The NRLCA and USPS have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) agreeing that for leave year 2024, regular work force career employees covered by the USPS-NRLCA Agreement may carry over 520 hours of accumulated annual leave from leave year 2023 to leave year 2024. In all other respects, the ELM ...

On April 21, during one of the season's last winter storms, Ken Anderson was out working his final day of carrying mail before retiring. During his route, he hit slush on the road, rolled his jeep into the ditch and was ejected. He was alive long enough to call 911, ...

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784 routes have had their RRECS evaluation prematurely uploaded for pay period 10. USPS HQ is aware, and the offices were told to take extraordinary measures to ensure that these carriers would receive a paycheck this Friday. It will not be your correct salary, but you will receive a check ...

Rural Carrier Kellie Vail noticed a customer on her route in Olathe, KS, hadn’t picked up his mail in several days. The postal employee grew concerned and decided to knock on the door. The customer responded that he had fallen down his stairs three days prior. Vail contacted emergency services ...

Rural Carrier Eugene Petrucci was delivering on his route in Furlong, PA, when he noticed flames coming from a customer’s garage. While it was clear there was no one home, the postal employee was familiar with the family and knew they had three dogs. He parked his vehicle and ran ...

ATTENTION RURAL CARRIERS: NEW ROUTE EVALUATIONS GO INTO EFFECT MAY 6 ...

The senators -- Democrats Ron Wyden Elizabeth Warren, Sherrod Brown, Ed Markey and John Fetterman and independent Bernie Sanders -- in a letter to U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said the automated Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System should not be used "until the system’s serious flaws are rectified." ...

The NRLCA, National Postal Mail Handlers Union, and National Association of Letter Carriers filed a joint amicus brief with the Supreme Court arguing that the Court should not overrule Hardison and that burdens on co-workers can satisfy the “undue burden” test. The NRLCA also argued that it would be an “undue burden” if the Postal ...

The NRLCA has been working with the Postal Service, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and the other postal unions and postal stakeholders to help answer frequently asked questions that members may have.  The new PSHB will continue to be administered by OPM, and coverage for rural letter carriers and ...

1. Approach your immediate supervisor with the problem and try to resolve the issue through a discussion. You must discuss the issue. Your local steward may accompany you. 2. If no resolution, ask management for a PS Form 8191 (Joint Grievance Form) ...

Rural Carrier Jennifer Winfrey was recently on duty in Minden, LA, when she heard an older customer yelling for help. Winfrey rushed to aid the woman, who had fallen inside her home and sustained multiple lacerations. The Postal Service employee immediately called the customer’s son, at her request, and rendered ...

The Postal Service is delaying the implementation of a new pay system that would currently lead to many rural carriers seeing significant pay cuts. The National Rural Letter Carriers Association announced last Friday it reached an agreement with USPS to postpone the new pay system, the Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System ...

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While of course, I am no longer in the game, I still care what happens to the rural craft and I haven't been out long enough to not know what's happening. I understand there are those who went up that want their money NOW.   I fully understand that.  The problem ...

The Postal Service is reminding employees that all PostalEASE functions previously disabled, have been reactivated in LiteBlue to include changing your elections for net-to-bank and allotments ...

After a new evaluation system is implemented, some workers could lose $8,000 per year or more. Threats to quit have been widespread ...