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Route Adjustments
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On episode #9 of the Postal Blue Podcast we speak on route adjustments. We speak on what route adjustments are and what they are intended for and how you should be preparing. This year we are experiencing a lot of adjustments and station consolidations coming the way of the postal service and change is inevitable. Be ready for it to hit your station.
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Transcript
Introduction and Episode Setup
00:00:04
lastyles
What's going on everyone? It's your boy LA Styles over here with your other hosts, Koffee and Fee, both in the building for another Sunday.
00:00:12
Fee
Good evening, good evening.
00:00:13
Blacknight
You already know what it is. Let's get it.
00:00:15
lastyles
On another Sunday, another good Sunday.
00:00:20
lastyles
We'll get a coffee round of applause today since he's getting his light in this situation together. Y'all was on his butt last time, you know what I'm saying? We appreciate that.
00:00:28
Blacknight
Man i had to do a little sum sum.
00:00:30
lastyles
Watkins was on him too.
00:00:32
Blacknight
My name is black night for a reason.
00:00:37
lastyles
Fee fee, mr. So so I think coffee says she getting deducted Coffee the So yeah, Yeah, I talked to coffee on if you take payments and things of that nature Like a personal problem
00:00:41
Fee
no
00:00:43
Blacknight
We got to have fines, man.
00:00:50
Fee
it was that It was the holiday.
00:00:50
Blacknight
I got to do with that. Everybody else was here.
00:00:54
Fee
It was company over.
00:00:55
Blacknight
I got to do it at your company. Got to understand business becomes before pleasure. You work hard, then you can play hard. Use work. You just playing, playing and you weren't even working.
00:01:08
Blacknight
So. Mm hmm.
00:01:10
lastyles
Yes, you plan six sometimes from work.
00:01:10
Fee
but
00:01:11
Blacknight
this This is exactly what management may be talking about right here So you need to get
00:01:17
lastyles
Mm-hmm.
Clarifying Episode Number
00:01:18
Blacknight
yourself together Yes
00:01:19
lastyles
The GR.
00:01:23
lastyles
with that said, what's going on, ladies and gentlemen, we are your host on another episode of the postal blue podcast. This is episode nine.
00:01:32
Fee
But.
00:01:33
lastyles
If I'm not mistaken, we'll be episode nine. This is what's supposed to be episode seven. And then me and coffee went off on the, on the whole nother thing. So this is the original episode seven, uh, we're out of adjustments.
00:01:44
lastyles
Now I don't know if you want to add consolidated. Stations in there, which is a very small part. It's not a ton to talk about almost like a budgeting situation, but it is happening In the US that they trying to get rid of station But we'll talk about that on the back end if he still wants to talk about that This will mainly be about the right adjustments that's coming Most likely to the nation Right.
00:02:04
Blacknight
Yes.
00:02:06
lastyles
Might not hit every single station because some stations are very small.
00:02:09
lastyles
Some station only only has rural rural routes. So I just talked to a postmaster the other day, which he's actual manager, not a postmaster, but he has a postmaster title.
00:02:20
lastyles
He says, I can tell you this, he's saying. So right right before we get into it,
Postal Route Adjustments Overview
00:02:25
lastyles
I'm gonna tell y'all what he said, me and him talk. All right, he was at the station doing doing the pre-walks for the route adjustments in our station.
00:02:25
Blacknight
okay
00:02:32
lastyles
All right, I forget his name. Somewhere in Lux. I don't know how to spell it. Lux, Wisconsin, or something like that. And he's cool people. Well, from the conversation, he seemed to be cool people.
00:02:39
Blacknight
Mario was it Mario?
00:02:44
lastyles
I don't know, a taller Caucasian guy? like A taller white guy?
00:02:46
Blacknight
No, that's what that was Mario black. No, that wasn't Mario
00:02:52
lastyles
and So he said his station, he's a manager, but he has no supervisors. So in his area, and he has four routes.
00:03:03
lastyles
He only has four routes. He has one city route that covers all the city part. And then he has three rural routes and they they each cover like a hundred miles or something like that.
00:03:13
lastyles
The rural routes, the other three. He said he has no supervisors and he the manager.
00:03:13
Blacknight
Okay.
00:03:18
lastyles
His title there is postmaster. I'm assuming he don't really answer it to nobody besides maybe district, which why he probably have a postmaster title. So it's almost like he's just a postmaster who runs the station.
00:03:26
Blacknight
Correct.
00:03:30
lastyles
Cause he don't even actually have an actual manager and supervisors. He's kind of like all of the above cause he only has four routes. Now watch this. He say his routes are already, what's the term you use?
00:03:47
lastyles
kind of like rate it, right? So if they go over, they still only get the pay for what the route is rated. But if they under, they still get the same pay because of what they route is rated. Now I don't know what branch his people are in and what contract they're in, that's fire.
00:04:06
lastyles
To me, it's fire. that Of course you can lose pay though if you might be out there doing whatever you're doing and you go over, but it's almost like guaranteed pay. So if coffee has his eight hour route, it's eight hours no matter what. And if coffee go takes four hours off of Linda Rock, cause Linda not there that day, that's 12. Coffee get out of guaranteed 12 no matter what time he get done. Bad part is if it taken 14 hours, he still only get paid for 12. But if coffee can finish it in like 10 hours, he still get paid for
Debating the Route Rating System
00:04:34
lastyles
12. He get paid for the 12 no matter what.
00:04:35
Blacknight
Correct.
00:04:39
Blacknight
I don't, I, I, I'm gonna tell you why I don't like it because who, who was coming up with what each route is rated as.
00:04:39
lastyles
I like that.
00:04:43
lastyles
Has i had a little bit in in in cinemas along with it, but I like it.
00:04:54
Blacknight
So if that's rated off what my time is, then great.
00:04:57
lastyles
Hey.
00:04:59
Blacknight
Cause whatever my time is, that's what I'm gonna get paid for. If it's rated off somebody who would like to, who, who's a runner. That's bad for me. Great for them because they do eight hours and five hours.
00:05:14
Blacknight
I do eight hours and eight hours. Well, I do eight hours and 10 hours, whatever the situation may be is bad for the person who is not, is it the incentive is for you to go faster.
00:05:27
Blacknight
That's the incentive.
00:05:29
lastyles
Well in his thing...
00:05:31
lastyles
He only has one city route that he said he designed his himself. The other was rural routes. So you do more driving than it is deliveries, because you drive driving around so many farmlands.
00:05:34
Blacknight
Okay.
00:05:40
lastyles
So I wouldn't assume that they got a lot of deliveries out there. If he says a hundred miles, there's no way to, you got a actual hundred miles each of actual deliveries of actual stops.
00:05:50
Blacknight
Correct.
00:05:51
lastyles
You just, it got to be like, you just driving a whole lot of farmland.
00:05:54
lastyles
I'm assuming his four routes cover a whole city. But you know what I'm saying? Who knows how big that city is with farmland and it's only four routes. So you probably do way more driving than than anything else than it stops. If you have the rural route, but I don't like rural routes.
00:06:12
lastyles
And the other person just has the city park because it's is's that small. And he said that person get done in like on average like five hours or something like that and they go home and get that guarantee eight.
00:06:23
Blacknight
and I mean and That's what I mean, so we're we're hoping and you know i'm saying I'll just be honest as to be truthful All managers and I you know, I hate to say this but I'm gonna be truthful
00:06:26
lastyles
But you you make it work, you know what I'm saying?
00:06:27
lastyles
I'm assuming he'll work with you on adjusted because he's the supervisor, he's the manager, he's the postmaster. You know what I'm saying? I'm assuming that adjusted would be done by him.
00:06:50
Blacknight
The majority of the management staff is not going to tell the truth. They're not going to say a route. If a route is eight hours, they believe in route seven hours. If a route is 10 hours, they believe it's nine or eight. That's just what it is. So then the majority of people will probably get cheated out of that. Now, if you're a person who just, you got one speed, your speed is top end speed. Of course that works for you, but we're talking about,
City vs. Rural Carriers' Contracts
00:07:20
Blacknight
if you're overweight and we most people are when they first start in the post office, those people are going to be working for free for an hour or two hours. That's not good for them. That's good for, that's good incentive if everybody route is curated equally unto everybody. So if everybody route is like four hours on the street and if you get a route and then you over and they're going to adjust it to that, great.
00:07:50
Blacknight
If they're not, that's not great. That's, that's i actually a little mortifying to be honest.
00:07:58
lastyles
I'll make that work. But talking with him is is what a is where I found that a lot of our contracts are trash.
00:07:59
Blacknight
Okay. good
00:08:08
Fee
Thank you.
00:08:11
lastyles
This this this is where you really see the difference. Now, for those of you who out there who don't know, city routes and rural routes are going to be a lot different. And the contracts for rural carriers and city carriers has always been different.
00:08:23
Blacknight
Correct.
00:08:25
lastyles
Right, and I don't talk, rural carriers is a rural carrier.
00:08:27
lastyles
I'm not talking about a city carrier that has mounted. That's still a city route, right? But what that what that conversation showed me is there's a lot of different things and people contracts, which also told me that there's a lot of room for change in our own contract or in other people's contract with somebody who say, oh man, you
00:08:31
Blacknight
sure
Advocating for Postal Contract Changes
00:08:49
lastyles
can never get that.
00:08:49
lastyles
Well, how come I talk to these people over here and they got that in theirs? So now you it's almost like the doors open in that conversation. like I had an enlightenment and and some ideas that I thought I would never have for contracts because I didn't think it'd even be feasible. But talking to him, there's a lot of stuff that's possible because it's in eight contracts.
00:09:08
Blacknight
Correct. I think, I think the problem with the contract talks. Me personally, I don't think they tap into, you know, saying ground zero. I think that's the number one problem with the contract. I'm not, I don't want anybody to be, feel like I'm trying to be disrespectful for them or what they do. I appreciate everything that the people do to get whatever they can get in a contract. I don't think they play it from.
00:09:37
Blacknight
What are our people going through on the ground floor? Mostly in most people career, once you get 10 to 12 years, you're not going through a what everybody else is going through at the bottom, right? So we're talking about people who have a grassroots jobs, just like your your clerk that's just going to be in the station.
00:10:04
Blacknight
She's not trying to elevate to another crowd until the top of the clerks. Well, she has to throw packages every day and they come up with a different time every day to put her on. Now, regardless if that's correct or incorrect, that is what she has to deal with every day. I don't know how long.
00:10:24
Blacknight
Are we going to wait before we started doing some type of corrective action to manage me as a whole on not following the contract? You can't just say, I have the right to miss manage every time. No, you got to go by case by case basis. And we have to look at. When are they talking about? So if you're talking about it's a snow storm and you possibly have 30 bodies in there and you only got, you only got 12.
00:10:54
Blacknight
I understand that's a reason to miss manage. If you're talking about just because your favorite carrier doesn't want to carry this long route and she or he wants to be on the mountain route that day, cause they don't want to carry that and you are like, Oh, I have the right to miss manage. No, you don't have the right to miss manage in that situation. So that's one of the things I think will also make the, make us better as a whole, as a company, but also,
00:11:23
Blacknight
help us correct some of the miscommunication between the desk and the craft employees because they know they're on a shot clock. You can't just do certain things, you
Management's Role in Contract Enforcement
00:11:35
Blacknight
know what I'm saying?
00:11:36
Blacknight
And not care about what's going on. And I think that's a lot of people, frustration on the bottom right now. And I think upper union, I don't, I'm not, I don't want to say that they don't, they don't know.
00:11:50
Blacknight
I'll say it's not as It's on the back burner. I'm pretty sure they're trying to get everything they can get, but I would want them to focus tremendously on understanding what's the day to day fights are.
00:12:01
Fee
Good.
00:12:07
Blacknight
Before we can win big fights, we gotta, we gotta, we gotta win the day to day fights. How many times, you know, I'm just going to say it. The number one thing we need to fix is to attend this policy.
00:12:19
Blacknight
The attendance policy is broken. It is arcade. It has no, no, no kind of function, no boundaries, no structure to it. It is left up to management to come up with how many other days they want to let you miss until they feel like bringing you in. They want to bring you in out to three. They want to bring you in out to five. They want to bring you out to 10. It's, it's broken. We need to have some incentive to keep people at work.
00:12:46
Blacknight
If you're on an overtime list, you shouldn't be getting brought into office the same as a person who's a non-overtime person. That don't make any sense to me. If you're a person on work assignment and you're going to work six days a week, you should be given an incentive to be able to, if you're sick or you're worn out, why do that one day council count against me like a person who come here and only do 40 hours? You got to be something,
00:13:15
Blacknight
in the contract to start encouraging people to again fall in love with the job and not just let the, you know what I'm saying, the desk or the job beat them down altogether.
00:13:26
Fee
Okay.
00:13:27
Blacknight
Uh, we got to have something in the contract. We're, we're doing a dangerous job every day. You know, uh, I value what police officers do.
00:13:35
Blacknight
So I'm not going to say the police officer does a, we do a dangerous job to them, but we are a more, we're put out, we put ourself in the most dangerous position. there's no other man. we're We're more dangerous zones than they are. Police officers are not going to go where they know shooting is are just to be, you know, walking around. They understand the dangers in there. They drive through. We're walking where people are killing people, where people are getting robbed at, where people are getting shot at. We get nothing for that. Giving me a thank you is is not giving me anything. I can give myself a thank you every day. I think that some should be,
00:13:35
Fee
Okay.
