and, and that has created financial pressure, but if you look at mail volume as a whole, particularly if you look at the parcels 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, don't you think it fedex and you could charge more for what they do if the postal service was out of the way, don't you think the vampires in congress could sell off all the property and all the assets the postal service has in steel. that money are all across the united states. we're losing very distinguished buildings and public art that they contain major

buildings at the post service owned, iconic, beautiful buildings in the centers of town. have been sold to real estate developers for not that much money. oh, for. 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. i was to a noble americans who do common work so that they would know 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 it early 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 cb ari to not only sell our property, but also to advise them on what to sell and also to leave mac property, which the postal service doesn't on to it. so this is a very nice, cushy deal. mm. that where it really does. it's interesting is that the chair of the board and largely the owner of c, b r e is none other than richard c. bluff 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. the nobody seems to have looked into when the press is 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 and 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 into 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 i

marry 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 a 3rd if you need to be even a little aggressive, and you have 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 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 cellphones 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 offices, totally, why are you doing this? was already the election happen 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 the office of national secretary treasurer john g 1200, a brighter one. those are the bible 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 legal? 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 what people said of the 1800s. 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, a in november 2013. the postal service begins opening many post offices in staples, stores nationwide. a sign on the door. we're close don't with is not a contract. i'd like to know what the contract had been so with that if you could

hardly read, ah, we took an old man. we were hired to protect their meal. i'm a customer is i'm gonna 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. it's not about the public and given them a service that need desired and not about quality train 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 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 us 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 and 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. it was absolutely horrendous. we were working for st over time. we are working 6 day weeks. we're working 12 and 13 hour days. feel like this . i really thought anymore. i was working with them for a plan. just wanted to know. you know, well with the stuff stay in here and so you're not by choice. but like i said, we need the family needs me so i can tell myself my 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. apostle workers know our. 7 people on the route, they take pride in being able to make sure that they're okay. we stayed quite a few lives all through the years. well, i did a few more disagree. the they opened their way up. i didn't do anything more than anybody else will. yes, he did, he's a hero. i believe just make sure i've been away for the right time in emergencies and national security situations are gonna deliver medicine. you're

going to deliver some anti dough or you're 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. ah, what kinda makes no sense, you know, borders to nationalities and you face as a merge we don't have with the we don't to the back seen. whole world leads to take action and be ready to people are just, you know, come in crisis with we can do better, we should be better. everyone is contributing each in their own way. but we also

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a who dares sinks, we dare to ask do 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 a day of delivery. the way to do it is not to. busy eliminate door to door services, something that we've provided to 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 a walk a mile to, to get her mail every day. i don't think i want that. i would love to see us go the

direction of the self directed more team self manage team because we're capable of making the decisions off so we can put rear for short, java to perform desire commitment. that's what we want. you only get it when you make people part of the process. we can definitely run it in my face in for example, i went on, we ran out, they said employee 3 and i'm facing you know what your thumb and 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. did that box get there? did amazon get all scanned properly? ah, 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 it out. it let the post office be

a pioneer again in the days of the pony express 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. and there's a law that you can have copy machines and your local post on the postal service has its hands tied by congress. for example, up until 968, 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,

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 steal 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 is that are under back. there are only 30000000 on 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 was have to be built and they will produce revenue for the post. i think there's

a lot of other adaptations that we could be leading the way and such as a high speed internet kiosk access to a secure online bill payments 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 own building. so if we're gonna 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 of 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 to public, not the country as a whole,

but for the private alternative profit makers. that's why this with an american paper li, i want to be able to bring back pride and be in a postal worker. i'm proud to be opposed to work. i'm proud to be able to serve the american people. that means something that me something to me. i definitely want to see a lot of graph food to activism. people getting out there and protecting united postal service. the letter is so parcel, the emails and texting and all ladies are impersonal. and you know, how much time and effort to take to sit down in pen something. so it means a lot more. my mom was clean out some files and gave me that picture. so i love it

. say i've been born to do this kind of stuff doin is way back, dan. yeah. mom, make sure i was ready. i guess she planned for me to be somebody and i got the envelope printed inside is a letter for 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 politicians said different kind of election, some sent out way more than a 1000 of them. i need 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 most the job today or who's getting written up for silly stuff or things like that. if you take it personally, which i do, it stays with you in a very negative type of way. really. it wears on you

get this allergic when you come here all without a doubt, i say is 30 years here for my life. i sent an email to me. i want to drink. i'm here an hour or so. 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 wanted, 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 have firmly believed that he though these people were doing business with the postal service. they were doing business with me, and after the time they were not customers, they were family and friends. i was 5 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, $0.13 a day. the post the service was a book to keep me out of work for $364.00 days without benefit of pay for hospitalization. very trying time in my life. i never took a big toll 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 interested him right me. i was so happy that i held out john a rated 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, but somehow some way from my family. my family was at the far from 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 10 to me. and somehow, god gave me the strength to swing by arms. i hit him and i want me to be me. and even if at the end of the day managed has to put that worker back to work with pull back pay, they will have achieved something in terms of imposing discipline and control on the workforce. i can't make a statement because then they're going to treat me like they treat you on the hold . i did lose my job or he please

thing that we should get and you said you keep contact me 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 big price to pay. 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 by even really. wow. and he's in the one i got to be honest. i'm a boy. he had to be an honest man to

delete a witness for me. they did for them. tracy won her lawsuit. management never how, how 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 i hadn't stand up. and then let's, let's, let's, let's take this on friday with

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