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Hunger Games · United We Scan

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Hey everybody, Welcome Back episode 18.
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We are we are still rolling strong.
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How has your week been Mike, my week's been pretty good.
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We I actually had the first RCA, they've hired at our office in
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about a year, Shadow me yesterday.
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So it's been through orientation driver training and attends
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Academy next week. So, That was that was kind of a
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I told him. If anybody looks at you funny.
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Just say look you're the first new hire we've had in about a
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year so it don't don't. Don't scare him away.
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So looking at him funny because they don't know what to do.
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Because there's a new person on the floor.
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Yeah, it's kind of like crikey. Sorry.
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Is in his natural environment, you know?
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So But you know, he's a he's a, he's a veteran and he said the
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same thing. My last RCA said to me was that?
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Yeah, I know I intend to make a go of this and they want me out
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of here. They're going to have to fire
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me. Like, I don't intend on quitting
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like, Okay. So let's hope that.
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Let's hope that he makes it. Yeah, definitely.
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Let's hope he makes it for you. That definitely would help James
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how was your week. Oh, lots of lots of fun.
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Got into a fight with the supervisor so solving that and
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then dealing with carrier questions, still over the wreck
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system and helping people understand the stuff which most
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people don't even understand as it is.
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And you know, trying to Keep the peace and keep people from
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jumping the gun on thing so to speak.
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So it's been a lot of fun and I felt like I've been juggling
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about five swords, three chainsaws and two flaming arrows
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at the same time, I know that feeling I really I do.
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I started o.j. teeing the one of the new RCA's this week and I
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did it in the non-standard way. For the fact that I was already
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scheduled to run this route through Wednesday and I'm like,
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well, he's seven on it. Just throwing with me, we'll
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start training him, and they had been casing for about 3 days.
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So they're familiar with the case.
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So, once we pulled down all by himself, he loaded the truck all
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by himself. We took DPS to the street and he
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delivered the whole entire route.
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Friday didn't want to take a break, didn't want to switch
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seats and And we got back at. I don't know about 5:15.
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So actually that was really really good.
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We need to give him a hand. Need the?
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Yeah, my hand for that. One death.
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Yes. Yeah.
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So Saturday. Yeah.
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How long would it take you to do, just that rail just that
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wrote on the day that we had the mail that we had on Friday, I
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probably would have been back around. 3:00 3:30.
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Yes, excellent. Yeah, yeah these are 12 hours
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behind doing most of the work himself.
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Yes that is excellent band around them, so people's jdk
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days. I didn't have anybody to take
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the aux route for me so because he did so well on Friday, I
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asked him. I said, would you be comfortable
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taking a portion of the route out on By yourself.
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And he's like I think I could probably do that.
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I said okay I said I'll let you choose what part of the route
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you want to take because the first half has your up-and-down
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US-23 and you've got several CB use which are still kind of
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confused and a little bit and then we got one condos where
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each there's 10 buildings and for four units per building and
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they each have their own mailbox that are, you know, you'll have
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50 one on top 50 to on the bottom for, you know.
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So each body Shouldn't hesitate on mailbox or just a big row
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group together and so that kind of confused him a little bit.
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I got to teach them to look at the actual unit numbers and not
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the individual street address but So he's like, well I'll take
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that back and after all the CPUs I said, that's fine.
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So I ran the front half and my Ox route and he was back and
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gone before. I was he got I got him out of
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the I got him out of the office, he was ready to hit the street
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about five minutes to ten and the postmaster went out to check
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on him when she was leaving for the day and he was within
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probably within about a half hour had left with a route if I
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was running it about a half hour.
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So I came about 45 minutes, left of the route to go at 12:45, she
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texted me and let me know where he was at because I said here's
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my phone number. If you need me, call me he's
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like I'll probably call you never heard once from him and I
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got back at 2:45 and he was done and gone and the few things that
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he did bring back where artery cased up.
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So the keeper we're giving him one day off.
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We're giving him Monday off and Tuesday.
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He's going to come back and I'm going to have him run the whole
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route again on his own. Why I ride in the back, come the
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jump seat and do to the family stuff.
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He may just be completely on his own on Wednesday, so but I think
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he will be fine. He is definitely, he's a keeper
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at this point and then not this week, but the following week
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I'll start training the other one on the street.
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So that's been my week for the most part and then we got
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another one of the pipeline coming down to.
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So I'll be busy training people for a little while.
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Josh, how was your week? Well, for the most part, it was
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good until Thursday when the car was using died.
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Apparently the timing chain jump to mess with the tensioner and
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they're saying in there. Pretty sure those internal
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engine damage but I felt I got towed to didn't want to open it
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and look just in case of a didn't extend the damage.
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So I got to get it towed to a shop for deals with interfere.
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Which was because my car, the there was an issue with it, and
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I think, November December, where the ride went through the
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block. And well, yeah, that needs a
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whole new engine in another car. Well, I got babies prices.
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Right. Well, get it till you know, Team
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Speedo causing. Yeah, other than putting her on
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here out Apparently, I heard would surely they, let her go
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partly because of a couple things, one of, which was no
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call no show for Amazon Sunday. so, it's never good.
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Nope. Alright, Bill, the stage is
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yours. I had a wonderful week.
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I mean, the weather was nice here.
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The management is outstanding the carrier's dedication to be
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in on the job on time. Every day is just wonderful,
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like, couldn't be any better. And when I get off the
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psychotropic drugs, I'm on, I'll tell you the real story.
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I was gonna say it's amazing that you can speak, so clearly
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with your tongue. So, so so deeply in your cheek,
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it's nailed to the roof of my mouth right now now.
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And I don't think Christopher, give me the floor here right
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after the podcast on Wednesday. And Is been bothered me, all the
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subject matter on Facebook groups?
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The rural carrier Associates, the rural carriers that that the
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Rex programs and everything and This is my pet peeve about the
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Union number one. Most people don't understand how
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a union functions and they think it's only there for them.
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It's for the whole, it protects the individual, but it's there
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for the whole, it's not for your benefits, not for my benefit is
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for the crafts benefit. Now the start on my main grief
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about this is all the negative comments, in regards to what's
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going on. Hey, a, if you are not in the
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union and you are on one of these websites, shut the hell
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up, If you don't register to vote, don't complain about the
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politicians. If you're not part of the Union,
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then you're not part of the solution.
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And if you say nothing gets done, that's because you're not
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willing to put your ass out there.
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Like we do every week every day and some of us go further than
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we really need to, but we want to help you protect yourself.
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So if you don't have the money to pay the dues, then there's
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something wrong with your finances.
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And I understand there are situations where yo single
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parents are out there, you know, car repair bills car replacement
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bills. I can understand that but I
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don't want to hear you bitch about the union and the Rex and
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everything else until you become a functioning member of the
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union, and work towards the betterment of The Craft and your
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office and the union itself, okay?
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So just shut the hell up as far as the union members are
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concerned. We discuss resolutions Now's the
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Time to discuss your National delegates.
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Stop picking the names. You know, if you have state
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people that are good, then elect them to go to this National
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Convention. If you have a good ADR elect
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them to go to the National Convention.
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If you have an area or local storage, you can elect them,
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elect yourself, get people behind you. the thing of it is
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that as we were Christian myself specifically and Josh on a
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previous podcast, we understood that you can't work from the
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outside and that's why we didn't jeopardize our positions in the
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Union by remaining with that podcast.
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You only can affect change from the inside.
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The only way you can currently affect change, is to get people
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who are at the National Convention, the vote along the
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lines that are similar to your views, what you see to be
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change, what needs to be changed, and it doesn't have to
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be specifically geared towards your personal interest.
