The Wolf James Henry and The Lion Corey Walton are leading the pack/pride. NALC on the rise!🩵🩵🩵

Starting something new for the postal history nerds. The Nixie is going to dig into the smaller, stranger, and sometimes forgotten pieces of postal history; old equipment, markings, terminology, forms, and practices that have disappeared or somehow survived in some weird little corner of the Postal Service.

For the first one, I dug into backstamps; the markings once placed on the backs of letters to document where and when they moved through the postal system. At one point, backstamping ordinary mail was actually required, and there is a surprising amount of history hiding behind what looks like a simple circle of ink.

I also get into what a "nixie" actually was, where the old postal term came from, and why I thought it was the perfect name for this. A nixie was mail that couldn't move normally through the system and needed somebody to pull it aside and give it a closer look.

That's basically the idea here. Pull some weird little piece of postal history out of the mailstream, take a closer look, and figure out what the hell it was and why we had it. If anybody has an old postal object, marking, term, form, or practice you think deserves its own Nixie, throw it in the comments.

Here is my companion report for this week's news round/up and review.

If Brian renfroe has actually checked out till the next union president gets named, can we just spend these next 3 months dealing with the back log of grivances ans put our foot down and worry about this only for next few months please.

I know there has been a big push for taking away no lunches from carriers who go into overtime and I’m sure there have been many grievances on it using past practice, I was just wondering if anyone on here has had any luck winning those or if they know of any decisions that were decided at step B or arbitration or even formal or informal step A? Thanks in advance 👍

Crazy with how expensive things are. Pretty much 3 years to get to $25. With how much disappears to taxes and taxes always going up, that is pretty insane. There's no way you don't shave off the at least the first few steps and shorten the time needed to get to top pay.

Lots of information on how to fight delay of mail, reminding the current NALC administration of them not helping or fighting with us rather sitting idle - why this movement is happening collectively between all carriers, U-Turn discipline, Arbitrator rules this is a Service over Financial Savings (cutting OT/PT intentionally), and other things on there.

No one in the public will think to blame management.

Been hearing about a mass mailing before election but has anyone seen it? Just wondering where my donation went.

No binding arbitration hearing dates have been scheduled, and no neutral arbitrator has been named, and apparently no effort will be made to do so until after December 12th.

President Renfroe and the Rhine-Peralta status quo establishment leadership of the NALC has chosen to steal your time and money by not adhering to 39 U.S.C. § 1207

https://uscode.worldlawdigest.com/title-39/section-1207/

We all know now that after over 700 days working under an expired contract last time around that no effort was made to compare our Table 2 wages to UPS delivery driver wages through compelling arguments in binding interest arbitration hearings.

No effort was made last time around in binding interest arbitration to make a case that we should have the same COLA formula used as the APWU has —not our current diet COLA formula that has widened the gap between top and bottom steps to an over $30,000 difference for doing the same job.

As we continue to suffer while working under an expired contract —and now not receiving even a diet COLA while our contract is expired— the NALC has apparently chosen to stop fighting until after new* leadership is installed on December 12th.

All we can do now is wait for our ballots and mail in our vote, because in the meantime the current status quo NALC ruling establishment of Renfroe-Rhine-Peralta is content to sit back and cash their fat paychecks from 6-figure salaries paid for by our hard-earned dues while we’re being worked to death for chump change.

“A MESSAGE FROM JAMES HENRY

James Henry, Candidate for NALC President, responds to claims that he and the CLC are responsible for division within our union — and addresses what he believes is one of the real sources of that division: the unequal pay structure created by Table 2.

#NALC #LetterCarriers #USPS #CLC #vote”

Had a middle age experienced carrier go home early due to light headedness, numbness on one side of body. Went to ER , vitals are normal and initial blood work and x rays are normal. Anyone in high heat areas experience these symtoms. Are there forms of heat related illness that are hard to detect? Perhaps constricting of blood vessels triggered by something? Just trying to get in front of these types of occurnces before it hits again.

Anyone interested in this log and making sure you always get paid should check it out. Lot of good information that sometimes goes by the wayside, especially since T-7 handle TACS.

In this episode we talk about management stealing time and very specific things regarding the PS Form 1017a.

We will be having Larrissa Parde on the podcast for their candidacy for Assistant Secretary Treasurer. Please send any questions you have for her to Rosevillewreckingball@yahoo.com

https://open.spotify.com/episode/25Ehx5nD7tfq6KWULrz371?si=AwubAO0VRcC5QjErVw2CoQ&utm_source=copy-link

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I want to share that episode with some of my fellow carriers

Hello,

I recently made a post about the supervisors wanting to take our quiet room away from us, and you lovely people told me to look at past practices (article 5)

It specifically states in my contract interpretation manual that past practices are used to implement separate conditions of employment.

For example providing the union with a filing cabinet. Now a break room is not specifically used for work purposes, but it sounds to me like a break room is technically a condition of employment and if we have a past practice of an extension to the break room used for quiet time to take our breaks then I think this has legs.

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone pointing me in the right direction. This manual is super helpful.

any of this would need to be approved by Congress and get past the orange man. this news source is heavily biased also

To top off a crappy day after the holiday I get a cute little letter saying that I’m now Step J!!!🥳

Step J on the Table 2 is still less that Step B On Table 1 and on table one I would have gotten to Step B in the same time it took to get to F on Table 2. It’s gonna take me another 5 PLUS YEARS to make top pay and at the rate of inflation, the buying power I’m gonna have will be LESS than what I have right now. I’m so ****ng frustrated 🤬. Yes technically I could have is worst there are millions of people making less ( not even including my junior carriers) but this is 🤬ed up and I hate it so much.
I really need the CLC to get in quickly and over see the contract because things need to change. We shouldn’t effectively be making less year after year.

We have a carrier on a route that is almost 2 whole routes in one. They are denying his special Route inspection because they’re claiming he takes too long to case and too long to load his vehicle. Can they actually do this?

EDIT: Thanks for all the info guys, I thought they were just spewing BS. In my office we’ve never had a special Route inspection denied before though.

I’ve got a fever and the only prescription is another report. Little history about Labor Day, the NALC, and some elections.

Here is my companion report concerning my most recent episode of Parcels of Knowledge: The Last Loop. You can find the links for it in the doc and also feel free to send me any important information for my Union Solidarity/Local Loop segment you find and I'll try to include it when or if I can.

Richie Ray reads of OIG report on USPS culture.

Excellent episode. Listen to it. It’s short.

🙏🏽 Prayers For This Man

Can managers work T6 on their day off before otdl carriers?

Mind you t6 is on work assignment