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Rural Carriers Rally on Capitol Hill March 25 to Defend the U.S. Postal Service from Recent Threats of Privatization

September 1, 2025March 21, 2025

On Tuesday, March 25, 2025, from noon to 1:00 PM, members of the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association (NRLCA) will rally on Capitol Hill to launch a national campaign to Protect the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from privatization. Over 100 rural letter carriers from across the country, in solidarity with members from the American Postal Workers Union … Read more

USPS is enhancing service standards

September 1, 2025March 20, 2025

The Postal Service is implementing refinements to service standards and has launched new online tools and a fact sheet to help customers prepare for the changes. These adjustments will affect First-Class Mail, Periodicals, Marketing Mail, Package Services (including Bound Printed Matter, Media Mail and Library Mail), USPS Ground Advantage, Priority Mail and Priority Mail Express. … Read more

USPS unions to hold nationwide rallies this week

September 1, 2025March 19, 2025

Both the APWU and NALC will hold rallies this week to protest postal privatization. On Thursday, March 20, the APWU will hold “U.S Mail is Not For Sale!” rallies across the country “to ensure our postal service stays in the hands of the people, not the billionaires.” A map of the locations of the rallies … Read more

The rural carrier called the woman’s family to alert them to her condition

September 1, 2025March 17, 2025

Rural Carrier Lee Ann Austin was recently delivering mail in Manila, AR, when she saw a customer who had fallen outside her home. The woman, who runs an antiques store next to the house, had taken a tumble while she was picking up trash that had blown into the road. The customer had a laceration … Read more

Watch This Postal Worker Really ‘Deliver’ on His ‘American Idol’ Audition

September 1, 2025March 17, 2025

Post office employee Brajawn Upshaw had to check his nerves at the door when he auditions for Luke Bryan, Lionel Richie and Carrie Underwood on this Sunday’s American Idol. The 21-year-old from Temple, GA, who has worked at the post office for three years, didn’t have the chutzpah to sign himself up to audition. So his mom Tasha did it for him without him knowing, … Read more

Rural Carrier shot during carjacking describes painful recovery at attacker’s sentencing

September 1, 2025March 14, 2025

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — A federal judge in U.S. District Court sentenced Jaden Garay to 24 years and restitution of $640,582 owed to victim Teresa Ramsay, who was the U.S. postal carrier shot in the face nearly two years ago. “The bullet literally came within a hair’s breath of my carotid” said Ramsay standing outside the … Read more

PMG Dejoy’s letter to congressional leaders informing them of the USPS/DOGE agreement

September 1, 2025March 14, 2025

Over the past four years, the Postal Service has engaged in transforming from a battered government bureaucracy with substantial financial losses destined for collapse, to an organization that is aspiring and engaging in practices that will enable us to provide high quality service to the nation for decades to come and to have a financially … Read more

Postal unions respond to USPS/DOGE agreement

September 1, 2025March 14, 2025

The mailing agency will work with GSA and the group led by Elon Musk, who has called for Postal Service privatization.

Statement from NRLCA President Don Maston on PMG Louis DeJoy’s Letter to Congressional Leaders Regarding the USPS MOU with the GSA and DOGE

September 1, 2025March 14, 2025

National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association March 14, 2025 For Immediate Release Statement from National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association President Don Maston on Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s Letter to Congressional Leaders Regarding the USPS MOU with the Trump Administration’s GSA and DOGE Agencies The National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association (NRLCA) is analyzing the March 13, 2025 letter from … Read more

U.S. Postal Service will cut workforce by 10,000 after signing deal with Elon Musk’s DOGE

September 1, 2025March 13, 2025

DeJoy said the agreement with DOGE and the General Services Administration will allow the government reform team to “assist us in identifying and achieving further efficiencies…. The DOGE team was gracious enough to ask for big problems they can help us with.” DeJoy cited a number of issues including mismanagement of retirement assets and its … Read more