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Holidays and Christmas OT period · United We Scan

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  Thank you. Welcome back, everybody.
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  Episode 138 tonight, as we mentioned last week, we're going
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  to cover holidays and the Christmas OT period, which is
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  coming up pretty quickly here. How was your week, Josh?
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  Oh, my week was just lovely. Still in truck roulette, except
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  this time we moved into the S&D today and they let us do a a
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  tour Thursday evening to come and look and see how the
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  facilities laid out and where our cases are and everything.
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  And I noticed that one of my labels is messed up and peeled
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  partly peeled off. So the DSS guy who's on friends
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  with I told him he had 36 hours, which would have been Saturday
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  morning to fix it. And he got it fixed.
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  And then I until I was started casing yesterday morning that on
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  one of my shelves they're missing 1 address because I
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  don't know if they overlap the stickers or what.
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  And then on the next rotation down, I'm missing a whole strip
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  of addresses. So and I said something to him
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  I'm like missing. So he was going to order.
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  He says, you know what, I'm just ordering a whole new set.
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  So I adjusted the spacing on some of my addresses because I
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  know that they get lots of mail to instead of 1 to 2 inch slots
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  since I have a lot of extra space now since they gave me an
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  extra half wing and he's just getting whole new labels for the
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  whole case which will be a beautiful thing.
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  Meow, how was your week? My week was OK today, I've just
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  been dealing with a sick kiddo so that hasn't been too fun.
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  But yeah, he's doing. He's doing better though.
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  It's not too too bad but no bad case labels.
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  But I think I just ordered a set of labels for my case.
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  I usually try and like once a month find a section that's real
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  bad or I know that like all the names have changed and switch
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  them out. But trying to think of what
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  happened this week. Oh it was we had the holiday.
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  We had like 2 Mondays and and I was real optimistic that
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  Wednesday wasn't going to be that bad and then Wednesday
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  kicked my ass. Like it's like this was worse
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  than Monday. But my mail volumes up from this
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  time last year. I have my radar report from last
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  year so I can see that, but parcels are kind of on the
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  lighter side still. But from what I was told my my
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  relief days are is Friday. But apparently Friday there was
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  like no mail. So I'm a little Jelly that I got
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  to miss that out or out on that because yesterday I got kicked
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  kicked again with a bunch of bundles and a full coverage in
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  the DPS. And yeah, not not to the male
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  gods have not been they're they're kind to me in the volume
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  aspect that it'll help my route go back up to 46 K hopelessly.
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  But my arms and my legs hurt. And then at the end of my route
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  yesterday I bumped the knob for my my heater and air
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  conditioning knob in my mattress and it just went poop and popped
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  off. And I like was very upset, not
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  crying upset but I'm like please I hope they can get it fixed
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  really quick. But the knob didn't break fully
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  but and I saved it. So usually the the VMF guy, I'm
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  hoping maybe he can just pop it back on and we'll be OK instead
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  of it having to go to the dealership or something.
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  So we shall see. But.
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  Did you remember to put that finger on ice?
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  My finger on ice. Oh, the oh, the the knob, Yeah.
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  The knob. Yeah, it's sitting right there
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  next to it in the little cubby, along with the protective shield
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  that went over it that fell off over the summer because it was
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  too hot and it melted off and and popped off.
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  So hopefully he can get me a new one.
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  I wrote it up when I got back, so we'll see you tomorrow if if
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  he can fix it for me. But how was your week, Kristen?
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  Oh, Monday sucked. Monday was DPS hell and a half
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  and then Wednesday, well, we know Wednesday was male wise was
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  pretty average. I was kind of surprised.
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  Parcels yeah, it was like a Monday level.
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  I had like 50 more than I actually had on Monday but DPS
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  wise. And then I worked yesterday my K
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  day and that was Flatmageddon walk in and went well.
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  So much for an easy Saturday though.
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  It was the lightest DPS I've had all week with two trays.
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  And then I found out one of my streets they're changing the
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  name of the street which I had no clue about to the postmaster
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  left me a note. So I was talking to her about it
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  because I guess customers were calling her about it.
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  And it's like I got to have the proper documentation before it
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  can get changed, you know, in our system.
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  And I guess it's been an ongoing battle.
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  But, you know, the street signs even changed.
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  So at least the house numbers aren't changing, just the road
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  name. So this will be interesting when
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  it does actually occur. But other than that, yeah, I
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  don't know why I guess it was. I mean, there's only 1/2 4567
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  residences on this road anyways. And something, the road across
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  the, the, the Main Street, just a side, a little side road and
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  but it's kind of kicked to the side, but it's got the same name
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  as the road across the street. So it's not directly.
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  My town was weird when naming roads and stuff.
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  Let me tell you on how they did it.
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  I mean, you've got 3 routes that have a road with the same name
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  on it, yet they're in completely different parts of the town.
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  So I don't ask. Clerks still don't understand it
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  half the time. And so this will be even more.
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  Fun, huh? Did the did the county change
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  that? No, well, postmasters waiting on
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  the the the county to get back to her so she can submit the
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  changes into AMS. And yeah, the customers and
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  stuff have already been calling her about it.
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  And I was like, this is the first time you've been hearing
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  about it. And she's like, yeah, I guess
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  they changed the road sign and everything already.
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  I'm like the street name sign. She's like, yeah.
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  So next day I kind of looked up and went, Oh yeah, it is
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  changed. OK.
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  I had one one time on my on my my old route, they were like a
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  County Road name and then they changed it to some something
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  else and then midway through they went, no, we're going to
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  change it again to this other because it the road like did
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  like an L and the L like the the part that went WEW.
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  They wanted that to be another name, so those people had to
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  submit it and I had like 3 addresses and then each of the
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  customers had to put in forwards from the old address.
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  It was a it was a nightmare and it'll be like that for years.
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  You're going to get random mail for that.
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  Yeah, I, I know like. That for years I.
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  Mean that's going to confuse any Subs, you know, that aren't
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  familiar with my route or it. It's just kind of cracks me up
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  'cause I guess initially what we're going to do.
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  She told me when she has new labels printed, when it's
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  officially changed, she's going to have both Rd. names up there.
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  I'm like, OK, good. Whatever.
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  Works. You know it'll be like in
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  parentheses. It'll have the old address.
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  Well, that's like a while back ago, long before my time in this
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  office, they changed St. numbers for a part of my route.
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  So some of them that used to be like 384 or 399 or now
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  899-880-4221's, now 720-1213's now 701, two O 9 is now 7 or
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  excuse me, seven O 5 and two O 1 is 7 or two O 9 is now seven O
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  1. So that was like a permanent
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  forward that was entered into the system.
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  So I'll still get, I mean, this is years later, I'm still
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  getting, you know, something will hit it just right to where
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  the old number and it'll pop up and you still see the forward
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  spray on there. And yeah.
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  Oh my gosh. Oh yeah.
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  So this is going to be another instance of that probably
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  happening. Yep, got to love being a real
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  carrier. And this is all, you know, this
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  is all part of my quote UN quote in town stuff.
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  So I guess the reasonings for the residents wanting to change
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  the street name because it was confusing people because of the
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  other side. And it's not like a direct
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  intersection. So from the other side of the
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  street, I'm thinking, oh, that would probably be FedEx or
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  Amazon that can't deliver right. So we're going from Weir Road to
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  Hilldale Lane. That will be interesting.
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  But you know, I, like I said, my town's really weird with the way
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  it has. We, we have one section on
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  another route that, you know, it's like 1 big.
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  I wouldn't even call it a square, but it's like a funky
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  circle where you kind of go around the whole thing and each
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  side of it. So when you pull it, So when you
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  could turn in down the side street off the main road, and
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  you get to this road now that goes all the way around and you
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  turn left. So you know instinctively,
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  normally you know you would turn right, but no, you got to turn
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  left. And that road has one name and
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  then when it curves around, it has another name.
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  And then when it curves around on the backside again, it's yet
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  another name, and yet a fourth name when it curves back around
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  on the other side. Of course.
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  Or, or you've got the ones that have the road, the road you
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  know, will be facing east, West. So when you turn down that road,
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  the road numbers are one, but it may curve around to now where
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  it's going North and South. So now it's got a whole
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  different set of numbers. So you're going from 7 thousands
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  to 2000s and then back to seven thousands again when it curves
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  back around. Yeah, it's a mess.
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  Yeah, it is. It really, really is in some
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  ways, I don't know, the counties around here are messed up.
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  We've got our our POV route. The within the last couple years
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  they had clean it, cleared a bunch of land and put a road in
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  and it, I don't even know if the road name was up for a while,
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  but now there's, they're like 6 acre lots or whatever and it's a
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  totally different county than what our office is in and
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  everything else. But I'm I'm able actually just
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  popped up right near the entrance to the road and it had
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  the main road number on it. And carrier actually went and
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  talked to the people the other day.
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  Yeah, that county has absolutely no clue what they're doing
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  either 'cause they're like next to the last lot all the way to
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  the back down this what is now called Marlin Trail.
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  Yet the county told them their address was on F30, you know
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  something stupid like that. So.
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  Oh. My God, yeah.
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  So now these poor young people that just relocated from out of
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  state up here are don't know what the Hell's going on, you
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  know? And he's like, yeah, just go up
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  there and tell them this. And if they're that idiots, just
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  tell them they're idiots. Yeah, yeah, seriously.
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  Like, come on. Oh, I mean it, it gets worse.
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  I mean, they've got one address on one Rd. that, you know, all
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  the numbers are going down as you go up the road, but then
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  you've got one and then it jumps back up.
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  So you go like it's like 4169 on ones or no 40, it's 40, let's
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  see, 4100. So it's like 4079 or something
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  on the one side going up. And then the next house that's
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  on the same side of the road is 4027, but the one in between
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  that's on the opposite side of the road is 4180 and every.
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  Yeah. I wish that I wish that the
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  county assessors when they when people are building would
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  communicate with like postal workers and EMS, like emergency
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  response so that it's great and like it's just, oh, OK, this
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  makes sense. But one that I used to do as an
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  RCA was the corner lot of a cul-de-sac.
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  So originally they gave the the Main Street address and then
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  changed it to the cul-de-sac address, you know, an address
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  for the cul-de-sac, which are two completely numbered
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  different number sequences. And this was this point is, you
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  know, 20-30 years ago and they'll still get mail with an
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  address for the main Rd. And if you didn't know it and
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  the the regular do you have it notated that that was, you know,
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  that address was either or. But if you didn't know, you
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  would just think it was a no such number.
