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Bad Business
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On todays episode which is episode #8, entitle Bad Business. Today we speak on how the the Post Office's lack of foresight and care is causing itself to be in the negative. In the last few years the postal service have not created any new products for sale to help its deficit, but has created services that it does not charge for which is adding to the deficit.
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Introduction and Listener Appreciation
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Yeah.
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What's going on out there? Ladies and gentlemen, we are on another episode of the postal blue podcast. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Congratulations.
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Congratulations on everyone. Let me check my audio volume right quick. Let me check my audio volume. Actually, I'm gonna have to add some gain to that. Let me add some gain to that.
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You know, I don't want to add too much game. I'm just trying to make sure I'm clear. Maybe I just talk a little louder. You know what I'm saying? I'm gonna try not to talk too loudly. Too loudly. Okay, there we go. That's might be too much. I apologize. I apologize. As long as I'm showing up in the green, we good, right? Oh, let me put my stuff. I just heard the ding. Let me put my stuff on silent.
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um what's going on y'all again we are on another episode of the postal blue podcast podcast excuse me in a little bit tongue tied at the moment we appreciate all the support let me say that first and foremost we appreciate all the support we've been getting especially on the clips the clips have been going crazy crazy out the gate, hundreds, hundreds of views out the gates, probably thousands across all social medias. But I know on specific platforms, it's already in the hundreds and we really just started doing the clips like last week or whatever the case is short, like the YouTube shorts and the Facebook and Instagram reels and the TikToks, right?
00:01:57
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on fire. You know what I'm saying? For little parts of the shows that we are doing over here at the Postal Blue Podcast. Really an amazing studio. Shout out to amazing studios.
00:02:09
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Yeah, man. Been a good night. Not necessarily a long day. It was a 12-hour day, but it didn't feel like a long day, right?
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So it was decent. It was decent. Right now it's about 10 o'clock. Is that what time is it? Oh snap, my bad. My apologies. 11 o'clock. Right now it's 11 o'clock. I am in a stew, as you see. Was getting ready to lay it down, but I'm like, the people might need this. And I'm saying, and if I don't get a 0.5 out this week, Watkins going to lose her mind. And I ain't got time for that. I don't got time for her trying to file a grievance on me for not getting a 0.5. So I said, you know what? LA, you're going to do a 0.5. Just get it over with now. Try to get that posted. It is Wednesday night.
Content Strategy and Listener Engagement
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Labor Day kind of got me messed up a little bit. It is Wednesday night. Try to get this up for the people for Thursday morning, right? At least on as much as you can get. I don't know if it's going to be at 9 a.m. because remember our regular schedule is just Monday at 9.
00:03:21
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Monday is the regular schedule. You know what I'm saying? We're trying to get a mid-week episode. It might not be every week, but I'm attempting to do every week, but then that's gonna trail off to the once a week. The .5 of the mid-week episodes right now just helping us to create a bigger catalog of content for you guys to be able to get the content faster going into the winter. So it's helping us push out episodes faster, right? Again, we started off with the foundation.
00:03:47
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which is really the blueprint. And now we're building stones on that foundation. So every episode is intended to be a brick on the foundation. So we don't really have to backtrack too much in the future. When you guys have problems, situations you can always refer or someone can always refer you to.
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a specific episode when you want to know something, right? Such as Article 3 and Article 8. What is the proper way to do a grievance? What is the EEO? What is it is? What is that? Because, hey, they did a whole episode on that. You can just go back to the episode if you missed something or whatever the case is. Now, again, along the road, we still will explain things when people got questions or concerns in the comments and things of that nature. So make sure you do hit that.
00:04:31
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Hit that comment section. Hit that like button. Hit that share button. Sharing is caring. Make sure you follow, subscribe on whatever platform you listen. Make sure you comment on whatever episode you listen. Matter of fact, a lot of y'all I see are listening, but you're not rating the show.
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Listen, I don't know if it's asking too much, but if you enjoy the content, if you're getting some out of the content, Can you please rate the show on whatever streaming platform? I don't even care what it is. On whatever streaming platform that you listen to. Go ahead and give us a few stars, four stars, five stars, if is that good to you, whatever the case is. If you're on the YouTube, hit us with a like on whatever episode that you'd like or get you got something from or that you liked. Make sure you can do it also on the...
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on the shorts. Make sure you hit the like button on the shorts. If you like the shorts, you know what I'm saying? What are reels or whatever it is that you listen to on TikTok, whatever it is, that helps. We're not charging money for any of the content that we're giving and we don't really plan on to outside of maybe merchandise in the future. In the future.
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that won't happen with the regular content, your viewing and listening content that we give y'all. So please, all we ask for is a like, share and subscribe or something of that nature. Any combination of the three, actually of the four, cause the rating, right? On the stream of services, they offer ratings. You know what I'm saying? If you give somebody the content, you leave a rating too, that helps.
00:06:05
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shed light that lets the streaming services know the A. You know what I'm saying? We doing something good over here. Make sure you shed some light on us. You know what I'm saying? Who keep the lights on? Listen, man. This other side note, man, my mustache is doing something like some Cheech and Chong type of deal with like... I don't like it, man. And it makes me not want to do the videos.
00:06:32
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But I'm kind of lazy. I ain't gonna say lazy. I don't like cutting my facial hair. I don't like getting haircuts. I don't like, I don't like it. I'm gonna be honest with you. I don't like it. Everybody know it about me. If you don't know, hey, there it is. If you're gonna see a lot of videos where I look like a lumberjack because for some reason, I
Personal Anecdotes and Main Topic Introduction
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don't like haircuts. Now I don't like whether it's head, top of the head haircuts,
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No reason for the necessarily hack because my hair really don't be while anything like that. But yeah, I just don't like haircuts and along with facial hair by haircuts. I'm talking about all around. I don't like haircuts, but I don't like what my mustache is doing like right here. Look at that. You know what I'm saying? Like it's coming over my lip.
00:07:21
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I'm gonna have to do something. I'm gonna have to do something. It ain't gonna be tonight, though, because it's already 11 o'clock. I'm gonna have to edit this and get this stuff for y'all, man, while I'm already on the sidetrack, already out the gate sidetrack. That's crazy.
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But yeah, I'm gonna take care of this, man.
00:07:42
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Oh, okay. Anywho, that's part of my personality. You know what I'm saying? Um, that's just it. You know, LA y'all see is like, dude, he don't even cut this. Hey man, that's just LA man. He don't like haircuts, bro. So learn to live with it. If you're going to want to watch it. Otherwise, just listen, just listen to the podcast. You know what I'm saying? You ain't got to watch the video. I'm saying I ain't here to be pretty. I'm here to give you this information and education.
00:08:11
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So going into bad business, right? Let's get back on track. Bad business. This episode is entitled, hold on. God dang, this sidetrack stuff. Now, this is supposed to be a .5. This is supposed to be a .5. As you know, .5 is normally 30 minutes or less. That's what I aim for. 30 minutes. I'm looking at the time. When you see me do this, I'm also looking at the timer.
