymore. Right?
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So why we have weird before we went on, we were discussing the
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end of run report and like my one large company.
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That Corporation had, what was it?
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That end of one that I share with you guys?
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They had 34 hundred pieces that day.
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Yeah. Which was actually a whiter day
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for them recently. I think one day last week they
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had 11,000 and change. So, you know, but it's, you
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know, fate when you say and they have like that, the two inch to
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three inches of mail and or flats that puts, you know,
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that's a little bit of a gray area there.
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You don't, I am. Yeah.
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Because it's just That's the volume of mail that they get on
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a regular basis. It's not like they went on old
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and they came back a week later and they have 50 pieces of mail.
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Yeah, it's it's different. If it's, you know, the kind of
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people Kristen said, you know, those kind of customers where
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they get that kind of volume everyday because you're
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delivering it every day as opposed to, you know, these
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people have been out of town for ten days and they built up that
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volume of mail over 10 days ago and one of those guys and when
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one of those households goes on, hold for a week and they have
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two tubs of mail to deliver after that one week.
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Because they get that much mail every day.
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Yep. And it's all just snacking
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personally. Anyway.
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Anyway, yeah. Yeah, I'm wondering if I could
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take it to Cable, well, to cater to a two-hour hit on me.
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Takes me from a 45 2043. Ouch, And that's where my when I
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took the route over, that's what I started at, it was a 43 and
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then we lost FSS and I went up to ours. so, but I have not my
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whole route, but I have lots of parcels.
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So I don't have individuals who just seem to get lots of parcels
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every day. It's the same ones every day.
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And once it's got it's gotten to the point that I can that I
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sometimes you know, I'll see the kind of parcel it is and I bet
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oh I bet I know where this goes and oh yeah nine times I've had
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them write for this looks like it's a bundle of Love, see the
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media mail? I bet it CDs.
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Yep that goes to 144th. Court either found fourth
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quarter, one guy, had one of the routes I run that orders a vinyl
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records. So every time I'm on that route,
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And I'm like, oh, you know, I see the boxes, the vinyl records
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come in and I'm like, I know instantly that goes without even
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looking at the address, you know.
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Yeah. We've got some of those.
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I got one on my one primary who I think she personally keeps
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Macy's and business. Yeah, yeah.
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And those damn orange Teemu packages, man, I am over those.
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Oh my God. That's that's new.
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And I've got I've got, I've got a team.
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Ooh. Ooh, you got a TV Junkie I have
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at emu Chucky just like it. My old office up an Iowa.
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I used to have Zulily. I used to call them the Zulily
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ladies because oh my God, every day that I would sub on this
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route, I always had like, yeah, 10 boxes from Zulily.
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It was always the same, always the same people I Let's be
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correct here, you know. Okay.
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No, they were ladies, they were all four women.
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I'm sorry. Oh yeah.
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There are the Stitch fix ones. I get the same ones with Steak
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House do tricks. Yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah II.
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I get it. Yeah.
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We see that. Or you see that orange bag in
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there? And it's like, on one route,
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it's one of two houses because they're the ones that order it.
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And that one day, I was working my primary, and I had my phone.
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Having it hasn't clicked in on which ousted exactly it is yet.
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You know what I mean? I think I get I can identify all
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that stuff. Me mad now.
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Oh no, yeah we I know my but I have a few that I know with
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therefore during I've got a, I got a vinyl collector, I've got
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one guy who gets a lot of CDs that I don't know what he gets
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in there, buddy. Gets lots of CDs.
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Little packages of CDs. I got a couple of of Teemu
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people BarkBox. I know all my, you know BarkBox
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is like one of three or four people. yeah, but you know, but
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you know, I've been saying for the last, you know, to talk
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about Rex again, you know I've been seeing for at least the
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last month, I don't seem to have as many like highs and lows in
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my parcels. I mean, tomorrow will be an
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exception obviously, because because the holiday, but I've
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been, I've been my total parcel or my total saying how my total
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parcel, my total scans is, is seems to be met in about the,
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you know, the hundred to about 125.
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And if I look at my account paperwork for my 4241, the 4241
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from the last count on my route, it looked like it was 86.
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So that's good. A little, a little high, a
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little higher than normal, a little higher than for what I
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from what my route was counted. At Not enough to make that much
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of a difference. Well 2020 a day.
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And that's and that was, you know, but you have to remember
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the old count standard on Parcels.
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Yeah. You know, this is everything
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with well that and that everything with the barcode is a
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parcel. Now, you know, we're not arguing
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over the, you know, well, you can fit that you can fit this
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non Bottle Into the pill of the pill of the things.
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Got the pills, it in your case. So it's a flat, you know, no
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more of that crap, you know, if it's kind of damp or parcel,
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it's just depends on what You deliver it and that's the credit
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for yeah. Yeah, right.
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That's you know, the same thing, you know, b, r tubs, I don't
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know about y'all, but our tub Flats.
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That's where we get. All of our license plates are
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still come to the carbons. Well, are you coming through
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from the plant in the in the flats tubs?
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In fact we have to do clerk work because for some reason they're
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not getting the when they come in the tubs, they're not getting
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the arrival at units can so they were going straight, you know
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like from the plant and then the next Scan they would get would
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be delivery and I guess that's a dang on the post office.
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Yep that happens if I get a fire.
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If I get a fat one then. Not me well, but we've been
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ordered now that we have to take take those out and I started
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doing it, like, with the stamp orders I get.
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In my by tubs, we have to take them back to the clerks and have
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the clerk's run them under the past scanner, so they get the
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arrival at units can? Yeah.
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I like I said, I when I get a scan on a flat, I just, you
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know, whatever clerk because my office is obviously smaller than
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your guys's offices. So, I just literally turn around
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and be like, hey, our scan this real quick.
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Me and then I'll throw it up in the case.
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But yeah I mean those come in every so often I mean I have
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there's a tax preparer. I want route.
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So I've been getting a few of those that come in with the
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flats but other than that, yeah, it's Remembering the checkbooks
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and stuff that come packages that come in through the
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partials, that don't get scans and shit like that. so, back to
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these reports, if somebody hasn't seen them, we were kind
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of discussing. What little what it means I do
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on the end of run reports that you can get daily for those
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counts. There's a lot of questions I've
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seen for the multi PT which Joshua's Thomas is.