00:14:14
Blacknight
You know, put it in a contract. also, I think you should, I think one thing will help everybody.
Critiquing Attendance Policy
00:14:23
Blacknight
You should get every, every month. I can walk away day. You into it with the desk. You having a bad day. You you know what I'm saying? Your wife won't got on your nerves. Your husband don't got on your nerve. Your children are sick at home. You should be able to call in.
00:14:43
Blacknight
three hours early and be like, Hey, today I'm using my, Hey, I'm, Hey, I can't work today because I think a lot of things goes downhill because if I call in one day, I'm definitely going to the next day.
00:14:57
Blacknight
I'm not doing one for one. I'm usually doing one for two every time. Why would I get one occurrence for one day? There's a lot of stuff I can get done in 48 hours that I normally don't.
00:14:58
lastyles
I think like this video is the best way to talk and prove himself to her.
00:15:10
Blacknight
So there's a lot of things that we can put in a contract that I don't think think that we can. The reason I think the contract is held up so much is because of, how can I say this? There's no fear that the, that if the contract runs out, then we're going to go anywhere. So that's my thoughts on switching up. And we had, if they knew,
00:15:38
Blacknight
At 12 o'clock, when the contract was over with, nobody had to come in and you couldn't do nothing to nobody. The contract will get fixed. What'd you think? i like
00:15:51
lastyles
Hmm and to get closed.
00:15:52
Blacknight
Well, when I mean, when I say fixed, I mean, everybody will come to the table.
00:15:56
lastyles
I don't think it is. I don't know. I don't know what fixed is.
00:16:02
Blacknight
with the excitement of getting it done like you would do any other deal. People know when you have a deadline, like most deals are
00:16:14
lastyles
so Okay, i so I say this.
00:16:21
lastyles
The union, the union wouldn't have or shouldn't be as enthused on getting it done without the mentality, right? So let's say you management, I'm union, right? And we got to get this done by a certain time, right? Typically the contract is held up on management side for the things that they don't want to give.
00:16:49
lastyles
Cool. So I'm going to come to the table more like a days ago. Cause I'm not worried about the time limit because I do. I know when the time ends, you're not going to have no employees. You what I'm saying? You're not going to have no workers or it gives us free rain. You still have workers, but that gives us free rain. Call in central. There's no discipline can be disciplined. There's no contract to say what discipline is. There's no, there's no active attendance policy to say what that is for discipline. You know what I'm saying?
00:17:12
Blacknight
right
00:17:15
lastyles
So you might have people at work that you still gotta pay, but it might just be free reign on doing whatever. You know what I'm saying? Stand out after 12, stand out whatever the case come whatever the case is, because there's no discipline, because there's no contract. So I feel like management would be more enthused to close the contract because they know that they could possibly, the possibility of having no employees would be the scariest thing.
00:17:36
Blacknight
Correct.
00:17:40
lastyles
by no employees, I mean people at work on any given day. and they're going to get hit bad with that. So I think there'd be more enthused to, to close the contract, which means they might be willing to give more because they know that they're on that, that schedule, that, that time limit.
00:17:49
Blacknight
Mm hmm.
00:17:54
lastyles
I can't keep saying no, no, no, no, no, no, no, because they're not, they're not letting it go.
00:17:55
Blacknight
Yeah.
00:17:59
lastyles
The union not letting it go. And we got, we got 30 days, 45 days. You know what I'm saying? So I feel like, I feel like, The contracts will definitely get closed faster.
Influence of Contract Negotiations
00:18:12
lastyles
but where It got no choice but to close fast. Right now we we're a year and a half behind or something.
00:18:14
Blacknight
yeah
00:18:15
Fee
Oh, definitely is.
00:18:16
lastyles
So I think it'd be more incentive to get it done.
00:18:21
lastyles
I just don't know how much better it would be. It'd be a better contract than what we than what we typically get. I don't know how much better that would be though, but I do feel like get to be it'd be a better contract because both sides probably will be willing to give a little bit more or a little bit less or whatever the case is to to compromise.
00:18:41
lastyles
But even in that same token, your craft that you negotiating for has to be involved. You know what I'm saying? That's still gotta happen.
00:18:47
Blacknight
All right.
00:18:51
lastyles
Cause we still don't know what you're negotiating, right? it It might help you a lot to know what you're going to the table to negotiate. unions, right? I feel like y'all just free ball a lot of stuff. But I'll keep that short right there. With 20 minutes, we ain't got into the topic of rider adjustments yet. Let's get into this rider adjustments. And then we can double back on this on another episode, on a future episode. I don't know what my camera doing. Cameras want to be out of focus right now for some reason.
00:19:28
lastyles
There you go. You're getting slow. Router adjustments.
Impact of Route Adjustments on Daily Routines
00:19:35
lastyles
So for those of you in general that don't know what a router adjustment is, or maybe your station never faced one, which would be hard to comprehend because I'm under the impression that every station has had router adjustments over the decades. It's been around for a long time, right? Router adjustment, typically, from my understanding, they used to do it once a year.
00:19:55
lastyles
Again, our branches, our branch contracts are different. So there's no telling what's in yours about route adjustment. So often they do them or don't do them.
00:20:00
Blacknight
Haha.
00:20:04
lastyles
You know what I'm saying? That's one of the problems is our contracts are so different from branch to branch. Well, the MOUs are so different from branch to branch, they don't even make sense. It's almost like the contract's different.
00:20:17
lastyles
So a router just come in when, used to do them yearly to see if there's been growth on a route or a some type of downsizing on a route.
00:20:26
lastyles
And they would either tack on, add more to the route, or take off from the route to get it to appear with about eight hours, or probably estimated under eight hours because, again, you still want that room for error and traveling to be on time for eight hours.
00:20:43
lastyles
so
00:20:47
lastyles
So that's what the base of a route adjustment is, right? Right now they're doing station-wide route adjustments, meaning they're going into your stations, they're traveling all your routes to get an estimation or estimate of how long it takes to do set a route or set routes, and then they're going to adjust those routes. What they're attempting to do is take out routes, right? They already have this in their head that they're going to take out routes. They have an estimated number of how many routes that they want to take out already.
00:21:17
lastyles
not to say they're going to take that number out, but they're hoping that they can get that number, right? And so they're gonna come in, they're gonna walk all your routes. if If they don't get to you this year, it'll probably be next year, I'm assuming. They're gonna walk all your routes, and then they're gonna attempt to cut some routes out.
00:21:41
lastyles
add on to your routes so you can have an eight hour day. Let them tell it. Right. So, what essentially doing is almost building in pivots. Uh, when some of us might have pivots, some of us don't, but to build in pivots into your, into your route automatically is, is essentially what, what, what's happening because you might be under or they are routes that are under.
00:22:07
lastyles
do what you got What y'all gotta say about that? Y'all want me to keep going.
00:22:09
Blacknight
No, I mean, I think, I think routed the problem with route adjustment to me is that we looking at it from the wrong angle. If you come in already with how many routes that you're going to take out. So what do, what are we doing? here You might as well just come take them out. You're not going to change your mind. If you believe that four routes supposed to come out of station, you're not going to take four routes out.
00:22:38
Blacknight
You know what I mean? So it's like, just take the four to say, look at the scenario.
00:22:46
Fee
Okay, but let's go ahead. Go here to finish ahead Go ahead and finish.
00:22:47
Blacknight
Go ahead. So look at the scenario. So look at the list of the lowest person in the station takes the, take those four routes, add them to the rest of of the routes, because what are you, cause basically it's basically coming in and like eventually it going to be a lie.
00:23:05
Blacknight
Cause you're going to walk everybody in this station until everybody in the station, they're over. If you walk a person and they over, you so you still add to their route. I know a station, uh, in poem two out of branch two who four people was over one person over by two hours. They still got some added to their route.
00:23:30
Blacknight
So they already know what they're going to add to your route. So it's really, it's all about the union. To me, the union is getting, is being made, made a joke up because they're telling you, no, we're going in with good intentions to make sure everything's done right. You can be our partner in this. Cause we, but we believe we're a partnership when we already know they don't believe we're partners. So you go in and say, Hey, we're coming in. We think about four routes should come out of this station. Why do you think that?
00:24:02
Blacknight
And then they're going to say, well, well, every day they pivot every day. Okay. How about we do this? How about we have that person come in and we pay, we pay four people for one month and leave their four routes on the floor.
00:24:16
Blacknight
And let's see if everybody's going to be able to to absorb those four routes onto those routes.
Evaluating Route Adjustments
00:24:22
Blacknight
And let's see if that's going to be eight hours for each and every person for a month. We shouldn't have to do the look back as they call it to see, is it working? You shouldn't have to do that because if people are not getting done at eight, then it didn't work.
00:24:22
Fee
Right.
00:24:36
Blacknight
Then we should have just the route adjustment, but that's not what they're doing it for.
00:24:41
lastyles
Well, well, part of that as well, right? when By the time they get in your station, they're coming in with the last six months of data from your route or from your station in each individual route.
00:24:53
Blacknight
Mm-hmm.
00:24:55
lastyles
So they know how much how long you you estimated in the office and how much stationary time, how much sitting in time, quote unquote, that you that you've have had.
00:25:03
lastyles
They've watched yo you and DMS. They got all the all this information. Right. By the time that they come now, they know that you probably gone as far as carriers going to do whatever you got to do. I feel like you got to do whatever you got to do, whatever the case is that you probably not going to do that day. Right. Cool. They try to extend your time on the what to call it. But they already gone with the information for the past six months already. So I e if you as a person stay in the office for three hours and they come in and they know it ain't know it ain't no DPS touch and they know whatever the case and you get end up getting out of our in office, then they're going to feel like you just burnt two hours then.
00:25:39
lastyles
Cool. Then you get on the street and you normally had an hour and a half of stationary time on the street. So if I can get that hour and a half of stationary time from you, because now I'm not walking, you don't have that. So now I got this two hours out the office on you, and then I got this hour and a half off the street on you, then that's three and a half hours. And then you turn around and you came back at one o'clock when I walked you.
00:25:58
lastyles
yeah so yeah at the time adds up then with your stationery time and then with your office time that's why they gonna add in their head you got that three available or two or whatever it is available based on office time based on stationery time for the past six months is what they again.
00:26:17
lastyles
just things I've heard, right? People I've talked to, things of that nature, right?
00:26:17
Blacknight
and
00:26:22
lastyles
So when they come in, it's not like they coming in. So these, okay, so I said to say, this is why they they got an estimated estimation on how many routes that they want to take because they're basing it off, sit under time.
00:26:38
lastyles
categories that I just said, right? They're looking at, look at your whole station's office time.
00:26:39
Blacknight
Mm hmm.
00:26:42
lastyles
Look at your whole station's, stationary report and activity events.
00:26:44
Fee
Thank you.
00:26:48
lastyles
Believe it or not, some people will be stationary for 30 minutes.
00:26:52
lastyles
Some people stationary for 25 minutes. And when you ask that, you'll be like, Oh, I can't remember. Not saying it's each individual. But we all always know as well that there's few that can mess it up for many, or there's a select amount or whatever that can mess it up for whatever the case is, you know what I'm saying?
00:26:58
Blacknight
No.
00:27:08
Blacknight
so and and
00:27:12
lastyles
But that's just to give y'all that information on when they come to your station, you know what I'm saying? that And this is why I told people, y'all need to start carrying. I got supposed to carry, I said this a month and a half ago.
00:27:29
lastyles
go here. If y'all don't know, again, I didn't do this on here. I know I'm saying I talked to different stations, but go get coffee.
00:27:34
Blacknight
Well, this is my thing right here. The problem with that, with that tool is we should be doing a first and we first should be having a conversation and constellations with, with, with the supervisor and the manager. Like they had that same, that same data right there to them. It's somebody downtown who's reporting, Hey, your person been sending for 10 minutes.
00:28:05
Blacknight
That, I mean, us I, an IT student can pop that phone on your screen every time somebody's sitting more than 10 minutes. So we can work that out to see what that is in each day and be able to adjust what I have on a team to come in. Because let's be honest, every time most people get walked is a day when they don't have mail. When a day they don't have flats.
00:28:29
Blacknight
On a day that they they're doing this on purpose. This is not something. Oh, this is all it just happened like that. No, they're doing this on purpose. You can make a part of every route be under eight every day by not sending anything in the office. I've seen you three. I've seen you 12 flats for every route. 25 packages for every route. I have a one and a half tray of DPS. Everybody should have an eight hour day.
00:28:59
Blacknight
or less. So you can, you can come in to that. You can make the data say what you wanted to say when you wanted to say it, but that's not what they're going to do. They're going to choose the data over that six months aware. A person has been, you know, more faster than what had been faster than normal. And they're going to use that data. And that's, that's the problem is no trust between, between the union, the carriers and and the post office because if you don't trust somebody, it doesn't matter if you come in, let me show you, let me show you the numbers.
00:29:36
Blacknight
Okay. Well, guess what? I got, I got an app on my phone to tell me how many, how long it took me to walk. I started every time I leave here.
00:29:45
Blacknight
You know, it took me, it don't took me seven hours on the street every day for the last nine months. So how could you come here and tell me your dad had got me under during in your six months? Then they're going to say, well, I deducted.
00:29:47
Fee
Thank you.
00:29:58
Blacknight
You know, the times that you went to the bathroom, what that doesn't matter. Cause that's, that's part of the live route. It's just part of the route. If I get, if I get changed by a dog, I don't just be like, okay, I'm going to go home. Cause I got changed by a dog. I just moved to the next street, most of us. So a lot of stuff that any data to me are just things that you can flat out do to make anybody have a day guarantee.
