when you allow for the bankers at the top to loot and that they've been doing and their business model is to cave $0.90 of every dollar they steal, they pay a small fine. that will trickle down trickle down, losing an area or 13 years later and has become, as you say, in san francisco. really a common for gangs to loot the storms. but let's be honest. they are simply mimicking the bankers like jamie diamond and others who have made that hub, glorified looting and glorified stealing and glorified money printing. with the simple story is that the decline of the us postal service coincides with the

rise of the internet and e mail. and that story is just too simplistic. first, class mail 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 it fedex, and you could charge more for what they do if the postal service was out of the way that you think the vampires in 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 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 oh, 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, it was 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, i ah, the real estate portfolio which the public owns and paid for is 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, cd ari. to not only sell our property, but also to advise them on what to sell and also to meet mac property, which the postal service doesn't on to it. so this is a very nice cushy deal. mm. 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. 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 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 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

married 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 service, you need to be even a little aggressive. and he has to be unafraid. that was always my expectation. the 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 cherry 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 office was totally, 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 the office of national secretary treasurer john g 1200, a brighter 1935. 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 what people said of 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're close don't with is not a bill. there was a founder. i like know what they get now. the contract had been so with that if you can 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. it's not about the public and given the 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 poorer joe 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 owned, 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're working 16 weeks. we're working 12 and 13 hour days. feel like this at all. oh, really fun anymore. i was working with them for a plan just wants to know. you know, well with stuff stayed here until your oh yeah. they're

not by choice. but like i said, we need 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. a postal 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 emergency breathing open via i didn't do anything. what anybody else will? yes, he did his a year just making sure i've been to the right time in

emergencies and national security situations are 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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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, the way to do it is not to eliminate the delivery. the way to do it is not to. busy eliminate door to door services, something that we've provided, the people all these years. you want to take it like foreign to people. if 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 decision. also, we could put rear priority jo, forum desire commitment. that's what we want. you only

get it when you make people part of the process. so when we run it in, for example, i come from when we ran out, they said the boy 3 and i'm facing, you know what your thumb and every day we can do it on the most of most of the oversight and the paperwork that people deal with now is just, you know, they've been mailed get their own time dead, you know, did that box get there? did 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 expressed 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 low co 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 the 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 died by congress. for example, up until 968. you had postal savings system as part of the post dogs. 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 bank and 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 provided 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 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 is 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 and it

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. and 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.

lately, i want to be able to bring back pride and being a post to work. i'm proud to be opposed to worker. i'm proud to be able to serve the american people that mean something that me something to me. i definitely want to see a lot of grass food to activism. people getting out there and protecting united states postal service. the letter is so personal. 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 came out some files and gave me that picture. so i love it. i've been born to do this kind of stuff ever doing his way back. been my mom may sure i was ready. i guess you plan for me to be somebody and i got the envelope printed and inside is a letter from me. i want to continue to do big things for the 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. it's a different kind of election so sent that 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 of sleep 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. would you 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 can't even ask you,

i want to drink. i'm here an hour with my fondest memories. are coming here as a kid, and you let me sit at the counter and, you know, sell a book of stamps and count some change out for the customer. i, 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 were 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 $579.56 over 10 year period, $0.13 a day. the postal 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 knew i 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 his 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 by somehow some way from my family. my family was at the forefront, my wife, my son, and the place we lived 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 the strength to swing by arms. had i hit him and i was and i should be a and even if at the end of the day management has to put that work or 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 statement cuz then they're gonna treat me like they treat you on hold. i didn't my job or he pointed finger at me. she'll get me soon as 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. lose this thing. i might lose everything. there's a 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, it isn't the one i got to be honest. i'm a boy. he just keep be honest man did because he turned out to be a better witness for me there for them. tracy won her lawsuit.

management ever. how have they expect you to give up? don't 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 whole put 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,

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