Rural Carrier Sherry Ingold’s killer found not guilty due to insanity
Much to the disappointment and anger of the family and friends of Sherry Ingold, her killer, Roland Mitchell Dampeer, has been found not guilty by reason of insanity following a 40-minute non-jury criminal trial in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Mississippi. The trial was held in an Oxford, ...
Update on Rural Carrier Pay Schedules and Back Pay
The National Office has received numerous calls and messages regarding the status of rural carrier salary schedules and back pay. The USPS is required to calculate and pay the retroactive salaries as soon as administratively possible. However, due to the complexities of the rural carrier salary structure, programming the payroll system ...
Rural carrier comforts customer after her collapse
Jaiquan Williams, a rural carrier associate in Newtown, CT, was recently making deliveries when a crisis occurred: He saw a customer collapse. While 911 was called, Williams rushed to the woman’s aid, comforting her until emergency responders arrived. The customer recovered from the incident ...
MDD Update for RRECS CARRIERPU
The document below outlines the recent MDD update (version 7.53) which allows carriers to enter Zero parcels picked up at a Carrier Pickup Request location and also to enter a CARRIERPU when none of the parcels collected has a barcode ...
Carrier rightly worries about customer’s full mailbox
Rural Carrier Brittany Siler was recently delivering mail in Peru, IN, when she grew concerned about a customer whose mail was piling up. Siler alerted a neighbor, who arranged for someone to check on the woman. The customer was found stranded in her bathtub, where she’d fallen two days earlier ...
Updated Rural Carrier Salary Charts Released
The salary schedules below reflect a retroactive $1,935 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) effective August 28, 2021, a retroactive 1.3% General Wage Increase (GWI) effective November 20, 2021, and a $1,311 COLA effective February 26, 2022. The PTF hourly rates reflect the recalculation due to the additional Juneteenth holiday. Note: Leave replacements ...
RRECS DATA COLLECTION DELAYED: NRLCA AND USPS SIGN RRECS IMPLEMENTATION MOU
This morning, NRLCA President Ronnie Stutts signed an MOU with the USPS establishing the final timeline for implementation of the Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System. The MOU establishes that data collection for the new RRECS Activity Scans, introduced on February 26, 2022, will be delayed until April 23, 2022 ...
NRLCA and USPS Sign MOU Concerning Annual Leave Carryover for Leave Year 2023
The NRLCA and USPS have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) agreeing that for leave year 2023, regular work force career employees covered by the USPS-NRLCA Agreement may carry over 520 hours of accumulated annual leave from leave year 2022 to leave year 2023 ...
Liberal Changes of Schedule and Leave MOU Extended
The March 23, 2020 MOU which temporarily expanded the use of Sick Leave for Dependent Care and implemented a liberal leave policy has been extended through May 6, 2022 ...
NRLCA and USPS Agree to Extend COVID-19 MOUs Through May 6, 2022
The National Rural Letter Carriers' Association and United States Postal Service have mutually agreed to extend the Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) linked below through May 6, 2022 Temporary Expanded Sick Leave for Dependent Care During COVID-19 Temporary Workplace Changes to Promote Social Distancing - COVID-19 Temporary Paid Leave for Rural ...
USPS Self-Service Profile (SSP) Passwords Need to Be Reset as of April 24, 2022
The Postal Service is revising the information security policies related to the employees' password criteria for their Self-Service Profile (SSP). The self-service password created in SSP is used to access a range of resources, including LiteBlue, Postal Ease, ePayroll, eRetire, eOPF, eReassign, ldeaSmart (external), and HERO (external). Strong and unique ...
Rural carrier keeps troublesome toddler safe
Rural Carrier Wendy Pollard was recently delivering mail in a Comstock Park, MI, subdivision when a little boy startled her. She had stopped at a mailbox when the 3-year-old ran toward her vehicle, climbed through the driver’s window, tumbled into her lap and grabbed the steering wheel, refusing to let ...
MOU Allowing Regular Rural Carriers to Volunteer to Work on Sundays or Provide Assistance on other Rural Routes to Expire March 25, 2022
The NRLCA has been notified that the U.S. Postal Service was not willing to extend the below MOU, which allows regular rural carriers to volunteer to work on Sunday and also volunteer to provide assistance on other regular routes in the office. This MOU therefore will expire on Friday, March 25th, 2022. The NRLCA ...
2021-2024 NRLCA-USPS Tentative National Agreement Has Been Ratified
Pursuant to Article XI, Section 4 of the NRLCA Constitution, the Ratification Committee has completed the tabulation of ballots and reports that the 2021-2024 NRLCA-USPS Tentative National Agreement has been ratified by a vote of 15,431 to 6,126, or 72 percent voting in favor of ratification. A more detailed report from the ...
Rural Carrier rescues customer stranded in garden
Rural Carrier Associate Karrie McCullouch was recently making deliveries in Croghan, NY, when she noticed an unfamiliar dog outside a residence. She then heard someone yelling in the distance and thought it may have been the animal’s owner calling it home. However, as McCullouch started to drive off, she saw ...