00:30:25
Blacknight
When, when the, when the one eight zone and you, and you guys don't get traveled, watch how much less meal it is. That's why so many customers are complaining. Why haven't I been getting my magazine? Because they should, they hold a meal. Why, why do a package take to go from one state that it's showing from Chicago to Wisconsin? Why it take five days to do that when they're right next to you, you I could have drove it here faster. It's because they're, not they're holding a meal.
00:31:03
lastyles
You want to add something?
00:31:06
Fee
So basically, cause I've went through route adjustments twice so far.
00:31:08
Blacknight
Okay.
00:31:10
Blacknight
okay
00:31:11
Fee
One of the main problems is you have the runners and they're, they're, they're the reason why some of the routes are being taken out because you have those that's running where you got a six and a half hour route and they're getting it done in three and four hours and then they're just sitting.
Rushed Routes and Adjustment Evaluations
00:31:30
Fee
And then when the route adjustments come in, it's making it bad for the carriers that's really carrying those routes the right way. They're still getting time added on because of that person that just ran and carried the route the wrong way. it' It's not our fault, but they still add on to our routes.
00:31:48
Fee
And what I was told was if they see for 30 to 90 days, I'm sorry, that it's not working, they supposed to come back in and readjust it to back the way it was.
00:32:00
Fee
But people need to start carrying their mail and their routes the right way. Stop running because you want to get done. You can go in, case up your route, walk your route the way you're supposed to be walked.
00:32:06
Blacknight
but
00:32:13
Fee
Don't act like you're running a marathon to get done.
00:32:18
Fee
because you're the the the runners are the reason why they're coming in to do the route adjustments because they're making the route shorter than what they appear to be on paper. Now some routes, yeah, they are they are short.
00:32:31
Fee
Make those the auction routes or the training routes.
00:32:32
Blacknight
I
00:32:35
Fee
But don't make it bad for the people that's really working hard you know and adding more time to them because sometimes they can't do anything extra or have anything extra added on to their routes.
00:32:47
Blacknight
What?
00:32:49
Fee
My homeboy just got two and a half hours added on to his route.
00:32:52
Fee
But what he used to do is he'll come in, and he'll come in at nine, 30, 10 o'clock. He wouldn't hit the street until 11, 11, 30. He wouldn't start his route until 12.
00:33:03
Fee
He'd be done with his route and his overtime by five 30. And they just added two and a half hours onto his route. Now he complaining. Well, who thought is that yours or theirs? Because you showed them that you could do it.
00:33:15
Fee
Now you can't do it all of a sudden cause they didn't add a two and a half hours on one. But when I told you from the beginning, stop running.
00:33:23
Blacknight
What, what, what I will say, and, uh, I do, I, I believe that route adjustments are something that we need. And the reason I say that is because it's some carriers who they're just going to be fast and we got to face the fact that some carriers are going to run and it's been running since the beginning of time. We shouldn't let five to seven people in a station of 30 to 40 people.
00:33:53
Blacknight
be problematic for everybody else. The system still works. If you're, if you're finishing your route three hours ahead of time and we're just going, Hey, we got an open route. That's what that's not open route. We've been killed that route. We're going to take three hours of that route, bust it down, pause and put it on that route. That's what we're going to do. We have another person. We get another three hours because at this point,
00:34:23
Blacknight
It's a headache for the whole station, especially for management. Management is in the worst position is ever going to be here because once they come in and tear your station up, you're, you're going to, you have to deal with the fallout, right?
00:34:38
Blacknight
You're going to have people that is going to retire. You're going to have people that's going to leave and you're going to have carriers who don't give a goddamn anymore. Those are, those are your initial correct.
00:34:48
lastyles
And what you gonna have is mail on the floor.
00:34:49
Blacknight
But that's what I mean.
00:34:50
Blacknight
That, that' that's going to be the fallout for the whole thing. We believe that we're going to come in and do something for the greater of seven people. that That's not the majority. And I just want to send this FYI to Carriers. For y'all Carriers who run, stop complaining when they add to your routes.
00:34:52
lastyles
That's what you gonna have.
00:35:13
Blacknight
I don't want to hear another carrier. You know, you'll be running. You supposed to, because if they sent you home without eight hours, you'll be knocking down the dog on union door. Why didn't pay me for eight today? I thought I had a guarantee eight. So if you got a guarantee eight, what that means is that you must work eight hours. Isn't, it's not a pivot for people who are in ringing right off. It's not a period. This is a guarantee that you get your time for that day.
00:35:43
Blacknight
That's exactly what it is. I'm tired of people getting upset. They're doing what the contract says they must do. Give you a guarantee eight. Don't be mad at the problem that you created. That's what you wanted. You wanted more time because you want to eight hours to feed your family, right? They gave that to you. They added to your route. Great. I'm glad. I'm glad they didn't add to mine. Cause I ain't, I ain't out there running.
00:36:09
Blacknight
You should be working as safely
Considering Long-term Injuries in Adjustments
00:36:12
Blacknight
and quickly as possible. And I just want people to notice, you know, when you run a route off, when it's gray weather outside, they expect that same time when it's horrible, around horrible weather outside. Am I lying LA?
00:36:30
Blacknight
So, so guys, I don't think route adjustment is bad in this whole totality.
00:36:32
Fee
oh
00:36:37
Blacknight
I believe like it can be tweaks to it. I believe that you should first start a station who has carriers who have a, a lifetime injury. So you got somebody with a back injury that they're never going to be able to carry their whole route. That's a route we looking at to, to eliminate. We're not trying to eliminate the person.
00:37:02
Blacknight
Her or his restrictions are gonna be two, one, three, four, five hours at max. Whatever that restriction is, I cut off that route. I don't know, we can give them 24.99, give them a different, give them a job offer of limited duty for that route. We call it an ox route, but for them, since that limited duty is a regular duty, that's be their route.
00:37:29
Blacknight
That's what we should do to people who are in limited duty. Every session who got an ox route, those are the routes that you got to write for. Point blank period. Ain't no such thing as, oh, well, I only can do this. Okay, we gave you a route you only can do three hours. That was your three hours.
00:37:45
Blacknight
I just I mean I'm for the carriers, but I understand this is a business and in business you Anywhere that you're spending money that you shouldn't spend money at you don't want to do that So I understand why the polls are looking and trying to remodel This archaic, you know saying old-fashioned, you know blueprint that we got But while we're trying to fix the blueprint, let's fix Matt Let's fix the way that we manage the but and the way that we discover and fix problems.
00:38:15
Blacknight
You can't be fixing a problem to create another problem down the line for management. Cause what you're going to do is you're going to drive all the good carriers out and then they're stuck there with all the bad carriers and all you uncreated was a horrible station.
00:38:28
Blacknight
And I know that I know.
00:38:30
Fee
so i'm a kid
00:38:31
lastyles
Thank you.
00:38:33
Fee
Remember when I got put out of one of my statements from always being insubordinate?
00:38:39
lastyles
Sounds about right.
00:38:39
Blacknight
yeah
00:38:39
Fee
basically
00:38:42
Fee
but suck So they sent me to one of the stations where it was like the neighborhood, like it maybe was 10 houses on every street where they gave me. But I had all this mail and no houses. That's where they need to start at doing route adjustments. Because there that section shouldn't even be open. Like, come on now, y'all got a station open. There's no mail down there. I had two packages for six hours worth of work.
00:39:10
Blacknight
Well, hold on fee fee.
00:39:12
Blacknight
Did.
00:39:13
Fee
and no mail. I had mail and no houses to deliver to for real.
00:39:17
Blacknight
What you got to.
00:39:19
Fee
I got all these avos.
00:39:21
Fee
The houses were abandoned or there was no houses, but I got avos for a house that don't even exist.
00:39:28
Blacknight
What'd you.
00:39:29
Fee
How was that even possible?
00:39:30
Blacknight
I've been to tell you how.
00:39:30
lastyles
and
00:39:32
lastyles
They gonna add that to your station.
00:39:33
lastyles
That station next to you?
00:39:35
Fee
Absolutely not.
00:39:37
Blacknight
Well, I'm going to tell you, I'm going to tell you why. See, I'm conflicted. i'm i'm I'm a grandma's baby. I'm from Mississippi. And one of the things my grandparents and and other parents did, they went to the local post office.
00:39:38
lastyles
That might consolidate you in there.
Community Impact of Adjustments
00:39:57
Blacknight
Now, consolidating stations, consolidating routes really means that you're going to take out the local post office out of the community.
00:40:09
Blacknight
which is one of you know one of the landmarks of the community. One of the things that you know people look for in their community, somewhere you can go you know get your information from. This is where you can get stamps from, just where you can ship. you know Grandma always shipped you that Christmas card, that birthday card. That's under attack right now. And that's on us. There's a lot of great men and women who kept those doors open for us to have this this, uh, the pleasure and the honor to be working at the u United States Postal Service. And we got to do a better job guys. Some of us not doing a great job and that's on both sides. And this is not me picking and saying crabs employees, not doing a good side, good job or management, not doing a good job as a whole, right? You know, put down what size, you know, as a whole, we're not doing a great job because if we keep going down this, eventually it's not going to be a job for us to have. And it's not going to be something that we can go to, you know, local to the local,
00:41:08
Blacknight
Uh, post office. And I know people are going to say, well, I barely go there anyway. Well, I don't even be understanding how people work at the post office. Don't use the post office. All right. You know, you ship and stuff, but you, you, you click FedEx. How is that possible when you work at the post office? How your check stub don't come to your house when you work at the post office. I'll just get it online. Why they don't even charge us to send our paycheck stub says, but you don't have it coming to you.
00:41:37
Blacknight
That's revenue that, you know what I'm saying? You want, you want to keep that when your Sanfon bill, so you can go green. Nope. I want to go green in my pocket Senate. So we got to do a lot of things different. We got to, we got to, we got to look at the way that we do things and we got to, we got to take a hard look in the mirror. Uh, the, the great men and women left us a great, a great job and we have to do a better job of understanding this is our career.
00:42:08
Blacknight
This is not, this is not a local job, a local plant jobs. Nothing wrong with a plant job. I want nobody to think I'm trying to come at your job. I'm really not. Uh, I think your job is great too in his own right. but we got to do a better job of understanding what we have a better job of going to work. Right. You know, I'm not going to tell nobody ever not to do a pivot. I believe a pivot is not, it's not such thing as a pivot as a completion of an eight hour day. If you don't have an eight hour day,
00:42:37
Blacknight
then you should, we want to get completed for eight hour day because the day violated that you will want to file a grievance. So if your route is less than eight hours for the day, take the pivot. Don't argue. I got a homeboy who argues every time we tell him to take a pivot, every time we tell him somebody else blew through his route that he say he just can't get done. It's killing him to do it in eight hours. BS.
00:43:06
Blacknight
do your route. If you got to add to it, let them add to it. Who wants to sit around for 45 minutes trying to find something to do? Cause I know what you got to say about that fear.
00:43:20
lastyles
They got, they gotta, they gotta walk. They gotta walk to a home girl at your station though.
00:43:24
Blacknight
Oh, tell my, uh, right next,
00:43:29
lastyles
Wanna start with a P.
00:43:31
Fee
but but so
00:43:33
lastyles
Nah, wanna start with a P.
00:43:35
Fee
Don't start your mess now.
00:43:35
lastyles
She across, she across the way.
00:43:39
Blacknight
a man a I
00:43:41
lastyles
They gotta walk her man.
00:43:45
lastyles
The Caucasian lady, they gotta walk her man. oh I just want to see the results. That's the only reason. I want to see the results. Now, again, right as as as I try to mean, I'm joking, but I'm serious.
00:43:53
Blacknight
i mean
00:43:58
lastyles
I do i would like to see those results. I want to see that one.
00:43:59
Blacknight
well hol i would say I would say this to people too. The problem with a lot of us getting a lot of, let me hold it. Let me say the problem with you guys getting stuff added to y'all right.
00:44:10
Blacknight
Cause y'all don't carry the way you're supposed to carry every day. You have created so many bad habits that those you think they are shortcuts. They are very bad habits is a reason why we do everything that we do so we can be safe and to come home safe.
00:44:24
Blacknight
If you're not wearing a satchel, you should be wearing one.
00:44:28
Blacknight
If you don't have dog spray, dog horn, you should have one. If you don't, If you don't, if you don't have your arrow keys hanging off your bag, you should have it as a, as a, it helps you.
00:44:30
Fee
We should have it.
00:44:38
Blacknight
If you're not, if you're fingering mail while you walking, that's a hazard.
00:44:42
Blacknight
If you're, if you're, I won't go.
00:44:44
lastyles
Well, well I was gonna get into that.
00:44:47
lastyles
The thing most likely I know for a fact that most of us are not doing. Right.
00:44:49
Blacknight
Correct.
00:44:53
lastyles
What's, what's also causing I'm not supposed to, say again, I don't mean to say causing the adjustments when I do say that. So if I if i say that it's on accident and I'm not catching myself, right?
00:45:00
Blacknight
Correct. I know what you mean.
00:45:03
lastyles
Because technically we should be getting adjustments. When I say getting adjusted, but we should be getting walked or you at least used to from what I heard every year, whether they add on something or not, they they used to walk the routes, whether they adjusted something or not.
