RALEIGH, N.C. -- Irene Tillman of Goldston has been the mail-woman for Route 24 in Chatham County for over 10 years. So when the number "24" turned out to be the lucky number on a scratch-off ticket that won her $1 million, she simply described it as fate. "When I ...

A van pulled into the path of a mail truck in Harbeson, injuring a mail carrier who was airlifted to a hospital in serious condition, according to Delaware State Police. The accident happened about 11:30 a.m. Thursday, March 9, snarling traffic for about two hours in the vicinity of Harbeson ...

Rural Carrier Kathy Bullard was delivering mail recently in Amherst, TX, when she encountered a customer who was alone and disoriented. Not wanting to leave the man by himself, Bullard contacted a neighbor who knew the man’s family and was able to reach one of his children. The postal employee ...

Rural Carrier Associate Luke Geist recently noticed that a co-worker at the Holton, KS, Post Office didn’t look well. When the man leaned on a cart to steady himself, Geist approached him and asked if he was okay. “No,” he replied, before going limp. Geist caught him before he hit ...

The Coldspring rural mail carrier who was murdered in May 2013 while delivering mail now has a post office named in her memory. On Friday morning, March 3, around 250 people, including the family and friends of Eddie Marie Youngblood, her former coworkers and delegation from the National Rural Letter ...

The Coldspring post office will be renamed Friday in honor of slain postal carrier Eddie “Marie” Youngblood, who was shot and killed on May 17, 2013, while delivering mail on her rural route in Coldspring. The renaming ceremony will take place at 9 a.m. Friday on the grounds of the ...

Submitted by attendee - Thanks for sharing. You know who you are ;) Work Place Environment - Harassment The first seminar was Saturday evening from 6:30-9:30 pm. It was given by Joey Johnson, Director of Labor Relations, NRLCA, and David Heather, Director of Steward Operations, NRLCA. This seminar focused on ...

This case involved management utilizing a rural carrier associate (RCA) to coordinate work with the delivery of Amazon parcels on Sundays. The parties agree that Article 25 allows only regular rural carriers to be detailed to higher level assignments. The parties further agree that RCAs are not eligible to perform ...

Customers in Rochelle, GA, are mourning the recent loss of Roger Burnette, a longtime rural carrier who performed a heroic act shortly before his death. Burnette was delivering mail to a residence where a customer normally greeted him at the mail box. Instead, he found the woman sprawled out on ...

SPRING BRANCH, Texas – A mail carrier was shot while on her route Saturday morning in Spring Branch, a U.S. Postal Service inspector said. Inspector Michael Martinez said the woman, who is a rural carrier and uses a private vehicle, was shot near Spring Branch and River Way roads about ...

Port Charlotte, FL, Rural Carrier Associate Theresa Nemeth knew a customer well enough to be sure that he wouldn’t have let his mail pile up recently, and that he wouldn’t have gone out of town without requesting hold or forward service. When she shared her concern with a maintenance worker ...

As Rural Carrier Michael Thomas recently approached a mailbox in Leland, MS, he could see a bicycle lying nearby in the grass. But when he got closer, there was more: a 72-year-old customer who’d fallen off the bike and couldn’t get up, and her 2-year-old grandson trying to help her ...

Rural Carrier Associate Debra Feist was delivering mail recently in White Cloud, MI, when she heard a customer call out for help. She found the woman stranded inside her home, unable to get up after a fall. Feist helped her into a chair and called the local Postmaster. Emergency responders ...

Clever, Missouri lost a carrier yesterday. Michael Crane has been a rural carrier in Clever (DUO Republic, Missouri 2012) for over 25 years ...

Cedaredge, CO, Rural Carrier Patsy Arnold was delivering mail recently when she noticed an occupied car alongside the road. She stopped to offer assistance and found that the driver was the son of a co-worker and was on his way to a hospital because he was suffering an allergic reaction ...

While delivering mail recently in Lincoln, NE, Rural Carrier James Farnstrom noticed a familiar customer wandering around who appeared to be disoriented. Concerned that she may have been dehydrated, he gave her a bottle of water and struck up a conversation. Customer Services Supervisor Sharon Smock was conducting a driver ...

Rural Carrier Christopher Meskan was outside the Waterville, MN, Post Office recently loading mail for delivery when he saw a girl around the age of 3 wandering nearby. Seeing no sign of an adult and aware of hazards such as an adjacent bay, Meskan took the girl inside and police ...