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  Oh yeah, it's it's weird. Yeah, you would think that they
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  would all, and then to say in this, this county and the
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  Township they're in, trust me, are, are real idiots to work
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  with as well. They've been known to tell
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  customers where to put their mailboxes.
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  Yeah, they, they, they told this guy where to put his mailbox.
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  And you know, of course mail carriers like, no, you need to
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  move it cause #1 they're going to start bringing in modular
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  homes and that, that, that suckers are going to get taken
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  out where it's located right now 'cause I'll tell you that right
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  now. It'll get taken out.
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  He goes, no, he goes. They don't tell you where it
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  goes. We do.
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  Yep, Yep. Yeah, these poor kids.
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  I Oh, boy. Yeah, He he ended up giving him
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  his phone number. If you got any problems with
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  them, get a hold of me. I'll take care of it.
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  But do you have the intersection of Queen City Blvd. and Queen
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  City Blvd. No, like an actual cross
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  intersection. Can't say that I did there.
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  In in town somewhere and that might not be the exact street
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  name, but in town there's a couple of cross streets that
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  both the north what north-south and east West have the same
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  street name. Lovely.
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  So great. So, all right, so tonight we're
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  talking about the Christmas overtime period and holiday
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  working rules. So let's get into that.
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  Let me pull up the holiday language for it.
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  So, so a lot of the information that we're going over again,
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  it's in the contract, the sacred texts, you know, but article
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  the, the, the old scrolls. Yeah, hey, they're new scrolls
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  now. They're new scrolls.
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  They got new text, but Article 11 of the contract is all about
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  holidays and if you know the government decides that there is
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  other designated holidays, The contract still is what is it
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  supersedes everything more. Most recently, I know Juneteenth
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  became a national holiday and it was ended and then eventually
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  there was like postal guidance and then it was worked into the
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  next contract that we have. So Section 1 is holidays
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  observed. So we have 11 paid holidays each
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  year. If you're a regular carrier and
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  they're there's they're sorry. Holidays observed and New Year's
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  Day, Martin Luther King Junior's birthday, President's Day,
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  Memorial Day, Juneteenth National Independence Day,
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  Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veteran's Day,
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  Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day and then Section 2 payment.
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  A regular rule carrier whose regular scheduled work day falls
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  on a holiday will not be required to work and will be
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  paid at the daily rate for that day.
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  When a holiday falls on a Sunday, the following Monday
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  shall be observed as the holiday, which.
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  I don't think we've had one for a few years.
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  It's been a bit. What's that like a like a
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  holiday fell on a Sunday? Yeah, it's.
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  Christmas of 23. I think I'd have to go back and
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  look at the calendar. Yeah, it's been it's been a
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  little bit when a holiday. So Section B of this Section 2
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  dot B, when a holiday falls on the relief day of an evaluated
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  carrier, the carrier shall be granted the preceding work day
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  as a designated holiday. When the primary, and I'm going
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  to just finish reading this before we kind of go more in
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  depth. When the primary leave
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  replacement is unavailable on the carrier's designated holiday
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  and other leave replacements are unavailable in accordance with
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  Article 30.2 dot D, the regular carrier may be scheduled to work
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  on the designated holiday. For the purposes of this
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  section, A leave replacement is considered unavailable when he
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  or she is assigned to work on any regular or auxiliary route.
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  A regular rule carrier required to work on a designated holiday
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  shall receive the daily rate of pay for such day in addition to
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  holiday leave pay to which the employee is entitled.
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  If a regular role carrier is required to work on the
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  designated Christmas holiday. And I'm going to repeat that.
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  If a regular role carrier is required to work on the
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  designated Christmas holiday, such carrier shall receive 1 1/2
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  times the daily rate of pay in addition to the holiday leave
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  pay. And then section C of that
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  effective beginning with the 2023 Presidents Day holiday.
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  So. I'm surprised they didn't just,
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  like, admit that when they updated this new contract, but
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  that's fine. Regular roll carriers who work
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  their holiday at their option may elect to have their annual
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  leave balance credited with one day of annual leave or or
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  receive the holiday pay to which the carrier is entitled above.
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  D Regular carriers shall not perform auxiliary assistance on
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  any designated holiday or actual holiday.
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  EA Leave replacement may be utilized to perform duties on a
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  holiday and will be paid actual hours worked.
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  F Deferred Holiday leave credited in accordance with
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  Section 2C above will be subject to all applicable rules for
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  requesting and scheduling Annual leave and shall be combined with
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  Annual leave and counted as annual leave for the purposes of
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  annual leave carryover. So, and do you want me to?
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  There's the I'll just read this N bit too before I go into
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  depth. So Section 3, part time flexible
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  rule carriers and substitute carriers.
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  So I have a lot of people who ask me like, oh, do the RC AS or
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  the PTFS get holiday leave like the regulars do.
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  And the answer is no, in accordance with what I just
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  read. But this next section kind of it
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  just pertains to the PTFS. The holiday pay for a part time
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  flexible rule carrier or substitute rule carrier is
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  included in the daily rate. For a part time flexible rule
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  carrier or substitute serving a six day route, the daily rate of
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  of the route is determined by dividing the annual salary by
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  301. For serving AJ route, the daily
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  rate is determined by dividing the annual salary by 275.
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  For serving AK route, the daily rate is determined by dividing
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  the annual salary by 249. For a part time flexible row
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  carrier or substitute who is compensated on an hourly basis,
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  the hourly rate is determined by dividing the annual salary by
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  1992. So the holiday pay per SE is
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  calculated into the PTFS hourly rate.
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  So let's back up here now a little bit more here.
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  So a couple of these holidays that we have like Martin Luther
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  King Day, President's Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, and
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  Columbus Day. Well, well, so presidents.
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  So Martin Luther King Day, President's Day, Memorial Day,
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  Labor Day, Columbus Day are all Monday holidays.
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  Unless that it changes New Year's Day.
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  What else is it? Juneteenth.
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  Independence Day. Veterans.
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  Day and. Christmas.
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  Thanks. Are are are, yeah, are arbitrary
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  to the year, and Thanksgiving is usually what, the last Thursday
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  of November? They they are to the date.
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  Thanksgiving is the 4th to the date that they occur.
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  Thanksgiving is the 4th Thursday of November, which usually is
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  the last one, but not always. So a lot of the time the because
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  we have 5 Monday holidays, the Monday people would get the day
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  before, which would be Saturday working Saturday.
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  And what would happen if you know, or let's say like it was
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  Saturday, you get the day off before the holiday.
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  Now when management scheduling, typically it's cheaper for them
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  to pay just to to work the holiday people because there's
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  really no like entitlement to overtime.
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  And like what I read the regulars who work on their
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  designated holiday will be paid just their daily rate of pay and
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  their holiday pay unless they choose to do that.
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  DACA, it's DACA V for working your holiday or DACA G for
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  working your holiday and wanting to be credited with another day
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  of annual leave. Some people mix up working on
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  their holiday thinking that you're getting time and a half
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  like the DACA 5 and the only holiday that you technically
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  will get that in a sense, even though it's not necessarily
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  called that, is Christmas. So if you worked like your
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  designated Christmas, you're getting the time and a half.
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  Does that make sense? Yeah.
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  The gist of it is, is that if the holiday falls on your relief
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  day, your relief day does not change.
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  I think that's what confuses everybody.
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  Your relief day is still less veteran's day Tuesday.
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  You have a relief day on Tuesday.
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  So technically you should have Monday off as your holiday.
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  That's not going to be your relief day.
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  Your relief day still Tuesday, even though it's a paid holiday.
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  Yes, if you are somebody who has the Friday, Saturday, rotating
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  relief day then you would get the Thursday and like let's say
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  a holiday fell on either Friday or the Saturday then you would
• 25:30
  get the Thursday off before it. So it's.
• 25:33
  Always the one if it's if it's the week that that's that it
• 25:37
  fell to you. Yes, a lot of people also mix up
• 25:42
  well. I have a sub, Why am I getting
• 25:46
  mandated to work my holiday? And the language that I just
• 25:50
  read basically if if management needs to work the they're going
• 25:55
  to work the holiday people before.
• 25:57
  If they don't have enough Subs, typically they're going to work
• 26:00
  the holiday people before and then it would end up after that,
• 26:05
  which because this happens all the time too, then they'll end
• 26:07
  up working probably the release day work list and then mandate.
• 26:11
  And if they're mandating people to work their designated
• 26:14
  holiday, it's by juniority. And I don't think it's, I mean,
• 26:18
  I don't know if there's volunteers, but in that regard
• 26:21
  trying to think on that one. Well, they could they they can
• 26:26
  request a volunteer before they mandate.
• 26:29
  Yeah, but they still that's there's still good.
• 26:32
  Mandate like minority, right? Yeah, just like they could bring
• 26:36
  in someone else to really they work with, but it's cheaper to
• 26:40
  have a holiday person working their decimated holiday than to
• 26:44
  bring someone in, even if they're not on the list.
• 26:48
  Yeah. And getting a next, you know a
• 26:51
  code 3 the next day. Yeah.
• 26:53
  And I, I know there's a lot of people that get, oh, the only
• 26:58
  way for them to not mandate you would be that you'd have leave
• 27:02
  in conjunction with your relief day and then you could get
• 27:05
  bypassed, but you have to have the leave in conjunction and
• 27:09
  have it be approved and, and all that jazz.
• 27:12
  I'm trying to think of what else?
• 27:14
  Oh, there's a lot of people too that mix up the to add another
• 27:18
  layer to this, the we there's the MOU that allows regulars to
• 27:23
  work on Sundays. That MOU is specific only to
• 27:28
  Sunday. It does not include the holiday
• 27:32
  Amazon. That or the working like the
• 27:35
  Subs that are working it it it there is nothing that they they
• 27:40
  had a separate MOU during COVID that was specific to utilizing
• 27:45
  regulars on holidays. So I.
• 27:48
  Just I just want to, I remember that was only two of the
• 27:51
  holidays they did that. Yeah.
• 27:54
  So that MOU is is specific to Sundays only and during the rest
• 27:59
  of the delivery week, not holidays.
• 28:02
  Article 11 here still supersedes working on which on holidays.
• 28:08
  This comment here. How about currently Monday K day
• 28:14
  holiday becomes Saturday. So if you take off Friday, I
• 28:18
  don't I, I I'd have to see if there's any actual language, but
• 28:22
  I don't think there's any language protecting you from
• 28:26
  your designated holiday versus your relief day.
• 28:32
  I think that it would concurrence.