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want to be straightforward direct blunt on what whatever it is topic.
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If it's a full episode, it's normally about an hour. Now, typically we don't have two hours, hour and a half, hour forty, whatever the case is, but at bare minimum an hour. So depending on what this ended up being, it might be a point five. Or it might be a full episode, which will be episode eight, if I'm not mistaken.
00:09:07
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Right. So let me get back on track again. I just wanted to get that out there because of you hearing me say this, but he said it was a 7.5. But then when he came out, it said, Hey, I'm confused. I'm like, you know, now I don't know which one is going to be. So again, this was entitled bad business. Um, in general, before I get into the stats that I got over here, you know what I'm saying?
00:09:32
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on the phone to yell over here. To me, in my personal opinion, there's a lot of things going on in the post office. In a large part of that.
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It's bad business all the way around from grievances to everything else that they're attempting to do in a lot of part of the post office. A lot of the rearranging the things that you guys are seeing now, if you work in the office, when it comes to distribution, with them taking out machines.
00:10:02
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When it comes to processing, when it comes to stations where they're trying to consolidate more stations into one building, right? Because they're trying to get rid of having the leases for all the builders that they're leasing now. If you didn't know when a post office typically lease a building, it's always like a long-term lease I'm guessing that's how they feel like they get the better bang for their book and whoever they're leasing it from um probably a great deal for them too because they get got a guaranteed long or they have a guaranteed long-term tenant
00:10:37
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for about 20 plus years, right? I don't know if they really have done 10 to 15 year contracts. I'm not sure on that, but from what I hear around now, which I could be wrong with information, could be wrong. A lot of the contracts or old leases were like 20 year leases, right? So.
00:10:55
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I'm assuming a lot of those leases are coming up and they're trying to consolidate some stations into one building. And I'm not sure if they're gonna lease this one big building or if they're gonna buy in some area or I ain't gonna say buy because I'm saying it's the state property for the most part. If they're gonna try to buy a building, not necessarily the land, but buy a building or build a building and then put multiple stations in as their leases in, right?
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So you'll be saying that a lot of state stations or cities, not stations, cities and states are saying that. And then you were seeing a lot of route adjustments that's going on around right now. We're trying to condense the routes, essentially making the routes longer when it comes to distance, making the routes longer, but it's still expecting you to do it in the same amount of time that you did the previous route, adjust the route at, right?
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To me, a lot of this is stemming from bad business. These are my opinions, my opinions. A lot of this is stemming from bad, bad business. And to almost prove a point, to me, to prove a point, we're just gonna go to the actual business that we can improve, guarantee that they actually do.
00:12:15
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Right. And you tell me if this is bad business or not, not business. We're not, I'm not asking you, how do you feel? What do you feel should happen or should do? I'm talking about business. Business where you have to make money because you have employees to pay, right?
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Put this, the things I say related to your own business, whether you have your own business or whether you just work a job, right? What would happen if your job couldn't pay you because they said they didn't make money, but you worked, but they say we can't pay you or can't give you raises because we're not making money.
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How long would you stay at this job, right? Again, not saying that's the post office, exact thing. We gonna get there when we get
USPS Services Overview
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there. Hold on. I'm warming up. I'm warming up, right? Let's get the engine ready. You know what I'm saying? It's winter time. It ain't really winter time, but in my head, it's winter time, so you gotta let the car warm up.
00:13:21
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That's what the women like you to do. The women like to wake you up. Now look, you don't go to work to nine, but she gotta go to work at seven. She gonna wake you up at six. She gonna wake you up at six so you can go outside to go warm up the car. But you don't even go to work to nine.
00:13:45
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And then you act like you up though. Why can't you? Well, you the man. Okay. Well, they got to warm up the car. So you want me to wake up out of my sleep. Now I'm not going to be able to get back to sleep. This is three hours earlier than what I really were two hours earlier than what I really got to be up for. You want me to get up to go outside just to sit in the car and warm it up and rev the engine to attempt to warm the car up.
00:14:09
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waiting on you to come outside, then you come outside, then I gotta go back in the house by the time I go back in the house, now it's almost seven, so now I'm up. I can't get back to sleep, so now I'm up, so now I'm sitting here trying to watch Saturday morning cartoons, a cartoon network, till like eight o'clock, before I gotta really start getting dressed. Like, wait a minute, this is inconsiderate. Man, listen, I digress. It's just some thoughts from LA, you know what I'm saying?
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Y'all make sure to go check out wild views as well. Check out the wild views podcast where you see a lot of my ranks and off topic opinions on wild views. Wild views podcast. Just look at wild views. You see the cover image is a picture of my family from a lot of years ago in Mississippi, right? Cool.
00:15:05
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I'd appreciate that. Check out any of our podcasts, Ice Coffee, Unjustified Behavior, right? This one, Postal Blue Podcast, right? And check out Wild Views.
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Back to Bad Business, let's get to the list. I went on the USPS website, right? And there's just some regular research, right? I ain't gonna say what browser I was using, because I don't want them to get no type of money off me, unless we getting paid over here at Amazing Studios. But we gonna go offer some things that they sell. And there's some things that they offer. So we'll go over some products that they sell. And then we're gonna go over some services
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that they sell and that they offer.
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Sale and offer. OK, hold on. So first thing we're going to get into, right? And again, a lot of these is not like. We're gonna get into real detail things, but I'm just gonna kind of go off the list and for things I need to get into short details, real short few sentences here and there, then we will, right? That's gonna go more on the later end of the list, right? So for one, we sell postage.
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Postage would be things like stamps. And the postage is such as packages that you have to put on packages, right? That's not a stamp that you put on the package. It is postage that you're paying for that goes on the package. Think of it as an oversized stamp. It's a stamp for packages, you know what I'm saying? Postage, right? Cool, so we sell postage.
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Then we sell money orders for very low margin, but we sell money orders. We sell tracking, right? As far as selling tracking, that'd be things like your registered mail or certified mail that comes with tracking numbers on those. You can also just buy tracking separately.
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and just put it on something like a letter or like various things. You know what I'm saying? You can buy tracking for various items. Right? Cool. We also sell marketing and advertising. Now, some of y'all make sure you listen because some of y'all might come across things that we said that you didn't even know. So if you're a customer, welcome.
00:17:48
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Welcome, welcome. You might find an item here that you need to purchase and we do at the post office need all the funds that we can obtain from thou. From thee. Is it thou or thee? From thee? Is thee me or is thee you? Hold on. From thou, from thee.
00:18:17
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I don't know which one it is, man. Y'all let me know in the comments section below. We sell marketing and advertising, right? If you don't know, there's a such thing as called the EDDM tool that stands for every door direct mailing, right? So if you have some type of flyer,
00:18:35
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that you wanna get out there or small advertising if you a business or what have you. Maybe you advertising a show. Maybe you advertising the postal group podcast. Maybe you advertising a new record. Maybe you advertising a new business and you got these flyers that you wanna pass out to a community or to a certain zip code. Again, there's one station per zip code, typically.