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But what's in your office or how carriers are treating or how
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management is? Discipline or how the contract
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is in force. Both for people who are gonna
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represent the views of The Craft Ballots will be mailed out soon.
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You'll be able to elect these people vote for these people and
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then your state whichever State you were living in.
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Based on the number of employees will get a percentage of them to
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send to the National Convention, don't send people who are just
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names to you and for God's sakes, don't vote for retirees
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who have no interest in what your job is and hasn't been for
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the past 10 years. And there are some retirees in
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Pennsylvania, we have Wild Bill McKinley who every year at every
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convention, that every Regional convention, and seminar, turns
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around and rents out, a room, AKA sweet, and puts up a dry
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erase board or a, even a flip chart for all the things to be
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addressed. Now, there's somebody I can be,
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you know, supportive of rest of them are there for free
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vacations. The go see their friends from
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yesteryear. They have no horse in the race,
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except for a vacation and the support, those who bring the
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vacations. Put people in power, who
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represent the people and vote the people in power out, who
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represent themselves. Has anybody noticed that since I
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brought to light the LM 20 years ago, that all of a sudden, the
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national board stop spending eight thousand dollars for
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mattress sets 31 hundred dollars for personal desk or $1300 for a
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pellet grill. As anybody noticed that, you
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know, if you look into their time and they're leaving, all
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that which came up the question last time at Texas.
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That all of a sudden, you know, oh, maybe we should get paid at
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a higher rate. I'm requesting from our current
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secretary treasurer the payoff figures for Clifford and David
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because you're going to sit there and piss yourselves.
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When you see a half million dollar payout for somebody who's
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had accumulated almost 300 days of leave at 500, plus dollars a
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day and you all voted for it because he made it sound like
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such a sweet steel deal for the craft well, for the union per se
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because we can't afford to carry over all this debt that we are
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going to 0 in the future. So let's bump the money up and
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pay most of it out now. I want to see those figures
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because boys and girls most of those people on the national
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board is set for the newly-elected ones are
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millionaires. Multi-millionaires off of your
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dimes and I'm sick and tired of it.
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That's my rant, that's my rave. I'm done.
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Thank you Bill. I know you had some but yeah
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it's and I get my second run Wild Bill there I got a nice
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little fist bump from I'm after my walking out of the caucus
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room he was in when I did my little caucus to her I'm not all
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right. Retirees are there for a party?
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They are some that are still very active and wanting to help
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the craft but that number is not.
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As high as, yeah. That's all I'm gonna say about
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that. Well, you have to consider when
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my state sends 26 percent of its, you know, delegates, as
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retirees to the National Convention.
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Something's wrong. Something's very wrong.
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Yeah, it's and I noticed. I wasn't sure if I was going to
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say this, but it along the lines of bills thing.
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They're the right at the end of the resolutions episode this
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past week. I had told everybody, you know,
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do your homework and go download those resolutions convention
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proceedings and give them a read because you could download 2022
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and 2019. It was locked out yesterday,
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like I mentioned proceedings when I went to go in there and
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pull up, 2019. So, I've got all the hard
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copies. I do have land 2022, so
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downloaded and I think I had a hard copy of 2019 and at one
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time but it's very moving and everything at my probably
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disappeared on me. So yeah.
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As of last night it was locked out.
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I haven't tried it today so unless they're updating the
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website again again, just putting it out there that it
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was. I just tried I just tried to
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pull it up and it's not Letting me in either.
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Yeah, so okay, I was just going to go look for it.
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So if you're listening guys, hi how you doing?
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Yeah, and that note, so kind of a little bit of a ride.
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I think we're going to kind of do a little bit of a round table
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tonight. Everybody can like, pick the
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topic they want to discuss. I know we've had some things
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questions in the Facebook group. See, we've had emails that we've
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been answering James. What was the big one end of
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shift duties? I know I've seen a lot of it was
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that the one you want to talk about tonight?
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Yeah, this is the big one and I actually just recently saw
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another A post about it about postmasters telling people that
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they, they can't do end of, they can't do more than five minutes
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at the end of shift duties, and stuff like that.
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And it's not right. It is incorrect.
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They are instructing you improperly.
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The PO 603 is the defining regulation for postal carriers
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in. The rural craft is the rural
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carrier duties, and Abilities. And For that there is section 4
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of the PO 603 that tells you all of your Endo shifting and
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everything you need to do at the end of your shift.
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And of course, it's been updated a little bit with the wreck
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stuff to add the DPM and LTM systems, but there is so many
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different things you have to do at the end of your shift.
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I'm trying to actually pull it up right now.
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As I'm talking about it, that, you know, you have to do
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multiple different things to cover your end of shift.
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Duties as a carrier, you have to put your paper, put your time
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zone, your 4240, which is your time record.
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If your p.m. or your supervisor is putting in the times from
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your scanner and not putting them in from your 4240.
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They're doing it wrong. If you took breaks at this time,
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is when you write down the entire accrued time of your
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brakes on your 4240. You know, route changes like
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your edit book affixing postage to mail that you picked up
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postage for on the route. Part of your stamp stock sales,
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you would not put it on the envelope on the You would save
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it for your end of shift Duty and put it on in the office.
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Facing and depositing mail where it belongs.
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If you do that undeliverable, ordinary mail return from Route
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facing the mail that you bring back to the office or depositing
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it where it belongs. Like if you take DPS the street
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like Kristen's new sub was doing taking the DPS to the street at
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that time, you would put it where it belongs.
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You put away your certified, your Countable male would have
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to go in and place any money that you picked up on the route
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would have to be properly taken care of.
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Hang on, empty making payment putting it back away, or you put
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your empty equipment away. You're like, I said, your edit
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book is another one, your DPM, and LTM mapping is part of your
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end of shift duties, doing your case labels, when you get new
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labels for your case, that is an end of shift, Duty, maintaining
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your case, putting up your pars labels, however, you do your
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forward. It's in your case, whether you
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put them on the forward card or you put the name, on the case
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with the label maker, all that stuff is part of your into shift
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duties. Taking your bathroom isn't in
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the shift Duty emptying, your bladder, when you get back from
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the route as part of your industry of Duty, both the
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management side and the union sides, paperwork.
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All say that bathrooms are not a lunch break.
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You're going to the bathroom. Bathroom is federally required
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to be paid in both the union and the post office have put that in
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there, quick reference guides. And there are other materials
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that involve Rex and all this other stuff and if and if I can
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interject there's also a there's also a step for grievance
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settlement that says that that says that as well to back that
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up. Exactly.
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So there's all other paperwork that backs it up as well.
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The other thing talks with Management.
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If management wants to have an investigative interview or if
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they want to issue discipline, or if you have to file a
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grievance, that is an end of shift Duty on the end of shift
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clock. You don't go into anything else,
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just your return to D you and start doing all this work.
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Once you get done with all of that, then you can either go
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into p.m. casing or clock out, but you have to do all of this
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before you switch to p.m. casing or clock out for the day.
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This is time on your evaluation. This gets averaged out over the
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year, but this is your time to be put on your evaluation and if
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you aren't doing these things, on the end of your shift, you're
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leaving, Money on the table for the Post Office and that is my
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opinion. I can only give you my opinion
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here. I don't represent anybody but I
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want you guys to succeed rural carrier to rural carrier here.
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Even even if you are, I'm going to kind of Step Aside here and
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say even if you are a non dues-paying member, you are
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still my brother or sister in the craft, you still need to do
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this stuff, you still need to learn this stuff.