• 28:34
  I think you it it's still not in concurrence with your relief day
• 28:38
  because your holiday moves your it's, but your relief day
• 28:42
  doesn't. So you if leave in conjunction
• 28:44
  in that scenario I think would be Tuesday.
• 28:48
  But. But if you really wanted.
• 28:51
  To you would have to take Friday through Tuesday.
• 28:54
  To protect it. Or Friday to Monday to get that,
• 28:57
  to get that Saturday off, to guarantee that Saturday off.
• 29:00
  Leaving conjunction with Relief Day, yeah.
• 29:03
  Yeah. So and I can pull, I'll pull up
• 29:05
  language and we could, we could touch on it again next week too,
• 29:09
  so that I have the specifics. So don't at me if I'm wrong.
• 29:13
  I, I'll correct it if I'm wrong. Yeah, like, how dare you.
• 29:17
  But I'll, I, I'll pull up this for the purposes of this.
• 29:21
  I did not pull up that. And, and sometimes I it's funny
• 29:24
  how you could be talking. About one.
• 29:26
  Thing it is. You could be talking about.
• 29:29
  One subject and then remember like 20 other things with that
• 29:33
  subject that go down other paths that you don't think of until
• 29:38
  the moment of, you know, so great.
• 29:41
  And and X days count like leave days When it comes to the relief
• 29:46
  day and holidays, yes we're using an X day.
• 29:49
  It's the same rules as it applies as the same as rules as
• 29:54
  annual and sick leave. Yes.
• 29:57
  And yeah, I've seen. I know there's not a lot of
• 29:59
  people. Well, maybe there is.
• 30:01
  I don't know. Maybe there's more.
• 30:02
  Now I have a lot of, there's like 5 people off in my office
• 30:05
  on Mondays and the couple of them have used that DACA G and
• 30:10
  one of the times they got pretty mad because they wanted to pay.
• 30:13
  And I'm like, then why did you write and ask for a DACA G to
• 30:17
  get that day of annual? But it, it's not with, with the
• 30:22
  provisions of that. It's not like an X day where it
• 30:24
  shows you an X day balance on your pay stub.
• 30:26
  It will plus you an extra day of annual, which I, I actually
• 30:32
  think I like that more than the X day because it at least you
• 30:36
  don't, it's not sitting there and like like right now.
• 30:41
  Once we get into this Christmas overtime period stuff, beginning
• 30:44
  of the guarantee or stuff you can't use previously or index
• 30:48
  days unless it was earned at the same pay period.
• 30:50
  You can use a previously earned annual leave day from you know.
• 30:55
  Yeah, exactly. Labor Day it.
• 30:57
  Carries over and it's not doesn't have a time limits on
• 31:02
  it, Yeah. Yep.
• 31:03
  So any the. Same way.
• 31:05
  Any X days that you earned from October 4th?
• 31:10
  I'm sorry, October 3rd or earlier are locked until
• 31:16
  December 27th. Yes, I was just looking at the
• 31:20
  calendar just to make sure. Yes, so.
• 31:24
  So it's right into Christmas overtime.
• 31:26
  Yes it does. So the 2025 Christmas period for
• 31:31
  rule carriers begins Saturday, December 6th, which is Week 2
• 31:37
  pay period 26th of 2025 and ends Friday, December 26th, 2025.
• 31:45
  Week 2 pay period 1 of 2026 During this period certain time
• 31:51
  keeping and payrolls apply Time keepers including postmasters,
• 31:55
  supervisors and other responsible other employees
• 31:58
  responsible for rural carriers and attendance recording must
• 32:02
  become familiar with Article 9.2 dot H Christmas allowance and
• 32:07
  procedures of handbook EL9O2 which is the contract.
• 32:12
  Each year the Postal Service will release this bulletin
• 32:16
  that's located on the Union website and it's a Postal
• 32:20
  Bulletin 22687. This year it came out on October
• 32:25
  16th and it'll describe the types of compensation that rule
• 32:31
  carriers are entitled during the Christmas period.
• 32:35
  And then like time keeping things for management and
• 32:39
  special rules that begin at the beginning of the guarantee year,
• 32:42
  which was October 4th, 2025. And it will continue through the
• 32:47
  end of the Christmas period, December 26th, 2025.
• 32:51
  It's kind of nice this year because Christmas is actually
• 32:55
  included. We've we're making it this
• 32:59
  because there's been other times where it doesn't always end up
• 33:01
  that way. It is, you know, and it's always
• 33:07
  the first Saturday of December and it goes for 21 days 3.
• 33:11
  Weeks. Yep.
• 33:12
  So hence why it starts Week 2 and then it's yeah, it's it's
• 33:18
  funky. It's like a pay period and a
• 33:20
  half yeah. And the preferred method of time
• 33:23
  keeping entries is role management support system, which
• 33:27
  is RMSS. And this it just like has
• 33:30
  exhibits in it Overtime during the Christmas period The There
• 33:37
  is two different types of overtime during the Christmas
• 33:41
  period. Regular rule carriers are
• 33:42
  eligible for the following two types of overtime AFLSA
• 33:47
  overtime, which is Fair Labor Standards Act overtime and B
• 33:51
  Christmas overtime. FLSA overtime is overtime is
• 33:57
  paid at all times of the year, not just during the Christmas
• 33:59
  period. Regular rule carriers are paid
• 34:02
  FLSA overtime under 2 circumstances.
• 34:06
  Hours worked in excess of 12 hours in a day.
• 34:10
  If a carrier works more than 12 hours in a day, the amount over
• 34:14
  12 is entered into daily overtime block on PS41314 and
• 34:20
  then B hours worked in excess of 56 in a week.
• 34:25
  These hours are calculated automatically when the total
• 34:27
  weekly work hours are greater than 56.
• 34:30
  No separate entries are required.
• 34:32
  And that 56 hours, no, just sorry about that meal.
• 34:36
  That 56 hours is all six days. So even if you're a 55 day a
• 34:43
  week K route it, it does include six days.
• 34:46
  And I know this for a fact 'cause I got screwed out of
• 34:49
  getting the next day because I went 56 point, 37 hours and
• 34:57
  couldn't get my X day because of that working that Saturday.
• 35:02
  And I mean, I got paid the overtime for it, so I wasn't
• 35:05
  complaining. I ended up with the deck of five
• 35:07
  and whatnot, but I really wanted the X day.
• 35:10
  So I was really screwed out of that X day.
• 35:12
  So yeah, it is 56 hours for all six days.
• 35:16
  Yeah. And when, when you hit it,
• 35:18
  because I've there's been one time where I I worked my K day
• 35:22
  and I ended up working Sunday and like during COVID a few
• 35:25
  years back. And I did go over and typically
• 35:30
  when that happens, your pay stub will say FLSA overtime.
• 35:34
  It's like it's golden on there and it's notated.
• 35:41
  So then the, and even like let's say that you on, you got like
• 35:46
  screwed on a Monday and you went, you worked over the 12
• 35:50
  hours, then you would be getting that FLSA overtime there too.
• 35:54
  So, so then the second-half is Christmas overtime.
• 35:59
  Christmas overtime is paid only during the designated Christmas
• 36:02
  period which was again December 6th through December 26th of
• 36:10
  2025. For this for the sake of this
• 36:13
  and regular rule, carriers are paid Christmas overtime under 2
• 36:17
  circumstances. A Christmas assistance.
• 36:21
  This is assistance provided by the regular carrier on his or
• 36:25
  her relief day. Christmas assistance work hours
• 36:29
  are entered in the Xmas assist work hours block of PS Form
• 36:34
  1314. So that's like if you came in
• 36:38
  and ran parcels for your route on your relief day.
• 36:43
  And then B hours worked in excess of the routes evaluation
• 36:47
  is based on the total actual work hours for the week, not on
• 36:53
  individual days. And I'm going to read this
• 36:55
  again. Hours worked in excess of the
• 36:58
  routes evaluation is based on the total actual work hours for
• 37:04
  the week, not on individual days.
• 37:08
  For example, if a route has a daily evaluation of nine hours
• 37:12
  and the regular carrier works 10 hours on two days and eight
• 37:16
  hours on the other 3, no overtime would be paid.
• 37:21
  Even though the carriers exceeded the daily evaluation on
• 37:24
  two of the week, 2 days of the week, they did not exceed the
• 37:28
  weekly evaluation. The weekly evaluation is 45
• 37:31
  hours. The carrier worked 44 hours.
• 37:35
  And if you have questions about that part, see Handbook F21
• 37:40
  which is the Time and Attendance Manual section 567 for overtime
• 37:45
  calculation when leave days are taken during the week and for
• 37:49
  routes when an with an evaluation of less than 40
• 37:53
  hours. These hours are calculated
• 37:55
  automatically so no separate entries or calculations are
• 37:58
  required. So I my route is A45K.
• 38:04
  So if I work 40 hours on my 5 days, I will not, I will only
• 38:10
  get paid for my 45 hours, my normal salary like I would the
• 38:14
  rest of the year. If let's say that one of the
• 38:18
  weeks during the Christmas overtime period, I work 47
• 38:21
  hours, then I will get paid my normal salary and then I will
• 38:26
  get 2 hours of overtime and I'll go over the overtime rate in
• 38:32
  just a second. Here.
• 38:34
  If like Josh, she's on A, you're on a 48K, he has to work 48
• 38:39
  hours in a week in order to get that.
• 38:42
  So if you're A and, same thing goes for the H and JS.
• 38:48
  And I can tell you the 10 years I've been on this route, I have
• 38:52
  probably gotten 6 hours of overtime during Christmas in 10
• 38:56
  years. This is the one time of year
• 38:58
  where management does whatever they can to make sure you don't
• 39:01
  go over your evaluation. Yeah.
• 39:04
  I just I stay under. Now.
• 39:08
  I stay under my evaluation most, most of the time and if I go
• 39:12
  over it's 1/2 hour here and now we're there for the week.
• 39:16
  Yeah. During Christ, you know, during
• 39:18
  Christmas. Yeah, the the first part, the
• 39:22
  Christmas assistance part, the, the people that are on H routes
• 39:28
  do not have the ability to do Christmas assistance because
• 39:32
  they don't have a relief day. But if you're on AJ route, you,
• 39:36
  you would, and typically like, you know, you're 40.
• 39:41
  If let's say you're, you're a 41J, so you were 44 hours, then
• 39:46
  you're getting 3 hours of overtime.
• 39:49
  So the overtime rates, the overtime rate paid to regular
• 39:55
  FLSA code B carriers is 150% of the carrier's regular rate.
• 40:03
  The regular rate is determined by dividing.