00:19:01
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in a zip code or in a certain high-end area or a certain low-end area, no matter whatever your product research says that you should be or demographically says that you should be attempted to sell your product to. Let's put it like that. I'm trying to put it in good way. Let's say that.
00:19:20
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That's the EDDM tool, every door direct mailing. You could just look up USPS, EDDM, EDD,
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Right? Like delta, delta. Magenta, right? So E as an echo, D as in Delta, D as in Delta again, E as in Mike or Magenta, right? EDDM, every door direct mailing. There's a EDDM tool, USPS, EDD, EDDM. And you could pick a station, you could pick a zip code, which is almost the same thing. I'm gonna say almost because some, some states have been consolidated.
00:20:03
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And you can pick a general area that you want to advertise something to. And it'll give you the general income of that area, right? And it'll give you an estimated price to advertise to that area. You can advertise to that whole zip code. You can advertise to parts of the area in that zip code by picking by routes and things of that nature, right? So make sure y'all check that out.
00:20:28
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But so we don't get lost when I get to the end of the sales, we're going to go back over the sales. So we up to date, you know what I'm saying? I don't want to go in these rants and then lose you on the things we're selling. That's that. We also sale slash rent PO boxes.
00:20:43
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You can also add insurance, more insurance to mailer packages, really packages. And we sell the shipping supplies like tape
00:20:58
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We also sell something called package intercept, which is a service, right? So I need to get into that right quick. So for customers, when you order something, the pay shipping that you paid is for the item to come or travel from the sender or shipper to the address that you pick. Straightforward.
00:21:26
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with whatever delays or whatever stops it has to make in between that from distribution to distribution to get to the station for, you know what I'm saying? Whatever the case is. That's the price you paid to get it to your door. Once that price is paid, that package must go to your door. That's the service you paid for, right? A package intercept is Let's find out that I ordered something already and it's supposed to be here in about three, four days. But all of a sudden I have an emergency, excuse me, where I'm going to have to be out of town, right? Or I'm not going to be at home. You can pay for a package intercept, right? You can look this up, USPS package intercept.
00:22:17
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You can go online, pay for a package intercept. It is a paid service and it will halt your package at your station, at your local post office, not anywhere else at your local post office. And management will hold your package for you for whenever you come pick it up. That is a paid service. You coming up to pick your package up from the post office is a paid service.
00:22:48
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And remember that because I'm coming back to that. Right. And at that, I think that's the end. So let's let's go back up and we're going to go over the products that we actually sell. There's other products, but these are products we actually make money from or supposed to. We sell postage, we sell money orders, we sell tracking.
00:23:13
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We sell marketing and advertising. We also sell, um, sale slash rent PO boxes. I'm putting rent because we don't actually sell PO boxes because you can't have the PO box. You only have it as long as you're paying the rent on it. As soon as you stop paying, it comes back to us.
00:23:31
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So we sell PO boxes. So that's postage, money orders, tracking, marketing, advertising, which is together. That's the EDDM tool. We sell slash rent PO boxes. You can buy insurance or purchase additional insurance. You can purchase shipping supplies such as tape. Right. And the package intercept. Now, these are things we've offered for decades possibly. I don't know how far, I've only been in five and a half years myself, so I don't know how far some of these things go back like the package intercept or certifies and registers or whatever the case is, which will go under tracking.
00:24:19
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Express is also in there, of course. So those are eight items right now. We're gonna start with the package intercept. Because the post office has gotten so far away from his customer service portion and doing bad business, that we started to allow bad habits, like people coming to pick up packages randomly. That is not a thing. Although the post office have been practicing it because of quote unquote customer service, it's costing the post office money hand over fist.
00:24:54
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even doing it. That's like giving out a free item every time. You just can't walk in the ice cream shop and keep getting free scoops. And then feel some type of way when you come back a couple months later and ice cream shop is closed. Well, maybe it was because all the free ice cream they were giving out. Yes, that's good. That's great customer service. They was giving out the free ice cream, but what did it do for them in the end when they didn't make enough money to keep the doors open? You can't give away paid items for free.
00:25:25
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You can't give away paid items for free. And again, this is not everybody, but typically we hear a lot of the same reasons. Oh, I got a flight to catch. Oh, I got And a lot of people come up with these things just to attempt to come up here and get their package first thing in the morning. This is why it's a paid service.
00:25:47
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When the packages get into the station in the morning, they just come in what we call, listen, I'm not going to say the term, they come on pallets in the big box, and it could be hundreds of packages in this huge box that they didn't have to put on like a hydraulic pallet jack to lift it up off the ground somewhat, like this. Or not all the way like this, let's say like this, like that.
00:26:11
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Right. So the clerks can then take packages out and then they scan it under what we call a pass machine and then the pass machine to tell the clerks, excuse me, what route that package goes to. Right. And they could put it in a hamper, a big hamper for each route. Each route has its own hamper. This is how they separate the packages, because again, they just come in these big tubs. They don't know what packages is in the tubs. They don't know who has packages in the tubs. This is the packages just for today.
00:26:39
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Right. So they're working on stuff in the morning and they're going in the packages and in the hampers and they're separating them to give to the carriers. Right. They typically start doing this way before the carriers even get in in the morning. Right. So then when you come in in the morning, as soon as the door open and you trying to get your package because it's supposed to be out for delivery today, then that would have to cause the clerk to go do more work than she already did.
00:27:06
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Because now she would have to go try to figure out your address or get your address, try to figure out what route that belongs to, and then try to go through the hamper that that curious hamper of all their packages, looking for a package that supposed to be delivered today and will be delivered to your address today or to interfere with the carrier.
00:27:27
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who's getting his stuff ready cause he or she has to hit the street.
USPS Financial Challenges
00:27:29
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They have a time limit and put the carrier behind time. This all creates overtime for a business, right? That can't afford the, the overage and overtime.
00:27:43
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Because my day is already set to have an eight hour day between me casing my flats and then me pulling that down, get my packages, grabbing my mail that's already come pre sorted and hit the street to go out here and deliver for the next six or seven hours. That's my eight hour day to go do these 20, 25, 30 blocks after I leave here. That's my eight hour day. Everything extra in between that causes me to be behind, which then causes the business to pay overtime.
00:28:11
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So no, you're not supposed to do that. What happens is if you did the package intercept in the morning when those same clerks was holding the packages, scanning the packages under the pass machine, it'll say, beep, this is a package intercept.
00:28:27
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Give this to the supervisor. So then they take that package, they go give it to the supervisor. I got a package intercept. Supervisors are going to take that package, take it downstairs, write package intercept on it. Customer coming to get this and leave it downstairs for you. That package don't even get bundled up with the other packages for whatever reason. Okay, we back. I don't know what happened again. But some weird stuff is happening.
00:29:22
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I think at the last one I was at the package intercept. But again, on short, the package intercept will be with a supervisor will get that order manager will get that take it right down. Stay on fast forward because y'all don't know I've been recording like another 10, 15 minutes.