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You still need to know about this stuff and I understand Some
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people cannot afford it. I know that if I was in a
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different situation than I am right now, I might not be able
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to afford it. I mean cost of cars alone we
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just talked about that previously with Chris when other
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people were talking the cost of cars has gone.
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So high that maybe some people could go.
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Well I know that $32 that I are 32 dollars, I pay the union or
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whatever you pay, the union would be better, spent on me
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being able to afford Hard to get to my Postal job, because I'm on
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table to Step One lost a lot of money from my RCA days.
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And now I'm a regular carrier and can't afford some of the
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luxuries I used to have when I was an RCA.
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But we're all in this together and everything we can learn from
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each other through, whatever means possible to stick together
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is the best way we can do this. And learning all the duties.
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All the scans use are the aftermath and carrier discretion
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for ideas of what you can do for those as well, as your end of
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shift duties, everything you can do that is listed in our
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paperwork, to help your evaluation, you need to be doing
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It's no longer oh well we have this two-week count where
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everything that gets pounded matters and the rest of the
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year. We can just do whatever we want
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every day. Now, matters what you do, every
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scan matters, every input matters and everything you do.
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Unstraight time matters. So, make sure you are figuring
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out what you need to do to help yourself.
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Because your Case-Mate may be able to give you an opinion but
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it is of course carrier discretion on their route, what
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they want to do. And supposedly, we can figure
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this out together. Sorry, I had to throw the to
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drinking game words in there. And there's another thing that
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was brought up was we have, especially at 90, I hear similar
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in my office, especially with the one route that lost the most
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The coverage Factor. I I get this.
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So I'm only going to liberate 68% of my route and I'm done
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because that's all they say that I deliver their carriers out
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there saying it. Well, if I don't have DPS I'm
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not stopping. Even if a flags up where they
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have flats your coverage factor is based off of more than just
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DPS. It's also based off of the bread
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crumbs in the scanner. And is there one more thing,
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guys? You're the visually process
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nonlinear male. Yes.
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So Don't just deliver what you have DPS for that is not going
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to help you out one bit. I've also seen carrier saying,
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well I'm going to stop at every box.
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Well that's up to you again. That's your carrier described
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flag is up. If my postmaster or said that if
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she catches carriers doing that, when there's not a flag up or
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mail being delivered, and my postmaster, As do route
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inspections. And she catches you doing that.
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She will immediately remove you from the route for falsifying
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data. There's management that will do
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that to you. They will come out and they
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inspect your route. And if they see you doing
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something that you're not supposed to be doing, they could
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immediately remove you from the Route, 44, a gross violation.
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I and then the Union steward have to step up with that being
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in an emergency placement for that.
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I, you know, it's a felony. Yeah.
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Your falsifying, a government document.
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That's a felony. Yeah, you know, guys just do
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your job - scams, okay? Yeah.
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Cigarettes games were falsifying.
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Yo, and yeah, that every day. Yes.
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As as you as National has stated in the past at conferences and
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conventions. Integrity scans are not a thing
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but management still tries to make them a thing.
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But what I'm going to tell you guys is the flag is up, stop at
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the Box. if you have flats stop at the Box, Not just if you have
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DPS. Come on guys.
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Just just all I'm going to say it's just do your jobs the way
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you've always done your job. You might have a few extra scans
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to put in there with a few extra trips to doors or postage due or
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you know, something of that. But when it comes to just toss
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in the mail do it the same way you've always done it where some
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of these numbers I mean again until they actually give us the
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black-and-white data and we don't even have the answers for
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what the stuff is. Unfortunately, and it's, you
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know, it affects us just as much as the rest of you guys out
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there. So please, you know, if the flag
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is up, stop at the Box. If you know they have flats but
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no DPS deliver the flats. I mean I'm 41 and not wanting to
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track that shit all the way back to the office with me and having
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to re case it hoping they have DPS the next day.
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No. Just deliver the mail.
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Absolutely. Absolutely.
31:23
And that's also delaying the mail to absolutely no offense.
31:33
Let me put this out there about that.
31:37
That coverage factor is yes. Based on digitally processed
31:42
mail that includes the nlm mail and comes in little bundles and
31:46
stuff like that. But it is not all the mail that
31:50
you are grounded. For that day, you are also
31:54
counted for your factor from the mini mail survey for the raw
31:58
mail each day, you're also factored for the flats.
32:03
You're a factor for everything. That's on your for 8241 m is
32:09
factored in for that day. So even though you may not have
32:13
the coverage factor, that you're actually delivering its factored
32:18
in L, swear on your 4241 M. So saying that the coverage
32:23
factor is the basis of how much money you get paid to deliver.
32:26
The mail on the route is completely false because it's
32:29
factored in Elsewhere on your 42 41, m.
32:33
You know, just do the right thing because it's the right
32:38
thing to do. We pride ourselves about given a
32:43
damn about our customers and making sure our customers get
32:46
the best service possible. The management above our
32:51
postmasters. Maybe some of our postmasters
32:54
probably doesn't give a damn about the customers.
32:57
They just care about the numbers on a spreadsheet because that's
33:00
all they see they don't come out to the field and meet The
33:03
customers that meet us every day at the mailbox and say, hi.
33:06
How you doing? Are you staying cool on a hot
33:09
day? Are you, are you staying warm on
33:12
a cold day? Kind of thing?
33:14
They aren't out there checking on us and making sure that our
33:18
customers are being treated with dignity and respect, like we
33:22
treat them with right. It's our job to take care of our
33:29
people. Yeah, I just I just don't I just
33:34
don't get this and I saw some people trying to justify this on
33:38
social media, going back to the coverage factors only 75%.
33:43
So I'm only going to cover 75% of my route for deliver 75% of
33:47
my router. I'm not going to pick up
33:49
outgoing mail. You know, folks, I just don't
33:52
get why I get why people are upset about their evaluations,
33:58
believe me, I understand and we there's a lot of stuff.
34:01
On with this. But why the hell are you wanting
34:04
to take this out on your customers?
34:07
Why the hell are you going to make them suffer?
34:12
Because we're having this battle with the post office right now.
34:19
Definitely. Is that a Smurf fault?
34:20
It's not their fault. In fact, if people stopped
34:24
sending mail, we wouldn't it's one of those old things.
34:27
If people stopped sending mail, we wouldn't have a job.
34:31
And then, where would we be? But we can't depend on Amazon,
34:36
can't know. They could, they could, they
34:38
could decide they could, they could form a partnership with I
34:42
mean, they're doing their own now, but they can form some
34:45
partnership they could, they could buy out FedEx or deep or
34:49
UPS or DHL or somebody and all of a sudden all that Amazon
34:55
would go away, then where would we be?
34:58
D mu T mu. You know, it's funny because,
35:07
right before the Super Bowl, I started seeing add, I started
35:11
getting stuff from T mu in my parcels.
35:14
And then, they had an ad on the Super Bowl.
35:15
I thought I'm already starting to see that stuff.
35:19
Oh, yeah. And don't forget about, don't
35:21
forget about wish and Alibaba, because we still a thing.
35:26
I think team moved a little bit. Farm, yeah.
35:29
Um, I still get those little tiny little packets once in a
35:33
great while. But, yeah, Teemu, that's always
35:39
the thing is, you know, your Amazon Queens, all of a sudden,
35:43
you know, you're next thing it up.
35:45
Oh, they discovered Teemu. Yeah, I was, I was just gonna, I
35:52
was just gonna throw in as just going to throw a quote about
35:56
that. I had a box from them, that was
36:03
Like 2 feet by 2 feet by 3 feet, the other day like I didn't know
36:09
they had anything that large. I actually saw a box.
36:12
I was like really they use boxes.
36:14
Everything else comes in the poly bags but go ahead.
