Italians being forced to see this meme,

2025, colorized

Brother I can’t remember why I walked into the other room, let alone something that happened 180,000 years ago 🙄

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If I get anymore I’m gonna need an actual server rack, I already had to get a SAS expander card.

No low ballers, no tire kickers DON’T WASTE MY TIME price FIRM I know what I got

Well we almost voted Renfoe out as president during the last convention for getting a DUI while in a postal vehicle so that tells a lot

It’s the same thing, cost of living is the inflation raise. We get regular raises every 42 weeks as regular carriers but even those are menial

Yeah but 1.3% raises? In this economy? Actual joke. They spent 20 months on this contract negotiation and that’s all they give us. The AC in the trucks was already in the works with the rollout of the NGDVs and the Metris vans they’re using as holdovers so that’s almost pointless.

My coworkers have already stated their displeasure with this contract so the members might vote against it.

Yeah it’s basically a convection oven on wheels with the little rinky dink fan installed in them

I’ve used the old trucks in New Mexico, 140°F in the trucks wasn’t uncommon in the summer. It was a relief to get out of it and cool off a bit. AC will be great.

I’ve been visiting Brazil the past couple weeks and this is something I see here, it’s so nice to not have to arbitrarily round up prices in my head to figure out the true cost before going to the register. I’ll miss that when I get back home.

In layman’s terms, they wanna move carriers to sorting facilities to cut down on cost for shipping mail to local offices. This could cause carriers who live in the towns the deliver in, like myself, to drive upwards of 45 minutes to an hour away to a sorting facility (this number is based on what my office’s situation would be, could vary office to office). After clocking in and sorting our routes, we would then have to drive back that same amount of time to town to deliver, then drive that far back to return to office.

You can see the issue here, sure you’re cutting on transportation costs to local offices, but you’re now spending a lot more on carriers fuel in the already inefficient mail trucks to drive back and forth to their routes. We wouldn’t get compensated for the milage and time going to and from the new office and it would lengthen our days because of the new drive time. That being said, if that drive time is accounted to our routes, our routes are supposed to be adjusted to 8 hours total time for normal mail volume. Now you’re adding that much time, you gotta cut deliveries per route. Now you have to add more routes to compensate, which means paying more salaries to cover said routes. Sure it’s good for us as carriers because routes need readjusting anyway, but is not the cost saving measure they think it is.

Edit: Another idea they’ve had is create regional delivery offices where 3 or more towns are in a single building, but this can cause the same issue, and in some regions it may not be possible due to the distance between offices in highly rural areas such as the Great Plains.

TLDR: will cause more problems than it solves.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk

Damn, did we have the same ex-wife?

Nice try, NSA, I know those are your spy drones. You can’t fool me!

The catalyst for this shitty timeline we’re in

Dicks out, lads

Correct, which is why handling local ballots locally helps lower volume at the sorting facilities and hopefully allowing them to get to their destination town on time.

Election mail is supposed to be handled locally, especially when it gets closer to the election. We separate the ballots and bypass the sorting facilities and bring them to the local town hall/voting location. This was the usual process for the last 2 offices and presidential elections I worked through for this very reason, especially when DeJoy shut down sorting machines.

The delays are still a concern for many reasons, but as long as local post offices handle ballot delivery locally it would help minimize late ballots.

That being said, what do I know? I’m just a lowly cog in the machine.

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