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Basically if you have anything listed on your multi PT column
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that's going to be your holdout male, whether that's a business
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closed for those. This is the door closed on
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weekends, or whatever day of the week, and you have that Mal held
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out or S 99 mail that's held out would be under the multi PT and
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then you have the 999 is, is the working now is the actual role
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now that they have to work and sort out.
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What if that, because one of our route, he's one of our routes.
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They The DS 999 actually goes right with the DPS to that
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route. It's not sorted out separately.
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It's route. Wait, you're like this so that I
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marked by one company is a large corporation on the lightest day
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this past week and a half. Since I've actually been getting
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an end of Ron 3,400 pieces was there.
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So it's set up that it's held out of my DPS.
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It is own in their own trays listed under the the Hello,
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Traders for the muku. I know the B is.
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Box mail, I guess. Um, is multi-point.
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So for my route, it has that listed there on the far end of
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that multi point. Where is it?
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Also includes Under The Taste now, column which the case?
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Now column is DPS, rejects anything, the machine kick-out,
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it's typically the courts will give you the rubber banded
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bundle of mail. Yeah, that's your route.
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That's fun day. Now, that's already bundled for
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your route. It used to be carrier routed.
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Now, with a tag, I still for your route back in the day are
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still comes with it. Our plant are our plants.
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Stop tagging them. They just put them on the tray
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and he clerk will trick the first piece and gives it to the
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correct route. But that's not going to get
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counted in the, in the South. No, because it's already.
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But I don't know animation and it's already.
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There's already a number for it. It's already been counted
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somewhere. So, all right.
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It's just it's just like when we sort out the 3M mail that they
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bring over the tray of DP o 3M mail from the from where we from
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where we place it and then when they sort through that that they
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put in a little cubbies. He's okay.
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That's the that's what's going to work, counted.
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Yeah. Anything.
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It becomes on the tag. If it says in-house or I know
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the FSS used to have the 999. Yeah.
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Tag or in-house Hair Care will say.
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We're coming now. Anything.
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That's But it's not it's not routed to any particular route,
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it's for the holes that you know, it's raw working.
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Now that the clerk actually has to sort out to the individual
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routes Isaac. That's what we're going to get
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kind of bored. I have a question answer I have
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I might have any well I haven't answered it might not be the
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right one but I have an answer. So with the three ZIP codes in
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my office The main zip code has the four routes Wednesday code
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has the ox route and the other Cairo.
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And the other one is the other zip code, is just the big 48k,
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however, the two. So, the two zip codes, not the
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main one, but the two other ones are out to lock pouches.
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Now, I understand all that when dropping it off and mapping of
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been there done that but okay, cuz I have no clue about Okay,
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walk problems. But here's the thing.
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Now the flats that come in zip code routed, carrier, you know,
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routes, you know, each route gets its tubs of flats that come
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in, you know, route, sorted raw. Now the clerk's to go through
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the one for the one ZIP code that has the two routes and the
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PO box, and then the other one, the, the wind that's just the
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one route is So a lock pouch, now that PO Box flats that it
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comes all intermixed in with that routes flaps.
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And so when we're case in that mail where, you know, we're
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tossing, the PO Box stuff in the tub that we're dropping off
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there, Why workstation? So how is that going to?
30:26
I got something to ask during the steward.
30:28
Zoom training tomorrow, honestly, I went yes, yep,
30:33
definitely. I would definitely ask about
30:34
that in depending on how its tags.
30:42
It's tagged. That zip code for the ZIP code,
30:48
then it should be Or you know, Imperial be sorted by the quote.
30:57
However, since there's only one route in the zip code They're
31:04
giving it right to that carrier. Yes.
31:08
So I'm going to presume. They would get a piece count for
31:11
it. If you handle it, you get credit
31:14
for it. That's what I thought because,
31:18
you know, being locked pouch. We put all the PO Box mail
31:20
together and take it out. Anyways, so that's what I'm
31:24
thinking is that with that would all the because they all would
31:27
have come on the end of run report for that route whereas be
31:32
with the other zip. Code, you've got two routes and
31:35
the PO box. So those will get separated.
31:38
And then you have the four routes in the other one.
31:42
Yeah separated. Yeah.
31:46
And those are those are route. Tagged.
31:50
So that was just my thing was got to stop to at least or at
32:10
least during the this survey is when you get the famous bundle,
32:15
you break it open and the top pieces for you and then
32:19
everything Elsa's 46 other towns, other people, other towns
32:24
or carriers in other routes in your office.
32:27
Yep, you know I've got I got carriers who will do that and
32:31
then look up the route and then handed off to the carrier until
32:35
don't don't, don't give that to me, go throw it over in the 3M.
32:39
Yep. You give you back everything you
32:46
get credit for it. I would, I would throw it in I
32:50
would throw it in 3M. That's what I do.
32:52
I do that anyway. But I would say, especially
32:54
during this mail survey, you want to do that.
32:57
Yeah. Because if it happens, you know,
33:00
if it's my bundle now I'm going to get credit.
33:03
I'm going to already get credit for all the for all of the flats
33:07
in that bundle. Yeah.
33:09
But I don't want the other carrier or carriers to lose
33:13
credit. For the raw Flats, they're going
33:16
to get out of it. Right?
33:20
But all it depends if it was a 5, if it was a 5 digit.
33:29
Which means that it's not supposed to go to any particular
33:34
route like on the top of the label where it has the route
33:36
number, it may just say five digit.
33:40
Then the clerk should have destroyed.
33:49
It just means it's But what if it's addressed?
33:58
What? The P pieces will be addressed.
34:01
Yeah. So why would they not get credit
34:04
for for raw Flats these as something you would get credit
34:09
for all plants? Okay?
34:11
So that's one thing. If you have the, the top two
34:13
pieces of yours in the rest of its the other, the rest of the
34:17
routes in the office, you should be getting the to beat the
34:21
credit for those two pieces also.
34:23
Well, no, because it was help you.
34:25
Get you get credit for the whole bundle.
34:27
Yes, not if it's a five digit, if it's labeled, if it's
34:31
labeled, if it's labeled Route, 53.
