Texas RCA drowns after Jeep slides into creek

Livingston, TX: A sad day for the local post office.  Mail carrier Dake Goodwin dies on the job.     If anyone would like to send condolences, you can do so in care of the Livingston, Texas Post office: Dake Goodwin family c/o Livingston TX Post office Livingston Tx 77351

Highlights of the 2016 NRLCA National Convention

Location: Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Nashville, Tennessee Here is what I know that happened at the convention The 2015-2018 contract hard copy should be available by the end of September The engineer study is in a scale up phase and they anticipate there might be some problems with that because there are factors … Read more

Amazon Fresh “Customized Delivery” information for rural carriers

Re: Amazon Fresh “Customized Delivery” The NRLCA is aware that the Postal Service is expanding the Amazon Fresh test which is also known as “Customized Delivery”. The parties have discussed this process of rural carriers delivering groceries and the work functions around that. The parties have agreed at this time, ONLY Leave Replacements will deliver … Read more

Brief update on the Rural Carrier engineer study

The engineers have turned their attention to the three follow-up activities. Activities will continue over the next several months. Engineering panel will be completing work on the amount of personal fatigue and delay allowance time to be included in the standards. Work on the engineered standards is near completion Most of the data to calculate … Read more

Vigil to be held for GA rural carrier killed over weekend

A postal carrier was killed Saturday on Highway 81 near Booger Hill Road in Oxford. Hillary Hicks was thrown from her truck when she was struck from behind when pulling into the road after a delivery. A candlelight vigil is being held for Hicks at the Post Office Annex at 10721 ByPass Road in Covington … Read more

Postal worker (rural carrier) dies following accident Saturday 

COVINGTON, GA — A candlelight vigil was scheduled Wednesday night for the postal worker who died Saturday after her USPS truck was hit by another vehicle. The vigil for Hillary Adair Hicks, 59, of Decatur, a nine-year postal service employee, was set to be held at the Covington Carrier Annex on Covington Bypass Road. According … Read more

Rural Carrier killed in wreck with logging truck in Georgia

UPDATE:  Georgia State Patrol is still investigating what caused the death of a postal employee on Highway 27 at Collard Valley Road on the Cedartown bypass earlier this afternoon. Polk County deputy coroner Marty Robinson said that officials are still investigating how postal employee Gina W. Jackson, 52, of a Cedartown address, was killed today … Read more

Step 4 Settlement on Mail Count Credit for Mail Containerized at the Carrier’s Case

This case involves proper credit for mail containerized at the carrier’s case during a mail count. This case involved firm bundles and non-scanned parcels for a closed school. The parties agree the carrier has the option of handling odd-size articles either with flat mail or separately, regardless of how the piece is credited. Should the … Read more

Neighbors speak out about postal worker (RCA) shot on-duty in rural Nevada

Sheriff’s deputies investigating the shooting death of a U.S. Postal Service worker in rural Nevada say they don’t consider her husband a suspect in what he originally reported was an accident. Lyon County Sheriff Al McNeil has released few details about Tuesday’s death of 26-year-old Johnie Nichole Shadden at her home in Mason Valley, which … Read more