00:45:08
Blacknight
It's supposed to be every year. Yeah, it's supposed to be once a year.
00:45:14
Blacknight
Correct.
00:45:15
lastyles
Right. So I'm not going to act like they just doing it, but we're giving them reason to do it.
00:45:20
lastyles
You know what I'm saying? It's just been a long time. Probably since before COVID, because I think I was walking as a CCA.
00:45:20
Blacknight
It's used to. the
00:45:25
lastyles
Of course it didn't count, but the managers walked me as a CCA on a couple of routes and I haven't seen this since then. That was like 19 or 20.
00:45:29
Blacknight
what It's supposed to be done once a year. Mostly they do. A travel is always going to be time in the summertime. The reason they don't add if your route is.
00:45:43
Blacknight
close. So if you got an eight hour route, which most mostly you're supposed to have, and I say you come back 30 minutes faster than eight hours.
00:45:46
Fee
Thank you.
00:45:52
Blacknight
So you come back in seven hours and 30 minutes. They usually don't add to it because they say when the winter time come, that'll push you to that'll push your route to eight hours or a little bit over eight hours. If your route is you come back in six hours, they should be looking to give you a pivot every day and then adjusting that pivot when, when the winter time comes.
00:46:10
Blacknight
The problem there is management is not upholding the job until they're upset at you. If you want to be clear, most managers, they don't say anything when they travel. Somebody, somebody come back fast. They'd be like, all right, okay, whatever. Cool. Now they get mad at you. Oh, you got to give me a pivot today. We got to keep it consistent and be more consistent in what we're doing. Go ahead LA, my bad for interrupting.
00:46:38
lastyles
but that again, what was contributing to the quote unquote, right. Adjustments again, but for like a better, uh, whatever case is, is because a lot of y'all or a lot of us are not doing the totality that would fill our downtime.
00:46:54
lastyles
Y'all got excess stationary, not me excess.
00:46:55
Blacknight
you Crazy.
00:47:00
lastyles
EX you have you're in excess. Some of y'all are sitting for an hour, hour and a half total throughout a day. And I know for a fact, there's no way you could be doing the stuff that you're doing. Now again, if I come to you on the on the on the every other day basis about it, you're gonna come up with some type of excuse.
00:47:17
lastyles
What they gonna catch you at because of this, right? Is when they walk you for for a week straight. They wanna see where the hour and a half go. You know what I'm saying? That you been having excuses for, that you always have every day. Then on the day as we walk you, you should be still having that time, right? Let's say I walk with coffee. And coffee, well, I don't walk with coffee. And before, coffee has an hour stationary. Coffee say, I'm on a business route. I be having to do things for my customers, so on, so, so, onm so, by the skippings and the other. I might feel like coffee BSes.
00:47:43
Blacknight
to it to
00:47:45
lastyles
So let's say one day come where we start the to walk coffee, coffee should be able to show me that same downtime.
00:47:52
lastyles
He should not not have the downtime. He should have the downtime right here stationary, but he should be showing me, okay, so in this business, I got to go in here and I got to do this and I got to make these connections.
00:47:56
Blacknight
it
00:48:03
lastyles
I got to go in the back. I got to drop these packages off. I got to get this extra mail. I got to take that back out. Then I got to come back in, grab whatever the case is. That takes me about five, six minutes. Cool. Then I got another, uh, next door and I got to do the same thing next door. Cause I got to go, I got to drop this off to her. I got to walk through here. I got to go to the back. I got to do this than the other. So then I dropped, I put my bag down right here because it's just going to be swinging it in the way that I got to walk this back here, get this ready. Then I got to come out. I got to go across the street to the, to the,
00:48:33
lastyles
to the auto place or whatever the case is where I got I got this business suite right they got different suites and it's like 20 different suites in there and I gotta to go in that one building but I gotta walk the suites I gotta walk the mail to the suites because they got their own mailbox or whatever he should still have the same downtime but he should be able to show me why he has why it looks like he has that downtime so it looks like his scanner not moving when really he's just in the same small space but he is moving and he is working or whatever the case is, or maybe he has a business pickup. So he pull up to the dock, his scanner stuff is in the what's called it because even when you stand in there, do a business pickup on like some of them, the people are bringing the stuff to like a loading dock.
Management Scrutiny During Route Walks
00:49:14
lastyles
And then you just taking it off the dock, putting it in your vehicle. So you really just standing in the motion in anyway. So it wouldn't matter if you had a scanner on him because he really ain't moving outside of just swinging back and forth on getting packages loaded, but he might be there for 30 minutes. He should be able to show me that. The problem is a lot of y'all, a lot of y'all don't got that man. A lot of y'all ain't got that man. A lot of y'all ain't got the reasons to have the stationary time or the sitting time that you have. And this is why it looks funny.
00:49:43
lastyles
This is why it was this is why it can look funny right when you doing this every day when they come walking you should still had a time when you don't have that time when they're walking you you gonna look suspect.
00:49:53
Blacknight
absolutely
00:49:56
lastyles
Because there's no way if I walk with you seven days that you because every day before this you did the same thing. Every day before the first day I walked, you did the same thing. Now I just walk you three, four or five days in a row and I don't see none of this station every time.
00:50:08
lastyles
And you getting back early. So where's the station every time on on every other day that you said before, you before today that you had this, you had that, you had customer that why I'm not seeing it.
00:50:09
Fee
Thank you.
00:50:15
Blacknight
Absolutely Absolutely, I think you correct
00:50:20
lastyles
So they probably should come for you then.
00:50:24
Blacknight
Correct. I think, uh, yeah, I think what you're saying is spot on everything that you do when you get walked is what you should do when nobody's walking you. That's how she go. The LA is 100%. Whatever you do when you're getting walked should be what you're doing normally.
00:50:25
lastyles
Go ahead, coffee. You want that or something?
00:50:49
Blacknight
That's, that's 100% correct. Continue.
00:50:56
lastyles
And again, I say this because if you don't, right when you're getting walked, that's the day to show them, especially for those of you who route who feel like your route is over, that's the day to show them. Well, that's the time period to show them that it's over. It's not the day to be Speedy Gonzalez. It's not the day to be Mighty Mouse, Superman, Flash. That's the day to show them, if I do my route the proper way, this is what it comes to every time. Right.
00:51:23
lastyles
Again, we'll get in subtly what you should be doing for those of you who don't know what you should be doing, or possibly don't know, or maybe you didn't lost touch with the things that we actually do.
00:51:28
Blacknight
Yes.
00:51:35
lastyles
Now, I'm not going to remember everything off the top because I don't have my paper in front of me. But I do remember most of it as i I can start to recall it as I, as I get the talking, right? just go street. All right. Cause this is where a lot of you going to have your, your problems at go office if need to, but let's, let's go straight. All right. for one,
00:52:03
lastyles
Let me see how to start this. I'm po up trying to be respectful because I'm trying to use certain words.
00:52:05
Blacknight
man man say
00:52:09
lastyles
It's a lot of y'all. I'm not going to say carry badminton because the I've been one of the people that that that walk fast. I just know the things that I'm taking shortcuts on. I'm i'm a little bit different, though.
00:52:19
lastyles
I can always argue my cases, right? As long as you can argue your cases when it's time. So when eight so when I get my walk in, there as why you don't I know exactly why I'm doing it. And I can tell you why I'm doing it.
00:52:28
Blacknight
Yeah, man.
00:52:32
lastyles
right or why im or why I don't do it. Why you can cut across the grass?
00:52:32
Blacknight
Say.
00:52:35
lastyles
Because I don't have to. That's people's private property. And this is besides the fact. My last go-to answer is my customers don't when we walk across their grass.
00:52:42
Blacknight
That's right.
00:52:44
lastyles
That's just to reinforce it. But the first the first problem I have with them asking me is it's not your property so to suggest me walking across. That's the first thing. Last thing is, hey, my customers already said that they don't like that anyway.
00:53:00
lastyles
I got home on this area. They don't, they don't like that. And they would, they would call, complain, and cuss you out and let you deal with that when they start doing it. It already happened when I first came to the station and came on this road. It already happened. So that's why I don't cut across. Right. But first and foremost, know your place. It's not your property to tell me what to do on somebody property. Right. That's, that's going to be my go-to. It's almost disrespectful that you, that you even suggest such a thing. I'm going to be honest with you.
00:53:29
lastyles
But my again, my arguments be different than other people, see what I'm saying? But for one, you shouldn't be, okay, we're gonna start by saying mail delivery is in paperwork. but Majority of things, everything I'm saying is in paperwork somewhere. You just have to find it, because again, we in different branches across the nation and things could be subtly different in your MOUs or in your contract, all right?
00:53:54
lastyles
But in black and white somewhere in your paperwork, it should say, starting off, mail delivery is at the carrier's discretion. Management can't tell you nothing about delivering no mail. This is the headline of the prelude. So when you get out there, you should already have in your mind that they can't tell you nothing unless it's a safety issue. But we're going to get into that. Mail delivery at the carrier's discretion.
00:54:24
lastyles
So if it's ever comfortable and safe for you to do is what you supposed to be doing, right? Then it goes into the first one. Should nobody be walking across grass? Nobody. She's walking across the grass. Even paperwork says that you supposed to take the clear way to the mailbox.
00:54:43
lastyles
because that's a safety issue. Same reason why you wouldn't deliver somebody mail if there wasn't a clear path to the mailbox. If they didn't shovel their snow, they got a motorcycle on their sidewalk for whatever reason, we're on a pathway to their house, we wouldn't deliver that mail. Why? Because it's not a clear path to the mailbox. You got cat mess and dog mess all in your yard and all your steps. You don't deliver the mail. Why? Because it's not a clear path to the mailbox. The grass is not a clear path to the mailbox.
00:55:07
lastyles
You don't know if there's nails in there, there's glass in there, there's dog mess in there. You don't know what's in the grass because you can't see because it's covered by grass. So the safest bet is to take the sidewalk to the mailbox.
00:55:20
lastyles
along with taking a sidewalk, to infer what coffee said earlier, you should not be fingering the mail while you walk on the sidewalk. You got to look for stones, for pebbles, for glass, for nails, uneven slabs of concrete, all that in the other trip hazards, toys, whatever it is, on your way to the next house, you got to work safe. So you only post a finger in the mail once you get to the mailbox, right? I know a lot of us who trying to be fast,
00:55:46
lastyles
right, who start to walk off as as we scan the package. We already walking off and going across to to the next house. Shouldn't do that either. But for safe GPS tracking purposes and you don't get blamed for misdelivered package. You should be standing right there until you complete the the scanning process and you hear the last beep and then you should start moving. Because it's going to be some type of few seconds delay and you scanning a package delivered. And then that's how you might get it where it shows up in between. It looked like it was going in between houses because you'd already started walking to the next door already by the time you actually hit the last inner but you should wait right there.
00:56:20
lastyles
Right. Also with your packages, you should be attempting to deliver your packages to the customers, meaning you should be knocking on the doors of everyone who has packages to attempt to deliver to them safely. Death is running rampant in neighborhoods.
00:56:29
Blacknight
every time.
00:56:34
lastyles
Right? Or a dog or a squirrel, an animal could get it. We don't know if these people on vacation or whatever case. I'm not going to say that they is on vacation, you're just not at home, that they might have some type of infestation problem or something with squirrels or whatever that can open up a plastic package or chew on a box. You should be knocking on the door, attempting to leave that package with the customer. And then if you cannot attempt to leave it in a safe place, and then if you can't do that, then notify it. You should be on all that above for every single package that you have.
00:57:04
lastyles
that you have. When you get back to your vehicle, you got to make sure that you're endorsing every single piece of mail you have that includes pre-sorted standard mail, which I only know why we sell pre-sorted standard standard stamps or postage. Everything should be first class. That's what we're missing money at as well, along with securing people mail, right? You should be endorsing pre-sorted standards.
00:57:29
lastyles
You can draw some pre-sourced standards. You should be doing it for every piece of mail, just in case, to be on the safe side.
00:57:31
Blacknight
Every piece.
00:57:33
Blacknight
All meal is good meal.
00:57:35
lastyles
It's it's a safety issue, correct, with the mail.
00:57:38
lastyles
They could they could go in at any point in time and just start saying, oh man, you ain't even endorsing your mail. You just doing whatever the case is. And hey, on the safe side for you, there will be a way, a one less headache you got to worry about, endorse everything that's coming back, endorse everything, coming back, cool.
00:57:54
lastyles
Before you pull off, From that park point from that split or wherever it is it you're ready to move some of y'all might have one split or two splits, whatever y'all might call them two blocks one block swings and other areas, whatever y'all call doing one a block a male. That takes you from your vehicle back to your vehicle to get the next block whatever y'all call that we all that.
00:58:14
lastyles
Before you get ready to pull off to your next park point, you should be doing a 360 around your vehicle to make sure that you ain't got no flat tires. You ain't got glass or nails in front of your vehicle, right? The safety issue with that is the vehicle was out of your sight and you don't know if anybody did something to it. So you don't have people drive past. They like to throw bottles out the window. People walk past and throw sharp objects just down on the ground for whatever reason.
00:58:38
lastyles
that could have been glass in front of your tire. right You could have not paid attention and you coming from your last park point and ran over a nail in the street. Now I know that, but by the time you get this block, you might see that your tire is getting low on flat, so now you can call to report that. Go ahead, Koffee, you want to add something to that?