34:36
Then I get credit for it. If it's labeled five-digit.
34:41
Then but they don't have the ability to sort out, which is
34:47
how many people, how many pieces you have within.
34:50
I mean they can tell you how many pieces are in the bundle
34:54
but they can't tell you how many pieces are yours.
34:58
That's insane. If it's if on the way but the
35:01
top where your route number is if it says five digit.
35:06
Your routes not getting credit for it.
35:09
Because it's sorted. It's for the whole zip code, not
35:14
a particular route. See the know where I'm coming
35:23
and I know what Mike saying because and instance yesterday I
35:28
had the prepackaged bundle of flats, I opened it up.
35:32
I took the top one off it was for my route and it had it
35:36
looked just normal as anything else and you know, Route 11 up
35:40
on the side up there where it is by the address and then their
35:45
top one was the only one that went to me.
35:47
Everything else went to three other tones.
35:51
Well yeah, which is a three-digit.
35:55
There's there it goes to. I've had whole bundles of mail
36:04
that didn't belong to our office, but because it said,
36:07
route for they tossed it in, or out for stuff.
36:10
Yeah. Right, ours, do the same thing
36:16
like yesterday I had mine but the rest of it was a different
36:28
zip code. Not even in my building.
36:33
So, but yeah, that was You know, I didn't I forgot to look at it
36:44
but I'm sure which is a 5-digit. So you get like, for him for us,
36:50
we have a three digit, which is 282.
36:54
Which is anything that you, there's five digit, which we 282
36:58
XX. You know, specific zip code and
37:02
then there's carrier route it. Like I said, I could be wrong,
37:07
but I'm I'm thinking that if it's if it's carrier routed
37:13
obviously you're getting credit for it, but if it's a five digit
37:15
bundle, That means it's supposed to work by the Clarks and sorted
37:20
out, Clark stop. Which means it's not even though
37:23
the top on them and that's when you bring it back to them and
37:28
say not mine and mr. Counter, I needed it Well,
37:41
hopefully they won't fight us over that, because everything
37:44
everything I've been hearing everything.
37:46
I've been hearing is that there. As long as you're making what I
37:50
heard from my from our station manager is basically that if you
37:53
have reasonable request that they, he's not going to, he's
37:56
not going to quibble over it. Well, I can tell you our gr has
38:02
said every training That headquarters has told that has
38:09
put down on the pipeline to management.
38:13
Don't argue with the carrier's, give it to them because it's
38:17
negligible what they're going to, you know, the effect is
38:21
negligible. Yeah.
38:24
One piece of mail to know a couple pieces of mail, a couple
38:27
seat. For the walk distances is not
38:31
going to make or break a route, right?
38:36
Because I think with the I was just talking to someone the
38:39
other day. With the walk distance.
38:44
You need. I think it's like 500 for 500
38:47
feet to get a minute. Yeah, it's it's not it's not a
38:53
huge amount. What is it?
38:55
Like, 14 seconds of foot or something?
38:57
It's not very much. There's no is your 0429.
39:03
Okay. zero zero four four, two nine 14,000 Four thousandths.
39:19
Is it a second or a minute? Right?
39:22
For 1000 of a minute of a minute, right?
39:31
So that's like I said, over 400 feet is 2.1, 45 minutes.
39:45
That's over Ruth, the length of a football field.
39:48
Yeah. Well, what's your take on how
39:56
things are gonna go? Well, I mean, we've got what for
40:00
working days before this thing starts.
40:02
Yeah. Bill's been awful, quiet tonight
40:07
is everything okay Bill well II think we're getting distracted
40:12
on the the BS with the yes 99 and all that other stuff and
40:16
we're not focusing on the fact that a lot of these people are
40:20
confused by the amount of information that's being
40:23
provided as well as misinformation on a on a
40:28
Facebook chat today with the assert rural carrier Associates.
40:33
Somebody asks About a partial credit.
40:36
For, you know, you're walking distances.
40:39
And the thing of it is, it's all or none.
40:42
There was a young lady. I think Misty put on the, the
40:46
page, the exact wording I put on there, the wrecks training page
40:51
and it is, it's all or none and you can get up to five credits a
40:56
day, you know, as far as you know, for, you know, your mail.
41:01
So if you're gonna get a hot meal credit is B for everything
41:04
or nothing. It's not going to be a.
41:07
We have enough clerks today, but we don't have enough tomorrow
41:10
and it can be voted on by the carriers in the office, white?
41:14
Yeah. And voters office to office, but
41:17
it's all worth noting, folks. You're either going to get it
41:20
all the time, or you're not going to get it all the time.
41:22
And if you're not going to get it all the time, then you will
41:24
be putting them wait, time for them to get the clerk's over to
41:27
you. You have, we have discrepancies
41:31
in our office, in regards to the mid sorted.
41:33
Laughs. Yeah, but you know Kristen said
41:36
there was a guy 10 feet away while you can throw it to him
41:38
you know, but that's the safety issue there.
41:41
So what you throw it, Adam? Well, what else would you do?
41:45
I mean, you know, if your name is Bill but you know, for us,
41:51
you know, that they have a knocker said of her by the
41:53
supervisors desk, which is 158 feet away from my case.
41:58
So, okay, now we're going to set one up in our area, okay?
42:01
We're going to get time to that. There is no more 50 foot.
42:04
Folks. So they are we going to get time
42:06
for this? Now, everybody currently, what
42:10
were you guys doing with that? I would say.
42:13
And when they measure your distance, keep in mind, it's
42:16
from where you stand in the case in the center.
42:19
Ah, Kate, not the leaving it, where you are, not at the end.
42:36
It's from where you stand the case your mail, okay?
42:39
Yep. The center of your case.
42:42
So you know you're going to have a knocker there and then you
42:45
know, it's funny because we have measured to the 3M case which we
42:51
don't use anymore, but that's okay.
42:53
You're going to give us the extra 25 feet.
42:55
We're fine with that, okay? But the thing of it is that
43:00
there's so much misinformation information that a lot of people
43:05
are confused as hell. And Rex needs a w in the front
43:09
of it because I think this is going to be a total wreck.