36:16
Mike finish what you were saying.
36:18
No. I was just I was just saying
36:19
that just to finish up. I thought there was a perfect.
36:24
I don't remember which team he coach former professional
36:27
basketball coach. One of his one of his big things
36:30
to his players and one of the things Has he always just
36:34
stressed, is this. Do your job?
36:38
That's it. That's all that's all we can ask
36:41
for from from each other is just do your job and have some
36:46
integrity. It says and if I can go back to
36:53
my original ran in regards to use the non-union pay Members,
36:59
folks, you have to realize that being my shop.
37:02
Steward that in March of 2021, I started monthly monthly
37:09
reminders to start scanning, start recording doing everything
37:14
that they were supposed to. We had to handouts back then
37:17
before, man. Judgment was even aware of it.
37:20
So you had a two-year lead in on this situation coming to a head
37:26
and I explained the importance of this to you.
37:29
And here's the thing about the non-union members that you know,
37:33
I provided information for because OK, they bid on a route
37:38
and they get it and somebody comes in behind them who's a
37:42
union member and they have no clue whether or not these people
37:46
had the information Do all their scans that they should have been
37:50
doing for over two years and whether or not the route is
37:54
properly evaluated. So I wanted to make sure every
37:58
carrier in our office, had the opportunity to maximize maximize
38:01
their paycheck, to make sure they were getting paid for
38:05
everything they were doing. And yet, you know, Union or
38:09
non-union, individuals were crying about the six cans folks,
38:15
the six cans was the, the Minimal view that you should
38:21
have had in regards to your evaluation.
38:26
It's only worth five seconds. It's the bare minimum for your
38:30
family. There you go.
38:32
So, don't don't tell me about. Yo, the, the six cans.
38:36
Don't tell me about, you know, not putting the wsh or two WS s
38:40
in there or, you know, the Box holders right thing else.
38:45
I purposely held up my wallet and the scanner and told them,
38:49
if it goes in here, you get it in your wallet.
38:52
If you don't put it in the scanner, you're not getting
38:54
paid. If you can't make it any simpler
38:58
than that, you're giving the money back to the post office is
39:02
what you really want, and they're gladly taking it too.
39:07
All right, we had a question. Come on messenger yesterday.
39:13
The I believe it's on the 42 41. M.
39:17
I didn't have one in front of me to look it up, but they want an
39:21
explanation on the oor out of Route Drive walk.
39:27
I got that. All right, go ahead, of course I
39:31
do. Yeah.
39:34
The or out of Route is 100% your delivery to the door.
39:43
It is your time your drive time from your mailbox, to your Park
39:48
point. And then at your walk time, from
39:51
your Park Point straight line to the door Point plotted, and the
39:56
drive time is through the speed Matrix, the distance from the
40:00
mailbox to your Park point and then standard walk time from
40:04
Park point to the door and back. That's all it is.
40:08
That is your out of Route, part of that.
40:12
So you are getting paid to drive to your parts point.
40:15
You are getting paid to walk from your Park point, to your
40:18
front door, and that's what it is.
40:21
I'm going to add, because another thing that seems to be
40:23
very popular. When you're scanning Parcels,
40:28
there are three different credits for the parcels based on
40:32
where you deliver. You have in the Box parcel
40:37
locker, and to the door. Now, the big question arises on
40:42
garage other location. Front desk, Etc.
40:49
Anything outside of to the door, parse Locker or mailbox, gives
40:56
you to the door credit. So the delivered in person
41:03
whether they met, you all Out at the mailbox or halfway up the
41:06
driveway. If you delivered at the garage
41:11
or at another location because they requested it to be dropped
41:15
around the back door or put in a bin that they have because of
41:21
the weather or they don't want people coming up to the door.
41:23
I know I've got a few of those. Those all give you to the door
41:29
credit and where you pinpointed the door during your mapping.
41:35
Very Line Credit to the door even if you walk to the side of
41:38
the house to the garage or something like that.
41:40
Yes. Wherever you pinpointed the
41:44
door. So if you pinpointed the garage
41:46
as the door because that's where you drop everything off at, then
41:52
everything that's outside of the three basic ones.
41:57
Always goes to that point wherever you pinpointed that
42:00
location, as your main drop-off spot, And it's a lot of there's
42:08
a lot of like we sat in in the aftermath and carrier
42:13
discretion. It's it's all supposedly
42:20
designed to maximize the credits.
42:23
You receive In your scanner, but we haven't seen the numbers for
42:28
it. And I went through my 4241 em
42:32
and added it all up and I don't have all the calculations for
42:36
it. And I found discrepancies here
42:38
and there and everywhere and it's just like everybody else
42:41
has And the problem to me is, we need the numbers, I need the
42:48
equations and I need the numbers that make those equations, and
42:53
they aren't given those to me, that is my biggest problem with
42:56
this. Turn around if you can turn
43:01
around and show me exactly how you calculate this out.
43:04
And show me all the numbers that went into it.
43:07
I'd be perfectly happy saying okay.
43:09
Yeah, I guess because of this volume right here, I deserve to
43:14
lose two hours. But I can't say yeah, that
43:18
volume is not there anymore. I can't compare my male numbers
43:23
with the rec system to my 2018 count.
43:28
I can't compare how much my DPS has gone down or gone up.
43:32
Can't tell whether my flats has gone down or gone up.
43:35
Can't tell if my packages have gone down or gone up I have to
43:38
trust trust that somebody up at National or in some computer lab
43:44
in the basement, you know, chewing on Cheetos has
43:47
determined that. That's the mail volume.
43:49
I actually got for the year. I need proof.
43:53
I want the truth and unfortunately, the truth, but
44:04
that's the key is transparency. We need somebody to step up and
44:10
say, Here's what you, what you want.
44:13
Here's what you need to do your calculations yourself.
44:18
When we did the mail accounts in 2018, Everything was cut dried
44:23
right in front of our faces and we don't get that here.
44:27
We need proof. I'm a guy of Truth honesty,
44:34
paperwork show me it in writing. When my p.m. asked me to do
44:40
something, I say, do it to me in writing.
44:44
Everything needs to be in writing for me because in the
44:47
end I want the proof that that's what it is.
44:52
If I don't have the proof of, that's what it is.
44:54
This doesn't mean anything to me.
44:56
You can put anything you want on it, but if you can show me, hey,
45:00
all this, all this correlates to this correlates, this correlates
45:03
to this. I'm more apt to believe you.
45:08
Anybody agree to disagree? I'm gonna add, I do agree with
45:13
you because this is another Hot Topic on the social medias
45:21
logging in under the city carrier side.
45:24
And looking at the, how am I doing option?
45:27
Yep. They how am I doing option on
45:29
the city side has absolutely nothing to do with the rural
45:33
site. Therefore is not going to be a
45:38
reflection of what you're doing that day.
45:44
It is not a rule side program, it specifically for the city
45:49
side and is not an accurate measure of anything based on a
45:54
rule. I think we should reach out to,
45:57
if any of our city carrier Brethren and sisters have how
46:02
that's figured out for them and can get it to us how that's
46:06
actually works for them, we'd appreciate that information so
46:10
we can actually pass it on to our rural carrier, brothers and
46:12
sisters. Because I would love to know how
46:15
their program works. I'm and I have seen City
46:20
carriers, go into it and it has hard braking and fast
46:24
acceleration, and they're on a walking route, and they got, and
46:29
they got flagged with hard braking and fast acceleration,
46:33
and they're walking. Well, that's what I was trying
46:37
to either. Well, that's what I was trying
46:41
to get away from the Chihuahua. That's the fast acceleration.
