NRLCA and USPS Agree to Extend COVID-19 Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) Through August 6, 2021
The National Rural Letter Carriers' Association and United States Postal Service have mutually agreed to extend the Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) linked below through August 6, 2021: Temporary Expanded Sick Leave for Dependent Care During COVID-19 Temporary Workplace Changes to Promote Social Distancing - COVID-19 Suspension of Temporary Additional Paid ...
Rural carrier performs CPR on collapsed customer
Rural Carrier Associate Mark Harper II was delivering mail one day last fall in Princeton, WV, when he came upon an older couple experiencing a crisis. During a walk through their neighborhood, the man had collapsed and his wife was sobbing beside him. Harper hurried to their aid and determined ...
Sick customer’s son thanks rural carrier for compassion
Smethport, PA, Rural Carrier Starr Silvis was recently delivering mail to an older customer she checks on regularly when she discovered that he’d fallen inside his home. The man was disoriented, telling Silvis he was in bed, and she immediately called 911 as well as the local Post Office. The ...
USPS and the NRLCA extend negotiations
The Postal Service and the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association (NRLCA) have agreed to extend contract negotiations on a new collective bargaining agreement. Although the contract with the NRLCA expired at midnight on May 20, USPS and the union have mutually decided to extend the negotiations. The NRLCA represents approximately ...
Rural carrier swoops in to lift up distraught customer
Rural Carrier Angela Creighbaum was making deliveries on a chilly, wet day last spring in Burlington, WI, when she encountered an older customer yelling for help. Creighbaum rushed to check on the woman, who had fallen outside her home two hours earlier and couldn’t get up. The Postal Service employee ...
Bleeding customer gets critical aid from rural carrier
Rural Carrier Anthony Alexander was recently making deliveries in Hayden, AL, when he encountered a customer in distress. The man had sliced an artery in his arm while working on a tractor outside his home, and he was struggling to get inside for help. Alexander rushed to his aid and ...
Rural carrier aids little girl upset after tumble
Rural Carrier Sue Christie was recently delivering mail in Crystal, MI, when she spotted a 5-year-old child walking alone in the roadway. Christie stopped to check on the girl, asking her where her parents were. Afraid she was in trouble, the child ran away and fell, scraping her knee and ...
Customer credits rural carrier with saving her life
Waddington, NY, Rural Carrier Associate Patrick Chapman was delivering mail one day last spring in a nearby hamlet, Chase Mills, when he heard a customer yelling for help inside her residence. Chapman rushed to the woman’s door and she directed him to spare keys. Upon opening it, he found that ...
Rural Carrier saves choking co-worker’s life
Rural Carrier Associate Melodie Walters was recently working at her case in a Fort Myers, FL, postal facility when she heard a colleague scream: “She needs help!” Walters, a former nurse, saw that another co-worker nearby was choking. She rushed to the woman’s aid and performed the Heimlich maneuver, dislodging ...
Rural carrier detects gas leak at customer’s home
Rural Carrier Forrest Bailey III was recently delivering mail in Humble, TX, when he smelled a strong odor of leaking gas at a customer’s residence. Bailey immediately called 911, and emergency responders and utility workers soon arrived on the scene. The customer, an 86-year-old woman who wasn’t there at the ...
Highway 35 accident claims the life of rural mail carrier
UPDATE - Authorities have released the identity of a Norfolk woman who was killed in a two-vehicle accident Thursday afternoon. Stanton County Sheriff Mike Unger said that Francine Wolff, 57, of Norfolk was pronounced dead at the scene. UPDATE: Victim identified in fatal Stanton County accident | News | norfolkdailynews.com ...
Rural Carrier aids UPS crash victim
Rural Carrier Penny Clem was delivering mail one day last summer in tiny Broadlands, IL, when she spotted a UPS truck that had overturned on a remote gravel road. Clem immediately stopped to aid the driver, who had crawled out of the vehicle through the shattered windshield. The Postal Service ...
UPDATED: April 29, 2021 – Emergency Federal Employee Leave (EFEL)—Enterprise Resource Management Application Changes
UPDATED: April 29, 2021 - Emergency Federal Employee Leave (EFEL)—Enterprise Resource Management Application Changes The...Posted by National Rural Letter Carriers' Association on Thursday, April 29, 2021 https://www.ruralinfo.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-04-29-EFEL-Officer-Memo-Update-4.pdf ...
UPDATED: – American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)—Emergency Federal Employee Leave (EFEL)
UPDATED: April 14, 2021 - American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)—Emergency Federal Employee Leave (EFEL) The USPS has extended... Posted by National Rural Letter Carriers' Association on Thursday, April 15, 2021 https://www.ruralinfo.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-04-14-EFEL-Officer-Memo-Update-3.pdf ...
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Rural carrier aids customers in moment of crisis
McCrory, AR, with a population of around 1,700, is “a small town where everyone knows everyone,” according to the local Postmaster. It’s no surprise, then, that Rural Carrier Associate Jenifer Taylor got word of an accident at a residence on her route, soon after she’d finished work. Concerned by the ...