43:12
I really do. I did the management has no idea
43:16
that the supervisor in our office had to get the
43:18
measurements done by close of business Friday.
43:21
Well, now you have till next Friday to get it done but
43:24
somebody in District, wanted it done by this Friday, didn't to
43:27
make it look good. And you were screwing it up.
43:30
Like I said she was going to give credit to a guy who walks
43:33
mail and Parcels, you know, 500 and some feet for the prison
43:37
every day because it's not that kind of count.
43:40
That's right lady. It's not that kind of count,
43:42
it's a survey and that's why we had the miscellaneous calm where
43:45
you can put an explanation in for that carriers duties of the
43:48
day. Yeah, that's the, you know, the
43:50
management is so ill, prepared for this.
43:53
It's ridiculous. The carriers, who are
43:56
misinformed Don't know what to do.
43:59
Don't even do. The six cans every day.
44:03
It's going to be a clusterfuck of major proportions.
44:05
It really is. And we've had six months, folks.
44:08
Six months since September. When they told us, it wasn't
44:11
going to happen in September to get this shit straight.
44:15
And again, management. Waited to the last minute, the
44:17
union, waited to the last minute, the information getting
44:21
to the carrier's last minute. What they're telling you guys
44:25
that your training sessions is different from what they're
44:27
telling us. Us and our training sessions.
44:29
Because if there's letter bundled lettered mail in a tub
44:32
of flats, I want them counted as Flats, because we were told
44:36
everything in the tub is a flat. Yep.
44:39
Okay. Everything in the hamper is a
44:40
parcel. I want, everything counted as a
44:42
parcel. And if you want to dispute that
44:47
we have our training on video and this is the problem across
44:54
the board. We have a rule carrier
44:57
specialist who used to be in our district, who is now based down
45:03
in Washington. He's National now.
45:05
Okay, and he's been traveling up and down the East Coast
45:08
correcting, these things. This is the guys who put 48
45:14
houses on to AK. Forty eight route, three and a
45:18
half miles away from the end of the route.
45:21
And then would have him have that Carrier Drive two and a
45:25
half miles back to hit 104. Carriage House Development that
45:28
they passed on the way out to the first house.
45:32
These are the people were dealing with the same guy.
45:37
The same guy has one route in our office going past the same
45:41
mailbox three times. This is the inequity of
45:50
intelligence that we're dealing with, because the ones who
45:56
actually do know some stuff, think they know everything.
46:00
The ones who don't know enough stuff, they're the ones we work
46:05
for every day. Yeah.
46:08
And the worst part of it is, I've got new people in my office
46:13
that that are confused are Cas that are confused about the
46:16
scans. I've got people who've been
46:20
there for years, confused about the scans, why?
46:22
Because they don't pay attention, they don't read their
46:24
magazines or they're not in the Union.
46:28
And that is they want to come to me for question, you know,
46:30
answers about the questions they have.
46:33
Well folks, all this stuff is online.
46:35
Yeah, well, I'm not a union member, that's your fault not.
46:39
Mine said that's it. That's a your problem.
46:41
Yeah, here. Here Bill.
46:43
Here's here's something directly to, to your point.
46:47
Okay. This is Facebook group it, this
46:53
is in the wrecks, Facebook group and And somebody was saying,
46:59
post a thing about. Okay.
47:00
So The letters you pull out of your DPS.
47:05
Okay? Yoruba mure 3M, your your, your
47:11
forwards, your markups. All that stuff.
47:15
You get a piece Cal for every, if you take your DPS to the
47:18
street, you get a piece count for all of that stuff.
47:21
Am I? Am I correct?
47:24
You are correct. Yes.
47:25
So all of your forwards, all your IA, all your boob, um all
47:30
of your vacation holds, all your Throwbacks, all your holds on.
47:33
Yeah everything. Okay.
47:36
And then and then you get and then of course the the upside
47:40
down and backwards ones is the Ford one for every for credit.
47:45
Correct. So there's an argument there's
47:47
an argument going out with somebody.
47:49
It's amazing how these conversations will digress.
47:52
You know the question was if you're if you're off can you
47:56
commit and observe you know, can come in and observe and that's
48:01
always that's always been the case and then it got into a
48:04
conversation about One guy saying that, no, you don't get
48:10
credit for markups. And so, yes, you do.
48:13
It's a piece credit. I didn't say it, but I'm like
48:20
you have one guy saying, no, you know, it's just for, it's just
48:23
for 3M mail and some snow you get for your markups to.
48:27
It said, no, you know, and so, you know, the typical Facebook
48:29
argument so you get a piece count for any GPS or Yeah, which
48:38
is anything that your night, whatever.
48:40
We understand that we understand, okay?
48:43
We understand anybody? If it's a DPS DPS are doesn't
48:49
matter what if titled as okay? Yeah.
48:54
That that you keep the conversation simple.
48:56
So that people don't try to remember every freaking thing if
49:01
it's in the DPS and it doesn't belong there.
49:03
It's an error. Okay.
49:06
Yep. Go ahead, Mike.
49:11
Go ahead. No, I'm just saying because you
49:14
were making the point that, you know, people are either getting
49:18
different information in different places and it was
49:22
just, I just found something that was making a was just, you
49:27
know, making your point. Yeah.
49:30
So in the thing, the thing of it is that, you know, I have an ATR
49:38
who was on the, on the Ders phone talking to me on Thursday
49:43
about how many times he goes back to withdraw male.
49:46
And he's arguing, I said, don't worry about it.
49:48
Tim, I have to take it's taken care of, don't worry 10, that's
49:50
taking care, but he wanted to press the point and I said, Tim,
49:54
don't worry about it. And then I hear.
49:57
Oh and then I explained to him an indifferent phone call later
50:01
on that you get up to five withdrawals.
50:05
Oh okay, I didn't know what you were talking about it.
50:08
It's in the rich program that you've attended that you've been
50:12
dealing with the district for a year now.
50:15
And you didn't know that for god sakes.
50:20
If he doesn't know it, how the hell's the ordinary person's
50:23
going to know it? Yeah, well I I know it post
50:27
you're talking about in that group and this whole argument I
50:31
there's an office that doesn't even want RCA's doing any type
50:37
of Anything, what did she say? I can't because they said
50:43
something about the RCA's and working their day.
