oh, come on, driven by drink shaped bank, pinterest, and those with airs. sinks. we dare to ask you a tool that was bad, your eyes and your post. yeah. that it would stop you from having real friends and finding a girlfriend. but what they fail to mention is that you could make thousands of dollars every weekend by simply playing video games, a station, a couple of them. and so we formed definition by showing it's

a little property as well. if i was originally looking for it, okay, much for to do so please don't don't of course to make video games a high paying job. you have to be gifted and quick with it. hang on to a spike. surgical installation fitness to live near bottom, and miss thompson with webpage bentley up in the else produce part even established yet gala boy, when you mouse stormy and my video it out or you me, i was at kneels few guy of the owner, but i would that be cool, it will still be stuck with these it's odd to choose ah, with the simple story is that the decline of the us postal service coincides with the rise of the internet, an e mail, and that's larry is just too simplistic. first class,

male volumes have declined and that has created financial pressure. but if you look at mail volume as a whole, particularly if you look at the parcel segment, they have grown substantially. looking at internet use, people with more use of the internet or more access to the internet tend to get more mail. ah, the role and influence of private corporations is tremendous. and their ability to shape the legal environment than really reflects their desire to limit competition . if the postal service was out of the way that you think your fedex, and you could charge more for what they do, if the postal service was out of the way that you think the vampires and congress could sell off all the property and all the assets the postal service has and steal that money are all across the

united states. we're losing very distinguished buildings and public art that they contain major buildings that the post service own, iconic, beautiful buildings in the centers of town have been sold to real estate developers for not that much money. oh, ah. they were designed to be among the best buildings in town, architecturally distinguished, but also the craftsmanship. oh, a commission for the 1st time for small towns where people had generally never seen before, let alone public art that depicted themselves and the work that they do and their legends and their history and their landscapes. oh, to

a noble americans who do common work. so that they would know that this is part of what constitutes a civilization of all of us working together, doing our bit ah, the real estate portfolio, which the public owns and paid for is variously estimated to be worth $50.00 to $100000000000.00. so anybody who can get their hands on that is going to make out very nicely, like a bandit, perhaps in the postal service, gave an explicit contract to the world largest commercial real estate company, cd ari. to not only sell our property, but also to advise them on what to sell and also to meet that property which the postal service does on to it. so this is a very nice cushy deal. now where it really gets interesting is that the chair of the board and largely the owner of c, b r e is none other than richard c bluhm,

a billionaire private equity capitalist who just happens to be the husband of senator dianne feinstein. perhaps the most powerful senator in congress, or by any measure. this is a rather startling conflict of interest that nobody seems to have looked into in the preface. scarcely mentioned. mm oh, in my own city of santa monica, i was involved in reforms that transformed that city. so that the downtown of santa monica became, if not the most, one of the most vibrant retail centers in all of california. and there's a beautiful post office in that set of blocks and the post service sold it to some

guy who's making it to a movie studio. whereas they could have shared that space expanded the opportunity so that they would have ongoing revenue and maintain this beautiful location in the middle of town where everybody could go to it. they've moved the post office to some place on the other side of the freeway where the bus depot is it's, it's really a crime. that's an area where they postal service has not followed my suggestions at all. and i'm quite frustration about ah ah, in washington dc, you can go to the old post office and pay the president of the united states $24.00 for a cheeseburger. ah,

mary. burkhart, pacific branch, president of the national association of postal supervisors. every 4 years delegates gather to elect the officers who will represent them in washington. you need to be assertive, you need to be even a little aggressive, and he has to be unafraid. that was always my expectation. 3 officers that we elected and we're paying almost a $150.00 pounds. so you think, wow, those are the best. they're fighting their 247. and so it was always a little disappointing to see that they leave right at 5 and did carry cell phones and didn't even know a lot of the basic rules. we have not elected the right people. when i 1st ran, one of the national office was told me, why are you doing this? because it was already the election happened 4 years ago. he said,

all votes were promised to other people and you don't have anything to run but your skills. if our whole convention is that correct? why and how it dial it it and promise it in a secretary treasurer john gene, $1200.00, a brighter one. that was why a while ago and that's why one day i want one member one vote because that's the ultimate way to break this up. every time i mention it, so like we can't have one member ones out, we can't do that. and i said, why not?