• 40:06
  Sorry, this is and I I remember, sorry, I'm going to I'm I'm
• 40:10
  giggling to myself because I there's like an episode.
• 40:13
  That you guys did like at like 2 years ago.
• 40:17
  I know exactly was going over there.
• 40:19
  Talking about yes. And he so I, I just, it was
• 40:24
  funny because I was. That was not the only time he
• 40:26
  brought that up. No, because it's it's
• 40:29
  frustrating and I'm going to OK. So sorry to be the chuckle to
• 40:33
  myself, but I could hear his voice saying it.
• 40:37
  So overtime rate. The over the overtime rate paid
• 40:41
  to regular FLSA Code B carriers is 150% of the carrier's regular
• 40:47
  rate. The regular rate is determined
• 40:52
  by dividing the total compensation received for hours
• 40:55
  actually worked by the carrier since the beginning of the
• 40:59
  guarantee year not including overtime by the total number of
• 41:04
  hours work since the begin beginning of the guarantee year
• 41:08
  not including overtime. This overtime rate is used for
• 41:12
  both FLSA overtime and Christmas overtime.
• 41:17
  So the for the sake of this right now, the beginning of the
• 41:21
  guarantee year was October 4th, right?
• 41:25
  Yes. So if yes want to go down that
• 41:29
  rabbit hole, you could go look at all your pay stubs since
• 41:33
  then, which is not very many and write down all of your actual
• 41:37
  hours not not evaluated, not overtime and determined what
• 41:45
  your FLSA overtime rate would be.
• 41:49
  And it can change. It can change from during these
• 41:54
  three weeks of the Christmas overtime period.
• 41:59
  And then to to make matters even more fun, the overtime rate is
• 42:03
  used for both FLSA overtime and Christmas overtime.
• 42:06
  So because of the MOU for utilizing regulars on providing
• 42:11
  auxiliary assistance and working on Sundays, that is also FLSA
• 42:15
  overtime rate. So like yesterday I went and I
• 42:18
  assisted on another route and worked and I, I don't know what
• 42:23
  my FLSA overtime rate is right now because I haven't gone down
• 42:27
  that rabbit hole myself. So just remember that that that
• 42:31
  number is going to fluctuate. It's not a true time and 1/2
• 42:35
  right And so. We're discussing this with other
• 42:37
  people. For example, you're working, you
• 42:39
  help one another route. Yes.
• 42:41
  Obviously you do, you do your route first, you come back, you
• 42:45
  clean up and on paper it's you say you did your route in four
• 42:50
  hours. Your daily rate of pay is $300.
• 42:54
  Let's say you take that $300.00 / 4, which is $75.00 an hour
• 43:00
  technically in the scenario, which means you have $75.00 at
• 43:06
  150%, which comes to 3750, which puts you at about $110.00 an
• 43:14
  hour for everything that you're doing on that other route in
• 43:18
  this scenario where you've only worked 4 hours for your route
• 43:20
  that day and then helped out elsewhere.
• 43:23
  So basically Long story short, if you're one of those that
• 43:29
  normally can run your route quickly and so the less hours
• 43:35
  you work then equals the more overtime that you would get
• 43:40
  under those rules, the higher overtime rate.
• 43:43
  Under assisting yes, yes, yes. So technically, even though they
• 43:48
  have this MO, this this memo, the you you do also have that
• 43:54
  caveat of regulars helping on other routes.
• 43:58
  So, OK, so replacement carriers Replacement carriers designation
• 44:04
  7073747576777879 are only entitled to FLSA overtime for
• 44:13
  these employees. FLSA overtime is paid for hours
• 44:17
  worked in excess of 40 in a week.
• 44:20
  Regular carriers designation 1 FLSAA Regular carriers whose
• 44:25
  FLSA code is A are paid for actual hours worked, not
• 44:30
  evaluated hours. They are paid overtime for hours
• 44:33
  in excess of eight in a day or 40 in a week.
• 44:37
  So if you're like a regular, if you're like a new newly assigned
• 44:41
  regular and you chose hourly over eval, you would get, you
• 44:48
  would get the overtime over 40, not eval.
• 44:51
  And then hours in excess of 40 in a week are calculated
• 44:54
  automatically by the system, so by RMSS, auxiliary route
• 44:59
  carriers, so Subs RC as PTFS. This is really important to know
• 45:07
  if you are ever scheduled on an OX route during the Christmas
• 45:10
  overtime period. Carrier serving any auxiliary
• 45:13
  route are compensated at the hourly rate for actual hours
• 45:17
  during actual hours worked during Week 2 of pay period 26
• 45:23
  and both weeks of pay period 1/20/26 so Christmas overtime
• 45:28
  period. During this period, carriers are
• 45:31
  not paid the evaluation of the route, and I'm going to repeat
• 45:35
  that again because it's really important.
• 45:38
  During this period, carriers are not paid the evaluation of the
• 45:41
  route. Overtime is paid only when the
• 45:45
  carrier exceeds 40 hours for the week.
• 45:48
  So if you're on an ox route, that's 41 hours because I've
• 45:52
  seen this happen before and you're not.
• 45:55
  And let's say there's no mail during Christmas overtime, which
• 46:00
  has happened, then you're only going to be getting paid actual
• 46:04
  hours. And you if you don't go over 40,
• 46:06
  sorry, not even if you don't go over 40, you are getting actual
• 46:11
  no matter what. So I mean, if you're on a little
• 46:15
  baby ox route like we have in our office, that's evaluated at
• 46:19
  2.67 hours a day. And most of us at the time, I
• 46:24
  mean, would run it within an hour, hour and a half total
• 46:28
  because it's a baby route and it's Christmas overtime.
• 46:32
  You're only going to get paid that hour and a.
• 46:34
  Half, yeah. Now if it's an ox route that is
• 46:38
  getting the volume and it still hasn't reflected in the eval of
• 46:43
  it, it could be in in your benefit where you know it's a 10
• 46:46
  hour or sorry it won't be a 10 hour.
• 46:49
  Let's say that there's a 20 hour OX route and it probably should
• 46:52
  be like 30 then that that that does work in your benefit so.
• 46:56
  Christmas. Yep, keep going.
• 47:00
  So Christmas assistance Christmas assistance is
• 47:03
  additional services provided on a rule route during the
• 47:06
  Christmas period. For regular rule carriers,
• 47:08
  Christmas assistance applies only to assistance given by the
• 47:12
  carrier on his or her relief day.
• 47:16
  Excuse me? While a a replacement carrier is
• 47:19
  assigned to work the full route. For replacement carriers, it
• 47:23
  applies to any assistance provided on a regular or
• 47:25
  auxiliary route during the Christmas period.
• 47:28
  Christmas assistance is reported in the Xmas Assist Work Hours
• 47:31
  block on PS Form 1314 for regular carriers or PS Form 1314
• 47:37
  A for replacement carriers. Regular carriers can perform
• 47:41
  Christmas assistance only on their relief day.
• 47:45
  Therefore, only regular carriers assigned to J or KS K routes may
• 47:51
  report Christmas assistance. Regular carriers assigns to
• 47:54
  route types H or N The one mileage route cannot perform
• 48:00
  Christmas assistance because these route types do not have a
• 48:03
  relief day and even in accordance with.
• 48:06
  Continue. In accordance with an agreement
• 48:09
  between the parties regular rule, carriers will perform
• 48:12
  service on Sunday or provide auxiliary assistance on other
• 48:16
  routes in the office. This is considered FLSA daily
• 48:19
  overtime, not Christmas assistance.
• 48:22
  That's actually pretty funny. I didn't know that they put that
• 48:24
  in here. These are examples of Christmas
• 48:26
  assistance. A regular carrier comes in on
• 48:28
  his or her relief day and helps the replacement carrier case the
• 48:31
  route. A regular carrier comes in on
• 48:33
  his or her relief day and carries part of his or her
• 48:37
  regular route. This part.
• 48:40
  A replacement carrier carries part of a regular route due to
• 48:43
  Christmas heavy Christmas volume.
• 48:46
  These are not these are not examples of Christmas
• 48:49
  assistance. A regular carrier comes in on
• 48:52
  their relief day and cases and carries their regular route.
• 48:55
  That would be DACA 3 or 5 or what's the other one or can't
• 49:01
  remember it are and a regular carrier works two hours beyond
• 49:06
  the daily evaluation of their regular route.
• 49:09
  A regular carrier performs any work while assigned to an H or
• 49:13
  an mileage route. OK, what were what were you
• 49:16
  going to say, Chris? And I was going to say, even
• 49:19
  though we have that MOU allowing you to assist on other routes,
• 49:22
  if you are coming in on your relief day to assist, you still
• 49:26
  can only assist on your assigned route as that is your release
• 49:31
  day and they can only pay you for your route on your relief
• 49:35
  day. That's your way of assisting is
• 49:37
  you cut that's that's you helping to free up a sub for
• 49:41
  something else that they another route they needed.
• 49:43
  Yep, and you know, we'll see what happens this this this year
• 49:47
  because this will be my Subs first Christmas.
• 49:50
  I have a. Feeling, I mean, it's gonna, I
• 49:52
  feel like there's yeah, I feel like well, and a lot of this too
• 49:57
  is, is, and I hate to say this, there's contractual provisions
• 50:01
  again, again about scheduling the order consideration, the
• 50:05
  relief day work list, all those other sorts of things that we've
• 50:08
  gone over before. But ultimately it is on
• 50:11
  management to manage this and, and if there's a good manager,
• 50:19
  you would think, and I, I say this every single year,
• 50:23
  Christmas comes at the same time each year, so.
• 50:26
  I don't. February, January, you should be
• 50:32
  higher in the Subs getting them already getting them familiar
• 50:36
  with the office and better about handling mail so that when
• 50:40
  Christmas comes and slaps us in the face, we are ready and that
• 50:45
  you are fully staffed and but that is not the case.
• 50:50
  The first Christmas that I worked, I had management decided
• 50:55
  they were going to have the Subs come in and they were going to.
• 50:57
  We were going to provide auxiliary assistance to keep the
• 50:59
  regulars under. Their evaluations are right at
• 51:02
  it and it only kind of worked. It was a it was a good we.
• 51:09
  Had just gotten Amazon so it it we the Subs that we all had
• 51:12
  hours, we were all pretty happy about it and management was able
• 51:17
  to manage things a little better, but that was the only
• 51:20
  time I ever saw it go like that so.
• 51:25
  My last Christmas as a sub I was the only sub.
• 51:28
  Nobody got any assistance because I was running an ox
• 51:31
  trail in another route every single day now.