50:47
She says they're working the regulars.
50:50
They shouldn't be putting things in Obama or markup, leave it for
50:53
Carrier review. The regular knows who is
50:55
forwarded move left. No forward, UTF.
50:58
Etc. That is all and there was
51:00
somebody who said that RCA's aren't allowed to do any of that
51:04
there for ya. Do you want a new RCA forwarding
51:07
a returning mail when they have no idea?
51:09
Subs are not off Allowed to return her forward, an email in
51:11
our office for the first year. What the hell?
51:17
Yeah. Where the hell do you read that
51:19
one at books? You know.
51:21
Why. Wait, why?
51:22
How is it RCA? How is that person supposed to
51:25
learn if they're not allowed to do it?
51:29
I'm sorry. I guess being a veteran RCA and
51:32
I do say a veteran because it's, you know, I'm 8 years and
51:34
counting right now. I know some of the stuff better
51:37
than some of my long-term regulars in my office.
51:41
I will tell you I will tell you this from my office.
51:46
I have I have regular carriers who some of my fellow regular
51:51
carriers. If I basically say I just I
51:54
don't know any of the names on my route.
51:56
I just delivered to the address and that's all they do.
51:59
They don't read any of the names and I'm like so what do you do
52:03
about forwards? Oh, well, they throw it back to
52:06
me and say they don't live here that I deal with it.
52:08
Like, that's not how I was trained.
52:13
No meeting. I mean, I may not let me finish
52:18
real quick, Kristin. Yeah, I hate you not know every
52:21
I may not know every name on my route, but I recognized, I can
52:25
recognize the ones that you know.
52:28
God, I've never seen this name in this Associated, by CB you
52:33
and it's like, I've never seen this name at this.
52:35
Be you and I know those wants and I know I know quite a few.
52:40
I would say, I know maybe 90% but, And then I just play well
52:47
when in doubt deliver and they'll tell me if they don't,
52:50
you know, that's what I did that.
52:51
Like, most of the first year, especially at Christmas.
52:56
So anyway, go ahead Kristin, I'm sorry.
52:57
Yeah, no, no. I'm just saying, you know, being
53:01
a veteran RCA and having run many routes and multiple
53:06
offices. But, you know, in the last four
53:10
going at four and a half years in the office, I'm in now, and
53:13
knowing all six routes, I mean, great 07 technically.
53:19
But Grant, you I know, Two of them, I don't know, as well as I
53:24
know the rest of them because I've only been running those
53:26
for, like, the last year, six months to a year.
53:30
But the rest of them, I mean, I know who forwards out, you know,
53:32
about what time they usually forward out for the winter, my
53:35
the seasonals, and when they come back and I, you know, a lot
53:40
of that comes with, you know, being around for a while, but if
53:44
you don't train, the RCA is into recognizing forward.
53:52
Some you don't Mark your case properly for forwards and holds.
53:57
Then how are they going to learn?
54:00
Exactly. That's And I have gone through
54:05
and corrected regulars, you know, if I know I have a newer
54:10
newer RCA that's running around. In that case doesn't have the
54:14
forwards Mark properly because, you know, they haven't had a sub
54:16
in forever and I know that route like the back of my hand and who
54:19
leaves win and who's on vacation.
54:22
So I can I know what does it, or how it works.
54:26
But if I know that, you know, I got a new RCA coming in and
54:29
learning that route, I'm going to make sure that those cases
54:31
are properly marked with those that the regular forgot to put
54:34
up. You know, it's I have got one
54:38
regular who hardly marks half her forwards and stuff, but I
54:42
know they're forward it out because I know who the seasonals
54:45
are. And yeah, it's just, you gotta
54:50
train, and that comes back down to training.
54:54
But yeah, there's a lot of people are going to get wake up
54:56
calls that are doing things the way they're supposed to be doing
54:59
them. When the new evaluations come
55:04
down. Let me give you a little story
55:10
from Saturday said they had 22 people shadowing.
55:14
Including a guy who's 70 years old didn't realize how hard we
55:18
work. Okay he tells he tells the
55:23
carrier he's driving with. He says You know, you take all
55:27
these boxes up to the door. He says, is everybody supposed
55:30
to do that? She goes, oh, yeah.
55:31
Here's what my carrier, doesn't she?
55:33
And she said, well must be a city carry her, he goes, no,
55:37
it's a rural carrier, she goes. Are you sure he goes into short
55:40
little black guy and he said he can't hear, he says them.
55:44
Well, where do you live? And he says, such and such in
55:46
that street and she goes, oh, I know that carrier and she is.
55:52
Well, why does he rubberbands? Small ones to the mailbox and
55:55
throw the big. Ends at the Post-it don't train
56:00
them right? They'll never learn folks.
56:02
Exactly. Exactly.
56:05
You know I mean it's not hard you're going to get get out of
56:09
your RCA that you're training for your route.
56:11
What you put into training them? Yes, exactly.
56:16
And if you do a shit job, you'll get a shit job.
56:19
And guess what? That'll be reflected back on
56:22
your damn count. Mini nail survey.
56:26
Is the fact that they're going to put as much effort into it as
56:28
you do? Exactly.
56:31
Exactly. Maybe it's good, then that my
56:36
sub my last RCA transferred to another office.
56:39
So I'll probably be working all six days.
56:41
Anyway, I am because I'm actually off the first and
56:46
second weekends of March. So I'm off the second.
56:53
I'm actually off that middle weekend during count but I'm not
56:58
overly worried about it. I hope that's being the steward.
57:03
I won't be there but, you know, I'm not really worried about my
57:08
Ox row. I did have to put a carrier
57:11
alert marker in one of my seasonal forward boxes because
57:16
for some reason, he didn't pay attention to the case that it
57:18
was a forward, even though it's clearly marked a forward.
57:22
And he delivered medication to the box.
57:26
And so as I am on the was getting near to the last box on
57:29
the route supervisor calls me and says, hey sessions, not to
57:33
address forward, right? I said, yeah, she's I think he
57:36
delivered meds there yesterday and it's all the way up back
57:40
towards the beginning of the rout.
57:43
I'm like, all right. I'll turn around and go grab it.