00:29:38
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Since then, since the last part y'all just heard, I'm trying to connect these two and edit these two together. And I gotta rewind and do this again. It's actually the third time for this second part after the 29 minute mark.
00:29:57
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But that's it for the package intercept, right? So it won't, the package won't go in the bin or the hamper with all the other packages for that route. We saved the Turks time, we saved the carrier time, so you don't have to pay no type of overage for that.
00:30:11
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Right? To pay service, use the paid service. If you don't want to use the paid service, wait till the package gets to your house, because that's when you're going to get it, because that's the service. You pay for the package to come to your house. If you're not going to support the post office by using the paid service to come pick up your package, then you have to wait for it to get to your house. We need to stop giving out our products or services for free, and it's a business. The post office does a lot of bad business. Again, it's not about our personal feelings,
00:30:40
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I bet you anybody on the street, anybody in any type of situation, even another business would accept services for free. But can the other company or other business, are they able to give away services for free?
00:30:58
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Now, I don't even know what my camera is doing now. Hold on. It's still supposedly recording.
00:31:05
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I don't know what it's doing. Now, I don't know man.
00:31:20
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I'm just gonna keep doing without the video. I don't know what you're gonna do. I'm gonna have to back out. I'm gonna have to stop this recording and back out just to get
00:31:39
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Cause it's but it's going to say EOS, whatever, whatever. We're going to say all that I get that to a black screen. We just don't continue this. And I'm going to figure this out on another I'll scrap this whole episode before I do this over. I'm telling.
00:32:07
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Let me, let me take care of this right quick. Let's get the task manager. Walk you through the stuff I'm doing so y'all don't, they complain. Let's get over here. In that.
00:32:21
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Let's in that and turn the camera off.
00:32:33
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Oh, so y'all might see this EOS webcam utility backwards. That's just what it's going to be for now. You know what I'm saying? I don't know what's going on. But some weird stuff is going on in the post office trying to block. That's just what I'm going to check it up as post offices hate.
00:32:49
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That's what they do. Um, and we're going to try to get through this, uh, next 20 minutes. That'd be about an hour. So it'd be a full episode without the blocking again. Uh, let's try to get through it. Uh, please thank you. Uh, I appreciate it. Uh, for your services and I appreciate your support. Uh, my applause and not working up there. I see. I don't know. It's one of them days. Let's go.
00:33:15
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So that's the package intercept, right? And then we sell stuff like tape again. So to do the rundown again, we sell postage, we sell money order, sell tracking, sell marketing advertising, which is the EDVM. We sell slash rent PO boxes. We can add additional assurance. We sell package intercept, which we really don't. And then we sell some supplies like tape.
00:33:38
Speaker
Right, going into first thing free, customers picking up packages. This is the lack of using the proper system, which is the EDDM, I mean, not the EDDM, apologies, the package intercept, because everyone just thinks that they can come pick up their packages. No, that's a paid service. But the post office has gotten into the habit and assisted the customers. Apologies again.
00:34:03
Speaker
in the habit of thinking that they can just come pick up packages. That's actually a paid gets to your house or scheduled to be delivered to your house. No one should be coming up here at first thing in the morning and say, oh, I'm trying to get somewhere. I'm leaving for a plane. My package behind, I'm supposed to be on the plane. OK, looks like you're going to be on the plane without this package, man.
00:34:32
Speaker
Like, I don't, I don't know. You knew, if you knew this, you had this plane coming up three, four days ago, you could have did the package intercept then, especially if you didn't think you was going to be at home and you feel like the package was behind. You should already did a package intercept already to stop it from going to your house. Right. And you'll be amazed by how the same excuses a lot of people use to try to come pick up their package in the morning. It's not everyone, but it's done. And it hurts the post office financially.
00:35:03
Speaker
So free customers pick up a package because we're not using the package intercept package pick up for businesses. Right, so there's business pick up some routes that have businesses and there's a system called business pickup. Now, as a courtesy, the post office will attempt to pick up your packages or that routes carrier will
00:35:34
Speaker
that can be time consuming not hating just bringing up a fact time consuming so i'm most likely paying a carrier over time or double time to pick these packages up but they're not paying us for the package pickup when most other services they would use if not all other services they would use they would have to pay a business pickup as a paid service they would pay someone to come pick up the packages and then take them down to the package postal distribution service and drop them off, unload them and drop them off. We're doing that for free. Your route is not built in or don't have time built in for a package pickup, right? Your route is eight hours is eight hours. If someone opens up a business and then they need a business pickup, that's gonna be over your eight hours.
00:36:26
Speaker
Right? So that's overtime. So now a business is paying you overtime for a service that the business is not making money from. That makes sense. Right. Cool. Let's get past that. I'm trying not to get cut off again. I'm moving kind of fast as business pick up. Right. Let's go boxes and shipping packages boxes. Right. Post office giveaway boxes for free shipping boxes thing that you would come in. You trying to ship some and grab one of these white, red and blue boxes.
00:37:00
Speaker
or flat rate boxes typically or flat rate package which is typically like Brown and Blue. They give away these things for free. Why? I have no idea. They give away for free. You can literally walk into the post office and need to ship some, grab some boxes and walk out, go put your stuff in the box and then go to another company and pay them to ship it off. That's stupid. That's stupid postal service.
00:37:25
Speaker
You're not making no money off that. You're paying to create the boxes. So you're manufacturing the boxes somewhere. You're paying somebody to do that, but you're not making money off the boxes. If people just come in and grab the boxes and leave an example, you could order these boxes online and you can order a lot of these boxes by bundles. I think they probably come in bundles of 10. I've seen people order like a hundred boxes come in 10 bundles.
00:37:51
Speaker
Then you load these into your vehicle, which is of size, takes up a fair amount of size in your vehicle, along with your packages and the rest of your mail. Go out to the house, because typically first thing we would do is drop all those out, because I don't have a lot of room in my vehicle to maneuver things in. But I drop all those off, and then you'll get a call in the afternoon with someone saying, oh, I didn't mean to order these mini boxes. Can y'all come get these?
00:38:17
Speaker
Then you go out there and out of the 10 bundles, they gonna keep one, which is 10 boxes. Now you gotta try to load nine box nine of these things back into your vehicle, get it back to the station, unload these, find them somewhere to put them in the office, cause they didn't come from your office. They're delivered out of the office. When you order those, they're like a package from a company. They come from downtown from distribution to come from the annex. They didn't come from the office. So now you just got space being taken up in your office, the people who keep ordering these boxes, but then don't want the boxes.
00:38:45
Speaker
Right. Um, Tom Kasuna, that's taking more time, but you're not getting paid for that. Well, again, usually individual getting paid, but the company's not making money, but it keeps costing money. You see in a trend here, we keep doing things. We keep doing things that's costing us money, but we're not making money from it, which is hurting the post office.
