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The National Office has been receiving an alarming number of reports from the field about rural letter carriers being forced to deliver mail well into the evening hours – on some occasions even after midnight. Not surprisingly, these nighttime deliveries have resulted in dangerous conditions and “close calls”, including instances of frightened customers who confront … Read more
This special contract edition of the magazine represents the complete, current National Agreement between the USPS and the NRLCA. It supersedes the provisions of the 2010 USPS-NRLCA National Agreement. This Agreement (referred to as the USPS-NRLCA 2015 National Agreement) is entered into as of April 25, 2016, by and between the United States Postal Service … Read more
Earlier this year, the NRLCA and NALC filed a series of unfair labor practice (“ULP”) charges against the Postal Service in response to anti-union conduct committed by managers in a number of Houston District post offices, including Katy and Humble, Texas. Supervisors in those offices attempted to discourage rural carriers and stewards from using the … Read more
A Ruralinfo.net editorial A couple of years ago, Amazon had an epiphany. They decided they could start their own delivery service to cut out the middle man. (i.e. UPS, Fedex, USPS) So they went full steam ahead and started hiring people off the street to deliver their parcels. It started first in the big cities, but … Read more
The 2016 National Convention Proceedings issue of the National Rural Letter Carrier magazine has been posted in the “Magazine” section of the website under “Current Issue”. CLICK HERE to be directed to the magazine.
This was a rural carrier from Cleburne TX A Sunday head-on collision near the intersection of Texas 174 and Highland Road near Rio Vista resulted in the death of one driver. Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and Rio Vista firefighters responded to the scene at about 8:06 a.m. The driver of a Dodge pickup, … Read more
On Tuesday, September 20, 2016, U.S. Representative Kevin Brady honored rural letter carrier, Eddie Marie Youngblood on the floor of the U.S. House. The House passed Brady’s bill to name the Coldspring Post Office for her.
Another sad day. We have lost another rural carrier on the job. Dawn Marie Price died in an accident on her route on September 19th, 2016. She left behind a husband and 5 children. Please consider donating to help with funeral expenses if you can. Sending thoughts of love and peace to this family and coworkers. … Read more
This case involves proper procedures for counting mail at the facility where the carrier cases mail. The creation of Remotely Managed Post Offices (RMPO’s) has created issues where mail is being counted at the main office and transported to the RMPO. The parties agree that when mail is counted at the main post office and … Read more
This case involved how mail is presented to a route when the rout does not receive withdraw allowance. The mail in this case was being presented to the carrier in APC and the carrier was required to withdraw the mail directly from the APC. The parties agree that Section 352.11 and 352.12 of Handbook M-38, … Read more