57:47
And so when I ran up the next day, I had to put a carrier
57:49
alert card in that box just because You know, she's gone
57:54
until April or May you know she wants her meds forwarded to,
57:58
where she's at. Yeah.
58:04
I don't know why it right, obviously she called and saw
58:08
that they were delivered and that forwarded so yeah, but
58:14
yeah, that comes into To training, solve that problem.
58:21
I have one customer I guess or when I'm off.
58:25
They're just swinging. Now, I have one customer
58:28
whenever they go on over, which is Fairly often he started using
58:33
electrical tape and taping like, if you open the door, the inside
58:37
of the box of tapes shut and he has his copy of the whole guard
58:44
sitting there taped up, so you can't even bring anything in
58:48
there. Well, I've got I've got carriers
58:53
that do things. It to their own.
58:56
I've got one that they cut the bottom off the the yellow hole
59:00
card in the office. Because for where we put our
59:02
hold mail, it sets in the little slot where the whole card is
59:05
easier, way ours are set up, which we all hate anyways, but
59:10
besides the point, she puts she writes, hold on it, and the
59:15
backside of it and she sticks it in that box.
59:17
So if there is somebody else that's running it, you know,
59:20
they open that box and they see that it is on hold, or she puts
59:24
a Yellow or bright neon yellow poster board that she cut down
59:29
into like parcel marker size for her forwards in the Box.
59:36
I got the other one who does carrier alert markers in all her
59:40
forwards and her vacant boxes, she actually went through and
59:45
put Blue stickers on the outside of the vacant boxes that way you
59:49
see it when you're on the road. You know so well, we've got a
59:54
few of those that. Do you do go above and beyond
59:56
the little extra but I'm talking like I have at my apartment
1:00:03
complex in the CPU. the red baking cards for the, for the
1:00:11
new customer fill out, you know, saying what their name is, and
1:00:15
when they moved in, I have those in all the boxes that I don't
1:00:21
deliver mail to And I'll come back sometimes after being off a
1:00:28
day and males. This what is one on top of it?
1:00:32
Oh yeah and I will when I put them in, I fold it.
1:00:38
So the the small section it says bacon is Is, you know that's
1:00:44
popped up. Inside the Box.
1:00:48
Well, yeah. Yeah, I is it's going to be
1:01:00
interesting to see how evaluations will come out.
1:01:05
Like I said, for those that aren't like it has been said, no
1:01:08
not necessary that I said. But I know like Bill said, Josh
1:01:11
might we've all said it that, you know, if you're not doing
1:01:14
any more than the six required scans, you're not getting that
1:01:18
credit for that extra stuff. You do out there those extra
1:01:20
trips to the doors. I know I'm the one that's guilty
1:01:23
at always forgets about the postage due scan.
1:01:26
Been trying to remember that one because we get quite a few of
1:01:28
those in our office actually um, you know it those little things
1:01:34
and when you're training RCA's on that I get the new ones are
1:01:38
going to miss a lot of the extra ones.
1:01:41
But you know I carry I said I carry all the routes in the
1:01:44
office so I make you know, I try to make sure that I get all
1:01:48
those extra ones in as much as possible.
1:01:51
It's, you know that's my pay to, you know, the weather lets and I
1:01:56
like you know, if I'm not pushing 40 hours that week which
1:02:03
I can't tell you, the last time I was under 40 hours in a week,
1:02:08
you know I that's my pay to is as much it is the regulars that
1:02:14
that's that's the RCA's pay you you know, and like Bill said,
1:02:20
last week or the week before, If you don't know, concentrate on
1:02:25
three or four, learn it and then once you get those three or four
1:02:29
down pat and you know, and learn them, and what they're for you
1:02:32
is actually are using them. Add another two or three and
1:02:37
then add another 2 or 3. But I really, I think the
1:02:41
immigrants the unscalable parcel and the trips to the door are
1:02:47
the big big to right there. yeah, they're going to be the
1:02:51
most common so as I can tell As I keep saying the one I have the
1:03:00
most trouble with believe it or not, is depart to Route?
1:03:05
I gotta 21. I got a two-mile dead head to
1:03:08
the, I got a two-mile dead head to the start of my route, for my
1:03:11
office. And the number of times, I've
1:03:14
been out of the office driveway on the road, getting ready to
1:03:19
make deterrence crap. I forgot to do the, I forgot to
1:03:22
do. I forgot to do R8.
1:03:26
Yeah. Yeah.
1:03:26
That's the other thing. It's all right and right?
1:03:30
That time on the 4240 and out the door, I guess.
1:03:32
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
1:03:35
Cuz I was AI. I do.
1:03:38
I don't miss that one because I do.
1:03:41
I start my load, I am my load and then once I get myself
1:03:45
situated, I do that. And then going to scan and scan
1:03:50
my mileage as I'm walking to the truck for the reason because I
1:03:56
don't want to have to go to scan, come out of scan, go back
1:04:00
to her world. Enter these come out of that and
1:04:06
then go back into scan. Well, most of our trucks were
1:04:09
exception. I think of one all have a depart
1:04:12
to Route scan, a barcode actually in the truck exam with
1:04:16
a return to delivery unit. Every truck has a return to
1:04:19
delivery units can in the truck. So that part, you know, that's
1:04:24
easy. You know like I said I hit that
1:04:25
depart to Route button, I write the time down on the 4240 and
1:04:30
then when I get to the truck, that's when I scan the truck.
1:04:33
Fuck. And then when I get back, I hit
1:04:35
the return to unit and then I do the return to delivery trucks
1:04:42
can. Now, do you to return to
1:04:48
delivery unit first? Yes.
1:04:50
Yes, yes. Yeah.
1:04:53
Then you do the return to unit for the mileage.
1:04:55
Yep. Yep.
1:04:56
That's what I do. Yeah.
1:04:59
People were doing that in our office incorrectly.
1:05:01
They were, they were dry. Iving up to the dock and and
1:05:04
dismounting. You putting their collection
1:05:06
mail up there and everything and then driving to back to the
1:05:09
parking place and then hitting the return.
1:05:11
The DU I said no, I'm sorry, soon as you as soon as you park
1:05:29
it, you hit return to you. That's when your clock starts.