00:39:08
Speaker
right sampling request some people that there's something is called sampling request when you get to certain addresses or particular addresses some somebody want to know what they really got in the mail today so you have to like here you have to scan that mail that day they pop up when they scan it when they get to the address you have a sampler request for this address is this address on your route you hit yeah this on my route scan up to whatever whatever whatever your scan the mail
00:39:34
Speaker
That's not time consuming, but if you have a fair amount of them, it can be time consuming. And guess what? That's a free service. Again, as customers, you might say, Oh man, I like all the free services, but the company that you like the free services from is not making any money.
00:39:50
Speaker
So that company is probably not going to be alone for a very, for much longer. Let's say like that or under in the, in the condition that it's in for much longer because it's not making any money more. Again, I'm going to say something. I get to the end of this too. Hold on.
00:40:06
Speaker
Inform delivery. Inform delivery, right? It's something that somebody else created, just like sampling requests. The station didn't create these things. All of these things was created somewhere up in a retail department that probably exists, probably don't exist, that we have no clue who to talk to about it, why it exists, why it shouldn't exist, nothing. These are just somewhere, some people somewhere, just creating things that's creating more work that they don't want to pay for.
00:40:36
Speaker
informed delivery is something that most curious hate. Because informed delivery, most people believe that it's the mail that they're getting that day. It says inside of informed delivery, my dear customers, that this is mail that's on the way. Now, a lot of y'all say, man, but I typically, what I typically see in there is what I get.
00:40:58
Speaker
Guess what? When the stars align, everything works out fine. You get it that day, but the post office is not built on that. It don't matter if you've seen it the last 100 days.
00:41:13
Speaker
Today gonna be your day. Just like yesterday was 1,500 other people day. And the day before that was 2,500 people day. And the day before that was 1,000 people day. And the day before that was 10,000 people day, but it just wasn't your day. Today is your day. Well, you don't get that mail. Well, they got on the wrong truck, went to the wrong station, fell off on the wrong, whatever the case is, the machine chewed it up, sent it to whatever the case is, today not your day.
00:41:40
Speaker
Your mail carrier, your station manager, your station supervisor has no control over what's in the form delivery. The pictures in the form delivery is not taking place in the station. That's taking place when it's going through the mail sort of machine. That's why it's saying it's on its way. Because it's going through the machine, it's being sorted. It's not at your station. It's on its way, what quote unquote should be on its way to your station. That don't mean it got there though.
00:42:08
Speaker
anything could happen. in distribution or processing, right? That's also a free service. A lot of people have informed delivery and it creates a thing. Now I gotta have this conversation with customers about this, about that, about this, about that. Then they don't believe what I'm saying, so then they gonna call the station, talk to the supervisor, talk to the manager, and all they gonna do is put you a hole and then call me. Then did you see a check for? No, I did not see a check for this address. I talked to this person already.
00:42:39
Speaker
I delivered for them what I had delivered for them. They said it was supposed to be a check. I don't know nothing about a check bin in the mail. I gave them the mail that I saw, which was three pieces of mail. Neither one of those was a check. They said, oh, well, do you have a check for me? I said, no ma'am, I do not have a check. These are the three pieces of mail that I have for you today. So I know I didn't, I didn't see a check. And then they gonna click over and tell you, okay, well the mail carrier said he didn't see a check. Same thing, I just told you, that's not gonna change. The mail that I have and don't have,
00:43:09
Speaker
But in all of this creates more time of explaining of this, of that, of that, or whatever customer service. Again, not hating on the interaction on the customer service part, but it creates overtime. It creates overtime that the business cannot afford to pay. This goes into these services that we're not getting paid from, but it's costing money. It's bad business.
00:43:37
Speaker
Next, hold mail requests. A lot of people attempt to abuse the whole mail request. You can do a hold mail order on your address three times in a year. Three times in a They can be held for 30 days at a time. Three times in that year. Right? That's it.
00:44:03
Speaker
When you come pick up the mail, let's say you don't even wait the 30 days, you wait two weeks and then you can pick up the mail. When you come pick up the mail, that ends your whole mail request. This is not a whole mail, so you can just pick up your mail because you don't trust the mailman or whatever the case is, or you don't want your ex-lover to get your mail, so you don't want to go to the house, so you put it on hold, so you think you could come up here every day just so you can stop that don't work like that.
00:44:30
Speaker
A whole mail request, I'm not going to be in town, so I need to hold my mail at the post office. I pick it up when I get back from vacation, when I get back from family situation, when I get back out the hospital. I got a whole mail request because I had a fire at my house.
00:44:48
Speaker
or at my home, or a flood at my home. That's what the whole mail request is for. It's not just to behold the mail, just to behold the mail, then come pick it up. Every time you pick it up, you end the hold. So even if you put in a 30-day hold and you came to pick up the mail two days later, you just ended your hold, and that counted as one of your three holds.
00:45:07
Speaker
Then you hold it again, cool. Then you come pick it up three days later, you just end it for a hold. That's two out of your three holds, and you only did it for five days total. You only get three. The reason why you can't keep putting your mail on hold is because you're circumventing the system, which is having a PO box. They're already giving you three months total to hold your mail with three separate holds. If you use the 30 day window at a time.
00:45:36
Speaker
That's three months. You can't be holding your mail for five, six, seven, eight months because of whatever circumstances you can't, that's circumventing the system. If you, we have PO boxes for three months. We have six months PO box terms. We have one year PO box time that, so now you're attempting to circumvent the system of paying or of a paid service.
00:45:58
Speaker
Whole mail is free. P.O. Box is a paid service. That's what the circumference comes from. You're almost trying to get P.O. Box treatment, which is a paid service, but using whole mail. That's why it's the limit on how many times you can hold a mail, which we probably should start using as a paid service, to be honest. And I bet you the people that really don't need it wouldn't use it.
00:46:25
Speaker
they wouldn't use it because you have to keep paying every time. Now, if you're going to keep paying every time, then hey, you could do it a hundred times in the year if you want to keep on paying because we making money now.
00:46:36
Speaker
It's, it's, it's bad business. You know what I'm saying? That's, that's, that's not hurting. That's hurt. And that way that's hurting the post office because again, it's circumventing the system by not using the paid service. The same way people picking up, attempting to pick up packages at the station is circumventing the system of package intercept. You're trying to get around using the paid service and we're not making any money, which is why we're going broke is what they keep saying for the last 10 to 15 years. Excuse me.
00:47:07
Speaker
So let's go over again. We sell packages, sell money orders, sell tracking, we sell marketing and advertising, we sell slash rent PO boxes. You can add additional insurance, you can sell package intercept, we sell quote unquote package intercept service, and we sell shipping supplies such as tape, that's eight. Then we're gonna take one off because package intercept is really, we haven't been using it because we just allow people to come pick up packages, so that's seven.
00:47:34
Speaker
So that's another one for free. And now we're at the free time. People just kind of pick up packages, which is free. Business pickups, which is free. We've given away boxes, which is free. That's three sample requests, which is free. Inform delivery, which is free and home mail requests, which is free. That's six.