well, because they don't know what they're doing and i go but isn't that what the elisa said, you know the england and is that why we form this nation and isn't that way people sit in the 18 hundreds and is that why women could vote? is that white black people can vote, and so what we're doing is we're disenfranchising everybody for a few good. oh boy, power brokers. nothing happens. and this is the tired organization with a lot of travel expenses. ah messes with in november 2013. the postal service begins opening many post offices in staples, stores nationwide. a sign on the door. we closed a bill. there was

a contract. i like to know what the contract had been. so with that, if you could hardly read, ah, we took an old we were hired to protect their meal. i'm a customer to us. i'm going to say protect our mail. after 3 years of pressure, the postal service was found in violation of its contract with employees and staples closed. their postal counters about big business and money is not about the public and given the service that need desired and not about the quality trained workers. it's about the money with one of the things the postal system did was to create the expectation that a job can have reasonable hours, can have a good pension. what used to be called

a middle class american dream lifestyle. right? if you destroy those jobs, what you're doing is you're ratcheting down the standard of living. you're allowing all the other employers in an area to offer less and less so that the only comparison anybody has is the poor job. the 1st largest business, but employ the most people is wal mart and the wages there are so low. but many of the wal mart employees have to go on welfare. that is, they are subsidized by the taxpayer. and what you end up having is the postal service, retail clerk subsidizing wal mart, in order to pay those workers so much lower wages. so it really changes the direction of co is subsidizing home. traditional 9 to 5 doesn't work in our current economy. as people are working multiple part time jobs, you may work a 4 hour day at the post office and dr. uber for 4 hours. they've tried to bring in

an hourly wage. people for part time, part time, hours at $15.00 an hour with no benefits, no health insurance, even though they have a ton of employment opportunities. it's hard for them to find people to comment on the spot and then the people we do get sometimes they're, they just don't get it. they think the job is easy and it's not very physically enduring. you know, noon this past winter, it was the polar vortex was absolutely horrendous. we were working to force over time. we are working 6 day weeks. we're working 12 and 13 hour days. feel like this and all 5. 0 really con anymore. i was working with them for a plan just wants to know, you know, well with the stuff stayed here and so your, oh yeah, they're not by choice. but like i said with

family needs me. so i could tell myself or family needs with my wife 3 kids. oh, this is america's job. this is for the people. this has existed since the beginning of this country. there's no reason to stop with like they go to kelly is one of the most widely appreciated worker in the country. a postal workers know our. 7 people on the route, they take pride in being able to make sure that they're okay. we saved quite a few lives all through the years. well, i did a few emergency breathing open via i didn't do anything. what anybody else were yesterday? he's a hero. i believe that just make sure i've been to the right time in emergencies and national security situations. are you gonna deliver medicine?

you're gonna deliver some anti dough? are you gonna deliver some equipment? the post office is the last hope of this country because it doesn't say well, you know, that's not very profitable. i'm not going to do it. it has a civic obligation, as well as a legal obligation to perform on behalf of the american people with

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you have powers in this country that are trying to choke off the postal service and take everything it has that's worth any money. and then you have a group of people that are trying to fulfill the mission and to deliver to every address every day. the one philosophy flies in the face of the other. the way to do it is not to eliminate the delivery. the way to do it is not to. busy eliminate door to door service is something that we provide the people all these years. if you want to take it like foreign to people, you want to put a box up at the corner and have your mother have to walk a while to get her mail every day. busy i don't think i want that. i would love to see us go the direction of the self directed more team self managed team because we're capable of making the decisions off so we could put rear for short job to perform desire commitment. that's what we want. you

only get it when you make people part of the process. when we run it in my employer example, i come from when we ran out, they said an employee 3 and i'm facing you know what just i'm in it every day. we can do it on most of most of the oversight and the paperwork that people deal with now is just, you know, didn't mail get their own time dead. you know, did that box get there? it's amazon get all scanned properly. but there's a lot of people in here that are justifying their job, which is a useless job. we have one guy that comes down just to make sure the mail gets here in time. we could check that out. ridiculous, let the post office be a pioneer again. in the days of the pony breast, in the way that it was, but now not about reaching into the far reaches of our country, but rather into the way we organized business. every post office should be

a local workers, cooperative, a group of workers whose job it is to make that institution as useful as helpful to the local community, as it knows how to be free to do that in any way it sees fit. at one time, they are able to offer copying services in post office lobbies and kinko's got that shut down. they lobby congress. and also there's a law that you can have copy machines in your local post office. the postal service has its hands dyed by congress. for example, up until 900. 68. you had postal savings system as part of the post office and the banks didn't like it. even though people used it. it was convenient. it was reliable. a banks pressured congress. they closed it down in all people who said, well, let the post office go into banking. well, you know,

that's not why we created the postal service. we got plenty of private banks that'll do banking. i think it might defuse our mission. it might open us up to a lot of criticism. ah, yeah, the postal service didn't crash the economy and steel people's pension. the postal services there provide service for the unless the banking community has completely abandoned a certain area and there are some areas that are under backed. there are only 30000000 and bank people in this country. and they could be the source of wonderful service and communities all over the country because of most offices there have to be built and they will produce revenue for the post to. so i think there's a lot of other adaptations that we could be leading the way and such as a high speed internet access to a secure online bill payment center. there's communities all across the country

that don't even have access to high speed internet period. and there's also many people that can't afford to have these services in their home. the postal service doesn't have to pay tax on their building. so if we're going to do that, we've got to find a way to level the playing field. so they don't put the mom and pop internet cafe, a couple blocks down out of business. this would be the government competing with the private sector. you betcha. and that's a good thing. let the private sector have a competitor to exclude the government means the private sector can do to us the customers what it wishes. there's no one else who benefits from that, not the public, not the country as a whole, but for the private alternative profit makers. that's with post office and american paper.