1:05:36
Yeah. And when I'm POV soon, as I pull
1:05:38
into the lot and park my car, that's when I hit the return to
1:05:42
D you before. I even get out of the car to get
1:05:47
equipment and return mail and everything else out of it.
1:05:51
Yeah, well, yeah. And like I said, I've explained
1:05:54
this for five times, you know, two people and then an hour
1:05:58
later, somebody will come by and ask which one do we hit right in
1:06:03
your face? That's where Yeah, I get it
1:06:07
dumbass. I just got to make sure that,
1:06:11
you know, I A lot of times if I have a lot to bring in or or
1:06:15
something else is going on or or whatever.
1:06:18
You know, and I hit that return to unit and I walk in shit.
1:06:21
What time did I hit return to unit?
1:06:23
So I don't remember it, you know?
1:06:25
And I've been like, hey, I forgot what time I hit return to
1:06:28
unit and usually my supervisor whoever sitting at the desk that
1:06:32
day is like, that's alright, I'll look it up for you.
1:06:35
Cool. But yeah it's returned to unit
1:06:39
and then the trucks can. Well, that's why everybody ought
1:06:43
to be a smoker. Yeah.
1:06:45
Because well because when I returned to D you I told my
1:06:49
cigarette pack up and I write the time on it.
1:06:52
Look downright, the mileage on, okay.
1:06:56
But hey, when I get home from this, when I get home, I'll say,
1:07:00
hey hon. I've been given permission to
1:07:02
start smoking again. Scratch pad to write stuff down.
1:07:07
Bill may he said I can do this. It's authorized by a local
1:07:11
Steward. Yeah.
1:07:12
Authorized it's not my local Steward but that doesn't matter
1:07:16
that. We don't know.
1:07:17
You don't say that. You just say egg local, a local
1:07:20
Stewart. So yeah.
1:07:25
And I will tell you how well that will go over the term.
1:07:29
Does the term lead balloon? Describe it?
1:07:32
Well enough. What you're saying is, if you're
1:07:37
not here next Sunday, don't be upset.
1:07:39
Don't be surprised. The first thing she'll say, is,
1:07:43
why you writing in Rolling Papers?
1:07:47
Well, because my other local Steward said that, I know Mike
1:08:00
is driving the bus tonight at and Bill and I are the speed
1:08:06
bumps. Oh God tonight.
1:08:20
But no. Yeah.
1:08:21
It's like I said, I we have the depart to row and and return to
1:08:27
unit trucks. Get the mileage scans are
1:08:30
actually the barcodes are in our truck so that helps unless we're
1:08:34
having a vmf vehicle and then I have to write that shit on my
1:08:37
hand. So I remember it, when I scan it
1:08:40
at the door when I'm Going in. But yeah, well ours is on the on
1:08:50
the cork board, which is written inside The Swinging Doors, but
1:08:54
my truck is the second closest to the door.
1:08:57
So So, what? I remember that mileage for 30
1:09:16
seconds. I'm usually not this listen to
1:09:26
this podcast, but whatever I'm listening to is usually still in
1:09:31
my in my ear as I'm walking in the door.
1:09:34
So I don't technically normally remember that many numbers all
1:09:39
at once. But like I said, luckily, our
1:09:41
scans are in our trucks. Which they should be.
1:09:46
I mean, it makes so much more sense.
1:09:49
But yeah, so that their Yugo people have them print off the
1:09:53
truck scan codes and put them inside the door and so you can
1:09:57
just scan it on your when you get in the truck on your way out
1:10:00
to the route makes it so much easier.
1:10:04
Sure, they put that with the flip book of the of the wreck
1:10:06
scans that we should have with them.
1:10:08
No II. Don't even get where some of
1:10:12
these offices are actually passing them out where I don't
1:10:19
have carriers for saying this works and I'm like, I don't
1:10:23
know. Anybody can create a barcode to,
1:10:26
to connect it to anything. I used to own a business, I used
1:10:29
to make barcodes all the time for, you know, to scan for the
1:10:36
crap of that I sold. But it's yeah, you know, it's
1:10:43
not that difficult to his Escape our and then whatever you're
1:10:45
looking for, Or and if it's something you use all the time.
1:10:48
Usually you remember what the hotkey is for it?
1:10:54
All right. Which doesn't help either way.
1:11:43
So, anything else we want to discuss tonight?
1:11:45
Obviously, we're not talking about last weekend's football
1:11:47
game, sorry Bill. No, no, we're not.
1:12:00
I need a drink, make it a double, anything else we want to
1:12:09
start winding down for the night.
1:12:12
Why always start winding down? I think we've been on for about
1:12:14
an hour. Yes, we have and Mike has a long
1:12:17
day tomorrow. Are you?
1:12:20
You do? I'm going to send you a text
1:12:22
message when we get off here Mike about something.
1:12:24
So just a heads up. Okay.
1:12:27
Yeah you know you'll understand why I send it to you privately.
1:12:32
Okay but on that note Mike don't you go ahead and give us your
1:12:39
final commentary for the evening.
1:12:42
Oh, my final comments for tonight.
1:12:44
Are there? With this new system.
1:12:49
Well, here's here's my comment and I've made this before.
1:12:52
I just think that at this point, where we are with this RX, we
1:12:59
just gotta rip the Band-Aid off and get started with it.
1:13:03
If we wait for this, if we wait for everything to be resolved
1:13:07
and everything to be perfect will be waiting.
1:13:09
Another 10 years, we need to, we've been waiting this long.
1:13:14
We've carriers have been complaining about Out the old
1:13:18
count system for as long as I've been at the post office.
1:13:22
The nine years, I've been at the post office.
1:13:24
I've heard about this engineering study since I
1:13:26
started and how it was supposed to be better.
1:13:31
We just, we got to pick a, we got to pick a stepping off
1:13:34
point, that stepping off point is February 25th.
1:13:40
If you haven't educated yourself, if you refuse to
1:13:43
educate yourself on this, that it then you have no one to
1:13:46
blame. For your for a bad for a bad
1:13:50
evaluation than yourself. But we got to start sometime.
1:13:55
And I think the, the good thing about this system is that we at
1:14:01
least initially we have six months to, if it's bad.