00:47:53
Speaker
In the past 20 years, what's been the latest groundbreaking thing we've sold? What's making money? They say the biggest thing that's holding the post office on right now is package volume. The post is for packages, right?
00:48:07
Speaker
When are we gonna create something to sell to make the post office money? Instead of doing this, we got a budget, got a budget, we're making, okay, so who's in charge of making money then?
00:48:20
Speaker
Where's the department? Because this still is a business. Where's the department that's in charge of making items to sell to make money for the post office?
00:48:33
Speaker
Because what I see is, right now we finna get into the nitty gritty. What I see is somehow there's some type of department that's in charge, right? So, okay, let's take like this. There's some type of department that created informed delivery. There's some type of department, I don't know if it's the same department, different department, that created sample requests. There's another department somewhere or the same department.
00:48:56
Speaker
that allows this buying of boxes and ordering of boxes without paying for them. Let's go to the separate request and an informed delivery. These are digital items. So somewhere there's somebody that has to be in charge of these items. That's running these things behind the scenes. That's creating these things and having to maintain these things behind the scenes.
00:49:24
Speaker
Sounds costly. Sounds like somebody got to be making some money. I said to make a ton of money, but it's not like there's employees that have to maintain that and go over that. That's money that we have to pay these people to maintain services that we don't get paid for, that don't make sense.
00:49:41
Speaker
That's bad business. Let me go buy, let me go hire two people to create a service that I'm not gonna get paid for, but then I have to pay the two people who created a service and who has to stay on a payroll eight hours a day each to maintain the service that I'm not making no money from.
00:50:02
Speaker
How is this making sense, man? And so who is it making sense to?
00:50:08
Speaker
This is bad business at its finest, people. In my personal opinion, this is bad business.
00:50:19
Speaker
That's like, that's the key. I'm for the customers. I'm for customer service because my camera off y'all can't see me shaking my head and whatnot right now. You know what I'm saying? I'm irritated. It's been a long nightmare. It's 12, 11 now.
00:50:38
Speaker
I think I started this at Tingan. Y'all done got about an hour of content. I done lost like an hour. That's crazy.
00:50:47
Speaker
Again, I'm all for customers and customer service. Everyone that works for the post office is also a customer of the post office. We have addresses too. We live places. We also are entrepreneurs. We have in-home businesses. We have other businesses that we probably use postal products from. Or for, I should say, excuse me.
00:51:09
Speaker
So we're customers too. I'm for customers and for customer service, but at what expense to the business? A business is not a business if you're not making money or selling anything.
00:51:25
Speaker
It's been since the 1800s, we can't keep running on selling stamps and postage. Not unless you're going to lean all the way into being a super heavy package delivery service.
00:51:41
Speaker
We can't keep getting by on thinking stamps is gonna get us by. A post office needs to do better, and if it knew better, it'd do better. Someone somewhere is in charge of creating products, and there's no one creating products to sell. The last few products that's been created is free. Everything that's been created Since around the time that I've been in to now, which is like five and a half years has been free. So we said the mail is going down, so we're losing a lot of money. So someone's somewhere thinking, let's create
00:52:34
Speaker
And also what I tell you, we're losing money and it ain't just us losing money. To me, it's bad business for other businesses. Presorted Standard Mail. Businesses out there. Should none of you be using Presorted Standard Mail? To be honest, it shows how cheap you are. Now, that's not to say that that's good or bad. That's just tell the truth and how lack of the lack of care for your customers that you have in my personal opinion. Should nobody be sending anything pre-sorted standard? Everything should be sent first class. Now let me tell you guys the difference, who don't know. First class mail is paid for two ways.
00:53:18
Speaker
Alright, we're not gonna talk about second class, third class, this and that. We're just gonna throw our first class pre-source standard. Cause in a lot of cases, second, second class, third class can get treated like first class, depending on what it is. So first class, a pre-source standard. Pre-source standard mail is paid for two ways. So it's like it has two stamps on it, right? Already approved.
00:53:38
Speaker
The first step is when it gets to the address. They're paying to get this mail delivered to this person. Let's say it's a check. So a check will always come as first class because I need to check delivered to the person, right?
00:53:52
Speaker
The second post is this already backing up. The first post is saying, if this person is not there or this person's move, I need this piece of mail forward it to that person so it can get there. So now I have to travel again. Again, the first postage is paid to get from the sender to where it has to go.
00:54:09
Speaker
which either the station or the house. Once it gets to one of either those, the first part, the first postage is. The second picks up where there's an issue with it being delivered at the address. So the second post is for it to attempt to get forwarded to where the person moved to, or if the person, let's say, is deceased or moved without doing a change of address, so we can't find where that person might be to forward that mail to.
00:54:36
Speaker
Then it's paid to get back into the mail system and go back to the sender. The second post is covering it going to the second address if it's being forwarded or back to the sender. That's the two-way post. That's the first-class mail. Presource Standard Mail. Presource Standard is paid one way. It's only paid to the address.
00:54:59
Speaker
Once it gets to the address, if that person don't stay there, then pretty much that mail is going to go and recycle it because the sender did not pay to get this piece of mail back. Here's the problem. Businesses that's sending things pre-sourced standard. You would never know if the person don't live there no more or if they're deceased or if they move because to me it comes off like you don't care.
00:55:22
Speaker
You don't even care to get this piece of mail back. Hey, just send this up. I'm telling you, send this out about spectrum spectrum does not say anything first class because they don't care. Well, I'm not saying anything every now and again, they're sending these plastic cars out. That'd be first class. If you actually have a bill in your name, it's a bill that's going to be first class. But if they're, they're regular advertising that you would get like two or three times a week.
00:55:47
Speaker
That's not first-class mail, that's pre-source standard. So the mail that you see that says, -and-so, so-and-so name, amazing studios, or current resident, that's pre-source standard mail. That's why we have to deliver to you, because it says, or current resident, if the name is not your name. It says, current resident. If you don't want it, technically, you know what I'm saying, if it's yours, if it's your house, you can just throw it in the trash, because it's not gonna get back to the sender for them to stop sending it to you, because they don't care to get it back.
00:56:14
Speaker
If a carrier takes it back, it's going to end up going into recycling because we can't send it back to the sender because they didn't pay to get it back. It's going to end up going into what we call an album and that's recycling, right? Which means because they don't care to know that you don't want it. If you don't call, they're going to send you another one again in two to three days because of spectrum and that's what they do.
00:56:37
Speaker
They're just sending out blanket advertisements and they don't care to know if you get it back. This is what it hurts you businesses. Because if you, if you sit the first class and you got it back with that person saying that they refuse or that they don't want it, then you would know not to send it back to the address again, which should save you money in the long run. The long run when you stop advertising to houses that don't want the service or don't want whatever it is that you're selling, but you'll never know that if you keep sending things pre-source standard.