00:58:54
Blacknight
Also, well when you get out, when you dispatch yourself out the vehicle, after you like after you get all your mail together, you should be checking to make sure all doors, if you got trunks, whatever it is, you should make sure all doors are locked every time. every If you got a parking loop, every split, you should be making sure that the vehicle is secure every time. Nobody's going to care, management is not going to care. When they come out there and they pull on one door and that door opens,
00:59:25
Blacknight
You didn't secure the vehicle. I don't care if the, oh, the door, the door been broke. Did you write the vehicle up? So you should be checking every door every time. Go ahead. like
00:59:40
lastyles
With that, so again, you making sure that yeah there's no glass before you pull off or nails or sharp eyes in front of your tires. You might have to reverse a little bit also. No U-turns.
00:59:48
Blacknight
None.
00:59:50
Blacknight
none
00:59:52
lastyles
You can do a Y-turn, but I wouldn't even do a Y-turn.
00:59:54
lastyles
Drive around the whole block and be safe.
00:59:54
Blacknight
yes
00:59:58
Blacknight
Yes.
00:59:58
lastyles
Drive around the whole block. If you ever that that's what you got to do, there's something the management put out.
01:00:03
lastyles
There's no U-turns. And technically, we shouldn't do Y-turns because it puts you in a... It leaves you at the behest of traffic that might be coming past somebody driving wild, crazy, running from the police, whatever it is they're doing.
01:00:15
lastyles
So you should just be driving around the block. to get back to wherever you got to get back to.
01:00:16
Blacknight
Correct.
01:00:18
Blacknight
Absolutely.
01:00:21
lastyles
But yeah, but you checking for glass, you checking for nails, you checking for... One of the issues that that they brung up this again, it's the stuff that's been put in training. Ain't something I'm making up. This stuff has been been in black and white and was in my training and orientation in my regular training in 2019.
01:00:38
lastyles
And when I got to stations, right? so I know that's not when they started, probably, I'm assuming it's been there, been there. you post to also do your 360 to make sure there's no type of small kids or small animals behind your tires and things of that nature, behind your vehicle that that can get hit.
01:00:55
lastyles
It's what the 360 is for. Before you pull off and you should be doing that every time that you got to pull off, along with the no U-turn, don't know why turns you should be driving around. with that,
01:01:04
Blacknight
No tailgating when you're driving.
01:01:08
Blacknight
No tailgating always.
01:01:10
lastyles
No, and always yield.
01:01:12
lastyles
Yield to everybody. I don't care if you're half a block away. A three fourths of the block away yield. I'm waiting for them. I'm not, don't rush across the street, the intersection, whatever the case, you know how people drive, man. They don't care.
01:01:21
Blacknight
you You get paid about an hour or so.
01:01:23
Blacknight
Why why are you flying?
01:01:24
lastyles
Safe.
01:01:28
lastyles
I don't want to be hit. I don't want my vehicle to be hit. I don't want my vehicle down or somebody trying to blame me for whatever the case is. I'm not saying if they five blocks around, wait, you know what I'm saying? But we just know how traffic is, man. You do care. Again, delivering mail is at your discretion.
Safe and Efficient Mail Delivery Tips
01:01:42
lastyles
You know the streets better than management do because they're not out here as long as you out here. They're not seeing the cars fly around the busy streets and the side streets and swerving and this, that, and the other. This is why we got the little,
01:01:53
lastyles
uh curbside uh i don't know what they call things now in the in the turning lanes and stuff this is why we got this type of stuff because this happens right so if you yield to traffic i i roll my window down somebody pull up and they just pulled up i like and i don't trust it come on i'm out the window go ahead go ahead
01:02:00
Blacknight
Yes.
01:02:08
Blacknight
I'm like, away go go ahead, go ahead.
01:02:15
lastyles
You should go ahead. I ain't moving. No matter how many times you do it, I ain't moving. You go ahead. I'm trying to just get from point A to point B and get home. yeahre there You should be yielding the traffic. With that, every time you go to a house, this is back from office time. You should have all you of your Ford male cars, which is your pink cars.
01:02:35
lastyles
your CFS cards, AKA your pink cards, right? That lets you know who to move from or into or whatever the case. It should be moved out of check.
01:02:42
Blacknight
Yeah.
01:02:44
lastyles
You should have all your pink cards, all your dog wanted cards, all your hazard cards, and all your vacant cards or a suspect cards, maybe. You know what I'm saying? Whatever you whatever you got on your pink cards.
01:02:55
lastyles
Some people put like No access, no keys on some of the yellow cards. Maybe it's a B-word broken mailbox. Maybe it's a notification on the leaves, certain mailbox here. You know what I'm saying? Whatever the case, well not leave mail here. I got a mailbox behind the bush. Whatever, all your cards in your case for the host to come down with your mail. Whatever they for.
01:03:17
lastyles
They should supposed to come down with your mail when you put your case down you're supposed to be checking all those cars, especially your pink cards every address that you got those pink cards for. If you don't got them before they come around to you, make sure that your station is keeping up with printing your labels because you're going to need those by the time they walk you want to make sure that you ready by the time they walk go ahead coffee.
01:03:35
Blacknight
so
01:03:41
Blacknight
Also, I don't know did you did you say anything about mountain routes or no?
01:03:49
Blacknight
Okay, well what about What
01:03:49
lastyles
I ain't got to yet. Go ahead.
01:03:52
lastyles
You specialize in mouth trials more than me.
01:03:53
Fee
but Well, but you know, that's his expertise anyways, Mr.
01:03:55
Blacknight
mountain routes right I Love being a gang
01:03:57
lastyles
Yeah, they dying to walk off.
01:03:57
Fee
1230 station.
01:03:59
lastyles
They waiting to walk off. b yeah And going to be out there for like two a hill.
01:04:00
Fee
but but like They gonna be mad.
01:04:08
Blacknight
for free, but to pick a pick of lunch. Also, when when you're doing a mountain route, if you're in the OLLV trucks, I know people like to have the doors open. I know there's no acquisition in there. You can't have the doors open. That's a no-no. That's a safety hazard, not only to you, but also to the mail as well. If you're in the new Benz trucks, also one of the things you got to understand, you can't put the seatbelt around behind you in any vehicle.
01:04:36
Blacknight
Like I don't understand people with the seatbelt not on. I ain't going to call no names. The seatbelt right behind you. I ain't going to call no names, but you know who you are. It takes you less than five seconds to protect your life. They're paying you for those five seconds. Why would you get those five seconds up? That should be done every time. No hanging out the window. If you can't get to a box, you can't get to the box.
01:05:05
Blacknight
And if you don't want to dish and dish mount from the vehicle, and if you do, you have to curve your wheels, lock your doors, make sure all them lock, put your bag on, which we call our Satcher and then go to that box. If not, you drive that whole, that whole thing, make a block to come back for that one mailbox. Now that's, that's a question that you can have for you and your manager, you and your supervisor, how they would like you to play.
01:05:33
Blacknight
but you should not be hanging halfway and have your half of your body outside of the vehicle to deliver mail. Just don't make no sense. But why would you do that? Oh, it makes it faster. I thought you was not trying to get some attitude route, but if you are cool, also make sure like, uh, like LA said, you should be looking at your pink cars and every address that you have one pool. There's nothing wrong with it.
01:06:01
Blacknight
The look the I always cook Correct and You what if you get hurt on your route while you're doing your route and somebody else got to carry the rest of your route They're gonna give your customers bad mail because you didn't put the pink cars in it
01:06:04
lastyles
Well, even when you feel like you know you're right, you're all supposed to be taking them. Just to verify. Some could have changed on your off day. Something could have, you know what I'm saying? Somebody could have moved it it, did whatever on your off day and somebody updated one of your labels, but you wouldn't know that it because you didn't take the labels.
01:06:28
Blacknight
Don't give me the BS or man, it take too much to case back in there paying you for every second that you're on the clock. Or they're going to add to your route.
01:06:38
lastyles
that's That's actually your rear end office time, which is which is also looks like y'all don't have an office time on the back end because you're not you're not even taking the mail that you're supposed to be casing back in, like your pink cards.
01:06:39
Blacknight
Correct.
01:06:41
Fee
Now to my defense,
01:06:49
Blacknight
Correct.
01:06:51
Fee
I case case in my special instruction cards and they don't pay attention to them mugs.
01:06:56
Fee
I'm constantly getting out mail from vacant houses or, you know, it's it to change of address. I put the names on there. They still giving the people the mail.
01:07:08
lastyles
Sound like your people need some job discussions.
01:07:09
Blacknight
Correct. I also, is it's a safety thing. You know, you gotta, you gotta have, the you gotta have your eye out for everything that's going to happen. Right? So by somebody telling you as a dog, four houses away, that alerts you now to be watching for that dog. Or you already made in your mind, I'm not giving it a house in your mail, but at least now you know.
01:07:11
Fee
Most definitely do.
01:07:34
Blacknight
And management can bring you in the office. If you're not using the hazards, the safety cars and the pink cars, that is part of the personal responsibility has been a professional carrier.
01:07:49
Blacknight
They use these things. They use them tactics to pull you in office when they're mad at you. Well, when y'all call them, y'all friend, y'all think they let you do shortcuts. They're only hurting you in the long run. These are things to help you bolster your street numbers.
01:08:06
Blacknight
Being having customer service, was talking to your customer, getting to know your customer. I'm not telling you to be there for two hours, but get to know your customers. Let them know when they're on vacation, because some of them don't know. You could put a hold on your meal. If you live in a winter states and you're going down to Florida, we can do a temporary, you know what I'm saying, forward. You know, it's a lot of things that customers don't know because we're not having communication skills with our customers.
01:08:35
Blacknight
this is your customer service mailman be that you're in it. You're going to their house, be polite, get to know your customers and it's going to in turn help your job out.
01:08:49
Blacknight
Go ahead. LAFV. I got anything else.
01:08:53
Blacknight
Oh no, I got one thing. Yeah, I got one more thing. When you're doing a mounted route, You're not to leave boxes on the mailbox. You're not to leave boxes right beside the mailbox on the street. You're to dismount from your vehicle, curve your wheels, put on your parking brakes, lock your door, put on your satchel, lock your doors, check your doors, dismount, walk up to the house, knock on the door and deliver the package. It's no different than when you do doing a parking lot.
01:08:55
lastyles
you You need to ask them.
01:09:29
Blacknight
That's disrespectful to somebody else who won't pay for some, but you leave it on side of the road. Only thing you're left on side of the road is trash. And I don't care if they got trash bags in there. They wanted to go in their house. Go ahead. L A F E.
01:09:48
lastyles
You got something on that fee?
01:09:50
Fee
I don't do mountains, so y'all know I'm not good at mountains. I'd rather walk.
01:09:53
Blacknight
Well, anything you got on walking to that people should also do.
01:10:01
lastyles
You shouldn't be walking. yeah Your pants can't take it. But I digress. With that, she didn't bust more pants than I don't even know.
01:10:04
Blacknight
Her feet can't take it.
01:10:09
Fee
oh Hey, they not made for us. They not made for us.
01:10:14
Blacknight
What? Hold on. Hold on. it I'm going to examine it for one second. What do you mean? And I made first.
01:10:20
Blacknight
Tell the people. Say it. I.
01:10:21
Fee
they're They're not made for, they're not going to bake me.
01:10:29
Fee
They're not made for us. They're not made for or hippie people.
01:10:30
Blacknight
Who?
01:10:32
lastyles
They're not made for voluptuous people.
01:10:34
Blacknight
So you've got thick thighs and a, but they're not made for you is what you're saying.
01:10:40
Blacknight
If you're big bounded.
01:10:40
Fee
They're not made for, no, because they split in the same spot.
01:10:42
Blacknight
Okay.
01:10:44
Fee
Right.
01:10:44
Blacknight
All right.
01:10:44
Blacknight
I just wanted to make sure you could explain it to the, to the listening ear. So they understand why your, your, all your pants are just busting the seams. I want them to know.
01:10:46
Fee
Right.
01:10:55
Fee
And I ain't paying for him out of my pocket, sorry.
01:10:59
lastyles
She said they're not like us.
01:10:59
Blacknight
Okay.
01:11:03
Blacknight
okay
01:11:03
lastyles
Okay. With that, drop it off your oversized packages, right?
01:11:10
lastyles
Now, depending on who you are, you already got a set thing in your head on delivery. Remember, I say you should be doing a, attempt to be doing a safe delivery, meaning you should be attempting to leave the package with the customer, which you should be doing to each his own, but you should be doing.
01:11:24
Blacknight
Correct.
01:11:26
lastyles
And then if not, then leave it in the safe area.
01:11:28
lastyles
If I have an oversized package, what you can do is you pull up to the house. I will leave it. Now, and if I don't know the people there, so let's just say if you if you remember that you got an oversized package for a house, you could attempt to so notify somebody right then and there when you deliver the mail. Say, hey, I'm going to be driving back around. I got an oversized package for you. You know what I'm saying? Whatever the case is. Cool.
01:11:51
lastyles
If not, you pull up in front of the house, knock on the door. I'm leaving the packaging because I don't know if anybody here or not will knock on the door, try to get someone's attention if I don't plan on delivering it or leaving it. Now, if I'm gonna leave it, I might as well just take it with me, try to knock and then just leave it. But if I'm not one of those people, some people don't don't leave their oversized packages in their neighborhoods or whatever the case is, especially if they know it's stuff going on.