1:14:05
Now, you can correct this stuff and start building back up,
1:14:08
quickly, six months, it will be a little better and then another
1:14:12
year, it should be, it should be better.
1:14:16
But We got to do it. So let's get started.
1:14:20
Now if you haven't had a chick, if you haven't been to your
1:14:25
state or districts, Zoom training or whatever, training,
1:14:30
they're offering on the mail survey.
1:14:32
Go get it done, ask your questions.
1:14:36
The first Zoom meeting. We had four for our state, you
1:14:40
know, it was supposed to be two hours.
1:14:42
It went almost three. The the the are stewards were
1:14:47
willing to answer questions. They were taking questions from
1:14:51
the zoom call and then there were two or three other adrs who
1:14:56
are answering direct questions in the chat.
1:14:58
So if your District your state is doing that to do this get
1:15:03
yourself educated so you can get your route properly evaluated
1:15:10
Just Josh, you may take me now. Take the podium.
1:15:18
Over to say follow, you know, famous with what Mike was
1:15:24
saying. North Carolina has has done two
1:15:28
of three of those who meetings. The first one had 260, some
1:15:33
people on it, it was scheduled 729, the Dr. Took the very last
1:15:38
question at 10:40 the. Second one I had to jump out
1:15:46
before it was over. And there was over 100 people in
1:15:52
that one, I didn't get it. I don't remember exactly what
1:15:55
the number was. And they were doing in person
1:16:01
ones also in different areas of the state or district for people
1:16:07
that wanted to go face-to-face. If you've been doing your scans,
1:16:15
keep it up. If you find out that there's a
1:16:18
scan that you haven't been doing that, you should have been doing
1:16:21
because you didn't realize it. Well unfortunately it's too late
1:16:25
now but like Mike said in six months you'll recoup some of
1:16:28
that this time. Next year, you get to complete
1:16:33
your Redemption on that. Try and have a good week and
1:16:42
hopefully everyone will pair well with the survey results.
1:16:50
Bill, it's your turn. Yeah, my turn.
1:16:54
Oh, me. Me.
1:16:56
It's my turn. Oh my God.
1:16:58
I love it, then. Mike is yours.
1:17:02
No, I'm not. No, Mike, Mike, Mike Mike,
1:17:10
you're all so naughty they're not going to be able to handle
1:17:16
us at National look forward to it.
1:17:35
Might drag. Don't worry about what's
1:17:37
happening today, tomorrow. Next week, the week after the
1:17:40
mail volumes, the parcel volumes and it's all going to average
1:17:43
out over a period of time. Then it's adjusted again and
1:17:48
then it's get to get it's adjusted in another six months.
1:17:50
The it's it's my view that we're going to drop approximately
1:17:55
three to four hours on some of the overburden routes, that's my
1:17:59
thought. But, you know, I just because I
1:18:00
was right before, doesn't mean? I'm going to be right again,
1:18:03
okay. Just educate yourselves, folks.
1:18:07
Go on the national website, do your homework with Rex, quit
1:18:12
asking questions where you can get it, stop wasting my time and
1:18:17
do something on your own. Okay, I hate enabling people who
1:18:21
don't take the time and effort to protect their job and their
1:18:24
paycheck. Remember, if it doesn't go in
1:18:28
the scanner, it doesn't go in your wallet or your purse.
1:18:34
Do your job. Period.
1:18:36
Do it to the best of your ability RCA's train them up
1:18:41
because it's their paycheck to and explain that to them.
1:18:45
If you screw up my paycheck, I'ma bust you in the mouth.
1:18:49
Well, can you say that? Hey, I can say, I'm going, I'm
1:18:53
going to ask you like and say, hey, this is my my time, okay,
1:18:58
back off, just take it off. Property off the clock.
1:19:03
Yes, you know. No, I want everybody to see it
1:19:07
anyway explain to them the importance of this, okay?
1:19:15
I mean we have enough lazy regulars, we don't need any more
1:19:18
lazy RCA's and what the, what you do and putting up the out,
1:19:23
putting in the effort of training them, I put it on to
1:19:25
our general post, how I use my labels on my case, that the
1:19:29
train them on what streets and what shelf and that that that
1:19:32
that that the better you train them, the better.
1:19:35
After you have a future RCA, okay, for your route, for any
1:19:41
route that will help you out and treat them with respect.
1:19:44
Okay. Because they get stepped on
1:19:47
Enough by management. They don't need us stepping on
1:19:50
them too but train them up. You know, I want everybody, you
1:19:54
know, go out there. We have our Rex meeting tomorrow
1:19:58
night and I expect it to run long just like everybody else's.
1:20:03
But books, get on the damn thing, learn something protect
1:20:07
your job, protect your income detect your future, you know,
1:20:10
I've got a year and two months left basically before I retire.
1:20:14
So you know I can just be a blow in the wind but I'm not like
1:20:19
that. So if I'm willing to put the
1:20:22
effort in, then you want to be willing to put the effort in
1:20:26
because many of these people will be under the podcast and
1:20:30
listening. You have a future, okay?
1:20:33
Okay, so do something. Protect that investment.
1:20:36
Go out there. Have a good week, be safe.
1:20:39
Remember your most important delivery today and when in
1:20:42
doubt, file a grievance Thank you Bill.
1:20:48
You know I can repeat what everybody is just said but I'm
1:20:52
not going to and it's one of those non lazy RCA's you know?
1:20:58
And I say that I hold many hats. You know I've been an RCA for
1:21:01
just over eight years. I'm a local Steward, my big
1:21:04
facilitator, OJT rage OJ. I where the hell you call it
1:21:08
anymore? You know, this stuff is
1:21:12
important. This is our job.
1:21:13
This is our paycheck as much as it is, the regular.
1:21:17
And educate yourself as much as possible.
1:21:22
Like I said, it's all out there. It's on the Union website,
1:21:26
there's other form boards that has the information on, you
1:21:31
know, it's there. It's within reach for everybody.
1:21:36
And yeah, I mean, do what you have to do for your own
1:21:40
paycheck? That's exactly what it boils
1:21:44
down to is this is our pay. So on that note guys, we're
1:21:49
going to wrap it up tonight. We should be back next weekend
1:21:54
and everybody have a good one.