• 51:33
  That's pretty much going to be what's.
• 51:35
  The one thing we haven't covered yet?
• 51:37
  And do you still have it coming up as second trips?
• 51:41
  Yeah. The only thing that I I've
• 51:44
  gotten, I think I've gotten assistance a handful of time in
• 51:47
  the last 10 years. But when I was in RCA, when we
• 51:50
  first when I first started, they would schedule the 2 starting
• 51:56
  Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, he would come
• 51:59
  in, he would chase ground and then carry another one and then
• 52:03
  he regularly come in and work their route that day.
• 52:07
  But how we did it when I first started in my old office is Subs
• 52:11
  have come in to run parcels. You know, we take parcel big,
• 52:16
  you know, extra partials off of other routes.
• 52:19
  We'd run two or three routes worth of parcels.
• 52:21
  And then as it got into like Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, we
• 52:25
  then would, once we got done with parcel routes, it was very
• 52:28
  common for us to pull down a section of another route that
• 52:32
  the regular carrier left and we would then go run that other
• 52:35
  that section of that route as well.
• 52:37
  That's how a lot of us learned other routes was running
• 52:40
  sections of routes during Christmas overtime.
• 52:43
  Yeah, yeah. But it's the thing you would
• 52:45
  come in, you would case what you would case the one route for the
• 52:48
  carrier for the 1 carrier for the 1 route and then you'd move
• 52:52
  over to another route. They send that regular home and
• 52:54
  you they also did have people come, you know some RCH come in
• 52:59
  and just run parcels and possibly take a section like you
• 53:03
  did in your office. When you have 70 plus routes and
• 53:09
  40 sub you can afford to do that you.
• 53:12
  Know what I mean? So it isn't.
• 53:13
  That was go on. No, you're OK.
• 53:15
  I'll let you finish your your thought.
• 53:16
  I'm sorry. I say yeah, with more 60%
• 53:20
  coverage, you can afford to rotate like that and send the
• 53:25
  regulars home or have them come in later to offset.
• 53:28
  Now, nowadays you can do that Thursday.
• 53:31
  Yeah, we don't have enough Subs. Last year as a sub, you were the
• 53:34
  only sub and you were holding down a route.
• 53:37
  My first Christmas as a regular I didn't have a sub so yeah,
• 53:41
  that's how that went. But no second trips.
• 53:48
  OK, so important items to remember rule carriers during
• 53:54
  the the Christmas pay procedures, hours entered in the
• 53:57
  daily overtime block are always included in the actual week
• 54:00
  hours. Hours entered in the Xmas sys
• 54:03
  block are never included in the actual weekly hours block
• 54:06
  because it's a it's an overtime rate.
• 54:07
  Carriers on auxiliary routes are paid for actual work hours, not
• 54:11
  the routes evaluation during the Christmas period.
• 54:14
  During the period from beginning front of the guarantee year,
• 54:17
  October 4th through the last day of the Christmas period, hours
• 54:23
  code O87 cannot be entered on a time card unless there is a
• 54:26
  corresponding oh and that's about X days and I'll go over
• 54:29
  that in a minute too. If actual hours exceeded 56 in a
• 54:33
  week a hour, there's different codes for that.
• 54:37
  If a regular roll carrier works his or her relief day and serves
• 54:41
  his or her assigned route, this is not reported as Christmas
• 54:44
  assistance. It would be the the the DACA
• 54:47
  codes and then second trip is not allowed during the Christmas
• 54:52
  period. Now not mean like not in the
• 54:55
  term of you actually going out and doing a second trip.
• 54:59
  If management's instructing you to do that, then you need to the
• 55:02
  pay of the three minutes a mile will not be calculated that way.
• 55:09
  All the hours that you're working are going into that
• 55:13
  evaluation, which could be good, could be bad.
• 55:17
  And I'll let you go over that more, Kristen.
• 55:21
  All right, also, if you're in APOV route during the Christmas
• 55:24
  overtime and you have to run a second trip, you do get that
• 55:29
  additional EMA mileage. You just don't get the three
• 55:32
  minutes a mile for the second trip.
• 55:35
  Yeah, but you do get the the additional EMA for those miles
• 55:38
  that you travelled. Also, let's cover how that would
• 55:42
  be done under Rex because. It's been a bit.
• 55:46
  Yes. Yes.
• 55:47
  Just please change gears the the EMA.
• 55:50
  Is that still anything over 40 miles?
• 55:54
  Yes, yes, 40 miles. For the I just.
• 55:57
  Yes. Right.
• 55:58
  I just wanted to throw that out there for the ones that.
• 56:00
  Weren't short, yeah, the short ones, yeah, yeah.
• 56:03
  And I think about, I mean, our, my, our one POV route's 95
• 56:08
  miles. So I don't even think about the,
• 56:09
  the 40. But yes, it is a yeah, minimum
• 56:13
  40 miles a day. But yeah, so if you go over the
• 56:16
  40, if you're on normally, you know, if you have a 20 mile
• 56:19
  route and a second trip's 10 mile, 10 miles, that's 30,
• 56:24
  you're not going to get the additional EMA.
• 56:26
  If you're going over 40 for the day, you will get the additional
• 56:29
  EMA. So for those routes that are 40
• 56:33
  miles and more over, you'll get the additional EMA.
• 56:38
  And I would still I just get in the habit of of notating it on
• 56:42
  your trip sheet on the 4240 or if you're if you're just
• 56:45
  providing auxiliary assistance, making sure that you're writing
• 56:48
  that on your greet card, EMA total this many miles.
• 56:52
  But if you're writing, you know, hey, I did a second trip.
• 56:55
  I know that like you can talk to management, but just notate on
• 57:00
  their additional trip, 40 miles or so.
• 57:04
  Let's do another 45 miles EMA and addition plus addition, you
• 57:10
  know, because normally if you're on APOV route and you sign that
• 57:13
  trip sheet, it will automatically pay it unless you
• 57:17
  management has to toggle it to to say otherwise.
• 57:21
  But just make sure that you're notating it and and keeping that
• 57:24
  documentation so that it's it's thorough in that even if even if
• 57:28
  you don't think that you're going to go over that 40 miles,
• 57:31
  even still writing that on there just so that it's record that
• 57:34
  you know, and it's a reference point for you to go back to also
• 57:38
  is good. Right.
• 57:39
  And the reason I bring, I brought it up is because you
• 57:43
  your daily trip for EMS is 40 miles.
• 57:46
  So even if your route is 15 miles total, you're getting paid
• 57:51
  40 miles for the day. Yeah, So, so the RX scans if you
• 57:56
  are making like second trips or if you're doing parcel runs for
• 58:01
  routes you and so let's say you got like a handful of parcels
• 58:06
  that are ready to go. And I, and I'm, I'll preface
• 58:09
  this before I say this, I know that it's Christmas time.
• 58:12
  I know that it's your your brain is just get those parcels done,
• 58:16
  get back to the office. The case, whatever it may be, it
• 58:20
  is still very vital. RX is 52 weeks of data and it's
• 58:27
  in and that includes Christmas and this Christmas over time
• 58:30
  period. So let's say that you have a
• 58:33
  half a hamper or whatever, you have a a gaggle of parcels that
• 58:36
  you're going to go and you're going to run.
• 58:38
  Make sure that same thing like you were doing your normal
• 58:43
  route, you hit start load, start pushing that hamper out to where
• 58:48
  to the vehicle, load all those parcels in and push that hamper
• 58:53
  back into the designated location and you hit and load
• 58:56
  vehicle. If you're making like let's say
• 58:59
  you have some giant Christmas present boxes that you're
• 59:04
  delivering and you're having to make 5 trips because they're and
• 59:08
  you can't carry one at a time. Or sorry, you could only carry
• 59:12
  one at a time. You can't carry multiple and one
• 59:15
  go safely. Then you would deliver each one
• 59:19
  and make sure they're all scanned as you're delivering
• 59:21
  them and then you would hit. When you're done with all of
• 59:24
  that delivering them, you will hit trip to RX scan trip to door
• 59:31
  and it'll ask you how many trips you make made and you will enter
• 59:34
  5 as your total number of of trips that you made.
• 59:38
  If you are doing like a parcel run in the morning because
• 59:41
  management instructed you to do so.
• 59:43
  The the start load and the end load are the most important.
• 59:47
  You will not hit departure route until you are fully going out to
• 59:52
  deliver the route. But if you need to access all of
• 59:56
  the RX scans because for whatever reason, you know.
• 1:00:00
  Like let's say you're maybe there's a giant carrier pickup
• 1:00:03
  or, or heaven, heaven forbid, not that, but and you want to
• 1:00:07
  access that trip to door scan, you need to go into the RX menu.
• 1:00:11
  And then you're going to go to the three lines at the top right
• 1:00:14
  corner of the hamburger menu. And then you're going to Scroll
• 1:00:17
  down and you're going to go to show all activities, show all RX
• 1:00:21
  activities and it will unlock all of the RX scans for the for
• 1:00:26
  you to to have now that it won't prompt you through each menu
• 1:00:31
  like it will normally. So just remember if you end up
• 1:00:34
  having to do that, that, that you've done that.
• 1:00:38
  Or if like, let's say you're out there and your scanner dies and
• 1:00:41
  you don't want to have to clock in again, go to show all
• 1:00:44
  activities and they know it'll, it'll show it like that.
• 1:00:47
  You can show all the all the scans like that.
• 1:00:50
  Now second trips after to do. Once you return from the route,
• 1:00:54
  you're still going to do the normal way end of return to DU
• 1:00:59
  to do your end of shift duties and then PM casing and then run
• 1:01:02
  your second trip. Start load and load.
• 1:01:05
  Oh yeah, the start load and load and then run your second trip.
• 1:01:09
  So that's still going to stay the same, correct?
• 1:01:11
  Yes. Yep, Yep, just PMK start load
• 1:01:15
  and load and then you whenever you get back from from doing
• 1:01:19
  that all you got to do is sign out leaving and and doctor
• 1:01:22
  scanner. And clock out.
• 1:01:24
  And clock out. Because that time because the PM
• 1:01:27
  casing just stops the clock on the end of shift duties.
• 1:01:31
  So that time between PM casing and clocking out, however long
• 1:01:36
  it takes you is just going to count it towards your time
• 1:01:39
  worked or your weekly hours. Yes, yeah, the time like if you
• 1:01:44
  just think about it like I I had a like when I went regular, just
• 1:01:49
  times ticking and it could be good, it could be bad.
• 1:01:53
  I have a lot of like little mini second trips that I do for
• 1:01:57
  express for one of my businesses and they're not very far from
• 1:01:59
  the office. So it's kind of bad in my case.