00:57:06
Speaker
I know it's cheaper to set a pre-source standard because you're only paying, excuse me. to be shipped once, but it matters in the long run, because if you sent another, another advertisement to that house in the same week, that's the same as you sending the first one first class, and you would have paid the two times, and then you, you could have knew once you got it back, if they sent it back, that they didn't want the service, now you can remove the address from your mailing list, and then you ain't gotta sit down there again, and you only paid for the two times, versus now you're still gonna send,
00:57:38
Speaker
things out two to three times a week to average to houses that don't want your stuff. Now you don't pay post at six times in the next, in the next two to three weeks, you pay post at six times and they're just throwing you stuff in the garbage or it's going into the recycle. How's that benefit in you? That's, that's money.
00:57:56
Speaker
So to me, you all should be sending all your pieces of mail first-class mail. It should be getting delivered to the person, should be getting forwarded to the person, or it should be coming back to you so you will know what it's marked as. Whether it's this person is deceased, this person no longer lives here, this person moved. I'm gonna use those two different things by no longer lives here, meaning somebody could have moved, but they didn't do a change of address. So that mail gonna come back to you just saying this person no longer lives here.
00:58:22
Speaker
right or it can attempt to be forwarded right we typically would attempt to forward it and then if i get it back in a couple days i say okay well this person don't have a change address on file so i'm just gonna have to um return to sender this as utf i was unable to forward that's letting you know the sender hey this person Don't live there. We attempted to forward to see if there's a person got a new address on file. It came back. They don't have a new address on file. So you'll know just to cut that mail because now you don't know that you don't have a place to send it to that person have a new address. You know what I'm saying? So everyone should be sending everything first class that will help you out. And they will have the false office out along with clearing up excess mail that we don't need.
00:59:08
Speaker
It's just a lot of mail that makes the mail heavier than what it is. And people just blanket sending out random things.
USPS Management and Employee Relations
00:59:19
Speaker
So that's my rant on the post office doing bad business. We don't sell enough products. We don't make new products. We don't sell new products. We're not innovating anything. We don't care what the people on the ground floor are saying. We don't care what the carriers are saying. We don't care what the clerks are saying, which in reality,
00:59:40
Speaker
upper management should be in touch with the ground truth to see what people are saying that they want from us. And then we could be telling you, Hey, customers are saying that they want this. And then you should be paying to make that product invested in making that product to sell that to our new customers or not new customers, but to customers, but you don't do that.
00:59:59
Speaker
By upper management, I don't mean the management in the post office, in your local post office, the people that's above them. They don't care to know what's going on on the ground floor. They just wanna sit back, make decisions that don't work, and then complain on why they not making enough money. Why the post office not making enough money. Why this don't work, why that don't work. Because people are making decisions that don't know what the work, what it takes to do the work. That's why it ain't working.
01:00:27
Speaker
That's why it's not working. Customers are telling us that they don't want these things and that they want these, but who can we tell that to? I know some customers have some great ideas on some things we should sell, but who would I tell that to? And I'm not going to go out of my way to do the extras either, because why? For people that maybe harass me or irritate me or bother me, if you ain't looking to say the post office, then I can't do anything.
01:00:57
Speaker
I'm not gonna try to reach you, you should be coming to reach us. I don't have to get to you, you gotta come talk to us about what the people want. There's no one closer to the customers than the carriers. Secondly, the second closest will be the clerks at the windows. Second closest people to the customers are the clerks. We know what they're saying.
01:01:20
Speaker
what they want, what they don't want, what they like, what they dislike, what they wish was better. Y'all should be coming into stations and talking to us. I should have to find you to help you do a better job at what you're supposed to be doing, but I'm already doing the most physically demanding job in the post office, which is carrying mail.
01:01:39
Speaker
You should come find me. Why would I come find you? I'm tired. You been sitting in your desk all day with the ACM. I've been, I've been outside hot in a hundred degree weather, pounding a pavement for 20, 25, 30 miles. Why do I come find you from day to day? No, you should be coming to find us.
01:01:57
Speaker
The post office in all, in, in, uh, in totality does a lot of bad business. I'm gonna keep saying it. It's horrible business practices. I've never seen a company that complains as much as the post office complains on not making money and then turn around and creates a product for free.
01:02:19
Speaker
then continue to complain on how much money it's spending because now when that service just adds more time to the backs of everyone, now they're having more overtime, then you complain again that you're not making any money. And then you turn around and create a second product right behind that one as another free service. Like, I don't know, man. I don't know the thinking up there, but it's horrible practices.
01:02:47
Speaker
And it's like, no one cares up top. They care about, they check the check. And best believe super top management that y'all not getting your money's worth. So there's a disconnect between the super high management that's attached to the government and the management in the districts of the stations. There's a disconnect there, a big disconnect. And those people in the middle, they just sitting back trying to collect $800 plus thousand dollars a year.
01:03:15
Speaker
while doing the least possible. And they don't care that the post office is not making money. They don't care that the post office is going under. They don't care about, they just looking, hey, this year I'm gonna make 125,000, 130, 150,000 in management. And next year I'm gonna make the same thing until the post office end, but by the time that end over the next five years, I'll probably be able to make like $700,000 if it ends in the next five years. They don't care. And the super top manager, y'all don't care enough to do anything about it.
01:03:44
Speaker
Otherwise y'all should pass, y'all should bypass them and come to the stations to talk to the kids. Hey man, what are the customers saying?
01:03:51
Speaker
But again, this goes with the post office always trying to hide his hand. It does a lot of absent minded things and it doesn't want to give you a face to blame. That's why no one takes credit for the things that they do.
01:04:05
Speaker
You won't know who created sample requests and it don't work. You don't know or won't know who created informed delivery and it doesn't work always as expected. You'll never know who actually took a plane to or talk about.
01:04:20
Speaker
We won't know who allows people to order boxes without paying for them. And then we got to do the extras on delivering it, on picking it up, on trying to put it somewhere, on finding, on doing whatever the case is with these heavy boxes, oversized boxes for bundles and bundles and bundles on a hundred degree day or it's 10 degrees outside day. I don't even know who we complain to. Like who, who, who allows this? I don't even know who to complain to and I work for the post office.
01:04:50
Speaker
Not saying that the complaint would even matter. That's the killer part of Not to say that the complaint would even matter.
01:04:59
Speaker
It's a sad day, man. They might as well go here prophetize. As a matter of fact, let Jeff Bezos take over.
01:05:09
Speaker
Go ahead, go ahead, privatize it. Let Jeff Bezos create a postal service or Elon Musk create their own version of a postal service. And I'll gladly work for them because they know how to do somewhat of good business and they pay. They pay better than the post office.
01:05:30
Speaker
And they end up in the line of business that makes money. They make a lot of money. Way more money than what we make.
01:05:43
Speaker
With that, I'm not going to take up too much more of you guys time. I am tired. And again, I've recorded an extra hour that you guys can't even see. This has been the postal blue podcast. We're going to make this episode eight because we did get to the one hour mark.
01:06:02
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And yeah, man. support your post office, use your tools properly, stop attempting to pick up packages. Most stations shouldn't allow you to do it no more anyway. I know you can't come to my station and do it no more. You have to do a package intercept or you will not begin that package.