01:12:15
lastyles
then leave the package in the car. Go try to knock on the door, see if anybody answers. If not, then I'll go scan the package, notify, leave them notified. If somebody do come to door, then I'm going back to the vehicle. Hey, I got an oversized package for you. I'm about to bring it in or bring it to you. Then go back down to the vehicle. I said it because you could be wasting a lift on bringing it the first time.
01:12:36
Blacknight
correct.
01:12:37
lastyles
And then you got to take it back when nobody answers.
01:12:40
lastyles
You know what I'm saying? If you had to type to leave. that's one If you're going to leave it no matter what, then take it. If you're not the type of person to leave it, then you need to take the first walk to see if anybody there to get their attention, which you could do the first time you did the block and delivered the mail and to to let them know that you're going to come around.
01:12:56
lastyles
Then you could take it out there the first time because you know somebody going to be there. If you don't know that yeah you need to go check that first. If the only body answer, then notify if somebody answers, then they'll get it and then bring it back to them. And if you do have the type of route that you have oversized packages, you should be taking a dolly with you for safe practices as well. You know what I'm saying? Your station should have dollies. Probably going to have one for everybody, but again If you're an older type of person or a person with injury or whatever the case is, you probably should have a dolly with you for super heavy packages or heavy packages or whatever case, especially if you get multiples of those to be working safe.
01:13:30
Blacknight
that That's one thing, if you got a business route or you got to use a dolly all the time, that's one of the things I invested in. Hey, look, I want to keep my back as long as I can. So that's one thing I'll personally go out of my pocket and and purchase because at the end of the day, I can take it home and use it at home if I need to. But that the post office is getting bigger and bigger packages. Amazon is getting us all the dog food, cat litter, and bed and bed in a box that we can have. So I want to save you back. You may want to get one of those. Go ahead.
Building Business Connections
01:14:09
lastyles
People ordering five cases of Fiji water and protein shakes now.
01:14:13
Blacknight
real
01:14:15
lastyles
Grocery shopping through the regular mail system.
01:14:18
lastyles
Things like that, right? So you want to make make sure you're doing it again. You you also, if you're around businesses or know somebody in home businesses, you should be doing business connects.
01:14:28
lastyles
You should be attempting to talk to them, try to get their business, see if we can help them with either marketing. oh slash advertising for them if they need it or possibly doing some type of pickup if they do some type of reselling or send enough packages or whatever the case is or mail. Maybe they want to send some certifiers. Maybe they want to send some express. Maybe they want maybe you got just selling some things so they're going to pay packages. Hey, listen, you got packages. Let me know. I come right back around at the end of my route or mid route or whatever case I check with you. I do a package pickup that counts for you and your route.
01:15:01
lastyles
That's the other thing, a lot of y'all be having things like that and it's not reported to your station. You need to report that stuff to your station. Also, you need to be putting that on 3996 when you leave your station in the morning.
01:15:12
Blacknight
right
01:15:12
lastyles
right These are all the things that you should be practicing on a daily basis, route maintenance, if you have apartments and things of that nature.
01:15:16
Blacknight
Correct.
01:15:19
lastyles
You should be cleaning out your mailboxes, updating your mailboxes, and updating it the the the taking the mail and marketing and endorsing that mail off the mailboxes every single day. every single day.
01:15:32
Blacknight
Yeah, right there.
01:15:33
Blacknight
Always.
01:15:33
lastyles
Route maintenance.
01:15:35
lastyles
This is why that same stuff has to get put back at the end of your shift on office time because you should be moving back to the office once you get back to the station.
01:15:41
Blacknight
Correct.
01:15:42
lastyles
And all this stuff should be getting put back at the end of the day.
01:15:46
lastyles
Route right along with you doing whatever you might need to do if you got to do anything with your edit books because that's called route maintenance. There's actually a punch in the scanner or at least it used to be. I don't know if they took it out or not in the scanner for route maintenance.
01:15:57
Fee
but still in here
01:16:00
lastyles
Right? You should be going around maintenance if you got to touch your edit book.
01:16:01
Fee
Yes, you're welcome.
01:16:03
lastyles
Along with that, everything else should be back on the office on the PM side. Putting your cards back up, all your cards back up, putting your whole mail back up, putting your business clothes of mail back up, dispatching your your outgoing mail.
01:16:18
lastyles
right, that you don't pick up or outgoing packages for business pickups or whatever the case is that you don't pick up and dispatching your endorsed mail, endorsed for first-class mail and your pre-sorted standard mail. So that can get back on the truck every night to go back downtown, right? So that can get back to where it's supposed to go, where it needs to go to.
01:16:37
lastyles
And you should be doing these things daily, daily, right? If you don't do it, then you need to be practiced doing it, right? A lot of people bank on you not doing it, which is also making you faster or making it seem like you're faster or finishing early.
01:16:53
lastyles
They're not going to tell you to do these type of things, right? So they can add on to your route. They're going to be glad that you don't you don't do it, that you don't carry your bag, that you don't carry your me you don't carry a satchel, which has which is a safety issue part of the uniform. You should always have your satchel. No matter if you feel like you got mailer packages in there or not, you should always have your satchel with your dog horn and dog spray. It's a safety issue, right? I don't know how people walking around and getting caught walking around without the satchel.
01:17:22
lastyles
because if they wanted to be A-hole, they could knock you forward. That's why. right To each his own, and I'm not trying to tell you what to do, but when you get something added on because you're not doing a lot of the things you're that you were supposed to be doing, you're going to be feeling some type of way about that.
01:17:39
lastyles
when you can avoid that by doing the stuff that you're supposed to be doing, especially when it matters, especially. And if you know you got a router just becoming, y'all need to start practicing this ahead of time. That way it's already muscle memory by the time they get to you.
01:17:55
lastyles
I know we as people like things, I often say something that's very pause worthy. Like like to do things and get done with early, we don't like drawing out workloads, we don't like drawing out tasks, right? We like to find that this the the easiest method to do things and then that's what we do. But that's that could be hurting you currently.
01:18:21
lastyles
Right, it could be hurting you currently. Whether you do the things or not, you still have the 18 blocks that you have. You still have the 20 blocks that you have. You still have the 25 or 17 blocks that you have, whatever it is that you have. You still have that, right? Start doing what you need to do, because it matters right now. Because you can be on a route that's going to get some attitude. When really, if you did everything you're supposed to do, it probably should have took something off your route.
01:18:50
lastyles
Because you might be going over about 20 minutes to 30 minutes or whatever the case is, but because you don't practice with you practice and it looked like you finished in about almost an hour early so yeah again we're gonna add 30 minutes when really. It should have took off 20 minutes.
01:19:05
lastyles
Right? This is why it matters. This is why it matters. So watch out for for route adjustments.
01:19:11
lastyles
They do have a book. You can actually supervise a supervisor manager to order books for your station. It's the M-41 handbook. I don't know if your union has one or has them for you to get, but I do know I ordered them for my station out of E-Buy when I was on the desk.
01:19:22
Blacknight
You, they,
01:19:29
lastyles
I've ordered them twice. You can say so-called for.
01:19:29
Blacknight
they some, most stations should have them in that black binder underneath your case. Now, sometimes they don't because people don't use it or people throw stuff away, but they should be under there. That's the M 41 book he's talking about.
01:19:51
lastyles
and that, that book should be titled like carriers, responsibilities, and duties. Uh, I'm gonna tell you everything that you supposed to be doing as a carrier, as a carrier, all air, all your duties that you, that you didn't know. A lot of people don't practice casing in a spurs in the office, but you can case in your spurs in the office.
01:20:12
lastyles
if you didn't know that. Spurs is small, casable packages and casable packages, things of that nature. You're supposed to write up a third down 96 for anything that took you away from doing route activities in the office, right? So anytime you have a service talk, you're not technically not supposed to be working during a service talk. You're supposed to stop work. There's a punch for that in the scanner.
01:20:39
lastyles
I don't know if it's standby, where is it's a punch in there for like me meeting and time or whatever the case is.
01:20:45
lastyles
Whatever, and I know there's one in there for standby, one there for meeting, but depending on where you at, y'all might use meeting for union stuff instead of standby or vice versa. So it depends on where you at.
01:20:53
Blacknight
No, it's.
01:20:56
lastyles
Just letting you know that there is a punch in the scanner for you to make when you have in service talk, because you're not supposed to be working during the service talk. So you could, you couldn't be adding five or 10 minutes to your office time.
01:21:03
Blacknight
Correct.
01:21:08
lastyles
That's that it shouldn't even be on there. So they might say, hey, you went over 10 minutes in office, but maybe I didn't punch. I mean, I had a 15 minute service talk, so I probably should be under in office.
01:21:16
Blacknight
Correct. it is It is a punch for as a punch for the meeting time. and a standup and the new scanners and it's one for Stewart time. So is there, you know, sometime you just got to know when to punch. Don't take that word for it. Are we going to have a service talk? They're not going to remember three days later when they asked you why you go over 20 minutes. They're not going to remember it was a service talk. Even though I know everybody say you're supposed to have one every day, sometimes not.
01:21:50
Blacknight
a big deal to have one every day. Some days you can just say work safe, be safe, understand what you got to do, do what you know and need to do. They can just say that while you're working. So just make sure, like you said, make sure you're doing the punches so you get the credit for it.
01:22:06
lastyles
And that's that's not nothing new. For those of you that are new, within the last few years. Before we had the new scanners, and we had a service talk, there would be a line at the time clock, and people would be swiping to whatever the punch was back then right at the time clock. And then we would have a service talk, and then everybody would swipe back.
01:22:28
lastyles
Right, so. You got you got to make your punches we you're responsible for your punches as a carrier. You are responsible for your punches management should have to keep putting your punches in addition, it shouldn't keep fixing your punches and keep your responsible for your punches now you're in a situation where you're just not making punches.
01:22:48
lastyles
then hopefully you can explain when they whenever they come to you, if they come to you. a If you remember that day, hopefully be able to explain on why you went over in whatever the case is, and it might be just because you didn't make your punch. It looked like you was in office for eight hours. Well, I wasn't in office. I know I moved to the office. OK, so why you didn't make your punch? I probably forgot. I'm just going off technicality again. Scanners for those of us that's, I'm not going to say senior because I've only been there about five and a half years.
01:23:18
lastyles
And all the scanner moves us are not muscle memory to me yet because I was still used to when I came in doing it on the swipe machine swiping the card right. And I necessarily keeping up with all the types of punches because there's a lot of different types of punches even training punches and things that are nice like three or four different type of training punches.
01:23:40
lastyles
Uh, in the scanner now fit fee. I know that I know she doesn't seen them.
01:23:44
Fee
Yeah, it's on top.
01:23:45
lastyles
Uh, but seven four, seven two, seven one, seven threes.
01:23:48
Fee
Yeah.
01:23:49
Fee
Yeah.
01:23:51
lastyles
so it's, it's a lot more punches in the scanner.
01:23:53
lastyles
Just make sure you punch it to the right thing. Seven collections have a, have a scan. If you just deliver packages, has a scan. If you in travel time has a scan. If you in this has a scan, uh, technically you deviate from your route and you going back to the state for whatever reason, you should be moving to six to two travel time.
01:24:07
lastyles
I'm doing off technicality. Now you don't have to. Right, because I don't always do it, but I know it's there.
Importance of Accurate Scanner Punches
01:24:14
lastyles
Right? But that's the difference. If you did a lot of driving, that could have had you under, right? When they, let's say one day they came to you, man, it was like, you went over on the street, but what if you had 30 minutes of travel time because they called you back to the station to pick up an express. And then while you was picking up an express, they asked you about another pack. Hey, man, can you get the you actual express? But can you take this package? That's that's by another route that's close to you and deliver that. You shouldn't even bid on your route, but now you're getting time calculated on your route, bidding up on your route, and you ain't even doing nothing on your route.
01:24:43
lastyles
The punch is for a reason. Go ahead, coffee.
01:24:43
Blacknight
Correct. Also, guys who are doing collection, you're supposed to count the collection mail. You're supposed to count it. It's a, it's a, it's a volume count in there for a reason. They want to know how much that box is taking in. Do we need two boxes there? Maybe we don't need that box there because there's another box around the block. You can do it. So guys who are doing collection, women who are doing collection, you're supposed to be putting a value among how many pieces.
01:25:13
Blacknight
or around how many pieces. I'm not going to tell you to count every letter, but you should be able to count, you know, there's 50 to 60, there's a hundred, you know, you should be able to do that. How many, how many large envelopes you you should be able to do that. That's something that you should be doing because that's a, we might need to take a box out.
01:25:37
Blacknight
You know, that's the less maintenance we have to put towards that box and more money that we can put in more things in the post office. So that also could be the reason why if you got a collection route, why are they going to add house to house delivery on your route? Cause you're now doing the value the way you're doing it. Or if you collecting from, uh, like I have a t-shirt factory inside our zone, you should be doing the, you should be scanning all those t-shirts unless you have the paper.
01:26:06
Blacknight
should be scanning how many ever packages that you have. That is part of that function when you're doing that. Go ahead, Ellie. I just wanted to add that.
01:26:18
lastyles
so again, that's just a little bit, uh, well, a lot of bit of the here and there might seem like a lot, you know what I'm saying? But good thing this is, this will be recorded. So hopefully you can always rewind this and, and, uh, give it another listen. If you feel like you you missed anything or pause it, uh, on the first run of second run and take notes, uh, or again,
01:26:40
lastyles
Contact somebody either your supervisor manager. They can they can order the books out of e by the m41 handbook M as in Mike dash 41 Handbook or see if the union has them if you if they're not in your route in your edit books now I know it for a fact ours is not in the edit books because the book I order is like Almost a half an inch thick and we don't have no half of it.