46:44
Yeah. German Shepherds all defensive
46:50
came after me. I wear sandals and dark gray
46:55
come in 10. The parcel count from there and
47:05
the, in the review, my entries and then I forget, there was one
47:12
other spot that you can look. I can't remember where it is.
47:16
Now that I actually looked that up.
47:19
Had three different numbers for the parcel count.
47:24
We have the review is all skins pickups drop off carrier pickup
47:34
request. Manifest Farms, right?
47:41
Anything you scan, if you scan the red plum, scan their the
47:45
beginning of the week that goes in there too.
47:48
Right, that's insane. So, you know, I know that number
47:51
will be held on a day-to-day basis will be a few all, you
47:57
know, a few off. But like I said, Both low truck.
48:09
I don't need it but From what you were saying about
48:30
in writing, we had someone messages earlier today and I
48:37
told them that I would bring it up on our panel this evening
48:40
just to make sure that I told them correctly.
48:45
They were inquiring about the buying the guarantee for 2080
48:52
with the high options. If it means, you know if it
48:56
means anything other than if you are eligible.
49:02
And have the option of the highway option that you have to
49:08
sign that guaranteeing that you will pick them up.
49:11
Annually to stay under 2082, take the high option.
49:18
Else if I am, I correct on that that this the only thing that
49:22
that represents that you're signing that you will take
49:25
enough weed to stay under 2080 hours to allow you to take that
49:29
high option. If you're eligible and it's an
49:33
option where you from the way, your route ended up I do believe
49:38
that is correct bill. I would agree with that.
49:43
Yeah. Okay, what is it?
50:15
Not that I would, I know people to view sick, leave to
50:19
accomplish that same. Mmm.
50:25
Yeah, supposedly. Well hold on.
50:41
You're talking about doing the jobs way.
50:43
We're supposed to do the jobs and being honest and forthwith
50:46
and then you throw out carrier discretion on the time.
50:49
If you don't take it to the door, then you should be putting
50:53
it as the being delivered to the The door correct?
50:57
Okay, I mean, yeah, your breadcrumbs will actually change
51:03
over time depending on the footprint of where you're
51:06
delivering it and where you're scanning it includes.
51:09
If you're one of those that scans it in the truck.
51:12
Oh God, please. That was fun mapping.
51:16
I had one carrier and I knew exactly where she parked every
51:21
time because that's where she scanned.
51:23
The package. I just looked at her and I said
51:27
your skin and in the truck, aren't you?
51:29
She's like, yeah, I said stop supposedly that the geofence of
51:38
where the vehicle where you parked the vehicle in a lot of
51:42
cases will be by the mailbox. So it's going to recognize that
51:51
you were at the mailbox when you scanned.
51:52
It delivered. Let's remember management has
52:03
the discretion to go out and do Rob inspections at any time that
52:07
they feel like it now, do you should be observing on your
52:12
route and of course, you could be doing your job, right, the
52:16
whole time, but you should know when they're following you
52:18
around, and watching what you're doing.
52:20
And there has actually been no instance where a manager has
52:27
been following a carrier around and they've called the police on
52:30
them. In the manager.
52:31
Got upset about it. You're actually protecting the
52:34
mail calling unto manager, following you around.
52:38
I've heard of customers call and going.
52:40
Why is that car following you? Yeah, you know, it happens.
52:44
I mean, usually they I'm not going to say usually but yes,
52:49
they are entitled to do route observations.
52:52
I had one, I had a funny time. I had I knew she was out doing
52:57
observations that week and I didn't recognize the car.
53:00
She was driving and I had a package delivered and she was
53:05
parked in the driveway of the house.
53:06
I needed to do. Were the package and I walked up
53:08
to the car. Thinking it was the customer.
53:14
And she just laughed along with me on that one.
53:17
But yeah, they they can definitely you know, any time.
53:24
So and it and it doesn't necessarily have to be your
53:28
local management. It could be measured.
53:30
Am another nearby office I will be somebody.
53:34
Yeah it could be somebody from District.
53:36
I know survey we my old office they let us know that safety was
53:41
out and about and would be you know, No inspecting routes and
53:46
stuff too. We didn't know who it was or
53:48
what the car look like. But we were aware that safety
53:50
would be following us around the inspectors to death.
53:53
Yeah, it's going to say that because I had a little run-in
53:57
with them years ago and ended up sending one of them to the
54:01
doctors at the hospital to get stitches in his head.
54:04
Holy cow. Whoops, well, I came, I came out
54:11
of this business where I went in and brought it to Then with the
54:14
mail and collect the table, they had their as they come out.
54:17
There's this guy going around the side of my truck, you know,
54:20
and checking the door and you know, he didn't have any, I
54:24
couldn't see any ID from the behind, so I ran up, I jammed
54:28
him head first? Right into the frame of the door
54:31
where the mirrors were put a clip in his forehead, had him on
54:34
the ground. And here's this other guy, yet
54:36
that of the car with a gun pulled and I'm like, oh, what
54:39
the fuck did I just do? Your was a Postal Inspector?
54:43
Like you're checking to see if the vehicle is secure I'm like
54:46
shit wasn't secure. Accommodation for that know.
54:54
The Postmaster said, you know what why don't you tell Jim
54:57
first ice is? I don't give you that
54:59
opportunity. It's not in my training you
55:03
though. Yeah.
55:07
That was a laugh for about a year and a half of my office.
55:11
Don't Go Near Bill's Truck. Hey, he was nice enough about
55:19
it. You know.
55:20
He says it's the first time that's ever happened to me and I
55:22
said well me too. Yeah yeah.
55:26
Alright yeah. Our job here is to invigorate
55:32
you and make you care about your job more than you already do.
55:36
Yeah. Like you care about what you do
55:38
and where you're going in this job because now it's up to you
55:44
how this job takes care of you. And we want you to succeed just
55:51
as much as we want to succeed ourselves.
55:53
Some of us lost money. Some of us gained money, some of
55:56
us stayed the same, but we're all here for you.
56:01
To give you the hand up in your career here in the in the rural
56:08
craft. So anything we can do to help
56:11
you, let us know. Because we don't care if you're
56:16
in Michigan or North Carolina or Florida, South Dakota, North
56:21
Dakota or even Hawaii. We're here for.
56:25
You guys are part of Rico. Let's not forget about 0 carry
56:30
their carriers in Puerto Rico and other US territories as well
56:33
as our carriers that serve our military bases.
56:37
Yep. I'm with the rural route and
56:39
Guam. Guam is good?
56:45
Yeah, it is. That's why we're so passionate.
56:53
That's why we bring our attitudes and our extreme voices
56:59
to. This is because we care No
57:03
matter where you are on the Chain, whether you are a current
57:08
rural carrier. Even a retired carrier, you're
57:10
still a rural carrier to us and we may say things that upset you
57:18
But we hope you take that anger that you get from us, upsetting
57:22
you and put it towards bettering the crap.
57:26
Because that's what this whole thing is about.
57:28
Bettering, the craft, exactly. I mean we all don't agree with
57:33
each other all the time but we know that we're all in this
57:36
together for everybody and you know, that's exactly what we're
57:44
trying to do. And And to get you know, be
57:48
active, if you are you know you're questioning everything,
57:52
BF, you know, it even if you can't go to the conferences in
57:57
the convention, you can still vote for those delegates that
58:01
are going to represent you and like Bill stated earlier.
58:05
And I've stated in past episodes, do your homework on
58:09
those nominees. Because, you know, that's where
58:15
the votes come in on the floor, are those delegates that you
58:17
send to Convention? Those are the people that are
58:21
casting that vote on your behalf for National officers for
58:27
Resolutions. You know, they're the ones that
58:30
are up there objecting to resolutions to get clarification
58:34
or say, no, this. No, this won't help or yes, this
58:38
will help. Or, you know, they're the ones
58:40
arguing at the A phone over resolutions.