• 1:02:03
  But if you're like a 41 hour route and you know that you're
• 1:02:07
  going over evaluation it and you have those second trips, then it
• 1:02:12
  it it, you could get compensated maybe a little bit more than you
• 1:02:16
  would have as second trip time. It just depends on the
• 1:02:19
  situation. Yeah, I mean, in my case, I,
• 1:02:23
  yeah, second trips in general for me are not worth the time
• 1:02:28
  because my route at any given time, I'm only a few miles from
• 1:02:32
  the office. I think the biggest second trip
• 1:02:34
  I've ever done was 11 miles, most of them usually 345 miles
• 1:02:39
  total. So to me, that's really not
• 1:02:42
  worth the three minutes a mile. And, and, and we're what we
• 1:02:47
  consider the back half of my route, which technically like
• 1:02:50
  the back third really I'm less than a mile from the post
• 1:02:54
  office. So for me, especially during
• 1:02:56
  Christmas time, because I know how my people order as we all
• 1:02:59
  do, there are plenty of times or even on normal heavier days or
• 1:03:03
  day after holidays where when I'm ready to go to the back
• 1:03:08
  half, I just beeline up to the office real quick.
• 1:03:10
  Pull in, hit start load, go grab those parcels, load up the truck
• 1:03:14
  and load and then drive the mile back to where I, you know, left
• 1:03:20
  off and then continue the back half of the route.
• 1:03:22
  Because honestly it's really not worth the time.
• 1:03:25
  I mean, the last second trip I did literally was 4 miles round
• 1:03:31
  trip for six packages to 1 address.
• 1:03:33
  It took me longer to unload them because they filled the truck
• 1:03:38
  because of the size of them. Then I actually got paid to do
• 1:03:41
  that second truck. So yeah, first again, that's
• 1:03:45
  your decision. I mean, you know, like our POV
• 1:03:48
  route second trips, are they worth it for him?
• 1:03:50
  Absolutely. I mean, his first box is 9 miles
• 1:03:53
  from the office. So you were already making bank
• 1:03:56
  before you even get there, you know.
• 1:03:57
  And so, yeah, it's in again, second trips.
• 1:04:02
  That's management's call in general, whether it's they're
• 1:04:05
  going to have somebody else delivering for you or you're
• 1:04:07
  going to do a second trip, so. Yes.
• 1:04:09
  And the Union feels, as we've all seen over the last several
• 1:04:13
  years, the Union feels that second trips are done at the end
• 1:04:15
  of the day after the route. And then if shift duties are
• 1:04:17
  completed, the six to nine play really should not be for
• 1:04:21
  regulars. If they want to bring our CAS in
• 1:04:24
  and have them run packages in the morning, that's completely
• 1:04:27
  up to them. Just, you know, remind the RCA
• 1:04:30
  that hey, make sure you're logged into the proper route on
• 1:04:33
  the scanners and that you are doing those rec scans if
• 1:04:35
  necessary. Yeah.
• 1:04:37
  And if and if you know that they're not being done to like
• 1:04:40
  approach management and be like, hey, I saw that you guys ran
• 1:04:44
  parcels for my route. I appreciate that you guys did
• 1:04:46
  that. But can you guys show me that
• 1:04:48
  you guys did the proper R rec scans so to so that I know my
• 1:04:52
  routes getting good credit because they may have management
• 1:04:54
  might have had the sub take it for three different routes and
• 1:04:58
  each one of those routes deserve to have load time for each set
• 1:05:03
  of parcels. Oh, I.
• 1:05:05
  Agree. So just be mindful that I'm
• 1:05:08
  trying to think of anything else.
• 1:05:09
  The second trip thing, yeah, I always, I always forget about
• 1:05:11
  that until like the day comes and they don't mention it in
• 1:05:15
  that document. Very.
• 1:05:16
  It's only in one spot. Yeah.
• 1:05:20
  If you guys wanted to look at the document that I was reading,
• 1:05:23
  it is a postal document, but the union has it on their What's New
• 1:05:28
  page and it'll it'll be under the Christmas overtime
• 1:05:31
  procedures. It's it's usually we still have
• 1:05:35
  like two different versions of it printed on our rural union
• 1:05:40
  board in my office because most of it doesn't change.
• 1:05:44
  It's just usually the date range of like when the guarantee year
• 1:05:48
  is and when the Christmas overtime actual dates and pay
• 1:05:53
  periods are. And this one actually included
• 1:05:55
  the the MOU, which was fascinating to me that they
• 1:06:01
  caught up. Yeah, right.
• 1:06:04
  Yeah. I was like, oh wow.
• 1:06:05
  We actually do include it. Surprise to me.
• 1:06:10
  I don't, we don't know like how Christmas is going to be this
• 1:06:13
  year. And.
• 1:06:14
  And I don't, I know. Yeah, we never really know.
• 1:06:17
  I mean, it's like I, I told you, like my, I feel like my, I feel
• 1:06:22
  like my flat volumes up, but I know for sure my DPS letter
• 1:06:27
  volume is up, which is interesting.
• 1:06:29
  As mine is too. Especially this past week.
• 1:06:32
  It was. It was weird.
• 1:06:33
  I mean. Yeah.
• 1:06:35
  Typically, what's the bottom out in the next two weeks?
• 1:06:38
  Yes. Yeah.
• 1:06:39
  And then we're going to get the the means of where did all the
• 1:06:41
  flats go And then come December 27th, release the flat.
• 1:06:48
  And that's when you get all the seed catalogs for all the
• 1:06:51
  gardeners and farmers. Yes, in fact I just had one too.
• 1:06:55
  So they are starting to come out.
• 1:06:56
  Yeah, I had one too the other day.
• 1:06:59
  I was like, Dang, we're already we're ahead of the game.
• 1:07:02
  We we briefly already did touch on this too.
• 1:07:05
  If, for instance, you ended up if you had earned an X day
• 1:07:11
  before the beginning of the guarantee period, October 4th
• 1:07:15
  this year, you cannot use any previously earned X days from
• 1:07:21
  sorry from October 4th through December 26th.
• 1:07:25
  If you earned an X day because you know you were mandated to
• 1:07:29
  work your relief day and you earned the X day, you can use it
• 1:07:33
  within the same pay period. Otherwise management's going to
• 1:07:37
  have to convert it and then it ends up becoming time and 1/2.
• 1:07:40
  Yeah, it's just. Are you working that day?
• 1:07:42
  Reverts to a deck of which I am that.
• 1:07:46
  That's how I've been notating since beginning of October after
• 1:07:51
  I got back from Italy, actually. Yeah.
• 1:07:54
  And he's set, you know, any K days that I've had to work, I am
• 1:07:57
  just like, you know what, I don't need a next day for
• 1:08:00
  anything right now. Just pay me the deck of five
• 1:08:03
  because I am not on the relief day work list.
• 1:08:06
  And, you know, we'll call it good.
• 1:08:07
  If I need to have it as a three because I have something coming
• 1:08:10
  up that, you know, within the same pay period, then I'll do it
• 1:08:14
  and it's no big deal. But other than that, yeah, I'm
• 1:08:17
  just like, you know what, just give me the five.
• 1:08:19
  Yeah, I I got in Monday and because I had worked last
• 1:08:22
  Saturday as well and in my remarks I had 3/5 like which one
• 1:08:28
  do you want me? And I was, I circled 5I don't
• 1:08:35
  like remember back. Yeah, I was like, oh, because
• 1:08:37
  normally, you know, it's just a three anyways, because I'm not
• 1:08:41
  on a really work list, but at this time of year.
• 1:08:43
  And I already told her, I said, yeah, just pay me a 5.
• 1:08:45
  I don't need an extra day off unless something comes up.
• 1:08:49
  Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:08:51
  I'll I'll take the money right now trying to catch up on
• 1:08:54
  finances. After vacation, you'll have like
• 1:08:56
  managers who, who like wanted to get the carriers to like use
• 1:09:02
  their X days and they're, and the carriers decided, you know,
• 1:09:07
  oh, I'll use it like around Thanksgiving, you know, or, you
• 1:09:10
  know, like other management thinking like, Oh yeah, it's,
• 1:09:14
  it's a win win, right? But then managers go in to go
• 1:09:17
  enter it and it's going to get rejected.
• 1:09:21
  Yep. So even though that MO, that
• 1:09:24
  memo that I'm reading, that bulletin, they, they know like
• 1:09:28
  it's sent to them, pretty sure it's sent to them every year.
• 1:09:31
  It doesn't change. About it when it's, you know
• 1:09:34
  they don't. Even know what the guarantee
• 1:09:36
  year is. Yeah, yeah, pretty much.
• 1:09:40
  And of course, city has their own rules with how their
• 1:09:42
  Christmas time works. Also on the rural side.
• 1:09:46
  Now, this is another big one I've seen pop up.
• 1:09:49
  We do not have blackout dates ever.
• 1:09:53
  Yeah. For leave that is specifically a
• 1:09:58
  a clerk and city and city carrier crafts things.
• 1:10:02
  Rural carriers do not have blackout dates.
• 1:10:06
  If there is a sub available, there should not be a denial.
• 1:10:10
  Yep. And if you get a denial and
• 1:10:12
  there's a sub available, you know what to do.
• 1:10:14
  Yeah. I'd say regardless of the
• 1:10:17
  reason. Yeah, exactly.
• 1:10:20
  Let. Them let them prove there is
• 1:10:21
  this. It's available anywhere.
• 1:10:23
  Yeah, yeah, pretty much. But yeah, so we do not have
• 1:10:28
  blackout dates no matter what management wants to tell you.
• 1:10:31
  And especially if you were a newer regular or somebody who
• 1:10:35
  hasn't paid attention too much or is just finally getting
• 1:10:38
  trying to educate yourself. Yeah, or you got a manager who
• 1:10:42
  who just became a manager and they only know city stuff.
• 1:10:47
  Or tell them Nope, we yeah or yeah, we have.
• 1:10:51
  No, if there's a leave replacement available then a
• 1:10:55
  rural carrier can take leave. Anytime of the year.
• 1:10:58
  When they want to, yeah. We don't have like a the city
• 1:11:02
  carriers I think, and the clerks too, they have like their
• 1:11:05
  calendar where they bid out like their leave and all that.
• 1:11:09
  And then they can take incidentals or whatever I think
• 1:11:11
  is what it is. Yeah, we ain't got that.
• 1:11:14
  I am so glad we don't have that. Yeah.