01:06:24
Speaker
So yeah, you need to do your package intercept and you need to do it days before, days prior. And if it ain't working on the day that you do it, you check the next day and the next day until it work, but you will not be getting it from the station. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I got to retire from here possibly, hopefully. And this is how I got to pay my bills and feed my kids. And I can't do it without making no money.
01:06:52
Speaker
With that, yeah. Stop doing the long-term mail holds, back to back to back to back mail holds, but you're still coming back to pick up your mail, but then want to keep the hold. When you pick up your mail, you keep trying to put your mail on hold five, six times in a year. It don't work like that. Now people might be letting you get away with it. So I'm not saying in these things that people are not letting you get away with whatever you're getting away with in your city, in your state, or at your post office. What I'm telling you is that's not the system and it doesn't work like that.
01:07:28
Speaker
I'm telling you the facts. This might not be some things that you want to hear or like to hear. I'm telling you what it is.
01:07:34
Speaker
With that said, I have been your boy LA styles, AKA the LA styles, also known as ice to some to few. This has been episode eight officially of the postal blue podcast. And I appreciate you guys listening. I'd appreciate that share cause sharing is definitely Karen. That's the only way we don't grow.
01:08:00
Speaker
We do have a community on X, formerly known as Twitter, by the same name, the postal blue podcast or postal blue, not the postal blue, but postal blue podcast. There's a community on X where we share our opinions, thoughts, and we have discussions. And as the community grow, once we get to about a hundred members, we will start doing live spaces where we can just talk, shoot this. I was almost cursed.
01:08:26
Speaker
But I'm trying to I'm trying to make this person free, profanity free. Right. Which is a little bit tough for me. So sometimes when you see me pause or hear me pause, I was going to say something, a certain type of way. And I'm catching myself from saying again, this is not scripted, catching myself from Santa because I need this to reach or we need this to reach as many people as possible. So we can't have no hold ups, especially when it comes to language. Right. So.
01:08:56
Speaker
with that said man we appreciate y'all man check out the the community again on twitter again once we reach 100 members we will go back to doing live spaces we're gonna shoot the stuff in there uh talk chop it up sometimes in the middle of the week end of the week on a saturday maybe before our sunday recording give out a lot of advice, accept a lot of advice. Just talk, laugh, joke at the end of a long day in the spaces.
Community Engagement and Support
01:09:22
Speaker
Bring people up, let them get it off their chest. Give them some advice. Of course, that's not paid, it's just us giving back and trying to help out as many people as we can along with trying to create a space, an area where we can feel comfortable and safe to talk. And then just laugh and get it off your mind and get it off your chest.
01:09:41
Speaker
Right? That's what a Twitter space is going to be. Post the blue podcast on X, formerly known as Twitter. Y'all make sure to support that. Again, the only way, the only thing you need to do to support that is just go join. It's free. It's free. Okay.
01:10:00
Speaker
To support us on anything else, make sure you like, share, subscribe, or any combination of it. And if you listen to it on the streaming service, please make sure you follow or subscribe. And if you listen to more than one episode, if you enjoy the content, if you like the content by whatever means, then please, please find it in your heart to leave a rating.
01:10:23
Speaker
Alright, so the only thing we asking for and we'll be asking for for a very long time is to like, share, subscribe, and to rate us, please, on whatever platform is that you find us on. That's the only support we need.
01:10:41
Speaker
That's going to help us grow. That's going to show the streaming platform. People are interested in this. We are helping. We are out there. We are growing. Growth is what we need. It's why we're doing as many episodes as we can weekly for y'all. And why we created so much content around it in different ways to
01:11:11
Speaker
Right. Again, I am your boy LA styles and be real, man. Where it's been real. As usual, what I try to remember at the end is to tell y'all, make sure y'all stay safe out there. Especially when it comes to my carriers. Make sure y'all stay safe.
01:11:31
Speaker
Make sure y'all stay visually aware of your surroundings. If need be, especially those of you who in bad areas on bad routes, y'all know who y'all are and y'all know where y'all are.
01:11:46
Speaker
So make sure you keep your head on the swivel. Make sure you're mentally aware.
01:11:54
Speaker
Make sure you emotionally aware. And if you guys do have anything going on, personal or work related, that's leading to you to be emotionally overwhelmed or mentally overwhelmed. Make sure you contact EAP. If you don't know what that's for, EAP is a group of people for the postal service. not just the postal service really, but in a federally government side that if you need to talk to a counselor or therapist or whatever the case is, that's already a benefit of being in the post office or any other federal entity or government entity organization that is. You can call EAP, it's free. Talk to a counselor, therapist or whatever the case is and everything there is confidential.
01:12:40
Speaker
Okay. If you're a new carrier, you overwhelmed, call EAP. Is it work related? Is it home related? Don't even matter. Call EAP. If you ain't got the number, I don't have it on me. I probably could look it up. I just sent my phone to the side. Call EAP. You can look it up. Just look up USPS EAP and the number should pop up. You could contact EAP, talk to them, get your mind right, get your emotions right. You know what I'm saying?
01:13:09
Speaker
get it together the best way you can and you keep it pushing.
01:13:16
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With that, appreciate everyone. Appreciate all the support we'll be getting, especially on our shorts, our reels, and on the TikTok. Appreciate all of that. We'll be getting hundreds. We've only been doing it for about a week and a half. We'll be getting hundreds and hundreds of views on those, especially if I'm taking it across the board, right? So I appreciate you guys on that. Make sure y'all continue to support. Hit that like, share, subscribe, or that rating button.
01:13:45
Speaker
We're going to be back with more man. We ain't going nowhere. Post the blue podcast is here to stay. We hit a grow. We hit a share. We're educate. We're inform 2024 has to be the year that the craft employees make the difference or at least start the boater moving to make the difference in the post office.
01:14:11
Speaker
We are too big of an entity on the craft side. We are too big of an entity in the post office to not be the difference maker. There is no low body in the post office bigger than craft side.
01:14:24
Speaker
Okay? We decide what's gonna happen. We decide if mail gonna move or if packages gonna move. They don't. No one else does. Guess what? If truck drivers don't show up, mail ain't going between stations.
01:14:39
Speaker
How was getting here? Okay, cool. Truck drivers back on. But now the mail handlers and the clerks in distribution not there. How mail gonna move? How is it being sorted? How is it being processed? It's not. Okay, cool. They show back up at work. So now them and the truck drivers back at work to get the mail to the stations.
01:14:58
Speaker
Right, so now Mel is moving between plants in between cities, between states because the truck driver's there. Mel is moving in the process and being distributed in the annex and in the plants. Cool, we finally get it to the stations. But the carrier's not there. Who gonna get it delivered? Oh, okay. Okay. Sound like we make the Mel move then.
01:15:24
Speaker
Okay, that's all I was trying to figure out. With that again, man, I appreciate y'all. Remember your place. Remember to stay safe. Mentally, emotionally. Be aware, stay aware. And let's grow, man. I appreciate y'all. Later.