NRLCA and USPS Sign MOU Concerning Annual Leave Carryover for Leave Year 2021
The NRLCA and USPS have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) agreeing that for leave year 2021, regular work force career employees covered by the USPS-NRLCA Agreement may carry over 520 hours of accumulated annual leave from leave year 2020 to leave year 2021. In all other respects, the ELM ...
Regular Carriers Working Monday, September 7, 2020
There is NO agreement between the NRLCA and USPS pertaining to regular rural carriers volunteering or being required to work on the upcoming holiday, Monday, September 7, 2020. There is no proper contractual method to compensate regular carriers for working their own route or any other route or providing any ...
Teen stuck outside gets clothes, more from rural carrier
Rural Carrier Patricia Stephens was delivering mail one day last winter in Lake George, NY, when a 13-year-old girl approached her for help. The barefoot teen — clothed only in shorts and a T-shirt in temperatures below freezing — was home alone and had locked herself out of her house ...
Families First Coronavirus Response Act Leave – Understanding How Leave Impacts Retirement and TSP Deduction
The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) provided employees with two additional types of leave: Emergency Paid Sick Leave, and Expanded Family and Medical Leave for child care needs. This leave benefit became effective April 1, 2020, and continues through December 31, 2020. Since the introduction of the new leave ...
Mandatory Stand-Up Talk: Face Covering and Mask Update
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), the Postal Service has continued to fulfill its critical mission to bind the nation together. Our employees are working hard to ensure we are there for our customers every day, serving as a lifeline for millions of people. To help ensure your safety and wellness, ...
NRLCA Endorses House Bill to Preserve USPS Services
The NRLCA is pleased to announce its support for the Delivering for America Act introduced by House Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) which the House will consider on Saturday, August 22. The bill text broadly states that “the United States Postal Service may not implement or ...
NRLCA: Upcoming Congressional Hearings on the USPS
The House and Senate are set to hold separate hearings covering Postal Service operations on Friday and Monday. Below are details pertaining to each hearing. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Examining the Finances and Operations of the United States Postal Service During COVID-19 and Upcoming Elections Full ...
Employee responds to customer’s signs of stroke
Rural Carrier Lisa Moule was recently making a Priority Mail Express delivery in Medina, NY, when she grew worried about the recipient. The customer — an older woman Moule had spoken to regularly for years — seemed disoriented and couldn’t remember her own name. Moule immediately called 911 and stayed ...
Customer overwhelmed with gratitude for employee’s help
Columbus, OH, Rural Carrier Jodie Craft was delivering mail one day last fall in nearby Galloway when she spotted a customer, James Mentel, who’d fallen in his driveway while raking and blowing leaves. Craft rushed to check on Mentel, who had been stranded for over an hour. The Postal Service ...
Rural Carrier praised for saving customer’s life
Rural Carrier Jennifer Shumway was recently making deliveries in a Sarasota, FL, housing development when she grew worried about a customer whose mail was piling up. Shumway knocked on the woman’s front door and got no answer, so she alerted a property manager, who called 911. Emergency responders discovered that ...
Response from NRLCA leadership to some questions asked RRECS and parcels
1) Carrier's submitted pictures of their route/ride/PO flooded with packages. 2) The pictures were compiled into calendars. 3) I sent the calendars, along with a letter and my contact info, to the NRLCA officers and the PMG. 4) I'm all out of calendars, but if any stragglers want one, I'll ...
RCA provides help at accident scene
Two postal employees in the Garden State provided assistance on the scene of a two-vehicle accident last December involving a USPS highway contract route driver. Rosenhayn, NJ, Retail Associate Hope Crumb was on her way home from work when she witnessed the accident. She stopped, called 911 and rendered aid ...
Rural Carrier aids terminally ill customer who fell
Rural Carrier Associate Jessica Duez was delivering a package one day last summer to a Gibsonburg, OH, customer she saw standing outside near his garage. As Duez approached the man, he collapsed and struck his head on the driveway. The Postal Service employee rushed to check on the customer, who ...
NRLCA issues guidance for rural carriers concerning Expedited to Street/Afternoon Sortation (ESAS)
The documents linked below went to the field last week. The postal service is testing their new program called Expedited to Street/Afternoon Sortation (ESAS). The stated purpose of this test is to determine if the current Expedited Preferential Mail (EPM) Delivery Program can be enhanced to assist in reducing the ...
Rural Carrier rescues customer stranded outside
Jeffersonville, GA, Rural Carrier John Newby was delivering mail one day last December when he heard someone yelling for help. Newby soon spotted a customer who had been stranded for two hours on a second-floor balcony at her home. The woman, who had accidentally locked herself out while hanging holiday ...
Rural carrier helps customer save son’s life
Rural Carrier Janet Medlin was recently delivering mail to a residence in Leola, AR, when she heard a customer yelling for help. Medlin immediately called 911 and rushed to assist the woman, who was struggling to free her adult son from a tire swing where he had attempted to harm ...