about terry is the product to 4000000000 years of evolution in a specific environment. so we, so in that sense, we have a few survivors at the end of a long, long process you. so as in to the springs at yellowstone, we will not do very well. bacteria will do much better. now since the simple story is that the decline of the us postal service coincides with the rise of the internet, an email. 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've 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 at the post service owned, iconic, beautiful building 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 the 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 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 very 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 exclusive contract to the world's largest commercial real estate company, c, b r e. 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 does 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 are mighty measure. this is a rather startling conflict of interest that 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 posted 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 assertive, 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 were 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 chery 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 just dial it it and promise it in the office of national secretary treasurer john g 1200, a

brighter 1009 or 35. 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. oh, 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 couldn't 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 going to say protect now with 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 me desired and not about quality. train workers in 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 who 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 come in 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 in this past winter. it was the polar vortex. it was absolutely

horrendous. we were working for st over time. we're working 60 weeks. we're working 12 and 13 hour days. feel like this. i really thought any more problems working with them for a plan. just wanted to know. you know, well with staying 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. a postal workers know our 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. they opened it. i didn't do anything. what anybody else will? yes, you did here. just make sure i've been to the right time in emergencies and national security situations. are you 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,

[000:00:00;00] ah, what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy foundation. let it be in arms. race is often very dramatic. development only nationally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful,

very difficult time to sit down and talk a oh the wrong one? 0, just don't hold any world. yes, to shave out. disdain becomes the answer to an engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds of horn, we choose to look for common ground. ah, 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 the delivery the way to do it is not to. busy eliminate door to door service is something that we've provided the people all these years. you want to take it like foreign to people. you want to put a box up with a corner. have you mother have to walk a while 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 managed team because we're capable of making the decision off so we could put rear priority. java to perform. desire commitment. that's what we want. you only get it when you make people part of the process. oh, we can definitely run it in my face. and for example, that come from when we ran out,

they said the boys ran on basic. 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, did, did mail get their own time. did 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 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 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, 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,

the postal service didn't crash the economy and field 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 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 usa. 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 payments center. there's communities all across the country that don't even have access to the 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. 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 postal worker. 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 graph food to activism. people getting out there and protecting united states postal service. the letter is so parson, all the emails and the taxing and all that is all in personal 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 calling about some files and gave me that picture. so i love it. i've been born to do this kind of stuff. have doin is way back. been my mom issue hours. i guess you plan for me to be somebody. i got the envelope printed and 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 politician. so different kind of election, some 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 with 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. you take it personally, which i do. it stays with the very negative type away, really it with you get this allergic when you come here without a doubt. i say 30 years, hey, for my life i sent an email to you. i want to drink. i'm here now 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 them, 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 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. 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 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 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 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 and somehow, god gave me the strength to swing by arms. had, 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 achieved 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 on the hold. i did lose my job or he please think you should get me say 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 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. and 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 was his. anyone i got to be honest. i'm a boy. he had to keep be honest man did to delete a witness for me there for them. tracy won her lawsuit. management i'm ever how have they expect you to give up? don't you to give them 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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