• 1:11:18
  And that's what the importance and that's what the importance
• 1:11:21
  of what, you know, what initially was supposed to be and
• 1:11:24
  how it was. Unfortunately, we can't keep the
• 1:11:27
  people to keep it that way of having one sub per route.
• 1:11:31
  Regardless of the route classification, every rural
• 1:11:34
  route's entitled to have a leave replacement assigned to it.
• 1:11:38
  That's the whole point of that. I mean is so you can take your
• 1:11:41
  leave at your will. Yep I do someone that was on an
• 1:11:44
  ox route that has a sub. Yep, that's how it works.
• 1:11:47
  So, but I think, I think that's, I think that's it.
• 1:11:51
  I think with it, if we miss something.
• 1:11:54
  We'll, we'll follow up next week, but you know.
• 1:11:57
  Yeah, yeah. The the only thing I know for
• 1:11:59
  sure is leave in conjunction that was 1.
• 1:12:01
  Yeah, that was the only, you know, in Yeah, with the of the
• 1:12:07
  holiday. Yeah, with the holiday and your
• 1:12:09
  release day, yeah. And we will look into that and
• 1:12:13
  see what is actually the world for sure.
• 1:12:16
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think I've gotten, I usually do get
• 1:12:20
  Christmas overtime. Last year I think I didn't
• 1:12:22
  because I was 46 K This year I'm probably will end up working 46
• 1:12:28
  hours and getting it but. I'm a 46K too.
• 1:12:33
  I don't think I had. This will be my third Christmas
• 1:12:36
  as a regular so I'm not sure. Also a pay period that started
• 1:12:42
  yesterday will reflect. So the paycheck from the pay
• 1:12:46
  period we are currently in should have is supposed to
• 1:12:50
  reflect the the contractual general wage increase of 1.4%.
• 1:12:56
  The pay tables broke 100K. Yes, they have.
• 1:12:59
  And also RCA's Arcs will also have their general wage
• 1:13:05
  increase. I think that puts the step ones
• 1:13:07
  up to 2189 and the step twos which is new this contract.
• 1:13:14
  So those are CAS that have three years or more or approach three
• 1:13:19
  years or more will get a dollar increase and be up to 2289.
• 1:13:24
  Woohoo. Yeah, so and I have my step
• 1:13:26
  increase this week's check too. Yeah, Heck yeah.
• 1:13:30
  Hell. Yeah, I like having a couple
• 1:13:32
  wage. I had four wage increases over
• 1:13:35
  the last over 5 pay periods. I'll take it.
• 1:13:40
  You know what you should be doing.
• 1:13:42
  One of those is because. My route went.
• 1:13:44
  Back up to a 46. So that's one of the little
• 1:13:47
  bumps. I was getting my hour back and
• 1:13:49
  then the cost of living adjustment and then my step
• 1:13:53
  increase and then the general wage.
• 1:13:55
  Yep. Someone told me a long time ago,
• 1:13:56
  every time you get an increase up your TSP 1%.
• 1:13:59
  That way you won't miss it out of your check.
• 1:14:01
  Yeah, I have yet to do that. It is good advice though.
• 1:14:05
  See if you can do it is. Yeah.
• 1:14:10
  Like I said, you're not going to miss it.
• 1:14:12
  You know every time you get an increase if you do it some.
• 1:14:15
  Of us would message. If you do it now, I'm saying if
• 1:14:17
  you get it right now, 1%, this increase is 1.4%.
• 1:14:21
  So you're still getting almost a half a percent.
• 1:14:23
  Yeah, you know. You actually, but you got to
• 1:14:25
  remember Mr. Table one us in table table.
• 1:14:30
  One, Sir. Hey I'm I'm still PO also.
• 1:14:36
  OK. So you know what, what you could
• 1:14:40
  do is like come February when we get our back pay, you could
• 1:14:46
  increase the percentage of then so that a chunk of the back pay
• 1:14:50
  goes into TSP, more of it and then reduce it back down.
• 1:14:54
  I was going to say and then reduce it back down.
• 1:14:57
  Yeah. But I got bills to pay.
• 1:15:01
  Yeah, I do too. I know.
• 1:15:02
  I just like say. It won't work, but I don't know
• 1:15:05
  if it would on the backpack. Yeah, what it would go in there
• 1:15:07
  like not taxed, I don't know. Anyways, I need it to pay bills
• 1:15:12
  too, so. Trust me, I understand.
• 1:15:16
  Yeah. I have, I have that additional
• 1:15:18
  monthly withdrawal coming out now for incarceration through
• 1:15:22
  June. So yeah, I kind of.
• 1:15:24
  Have extra. Money.
• 1:15:26
  Yeah. Yeah, yeah, an extra $300 a.
• 1:15:29
  Month coming out. Right now I'm.
• 1:15:32
  Like here, here you guys go. So but I'm trying to think of
• 1:15:35
  anything else because I know I like I said that that documents
• 1:15:40
  pretty good. It covered a lot of it.
• 1:15:42
  Yeah. So that we knew, Yeah.
• 1:15:44
  And then like we said, the the next holiday coming up is
• 1:15:46
  Thanksgiving next week. And I Yep.
• 1:15:50
  And I took off the Saturday after Thanksgiving because my
• 1:15:55
  relief day is Friday, so I'll have Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
• 1:15:58
  Sunday off. I've already been mandated to
• 1:16:01
  work that Saturday. No, Yeah, yeah, I'm like, Nope.
• 1:16:07
  Do you know I'm no longer the the low man on the totem pole as
• 1:16:11
  regulars? I'm third from the bottom now
• 1:16:14
  and 4th from the top. I'm kind of in the middle, but I
• 1:16:18
  am still the low man on the totem pole for Saturday K days.
• 1:16:24
  I think I'm, I'm 22nd in seniority now.
• 1:16:27
  Oh, I'm. 4th I'm 4th and yeah, but I'm still the low man for
• 1:16:35
  Saturday K days. So yeah, I'm working the 29th
• 1:16:38
  and I know it's happening because it went well.
• 1:16:42
  I'm not necessarily being mandated, I was asked, but more
• 1:16:45
  than likely I would have been mandated, so I just.
• 1:16:48
  Said yeah. Whatever I have, as of right
• 1:16:51
  now, I have not been asked to work this next Saturday.
• 1:16:55
  So I'm thinking the other regular is working Saturday so
• 1:16:59
  they can then take that X day and take the day after
• 1:17:03
  Thanksgiving off and have A5 day weekend as they're well known to
• 1:17:07
  do throughout the. That's what I think's going on,
• 1:17:11
  yeah. Yeah.
• 1:17:13
  Wouldn't it be a shame if management mandated their X day
• 1:17:16
  on Wednesday? Yeah, unfortunately my
• 1:17:19
  management would not do that for this particular.
• 1:17:22
  Person I know, I know, I'm just saying it'd be a shame.
• 1:17:26
  Hey last Saturday 3 regulars worked so this person could have
• 1:17:30
  their K day OK? Wow.
• 1:17:34
  Yeah, that that. Yeah, I'm just going to leave it
• 1:17:38
  at that. I the the math not math in for
• 1:17:40
  me but wow. And I did Monday.
• 1:17:45
  Monday was kind of cold. We we only had a high of like 33
• 1:17:48
  here Monday. And yes, I excuse my language
• 1:17:52
  people, I bitched out and got the LLV delivery window cover
• 1:17:59
  out that on my truck. Hey, that's, that's fine.
• 1:18:04
  That's good. You got to do what you got to
• 1:18:06
  do. Yeah, you got to become.
• 1:18:07
  I'm out there alone and going wow.
• 1:18:09
  And I'd only wore my my thinner hoodie, my zip up hoodie I got
• 1:18:14
  from Lake Tahoe when we went to Reno last year.
• 1:18:18
  And I that's all I had on with, you know, my long sleeve T-shirt
• 1:18:21
  and I was like, it's mighty chilly.
• 1:18:23
  Can I get that? And then it was still chilly
• 1:18:26
  because I'm wasn't used to these temperate all of sudden boom
• 1:18:29
  drop. And so I was notified I had a
• 1:18:33
  Mr. own parcel and I passed the office going after my first
• 1:18:37
  route at first hour of the route.
• 1:18:38
  I drive right past the office. So yeah, I know I don't want to
• 1:18:42
  hear it about them texting us, but it I don't necessarily
• 1:18:45
  reply. I'll look at it and they, yeah,
• 1:18:48
  OK, at least it's for the back half and I'll stop and yeah, you
• 1:18:52
  know, I'll stop and grab it on my way past the office.
• 1:18:55
  I'm not going out of my way. And I was like, I'm kind of glad
• 1:18:58
  I had to do this because then I can run to my car and grab my
• 1:19:01
  warmer hoodie. Yeah, like, Oh my goodness.
• 1:19:06
  I know we haven't had any true, real, true snowfall yet.
• 1:19:09
  What little bit we did was gone within a couple hours and we've
• 1:19:12
  had little flurries here and there.
• 1:19:14
  But it it it's a common I'm not looking.
• 1:19:16
  Forward I actually had some of that stuff the other night.
• 1:19:19
  We had some flurries earlier today.
• 1:19:21
  All right guys, before we just start flapping our jaws and
• 1:19:24
  carrying on, we will. Hey, you know, I and I told the
• 1:19:30
  supervisor too. I said because the city carriers
• 1:19:32
  hardly use their window covers for the LO VS I said I'm taking
• 1:19:34
  one from one of the city trucks And she she looked at me.
• 1:19:39
  I said because mine is really scratched up because it
• 1:19:42
  obviously didn't get put on right a couple different times
• 1:19:44
  and come flying off and got dragged down the road.
• 1:19:48
  She's like, oh, so you need a new one ordered.
• 1:19:50
  I'm like if you would, that'd be great please Thank you.
• 1:19:53
  And then you know the hard plastic slides for the cases,
• 1:19:57
  the mark in the cases, the colored ones yes yeah, our
• 1:20:01
  office has like really never used them since I've been in
• 1:20:04
  this office and I've learned on them and color coding system and
• 1:20:08
  and so we there I don't know there was a box from a retired
• 1:20:11
  carrier or something that got sent to us.
• 1:20:12
  I had a bunch of them so I took of them but it was all funky
• 1:20:16
  colors because. Color code, right?
• 1:20:19
  So I guess my sub who had learned my system with the
• 1:20:22
  slides who's now regular wanted some more and certain colors and
• 1:20:26
  so she come around and add. So like, yeah, absolutely.