01:27:01
Fee
They should always, but they also can go on the union website.
01:27:02
lastyles
Nothing in the edit books
01:27:05
Fee
They should be able to go on the union website and look it up as well.
01:27:07
Blacknight
Okay, let's go.
01:27:11
Fee
Yeah, go on the union website and look up M41, it'll all pop up.
01:27:13
lastyles
Now, now listen to she she paid off this year. You still don't listen to that. Make your management work for the money that they make.
01:27:18
Fee
oh
01:27:20
Blacknight
They got a budget for it.
01:27:22
lastyles
They make 79 to about 90 some thousand.
01:27:25
lastyles
Make them order the books because let's let's let's not let's not pretend like we read a lot of digital digital activities on these phones. Y'all y'all going to download that PDF and you're not going to read it.
01:27:31
Blacknight
We don't.
01:27:34
Fee
that'
01:27:35
Blacknight
for real.
01:27:37
lastyles
It's a higher higher chance if you've been in the physical having the physical book and in looking through that because you have it.
01:27:44
lastyles
And again, you want to make your supervisor work and earn the pay that they give you. You can't make everything too easy. That's why if something added to my route, I will be bringing back mail ahead of time.
01:27:54
lastyles
Tell them I said that I'm going to be doing that.
01:27:55
Blacknight
i
01:27:59
lastyles
Because I know how to carry mail on my best days. I know how to carry mail and something coming back and they can figure it out. All right. which again, once they do y'all router adjustments y'all should be doing Now what's going hard to hurt us is
01:28:04
Blacknight
So so what I was Okay
01:28:15
lastyles
People who love overtime, to a degree, it's gonna, it's gonna hurt us a little bit. But as long as they max, then it won't hurt us. It's gonna hurt management when I put this melon on the floor because coffee ain't, ain't, what are you gonna take? 13, 14?
01:28:26
lastyles
Your PTF's max, I'm putting this back on the floor. You only got, darling, you only got somebody to do it. Cause now you done moved out three or four or five carriers.
01:28:29
Blacknight
They call me black knight for a reason
01:28:33
Blacknight
I'm cool with being out there 14, 15 hours. but But hey, look, you look.
01:28:34
lastyles
Depending on how many, how many, uh, now you know they not going to approve you being out there that long, but that's to put them in the position.
01:28:41
Blacknight
Thank you, put the mail back on.
01:28:42
lastyles
I got to do my part on putting them in the position.
01:28:43
Blacknight
Put them in a position.
01:28:44
lastyles
date they they gotta They got to rethink what they did while we in this position with this mail on the floors, because you took three, four routes out.
01:28:46
Blacknight
Okay.
01:28:50
lastyles
So we lost three or four bodies in this station. And now you ain't got the bodies to do this mail.
01:28:52
Blacknight
Correct.
01:28:55
lastyles
You got to figure that out. yeah that oh You got to prove coffee that 13 hour, because I ain't doing this hour.
01:28:56
Blacknight
Hey, look. Black Knight out there in the dark. I'm that guy with the headlamp on coming down your street. I don't even mind. Let's get it. You want to get to me, let's get it.
01:29:06
Blacknight
I got kids to feed.
01:29:08
lastyles
Now,
01:29:11
lastyles
Now for those of you who get the camera focus to think I might just be being a ho just to be a BA ho, right? That's not the case. Now I will say if they tell me I got the overtime in the morning up to two hours, cause I don't, I don't, I don't get forced over to I volunteer over to I can, you can't force me over to that's not, that's never going to happen, but you could definitely ask me and I, and I'd be gladly to do over to if need be, as long as I know when the morning, right? In the morning, if I say something and I bring it up and they say,
01:29:38
lastyles
You know, saying do it is over time, they force me for the hour, hour and a half, whatever it was I possibly would have brung back or whatever the case is. Then they they got me. You know what I'm saying? Because it's not about I can get forced up to two hours. I can't, I can't get forced independently. Meaning I can get forced two hours of overtime. So I got no problem with that. But if they don't say nothing, and at the end of my shift, when I come back here at like Little after three, then I take my my my last 10-minute break and I do my cleanup. It's about 3.20 and stuff. I'm not doing this hour.
01:30:11
lastyles
And they're gonna say, Hey man, you got to do this. I ain't got to do nothing. Can't be forced at the end of my shift. I already made plans. And I told y'all at 12, when I sent this Rams message to you, that I was not going to be able to complete this. I already made plans. That's not my fault. If you sent three or four routes out, so we lost three or four people and everybody else's max got nothing to do with me. Y'all got to figure that out.
01:30:34
lastyles
And that's what it's going to be. I'm going to put it back on the floor. I got to show the system that it ain't working. I'm going to at least get two people back in.
01:30:41
Blacknight
Hey me, look, also,
01:30:44
lastyles
If I do my part, I can try to get two people back in. You know what I'm saying? But it's going to take more than just a me. It's going to take more. You know what I'm saying? It's going to take a station to get it reverted back to the way it was.
01:30:55
Blacknight
if if let's say, if you're the person who's like, well, I'm just going to do the overtime, even though they added three hours to my route. And I believe that that added me. That going to make me have 11 hours. You're going to have to do 11 hours.
01:31:09
Blacknight
You got to do it. You can't go out there and say, well, I'm going to do it. I'm going to do these three hours into an hour. No, no, no, no. That ain't helping. That ain't how you win the fight. Cause then that mean they just going to take one hour off your route. So you ain't getting the whole route back. If they're going to give you three hours off another route, you got to do three hours out there. And then I want y'all to be very understanding. Let me make this crystal clear. We ain't doing this for play play. This is real. They try to mess with your money now.
01:31:39
Blacknight
How you feed your babies? How you take care of mama? How you take care of the crib? You like riding good? Hey, put that mail back on the floor every time. Don't care what they do. Put it back on the floor every time. Until they put them routes back in your station. And then, hey, there you go.
01:32:05
Blacknight
You get your people back. And one thing we didn't say, when they take routes out of your station, that means less PTFs you're going to have. So when you want to take a vacation, you want to know why your route messed up when you come back because you didn't have no PTF that's from your station during your route. Also, guess what? You know, when, uh, when the clerks can't throw the package fast enough, they're going to take more clerks out of your station because you don't have enough routes that qualify you to have another, uh, another clerk there.
01:32:33
Blacknight
And you already know how bad some management are in some station. So guess what? You're going to have less yeah supervisor management crew there. So making it even worse.
01:32:44
Blacknight
So this is a whole thing. Even management need to be thinking about it. It's not just a, uh, a carrier thing or a clerk thing. This is a post office thing. You should be thinking about, Hey, you all will we get let them take routes out.
01:32:57
Blacknight
I didn't. So when it's time to do more work from the desk, I don't want you to hear it. It's just me. Guess what? That's what you made it.
01:33:06
lastyles
No, that's also to take note of this, right?
Staffing Reductions from Adjustments
01:33:10
lastyles
For stations that might have attendance issues, right?
01:33:12
Blacknight
Hmm.
01:33:15
lastyles
if if they If they do a route adjustment and you lose, let's say's just say four routes, you're going to lose five people. If there's a body for all those routes, you're going to lose five people because you're going to lose the four routes, the four carriers on those routes, but that's also going to put you down in another utility.
01:33:35
lastyles
So you're going to lose five bodies, right? Let's say you still got the tennis issue. Now when you select overtime, when they pass out overtime, they're going to pass out more mail because all the routes are over what they were. So if you have five call-ins, that's probably the the equivalent to eight routes instead of the five, because all those routes got extra splits on them. You know what I'm saying? So you got to remember that. Think about that. You know what I'm saying?
01:34:05
lastyles
But we'll see. We'll see. Before we get up out of here, anybody else guess got anything to add? Again, take notes. Read your handbooks, use your tools, go to your union meetings, talk to you your stewards, talk to your safety captains with any information.
01:34:20
Blacknight
Yes.
01:34:21
lastyles
They are doing meetings for stations with upcoming route adjustments.
01:34:26
lastyles
They do have union meetings that, well, I'm assuming it's everybody or everybody will have this for you to know what to look for and and things of that nature. Make sure you go to that meeting if you don't know how to properly carry mail.
01:34:32
Blacknight
Correct.
01:34:38
lastyles
By properly meaning, maybe you was never trained on doing all the extras bio trainee because maybe they just didn't do it. At you know officer at that that point in time and train is only lasting 345 days anyway, so maybe just one enough time to train you on every single thing or whatever the case is so.
01:34:54
lastyles
Don't feel bad about that. Go to the meeting. Get whatever knowledge you can. Talk to your stewards. Talk to your safety captains. Get whatever information you can. Ask for the handbook, the M41. Again, M41, Mike-41 handbook. Ask them to print it out. You can go get the PDF. Look it up online if it's not in your edit book. You're out editing books, which is just black books at your case.
01:35:19
lastyles
If you don't have the black books, they might be in clear sleeves at your case, maybe hanging up or maybe in the slot that's at your case if it's not in a drawer. Or, again, acts actually a station can a can a order your son.
01:35:35
lastyles
And Watch out, man. Watch out. Don't let somebody run your ride off when you off work, i.e. Michael Dupree.
01:35:42
Blacknight
thank
01:35:44
Fee
Hahahaha!
01:35:44
lastyles
You know what I'm saying?
01:35:45
lastyles
And then you want to cry and complain about after the fact. You know what I'm saying? Because it can happen. It could be you. It could be, oh, go ahead, coffee.
01:35:51
Blacknight
Also, also safety captains. Also make sure that when they're doing the route, uh, expect, uh, inspection, that you let your people know that they don't have to do anything that's unsafe that they don't want to do.
01:36:05
Blacknight
Uh, as I apologize, everybody, this is, this is one of my, my young ones who's who I worked so hard for. Uh, but make sure as a safety inspector that you're doing your due diligence to make sure that they're not making your carriers do anything that's unsafe. Make sure that you are letting management know if they're asking you to do something crazy. If they're telling you, you got across the grass when it happened, you don't have to.
01:36:31
Blacknight
They're telling you, you got to run the mail off a thing in the mail while you're walking. You don't have to at that point in time. Uh, you let you turn around firmly and let them know you're here. You're here to expect what I'm doing.
01:36:53
Fee
and you are to set your own pace.
01:36:55
Fee
They can't pace you. You have to pace them.
01:36:58
Blacknight
Correct. Uh, So that's, that's one of the things you should be able to do and understand that you're working for your family, not for somebody else. And that way you have a great day. Every day.
01:37:17
lastyles
Hey, look, on the bright side, they do a router adjustment. And this is to customers who listen, make you sure it's for the customers. They do the router adjustment. And we put the mail on the floor.
01:37:27
Blacknight
Yeah. You don't get your mail.
01:37:29
lastyles
It's not the end of of the day, man.
01:37:31
lastyles
You put the bell on the floor. Customers don't be upset. I can't do 10 hours in eight hours, but they gonna be expecting me to. My family don't eat on on own on free anything.
01:37:43
lastyles
can I can't buy nothing with free nowadays. You know what I'm saying? They can either pay me the two hours to do the overtime or I can put it back on the floor and I can go to my second job during those other two hours. I can go do a side gig for those other two hours.
01:37:55
lastyles
I can be recording my podcast and building my my whatever the case, doing those other two hours, then walking eight blocks and dealing with possibly getting hassled, harassed, or a bit by a dog for, what I'ma say was free. Management won't say that, but I'ma say it for free. And ain't gonna happen, right? And I'm not finna run. I've twisted my ankle multiple times. I gotta to tear my meniscus. I'm not running for nothing.
01:38:21
lastyles
And that's the other, real i don't I don't walk across no grass. I don't roll my ankles. And now and what happened is I should be suing some of y'all customers. When we have accidents on y'all grass, we should be suing y'all, right?
01:38:32
lastyles
Technically, it's your property, but we don't do that. We need to start. Hey, customers, get that motorcycle off your walkway, right?
01:38:41
Blacknight
Please.
01:38:45
lastyles
It is your Now I don't know why y'all do that. I'm not saying a lot of y'all do it, but I don't, I don't been on other people route. They don't happen on my route. I don't know if anybody has a motorcycle on my route, but I've been on other people walks and people just parked the the motorcycle right on the walkway in front of the stairs.
01:38:59
lastyles
Like, what am I supposed to do with that? You know what I'm saying?
01:39:00
Blacknight
Let me want you to take it for a test drive.
01:39:03
lastyles
yeah, I'm for sale. It is your lawn, right? I'm gonna give you this. if If I walk, if I get ready to walk to your walkway, right? So I'm counting the sidewalk, which is the sidewalk, and the walkway is your path to your house from the sidewalk. That's the walkway. That's the path, right?
01:39:23
lastyles
If I start to walk on your path, on your walkway, and I can smell animal mess, you not getting on male, bruh. I get dizzy. The animal manure makes me want to kind of vomit a little bit. It ain't happening. Carriers can bypass your house. They can bypass your house.
01:39:43
lastyles
if if that type of stuff is a problem or problematic. Things on your porch problematic, you got spiders, all over your bushes is problematic. You got a bird's nest. You know what I'm saying? Birds have a attack carriers before, or just people coming up to a house, especially once they have babies and things they like that like that in the nest. Or any animal that have babies, if you come around, they're prone to attack or attempt to attack, no matter how small they are, right? Most carriers will not deliver your mail.