58:43
You know, they're the ones voting for National officers.
58:47
Are there ones that are sitting on a Thursday night during
58:49
caucus till 10:00 11:00 at night.
58:52
Listening to every one of those people candidates that are
58:56
running for office. And trust me, Thursday nights
58:59
are rough. I have not, I have I have sent
59:03
through caucuses, as, as a delegate, as an alternate
59:07
delegate and I have walked through caucus as a candidate,
59:11
Thursday nights are brutal, you know?
59:14
And that's you know, I'm going to put this out here on, you
59:17
know. Yes, the pictures that you see
59:19
that are posted on social media, the banquet and everybody
59:23
sitting together at night, drinking and laughing and the
59:28
partying, you know. Yeah, they put those ones out
59:31
there because it's showing everybody having a good time,
59:34
but that's our way of Relaxing after we've been in a convention
59:40
room floor. Okay.
59:42
Yeah, winding down after a brain meld of business.
59:48
I mean, I can go home after a week ago events and more
59:51
exhausted I was, you know, working 60 hours a week during
59:54
Christmas is the only RCA in the building because it's a mental
59:59
overload. How many times during convention
1:00:03
did we break for the ER, when we finished for the evening?
1:00:06
Saying we're all the food places at the at the convention site
1:00:11
closed. Yeah, you know, it's like, you
1:00:16
know, It's a good thing. I had some stuff to eat in my
1:00:21
room because otherwise I did, you know, I wouldn't have had
1:00:24
anything to eat until the next morning at breakfast.
1:00:27
You know, is I had a I had a roomful of first-timers with me
1:00:36
at convention this last year and the one of the reasons why I
1:00:40
drove and those that help me unload my car and take
1:00:42
everything up to the room. I mean I had cooler, I had bags
1:00:46
and boxes of snacks and Coolers of stuff, both alcoholic and
1:00:51
non-alcoholic. But you know, to just because,
1:00:54
you know, you're not necessarily going to have a meal when you
1:00:57
get done. And Friday nights.
1:01:00
The last night, I remember Grand Rapids went until it was just
1:01:05
nine o'clock at night. By the time we got out of there
1:01:07
because you go until you're done, You know, and the other
1:01:11
and the other thing is the site they had in Orlando didn't allow
1:01:17
for outside food. Deliveries.
1:01:19
Yeah. So you couldn't call up a
1:01:22
doordash or GrubHub or the local pizza joint and have something
1:01:26
dropped off. You had to buy, you had to buy
1:01:28
stuff from there or from their food court or whatever.
1:01:33
We're go off-site if you had a car yeah to go get food.
1:01:36
I mean I we did that one night. We went to Wawa to get Some
1:01:40
food, you know? Wow.
1:01:42
Wow. But yeah.
1:01:47
It's you know not you don't have that luxury everywhere you go
1:01:51
being able to order in or so. Yeah.
1:01:54
You you take stuff and you know it's you.
1:01:58
Yeah but that's what they were promised.
1:02:00
You posted pictures of everybody having a good time you know
1:02:04
because that's what they want to portray is.
1:02:06
We're all having a great time here and I get I get the City
1:02:10
you get from from others saying, you're just going to party.
1:02:15
The After parties is the wind down, trust me.
1:02:18
That is. Yeah, the wind down from the
1:02:21
brain, melt of the day, I'm going to just say this from the
1:02:26
State Convention. I went to my butt was sore.
1:02:30
After that was just, that wasn't even as long as National just
1:02:35
compared National to stay on steroids.
1:02:39
Yeah, I seen the Percy. I seen the times.
1:02:44
You guys were talking them. An online and stuff about it and
1:02:47
I'm going you guys are just getting out of that.
1:02:50
Yeah, like how? Yeah.
1:02:53
Oh, hello. And then after that, you know,
1:02:55
you spend two hours carousing on the in a bar or outside, you
1:03:00
know, just still talking to people.
1:03:02
I mean, yeah, then you're getting up at 6:00 a.m., you
1:03:05
know, trying to get a shower with three other people in the
1:03:08
room. Sorry, I didn't mean to bring it
1:03:11
up Christian. But that but yeah, no, it is
1:03:18
long days. It is definitely, it is long
1:03:21
tiring days. And yeah, it's as a deli that's
1:03:28
just mounds of paperwork to go through resolutions.
1:03:32
I mean, you go back to your rooms and you're going through
1:03:34
resolutions together, your, you know, because you got to read
1:03:39
through those before they actually do them on the floor
1:03:41
because if not, you're just going, huh?
1:03:47
Actually why my resolution failed and National last year's
1:03:50
because it was so long people went.
1:03:51
This is too long. Skip next one.
1:03:54
Yeah. That's and you're just talking
1:03:56
about people who are going just as a delegate think about the
1:04:00
people who have who have who go and have special assignments.
1:04:05
Yeah, you know, my my State president was on the appeals
1:04:10
committee. Yeah.
1:04:12
And he they went, he went early. A couple days early and he had
1:04:19
just one checked bag that was all the paperwork he had to do
1:04:24
for the appeals committee because they had all those those
1:04:28
appeals that they had that they had to adjudicate.
1:04:31
Well yeah you got everybody. The resolutions committee, the
1:04:35
teller committees, all those people come in early so they can
1:04:38
get their chatting and get their instructions before they're
1:04:42
actually on the floor, having to do what they have to do.
1:04:45
Especially for the national officers votes voting for our
1:04:49
national officers. He wasn't even, I think he
1:04:52
missed half of them because he still had work to do with the
1:04:57
appeals committee. And so he had he, you know, I
1:05:05
don't remember how the, how we did it.
1:05:07
But yeah. So you know, don't I know most.
1:05:11
I know most of Union conventions are portrayed as big party.
1:05:15
But this, you know, there is actual work that gets done.
1:05:17
This is, you know, when we say, you know, you complain about
1:05:22
this or that but the union are, you just going to complain about
1:05:24
it on social media? Or are you going to, you know,
1:05:29
especially, if you're a member of the Union?
1:05:30
Are you going to get involved? Find out how to write a
1:05:33
resolution and set it up for through your state.
1:05:36
If you don't know how find somebody who does, yeah and
1:05:40
draft them together. One of our one of our supporters
1:05:43
here just had her County meeting and how many, how many
1:05:47
resolutions did she say? She took, like seven, something
1:05:53
seven or eight that she took the time to write out and pray, you
1:05:59
know, and take to the floor of her of her meeting to try to try
1:06:03
to make change, you know? And then he need right there.
1:06:09
Yeah. Being a keyboard, being a
1:06:11
keyboard Warrior is not going to is not going to cut it.
1:06:16
And that kind of gets me to the thing I want to rant about is
1:06:18
everybody's saying, well, the way to show that to show our
1:06:22
disapproval of what's going on with this is to drop out of the
1:06:26
works, that you can do that. That's that we're going to show
1:06:29
the bigwigs that enough of us drop out that if our if there,
1:06:34
if the dues dry up and they can't get their six-figure
1:06:38
salary, then they'll start to pay attention to us.
1:06:40
It's like, no, you just make us weaker.
1:06:42
You just give them less of a voice.
1:06:45
That gives that, you know, what's what, you know, then they
1:06:48
have to, you know, what salaries are they going to cut?
1:06:51
What are they going to start cutting at headquarters?
1:06:53
Are they going to start, you know, are they going to have to
1:06:56
make cuts to the legislative liaison office?