i want to be able to bring back pride and being a postal worker. i'm proud to be opposed to worker. i'm proud to be able to serve the american people. that means something that me something to make. i definitely want to see a lot of graph food activism, people getting out there and protecting united states postal service. the letter is so parson, all the emails and the texting and all that is all in person. and you know, how much time and effort to take to sit down in pen something. so it means a lot more. my mom's gave out some files and gave me that picture. so i love it. i've been born to do this kind of stuff doin is way back, dan. yeah. mom a show our, i guess you plan for me to be somebody. i got the envelope printed inside is a letter from me. i want to continue to do big things, but

a membership as your chief spoke person, and that's what i am a t spokesperson. that's what the union representatives off when that law makers. so hopefully people don't look at us like some politician. so different kind of election so sent out way more than a 1000 of them have one more year to go with the union. and as i said, i think i'll be able to smile asleep a little better and not have nightmares about, you know, who lost the job today or who's getting written up for silly stuff or things like that. take it personally, which i do. it stays with in a very negative type of way. yeah. really it, when you get this allergic, when you come here without a doubt, i say is a 30 years hey, for my life i time is going to want to drink. i'm here an hour in

my fondest memories are coming here as a kid and you let me sit at the counter and, you know, sell a book, a stamps, and count some change out for the customer. right. i want it. i wanted to show you that you want to treat people like you want to be treated, you treat people like you want to be treated. and i honestly, i firmly believe that even though these people are doing business with the postal service, they were doing business with me. and after a time they were not customers. they were family and friends. i was fired because i was accused of falsifying a federal document misappropriation of funds from the postal service which total of $579.56 over 10 year period. 13. i suppose the service was able to keep me out of work for $364.00 days without benefit of

pay for hospitalization. very trying time in my life. i know it took a big tall on him and i was about to go to college. and so he had a mortgage and you know, i know he had all these stresses on him and, and it just didn't seem right. mm. and i was so happy that i how that, how was exonerated the day before we were supposed to go to court because management knew they did not have a case against me. any reasonable subsistence expense that you incur as a result of official travel will be approved somehow, some way for my family. my family was at the forefront, my wife, my son, and the place we live was at the forefront and they gave me all of my strength. i felt like a boxer who was on the canvas, it 10 to and somehow god gave me strength to swing by arms, said,

i hit him and i want to be and i should be a man or even if at the end of the day management has to put that worker back to work with full back pay, they will have achieve something in terms of imposing discipline and control on the workforce. i can't make a statement cuz then they're gonna treat me like they treat you from the hold. i did my job or he please thing, right. we should get and you said no, you keep eye contact when i am talking to you, but workplace change never came from the postmaster general. whether megan brennan

or ben franklin, justice safety respect. they only ever came in small victories by employees who know their rights and fight for them. i might lose this thing. i might lose everything. there's a big price to pay for fighting the system, but you have to, you have to make a decision that you're going to do it and it was my, my reputation, my, my livelihood. now i have my job back after 3 very long years of struggle. i've spent almost $20000.00 on a lawyer that something i might not even get even really. wow. and he's in the one i got to be honest. i'm a boy. he had to keep me an honest man to delete a better witness for me than it ever. liam tracy won her lawsuit. management

never. how have they expect you to give up? they want you to give me the way things have been run, has stopped people from standing up because they, they would feel that they would be standing alone. and i hope to spread the message that you're, you're not alone that so. so go ahead and stand up and let's, let's, let's, let's take this on friday with, [000:00:00;00]

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let it be an arms race group is often very dramatic. development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successfully, very difficult time. time to sit down and talk good. is your media reflection of reality in the world transformed what will make you feel safer? hi sir. lation for community. are you going the right way or are you being that direct? what is true? walk this way. in the world corrupted, you need to descend a join us in the depths or remain in the

shallows. ah, the headlines and i see on the chrome, the new cobra straighten from south africa, spreads across the world with nations canceling flights and even keeping the fully vaccinated in isolation. also this are shoplifting and vandalism is the festive season begins. flash mob, and smash and grab robberies, put us authorities to the test and parents to the school in texas have their 1st some details posted online after they speak out against critical race theory and mass mandates. we hear from one of the be posted our personal information or addresses and told the internet to, to attack us. another guy threatened