• 1:20:29
  If you get me, you know, green, more yellows because I'm
• 1:20:32
  definitely don't have enough yellows because I've been using
• 1:20:34
  white and oranges where I should have yellows.
• 1:20:35
  I said that'd be great. I said I'm good on red.
• 1:20:38
  Plenty, plenty of red. Those came in yesterday.
• 1:20:41
  Can you believe how happy I was to have even a new color chart
• 1:20:45
  to to fill out, to put on underneath the plexiglass on the
• 1:20:49
  the desk of the case and wow, Yeah.
• 1:20:52
  So I'm like, Oh my gosh, I can get these all done up.
• 1:20:54
  And then my new labels came in. So I got brand new labels that I
• 1:20:58
  need to do hopefully this week, yeah.
• 1:21:02
  Class on your on your case, but I actually have that now too.
• 1:21:06
  I was going to say, you just found got that because you're in
• 1:21:08
  the. Yes.
• 1:21:09
  You got fancy. Fancy.
• 1:21:11
  Yeah. Yep, that's what I said.
• 1:21:13
  I just got that as of yesterday. So I, you know, it's been a
• 1:21:19
  couple weeks. My truck came back, it's running
• 1:21:21
  awesome. I can't complain the heat.
• 1:21:24
  Works. Yeah, well, you know, I, I did 4
• 1:21:27
  1/2 months of musical vehicles, so I'm good.
• 1:21:31
  Yeah, vehicle. Yeah, yeah, I I'm happy my
• 1:21:34
  truck's back. I actually see the two NGD VS on
• 1:21:38
  in the parking in the far end of the parking lot.
• 1:21:41
  So I was Speaking of NGD VS and if anybody else has heard the
• 1:21:45
  tires that they put on those, they only last about 1500 miles.
• 1:21:51
  Oh, Lynette's already had two sets put on her truck.
• 1:21:56
  It's got just over 6000 miles on it now and the ones that are on
• 1:21:59
  it need to be replaced. I don't I.
• 1:22:02
  Wonder if it was, but I know we're talking with one of the
• 1:22:05
  team members or the transition team.
• 1:22:07
  They were one of the vehicles. They were talking about Michelin
• 1:22:10
  tires on it. I don't know.
• 1:22:11
  I was happy with all brand new tires on mine too.
• 1:22:14
  And I looked so I'm like, whoa, those are new.
• 1:22:16
  Those are new rigs too. Wow, I'm I was even more
• 1:22:20
  thrilled. Yeah.
• 1:22:23
  For the winner, yeah. Yeah, seriously.
• 1:22:26
  And then I thought for sure when the sub had cleaned my truck out
• 1:22:30
  before VMF took it when through the the rod through the oil pan
• 1:22:35
  that I thought he did something with my trade dapper.
• 1:22:39
  My my postmaster was it last year sometime went through and
• 1:22:43
  whatever. If anybody wanted trade dappers,
• 1:22:45
  just the red ones for the DPS trace.
• 1:22:47
  If anybody wanted them, get one. I'm like, yeah, sure, I'll take
• 1:22:49
  one. And and all of a sudden it
• 1:22:51
  disappeared and I thought maybe he took it with him to, you
• 1:22:55
  know, the other routes that he went on and bring the ox route
• 1:22:58
  and going regular and Nope. When my truck came back, there
• 1:23:01
  was my trade dapper sitting on the tray.
• 1:23:03
  I'm like, oh, that's where that was.
• 1:23:06
  So I got that back too. Hey, you're lucky you didn't
• 1:23:09
  disappear. Oh, I know, right?
• 1:23:11
  That's why we pulled my shelves before it went.
• 1:23:13
  That was the first thing they did was they pulled them shelves
• 1:23:16
  out. In fact, the the postmaster
• 1:23:18
  pulled the shelves out and put them in the back of her car
• 1:23:22
  before the tow truck made. Yeah.
• 1:23:25
  So all right, guys, so we're going to wind it down now so
• 1:23:27
  we're not rambling any anymore. And he's going.
• 1:23:30
  What the hell are you talking about now?
• 1:23:33
  So this we could ramble on and on and on, but we're not.
• 1:23:36
  So Josh, your final comments for tonight.
• 1:23:40
  Just be safe out there, you know, as we over to earlier, the
• 1:23:43
  weather is changing for good or bad, so layer up.
• 1:23:48
  Just take your time, do what you need to do, get it done.
• 1:23:50
  Don't get overwhelmed if you do take a step back, take a deep
• 1:23:54
  breath and step back in. Have a good week, you know.
• 1:23:58
  Well thank you guys. Hopefully Christmas is not crazy
• 1:24:03
  and we can get managers to hire people.
• 1:24:09
  And and. Yeah, we have one going through
• 1:24:10
  Academy this week. Like please.
• 1:24:13
  Please get them on boarded by before next Christmas.
• 1:24:17
  Yeah, yeah, seriously, maybe if this is, if this is your first
• 1:24:21
  Christmas, please hold on. You know, it's it's each
• 1:24:26
  Christmas sometimes is different.
• 1:24:27
  There's similarities. But like Josh was saying, don't
• 1:24:31
  get overwhelmed with it. And, you know, take it day by
• 1:24:35
  day. And sometimes it may feel
• 1:24:36
  overwhelming, but you know, just do what you can go.
• 1:24:41
  Don't hurt yourself. You know, do you still need to
• 1:24:44
  stay safe? And because you still do need
• 1:24:48
  to, to go home and be with your family and don't let the stress
• 1:24:54
  of this beat you down. And hopefully it's a good
• 1:24:59
  Christmas. Hopefully it's not a super
• 1:25:02
  insane one, but again, I'm still in that vein of there's, there's
• 1:25:07
  EAP. If you, if you need any, you
• 1:25:10
  know, counseling help. The phone number for EAP is
• 1:25:15
  800-327-4968 and it's E8800 EAP for you.
• 1:25:23
  Again, it's 800-327-4968. You can go on to you, you can
• 1:25:28
  just Google USPSEAP if you want to, you know, text a counselor.
• 1:25:35
  It's sometimes the holiday season brings out, you know,
• 1:25:41
  different emotions and this job doesn't always help with that.
• 1:25:45
  So just reach out to them if you need anybody to to talk to.
• 1:25:49
  So and please take care of yourselves.
• 1:25:54
  I know it's it's it's darker. We're we're we're in headlamp
• 1:25:58
  time at night. I know I used my headlamp couple
• 1:26:01
  nights a couple times this this last week.
• 1:26:04
  So make sure those batteries are fresh and that they're they're
• 1:26:08
  event that management get you a new set of them.
• 1:26:13
  But just make sure you're going home safe.
• 1:26:15
  So, but thank you guys. And yeah, Kristen.
• 1:26:20
  Thank you guys. Yep, so basically that was
• 1:26:23
  Christmas OT in a nutshell and how holidays are supposed to
• 1:26:28
  work. You can find most of that
• 1:26:29
  information under. You said it was article 11
• 1:26:32
  correct? For holidays, yes.
• 1:26:35
  Yep, for holidays. And then nine point what, 2
• 1:26:39
  point whatever for for Christmas overtime plus the F21 time on a
• 1:26:43
  table. So definitely, you know, you get
• 1:26:45
  a chance. Go read up.
• 1:26:47
  So if management's trying to do something funky, you can say,
• 1:26:50
  Nope, this says different. You can't do that.
• 1:26:53
  That was always my favorite thing to do.
• 1:26:57
  But yes, the weather is here. It is.
• 1:26:59
  In black and white. Yes, yes, this says right here
• 1:27:02
  you're you're the higher up bosses of you agreed with our
• 1:27:06
  people and they say you can't do that.
• 1:27:08
  So no, you can't do that. But yes, the weather is starting
• 1:27:14
  to change. We're already halfway through
• 1:27:16
  November already. Oh my, my, Oh my.
• 1:27:19
  This year is going by fast. But on that note, guys, take
• 1:27:22
  care of yourself. Stay hydrated, stay warm, dress
• 1:27:25
  in layers if needed. If you're still in warmer
• 1:27:28
  weather areas, well, I I'm happy for you because it's getting
• 1:27:33
  kind of chilly over here anyways.
• 1:27:36
  But yeah, so take caution. You know, if you are in those
• 1:27:39
  states that normally get snowfall that if you haven't
• 1:27:42
  seen yet, make sure your vehicles are prepared, whether
• 1:27:46
  your government vehicle or POV, make sure you have what you need
• 1:27:50
  for the snow. You're in those.
• 1:27:52
  You know, I know my postmaster mentioned getting out the
• 1:27:55
  shovels and the snow scrapers and whatnot.
• 1:27:58
  I this year I cut my puzzle weights in all year round.
• 1:28:01
  I didn't bother taking them out because that's something we
• 1:28:04
  don't have anybody to do that in our office.
• 1:28:05
  So, you know, hit start load, drive it around, go load them
• 1:28:08
  up, bring it back, hit end load. It works for us.
• 1:28:11
  Or end of shift duties. That too end of shift duty, if
• 1:28:15
  that's something you have to do on yourselves.
• 1:28:16
  But stay vigilant out there. You know, it's, I know firearm
• 1:28:21
  deer hunting season just opened up yesterday as well in
• 1:28:24
  Michigan. I'm not sure about other states.
• 1:28:27
  So that's one more thing we got to keep our eyes out for
• 1:28:30
  hunters. And you're running more than
• 1:28:33
  normal. But you know, guys, it's, you
• 1:28:37
  know, Christmas is quickly coming upon us and it is tough.
• 1:28:41
  We've all been through it this, you know, and if this is your
• 1:28:45
  first Christmas, guys, just stick with it.
• 1:28:48
  And if you're brand new and you're coming in at this time of
• 1:28:51
  year, if you can survive it, you've got it made.
• 1:28:55
  I mean, just remember that there's always that light at the
• 1:28:58
  end of the tunnel. It only comes once a year and
• 1:29:02
  you just have to get yourself prepared mentally for it, if you
• 1:29:06
  if at all you can. I know there's so many other
• 1:29:09
  things that go on with everybody.
• 1:29:10
  Everybody has their own things they're dealing with outside of
• 1:29:12
  work. But just try to remember when
• 1:29:14
  you're walking into that post office, especially this time of
• 1:29:16
  year, that you're just focused on doing your job and getting it
• 1:29:20
  done as safely that you can. I'm not going to iterate, you
• 1:29:25
  know, safe. Be safe out there, guys, because
• 1:29:29
  you know, you want to be home for the holidays with your
• 1:29:31
  families as well. So on that note, we'll be back
• 1:29:33
  next week as usual. And yeah, take care everybody.