01:40:11
Blacknight
Me.
01:40:11
lastyles
Right now there's your property and you you can do whatever you want.
01:40:14
lastyles
But I got the right not to deliver because it's a safety issue for me. And you can just pick your mail up at the mail at at the post office for a period of time before you end up having to get a PO box.
01:40:17
Blacknight
Correct. I'm not going to deliver.
01:40:25
Blacknight
Correct.
01:40:25
Blacknight
Because I'm sending it back in 10 days.
01:40:27
lastyles
You know what I'm saying?
01:40:27
lastyles
I can't can do about that.
01:40:31
lastyles
I can't, I can't do it about that. You know what I'm saying? Cares have fears too. Some people have arachnophobia where they have a very high fear of spiders. You know what I'm saying? They fear small animals, rodents, whatever the case is. They do what they gotta do, but they're not about to keep taking too many ales.
01:40:45
Blacknight
No, absolutely.
01:40:47
lastyles
You know what I'm saying?
01:40:48
lastyles
First thing happened is if something happened to you, you get injured, then management tried to negate the fact that you got on the job duty injury and then somehow you was working unsafe. you Did you somehow erase the raccoon that chased you?
01:41:03
Fee
okay
01:41:03
Blacknight
Right.
01:41:05
lastyles
Hey, while we had the PTF, he got chased by a raccoon the other day.
01:41:10
lastyles
He he hopped on hepped on a garbage can thinking it was a good idea, right?
01:41:16
lastyles
Listen, listen, now everybody, I'm not gonna let everybody know. Season people know and people that that has a different level of thinking can already picture it, right? When you run towards something, there's a lot of momentum for that, right? you can't hop You can't run full speed, hop up on a garbage can and think that as soon as you get on the garbage can, everything's gonna be fine. The momentum is gonna push the garbage can down.
01:41:39
lastyles
It's going to push it to the side because you ran straight. You know what I'm saying? You're running. loop Think about this. And you're running top speed or 20 miles an hour to get on something, right? You just ain't going to land on it, and then it'll just end. That's why people jump on cars and things. I'm not telling you to jump on nobody's car. I'm just saying. You got to do what you got to do, though. He jumped on the garbage can. Running from the squirrel. Squirrel actually chased. Running from the garbage can, the garbage can. If you're on the ground, squirrel owning fee. Squirrel owning fee.
01:42:05
Fee
I would, oh, I would have died.
01:42:09
lastyles
He lost his mind, he threw his bag, he threw his bag at the raccoon and everything. He's sprayin' everything on the bag, he threw his bag at it and everything.
01:42:16
Fee
I would have died. Y'all know I would have died.
01:42:19
lastyles
I think he ended up having like a groin pool or something like that.
01:42:24
Fee
I would have died. I would have been dead right on the route.
01:42:28
lastyles
From Shock.
01:42:29
Fee
You know, I wouldn't care.
01:42:31
lastyles
You gonna be on Worldstar. when squirrel attacks, raccoon attacks go wrong.
01:42:37
Blacknight
hey
01:42:39
Fee
Y'all know I'm scared of spiders, birds, ants, anything.
01:42:44
lastyles
See, so fee, if you can get mail, make sure you don't live on fee route. Because if feasts eat anything other than a dog, other than a small dog, you don't get nothing. Anything.
01:42:55
lastyles
Anything, birds, squirrels, ants, insects,
01:42:56
Fee
When you already already know if a cat come, they ain't get nothing.
01:43:01
lastyles
raccoons, possums, even a cat. She don't mess with cats. She has anything other than a dog. She'll walk up to a big dog before she walk up to anything else.
01:43:03
Blacknight
Me neither, I don't mess with no cats either.
01:43:12
Fee
yep I go to the dog before I will the cat.
01:43:15
lastyles
So, I don't know what to tell y'all, you know what I'm saying? Just make sure again, I'm only gonna be on your property about 10, 15 seconds, on your block maybe 10, 15 minutes or something, maybe 20 minutes, depending on the split, man.
01:43:27
lastyles
Try to keep your animals in rodents and check a little bit, you know what I'm saying? Sometimes, stop leaving out food on your porch. Some people be having like, I got this one house, I don't think that the cats are theirs, because they gotta have a dog.
01:43:39
Blacknight
It's the alley cats.
01:43:40
lastyles
I think they just feed straight cats though.
01:43:44
lastyles
And they, but they feed them like they leave food on and they driveway and on the porch and like bowls for the cats. So anytime I walk up, it's like three cats can be at the house at one point in time.
01:43:51
Fee
but
01:43:54
Blacknight
Horrible.
01:43:55
lastyles
Like straight cats. You could tell they got, you know what I'm saying?
01:43:57
lastyles
Like you could tell the straight cats.
01:43:58
Blacknight
Horrible.
01:44:00
Fee
Thank you.
01:44:00
Fee
No, Mayor.
01:44:01
lastyles
Lucky I ain't got a fear of cats and nothing like that. But anywho, we're going to end it with there, man. That's what the gist of route adjustment, that's what you should be doing if your station is is has oncoming route
Consolidated Stations Strategy
01:44:13
lastyles
adjustments. Do anybody want to touch on for at least maybe five minutes, or if not less, that they need to add on or feel like they want to add on about consolidated stations? That's not really a thing like route adjustments. You know what I'm saying?
01:44:26
lastyles
Management wants to downsize in money. They want to cancel some of the expenses. If you didn't know a lot of the stations that they have, they don't own. They they lease a lot of stations. And typically, from what I was told from the government side of things,
01:44:45
lastyles
They have to do these leases for like 20 years on average. They can do more. But from what I've heard them, I don't know think what they've been doing the last 10 years or anything else ended in the last 10 years. But prior to that, they was doing like 20 plus year contracts because they want to make sure when they get into property that they can be there long term. Right. They're not trying to have like a home lease and they have to find another post office a year later and then a year later and a year later because they're going to adjust things to the building for them to be put to suit their needs. Right. So.
01:45:14
lastyles
One thing they're trying to do is consolidate multiple stations that's closer in range to so one building as these leases end. So they don't have to do those long term leases no more, per se, or say or so many long term leases. right So they're trying to put in at some point in time around the country multiple stations in and one building. That's consolidated stations. right We have one here we call West Milwaukee, and it's probably going to be in other places. right
01:45:39
Blacknight
It's the most horrible station we have here.
01:45:42
Fee
Well, you know it's already in Atlanta.
01:45:42
Blacknight
It's the most horrible station we have.
01:45:45
Fee
It's already in Atlanta.
01:45:45
Blacknight
I know Atlanta, they got the people going crazy there.
01:45:51
Fee
Well, they said we up next.
01:45:51
lastyles
Now we do have, we do have two other ones, maybe three, but I don't know if those stations was consolidated or if they've just always been together. Like coffee station has two zip codes, but I don't know if they was ever separate stations or if they just always been together.
01:46:06
Blacknight
Right.
01:46:08
Fee
We'll see what it is with this in there.
01:46:08
lastyles
Same thing with Fred John, same thing with Hilltop.
01:46:12
Fee
What they're saying but it's about to be five stations combined into one big facility. So try to eliminate because I guess half of the rigs are half full. So it's going to eliminate some of the truck driver jobs as well. it So from what have my supervisor just explained it to us is we're going to be dating in with the the distribution company, the five stations, and it's going to cut down on the truck driving as well.
01:46:43
Fee
So I guess we're up next so from what he told us to try it out. And then I guess it's gonna have a separate plan that they're also in the making of building now because the new vehicles are sent to come here to us. But the post office got all this money for all these new vehicles and everything, but we still ain't got no contract name being paid. Make it make sense to me.
01:47:06
Blacknight
Well, I think it's, uh,
01:47:10
Fee
When Amazon just bumped, they drivers up to $30 an hour.
01:47:12
Blacknight
I think it's, it's going to be with everything. You got to do some kind of changes. I'm not going to say we should be changing as radical as quickly as we're changing, but all changes, not bad change and everything in like must e evolve and.
01:47:28
Blacknight
I understand the frustration and, you know, customers' frustration and careers, but all things must change at some point in time. It must evolve and evolution must come take place. So I'm not going to say we should be doing it. I think we should be doing certain things, quickly certain things. We should be taking small steps. So things will change, things will get better, things things will get worse and then they will get somewhat better. Then they'll get worse and then they'll get better in the long run. So I think it's a, it's a, it's a place for it, but I don't know if every state can sustain having that done as quickly as you, uh, postmaster, the joy wants to. So as things go, things will happen. Things will not be able to do as much, up but we will see, uh, motivation
Motivational Closing
01:48:20
Blacknight
thought of,
01:48:20
Blacknight
of this episode coming from the Black Knight Corner is, and I wish, and I hope that the post office would adopt this. It does not matter how slow you go. So as long as you don't stop, that's what we should be doing. Doesn't matter how slow you go, just as long as you don't stop. And that's how we should be doing the route, uh, expectations. That's how we should be doing the consolidations of stations.
01:48:50
Blacknight
Slowly, but surely we'll get to where we need to go to motivation start of the day. Hope that gives somebody some, so you know, some motivation to go in there and face that tough Monday that we about to have and make sure you continue to, you know, if you not, you know what I'm saying? I already subscribed to, to listen to us every Monday. Make sure you go out and do that. Make sure you go ahead and jump into the group, uh, and Twitter. I mean, X formerly known as Twitter.
01:49:18
Blacknight
Make sure you stop by and leave us a message. Let us know things that you would like us to talk about. And, you know, let's get this work week started off like no other. Hopefully everybody be safe. Do the safe things. Always work safely, not fastly, but safely. Go out and turn it up to fee in LA.
01:49:40
lastyles
I don't know if you ain't working tomorrow or not.
01:49:43
Fee
Oh, no, I'm gonna be sleep.
01:49:44
Blacknight
Part timer.
01:49:44
lastyles
What do you guys say about that golf?
01:49:46
Blacknight
She always part-time her Michael Dupree is always on that part-time stuff.
01:49:47
Fee
Nothing.
01:49:50
Blacknight
You know saying Be quiet
01:49:51
Fee
Oh, no, no, no, no. It's my rough off day.
01:49:54
Fee
And I deserve i had i had a rough, rough week. I deserved it. I went through hell these last two weeks. Not to mention, guys, I'm an on-the-job trainer as well. No,
01:50:06
lastyles
I like excuses.
01:50:08
Fee
na I work hard.
01:50:11
lastyles
With that we're gonna get up out of here, we appreciate you all stopping by appreciate y'all listening to make sure you get this information the information is for you.
01:50:21
lastyles
Information is for y'all. We trying to draw awareness to particular situations, give out the information for those of you that's currently in the post office, those those of you who will be in the post office six months from now, can go back and get this information a year from now.
01:50:28
Blacknight
Yes sir.
01:50:38
lastyles
That group and a year from that from that point in time, whatever that group is, it's information to be here for you to get. With that said, we're going to get up out of here.
Podcast Promotion
01:50:47
lastyles
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01:50:50
lastyles
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01:50:52
Blacknight
Bye.
01:50:59
Blacknight
Yeah.
01:51:08
lastyles
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01:51:24
lastyles
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01:51:36
lastyles
Let us know what's up. Use the group to ask questions get answers You can be featured on upcoming episodes Or we could talk about a a specific subject that you want us to talk about if if you need to get some type of information Okay with that we won't get up out of here
01:51:49
Blacknight
Yes, sir.
01:51:53
lastyles
Congrats to another show Congrats to my To coffee on another episode fee on another episode. I am your boy la styles. Y'all make sure to to follow us and we'll be back man Hopefully we have a better week than last.
01:52:06
Blacknight
I am your boy, black knight 24.
01:52:09
lastyles
Hopefully all y'all Hopefully all y'all have a better week than your last week. And hopefully we just get better from week to week at the jobs. Hopefully the job get better from week to week. Winner is coming. We will have though those two shows coming. They're going to be probably 0.5s.
01:52:28
lastyles
Because we're leaving the summer, so we might hit winter safety first and then heat safety that's just for you guys to get just basic heat and. in a winter safety information and let you know what gear you probably should be looking for what works and what don't work, so those are going to be very short episodes and I want to keep them separated again, so I don't want anything to get lost in combining those two.
01:52:36
Blacknight
Yes, sir.
01:52:48
Blacknight
Correct.
01:52:50
lastyles
With that we'll get up out of here man appreciate y'all The views is looking real nice.
01:52:56
lastyles
The shorts are doing very well So you guys are clearly enjoying that and we're gonna keep on keep on keeping on that is as they say With that we'll get up out of here.
01:53:02
Blacknight
Yeah, make sure y'all follow Amazing Studios on TikTok as well.
01:53:05
lastyles
Thanks Yeah, tick-tock Instagram Yeah, we out here man, at least trying to be, get that information, share, sharing is caring.
01:53:20
Blacknight
Always.
01:53:21
lastyles
You can find the information useful.
01:53:22
lastyles
Your friends, coworkers find the information useful. Your customers can find the information useful. You know what I'm saying? That's only the only way we're going, we're going to build this community to, to get back to, uh, help the post office to get back to what it used to be at a point in time that we're clearly have straight away from a long time ago.
01:53:40
lastyles
Right. Which is community and customer driven. So we got to get back there, man. Hopefully 2024 is the starting point of that. With that, we'll get up out of here, man. Appreciate you. Love. Peace.
01:53:51
Blacknight
With.