1:06:58
Are they going to, you know, what are they going to do?
1:07:01
They gonna have to cut their assistant Staffing?
1:07:04
You know, this the normal Staffing, the outside employees
1:07:08
that our staff at the office, you know, the people's people
1:07:14
are for if an arbitration mmm-hmm exactly.
1:07:20
You can make paint in. Arbitration could be cut because
1:07:23
we lost union dues. Yeah, I mean and if you have
1:07:27
tools are eliminating staff at the office, well now you're
1:07:31
putting even more on to that national board member, who is at
1:07:36
that office every day. Now, they're having to answer
1:07:41
their own phone calls or having to answer and it's, you might
1:07:44
not Back even longer because they don't have the staff to
1:07:49
research that question and pass on or answer that phone or any
1:07:55
of those know, you know, putting the files together.
1:07:58
I mean you're looking at even longer days you're looking at
1:08:02
even more work for everybody, okay.
1:08:05
It's not just I mean and even if you think them answering that
1:08:11
phone every time you call is a benefit to the union.
1:08:15
That's there if they're working on your project at and then
1:08:19
somebody else calls in and they have to say, well, I'm working
1:08:22
on this one project I'll get to yours as soon as I can.
1:08:24
How many projects are they going to have to stack up while
1:08:27
they're working on the one project for another carrier?
1:08:30
Or how many how many projects are going to get shuffled into
1:08:34
the pile and not taken care of for a couple years because
1:08:39
they're one there. Now, a one man show working on
1:08:42
it when they used to have five people, Working on different
1:08:45
things. Yeah, the Union's do the union
1:08:53
is us? The union is everybody.
1:08:56
It doesn't matter if you are dues-paying or non dues-paying,
1:08:59
we are all the rural carrier Union.
1:09:03
We are all the voice of reason. In our offices.
1:09:07
We are the voice of the contract.
1:09:09
We are the voice of the rules and regulations of the post
1:09:12
office in our office. It is our job as rural carriers,
1:09:18
to stand up for this craft and I don't care if you are a non
1:09:21
dues-paying member, if you see management doing something
1:09:24
wrong, correct it and if you can't get it, corrected grieve
1:09:29
it. It doesn't matter if your dues
1:09:32
paying or non dues-paying as a Union steward, the Union,
1:09:35
steward is supposed to defend you as if you are a dues-paying
1:09:38
member, even if you're a non dues-paying member and if
1:09:41
they're not doing that, then you report it to their assistant
1:09:46
District rep or their your District rep or even higher up
1:09:50
than that. But start at the lowest level,
1:09:53
you want to solve everything at the lowest level.
1:09:56
It's the same with grievances you saw of grievances at the
1:09:58
lowest level possible. Sorry, but you need to start
1:10:03
doing. Start doing your research, start
1:10:06
learning your craft. And Excel at your craft.
1:10:12
That's the only way we can keep going forward with this is if
1:10:15
everyone starts looking and excelling at their craft.
1:10:19
And sometimes, you can resolve a situation without before even
1:10:24
having to file a grievance now in all situations, and with all
1:10:28
management. But there are times and there
1:10:32
are, you know, situations to where things can be resolved
1:10:37
without having to go through that.
1:10:39
Grievance process or example, we tomorrow morning, every regular
1:10:44
carrier in every Subs, getting a copy of why You don't work off
1:10:49
the clock because we had three instances of it this weekend and
1:10:54
I'm going to write down all the names and have them initial that
1:10:57
they received the copy of it. So that when this happens again
1:11:00
and somebody files a grievance and I go under a class action
1:11:04
against management, I have the ammunition to say they're aware
1:11:08
of this, you're aware of this. Prosecuted.
1:11:14
Because, guess what? So, it doesn't hurt my
1:11:17
evaluation. Yes, it does.
1:11:19
It does. So, it doesn't matter to anybody
1:11:21
else. Yes, it does.
1:11:24
Because the person who might bid on your route when you bit off
1:11:26
of it, or when you retire or when you quit is going to be
1:11:30
pissed as hell that their HR 42 instead of a j 45.
1:11:40
So if you can eliminate that situation before becomes a
1:11:45
grievance then do, so always take it and settle it before
1:11:49
becomes a grievance, if possible.
1:11:52
Well if they're RJ45 they would be a k42 when they move to that
1:11:55
route are 4.11. Finding one closer.
1:11:59
It'll do ya 41 41 42 somewhere in that if they're depending on
1:12:05
the standard hour. Hours.
1:12:06
But yeah. And that's the thing is working
1:12:09
off the clock. I'm going to say this, my route
1:12:13
stayed the same Now, for some ungodly reason that I can't
1:12:20
calculate out in this 4241 em, I know that I've been working
1:12:26
close to my evaluation every single day, not by choice, but
1:12:32
by mail volume and package volume and things like that.
1:12:35
And my times were practically standard except Mondays of
1:12:40
course, heaviest day of the week, my times were pretty much
1:12:43
fluidly near the Same time every day and I came back at the same
1:12:48
time. The carrier, another carrier.
1:12:52
I know who works off the clock, even comes in on their day off.
1:12:59
Went down. Because he works off the clock.
1:13:04
Barry. There is a reason why working
1:13:07
off the clock is bad for you. Not just on your evaluation.
1:13:11
It's also illegal management allowing me to do it is illegal
1:13:16
and if something was to happen, if you were to sit in your
1:13:23
stuff. Yeah, if you are to get injured
1:13:25
at work, while off the clock owcp will not cover you.
1:13:31
Yep. So if you grab you, if you grab
1:13:35
it, grab a stack of, let's say your casing, your marriage meal
1:13:41
for the week. You're casing it too so you can
1:13:44
deliver it that day off the clock and you pick up one of
1:13:48
those bundles and you pull a muscle in your back, guess what?
1:13:52
If you are on the clock, that'd be a workplace injury but
1:13:55
because you were off the clock. If not a workplace injury
1:13:59
therefore you don't get the coverage of light duty at the
1:14:03
post office. There is no light duty for rural
1:14:05
carriers unless you're injured on the job, still limited Duty,
1:14:10
that's still no light, light duty, at all, for Rural South.
1:14:13
Just limited. I'm just saying and limited.
1:14:16
Well, that's what I meant. Yeah.
1:14:17
And limited is only for workplace injury.
1:14:23
Yep, and if you're working off the clock and get injured, you
1:14:26
don't get that coverage. Alright, here's another example
1:14:30
of How working off the clock you affects you, whether you think
1:14:37
it does or not. During the arbitration where we
1:14:41
got. All Rex.
1:14:48
They change the DPS standards. Yes.
1:14:51
So is it from 30 pieces up to 42 or 20-something pizzas up to 42
1:14:59
a minute, 43 43. Now it now it's 86.
1:15:09
Which is ridiculous. I'd like to see dr.
1:15:11
Miracle doing, six a minute. All right, hand after a month.
1:15:17
I just want to know how a stop sign is only half a second win.
1:15:20
Almost every single vote, being uniform.
1:15:23
Transportation code, says, you need to stop at a stop sign for
1:15:26
a minimum of two seconds. Because that's the and I found
1:15:32
out the reasoning on this one was that they did that because
1:15:37
most rural carriers don't even stop that long.
1:15:41
But if they didn't put that figure in there, then they would
1:15:44
be condoning rural carriers to drive recklessly, so they had to
1:15:48
cover their asses. That's what I that's what I
1:15:52
found out. Okay, that's a little more than
1:15:57
half a half a second. Yeah.
1:15:59
Oh, we have a carry. We call Jet, and there's a
1:16:05
reason why we call Em. Yeah, we have one.
1:16:09
I think it's a race between two of our carriers, and who gets
1:16:13
back this quickest. I still, you know, the one gets
1:16:17
up that they got back before I did.
1:16:20
Well, I don't get it, you know, it's not a race guys.
1:16:23
It is not a race. Yeah, we had a one of my
1:16:27
co-workers, one of the other carriers, my office brags that
1:16:31
she had the highest drive speed of anybody in the office.
1:16:38
We have the money out of your pocket.
1:16:42
Oh, but that the drive speed on the on the 4240 is actual. 4241
1:16:47
is based on your line of travel. Yeah, the distance between your
1:16:51
stops so having the highest speed is not a benefit to you.
1:16:57
You have to, you have to, you have to know, you have to know
1:17:00
her to appreciate the humor there.
1:17:02
Oh yeah, I can imagine. Yeah, she has.
1:17:05
She has a Lead Foot. Yeah.
1:17:08
Yeah. You know, and it's always that
1:17:09
one, that the truck is in getting brakes, done more often
1:17:13
than the rest of them, because you're like, how they get
1:17:18
through that route so fast. Well, there's a reason why that
1:17:21
chucks, the shop. All the time.
1:17:24
We melted melted the brakes of the rotors.
1:17:27
Oh, well, we had one girl that used to be so fast whoever they
1:17:33
put the jump seat and we would give somebody a neck brace to go
1:17:36
with them. Oh yeah.
1:17:37
They look at it. I have learned how to brace
1:17:43
myself very well in the jump seat lately.
1:17:47
I put I put one foot on the wall, one foot on the drape and
1:17:52
yeah I kind of well I got I got short legs.
1:17:57
I'm usually holding up between the two between the door and
1:18:00
the, in the frame on the other side.
1:18:03
Like, okay, I'm braced now. Yeah.
1:18:06
We we actually had a ride-along that didn't, you know, brace
1:18:11
yourself and the guy who hit the brakes and she come flying over
1:18:14
to dash only up to the wind killed.
1:18:16
Oh my gosh. Lord.
1:18:20
Let me tell you. There's see how well their seat
1:18:23
belts for a reason. Yeah.
1:18:26
Well Use a little big to fit in the seat belt.
1:18:29
No. All right.
1:18:31
On that note guys, since we're kind of the wind it down.
1:18:34
So we're not going too far over tonight.
1:18:38
Your final thoughts for the evening there.
1:18:40
Josh. um, just keep keep it on, do what you're supposed to do.
1:18:52
scan what, you know, what you can legitimately take credit for
1:18:59
Try not to get overwhelmed. Be do take a step back, step
1:19:03
back in, or take a breath. Then step back down.
1:19:08
Have a good week. Mike, your final commentary for
1:19:13
this evening, it's just we've been saying it here and we've
1:19:22
alluded to it a lot in previous podcasts and James has been
1:19:26
talking a lot about it tonight, but but we got to stand with
1:19:31
with each other stand with. And for each other, I said, I
1:19:37
said a couple weeks ago and I'll say it again, you know, the very
1:19:40
first First postmaster of the United States Postmaster,
1:19:43
General of the United States. Benjamin Franklin said it best.
1:19:47
You know, we have to all hang together for we will sure at
1:19:51
least hang separately. So let's all hang together.
1:19:56
All right, James your turn. You know, the biggest thing you
1:20:02
can take away from these podcasts is the motivation to do
1:20:07
better at our craft. And like Mike said, we're in
1:20:13
this together. Thick or thin High evaluation
1:20:18
low evaluation. It doesn't matter.
1:20:20
We are all one craft. One group, brothers and sisters,
1:20:25
fighting for the same thing, which is fair pay at a good job
1:20:30
at a good benefits job. And we need you to step up with
1:20:37
us. And be part of the change.
1:20:41
This Union needs the change the union wants And be that member.
1:20:51
That takes the time to understand how to better
1:20:54
themselves in the craft because without this craft and without
1:21:00
each, and every person in it, there is no rural carrier.
1:21:06
Step up and help us help you. Thank you, Bill.
1:21:15
Well, aside from my opening rant, in regards to the union
1:21:20
non-union members. I just like to point out.
1:21:24
The fact that my office, I represent everybody equally if
1:21:29
Management's in the wrong. I go to bat for you, whether I
1:21:32
like you personally or not, whether you Union or not, it
1:21:36
doesn't matter. I'm your defense attorney, okay?
1:21:40
And I got a bad week. A big piece of lumber because I
1:21:45
can't stand the way management tries to bully people.
1:21:50
So whether you're in the union or not you get the same
1:21:53
representation from me whether I like you or not, you get the
1:21:56
same representation because of the fact that I'm defending the
1:21:59
craft as long as I do that job, nobody can ever say Well it
1:22:05
still doesn't like me or we don't get along.
1:22:08
Yeah, I don't care. I stepped set, aside all All
1:22:12
personal likes and dislikes when it comes to defending the crack.
1:22:15
That's what I'm paid to do. That's what I do.
1:22:18
And Nobody Does it Better than me.
1:22:21
I mean, I file more paperwork than the Brazilian Rainforest
1:22:25
cut down. Okay.
1:22:28
Yeah. Thank God for Laser Printers.
1:22:30
I still want to get you a crown that says grievance King on it.
1:22:34
That mean that's just my goal. But you know, it all truth
1:22:40
folks, you know the the job will pay you for the effort you put
1:22:44
into it. If you don't put any effort into
1:22:47
it and you can't expect much, okay?
1:22:51
And you're doing a disservice to yourself to your family to the
1:22:53
craft and to the person who follows behind you and that's
1:22:57
that's not fair. Nothing else in the world.
1:23:01
I always try to be fair and I want everybody to get as much as
1:23:05
possible they can out of their career.
1:23:08
I want them to be able to go home every night safely.
1:23:12
You're the most important delivery of the day and enjoy
1:23:16
the efforts that you had and the opportunity that you have to
1:23:19
provide for your family and for yourself for future.
1:23:23
And and that future will only get better as long as you
1:23:27
participate as long as you get involved and long as you put
1:23:31
some effort into the opportunity presented to you.
1:23:36
And all you have to do is reach out and grab it.
1:23:39
That's all you have to do. If you don't know something,
1:23:42
guess what? Ask somebody.
1:23:44
We're right there. We're willing to help you.
1:23:47
There's people in your office that you can't talk to.
1:23:49
There's people in the office you can talk to and if nothing else.
1:23:53
Else, there are plenty of websites and social media to
1:23:57
seek, help to seek information to get educated.
1:24:02
Put a natural jewelry. What was that?
1:24:08
You also have, you access to your District reps and and Union
1:24:12
Representatives aside from your office?
1:24:14
Yes. But you know, folks make make
1:24:18
the effort to go out. There have a good week.
1:24:22
Be safe, yo, carrier discretion but but don't don't don't overdo
1:24:31
it. I have to agree with everything.
1:24:38
Everybody is said this evening. I'm just going to put the toss
1:24:42
out there that I am going to be looking to do a series for RCA's
1:24:49
coming up in the future. Hopefully closer than further
1:24:54
away. I'm still in the planning
1:24:56
process is of what I want to do for that.
1:24:58
I'm going to reach out to those RCA's.
1:25:00
That are listening. If you want to be involved,
1:25:02
please send us a message. And we'll definitely I'll get
1:25:06
back to you on that and see where we're going to go from
1:25:08
there. But on that note, everybody have
1:25:12
a safe Monday tomorrow and we'll be back next week.
1:25:18
And remember, carrier discretion.
1:25:25
Have a good night, everybody.