Due to the scheduled HCES system outage running from Saturday 2/17/18 - 5 AM through Tuesday 2/20/18 - 6 AM, rural carrier postings closing on the dates listed below will be extended to close the appropriate number of affected days after the system comes back up on 2/20/2018. Closing date:  ...

Rural Carrier Becky Illgen was recently delivering mail in Cottage Grove, WI, when she spotted a little girl who was clearly confused and scared. Illgen stopped and offered to help the child — a third-grader who had gotten off at the wrong bus stop and had no idea where she ...

On Monday, February 12, the Administration released details to their FY2019 Budget Proposal, titled “Efficient, Effective, Accountable: An America Budget”. The proposed budget is a $4.4 trillion budget that sets forth the Administration’s priorities as Congress begins to prepare spending legislation for the next fiscal year. This is the first ...

Rural Carrier Tab Eigenbrodt was making deliveries recently in East Chatham, NY, when he noticed mail was piling up in the box of a longtime customer who always emptied it daily. Eigenbrodt alerted a neighbor, who checked on the woman and found her collapsed in her home. The woman, who ...

The first time Humboldt, IA, Rural Carrier Associate Kathy Lucero saw a Postal Service customer walking a new puppy one day recently, everything was fine. But when they later crossed paths again on Lucero’s route, a crisis erupted. Two stray pit bulls bolted toward the woman and attacked her puppy, ...

Brinson bid adieu to Dennis Foulk, its rural mail carrier of 37 years, last Thursday. Foulk first started working for the U.S.P.S. as a substitute carrier in November of 1980, under Post Master Louise Scott.  He was promoted to regular carrier in August of 1984. Foulk spent his entire postal ...

JJ: Joey Johnson JD: Jeanette Dwyer SB: Shirley Baffa RS: Ronnie Stutts Q: IF VOLUME DISAPPEARS DURING MAIL COUNT DOES THE UNION HAVE A PLAN? JD: ONLY IF WE CAN PROVE THEY DID IT DELIBERATELY Q: When we receive oversize parcels how do we handle team lift ? JD: you ...

The body of missing Snohomish man Henry Groenveld was found on January 30th around 10 a.m. in the lower Snohomish River at Dagmar's Landing in Everett, WA. A citizen saw the body floating in the river and called police. Although the name hasn't officially been released as Henry, his daughter ...

Rural Carrier Amber Kohn was delivering mail recently in Herrin, IL, when a car in front of her began weaving on the road. Kohn saw the driver slump forward as the car slowed and rolled toward a culvert. The Postal Service employee pulled over, ran to the car and safely ...

Clearfield, UT, Rural Carrier Associate Tait Francis was recently delivering mail when he spotted smoke and flames billowing from the attic of a nearby home. Francis rushed to the front door and pounded on it until a resident answered, unaware of the calamity. While the Postal Service employee called 911, ...

PURCELLVILLE, Va. (ABC7) — A lucky man in Loudoun County has the feeling of being one in a million Thursday. Or more precisely, one in 1,305,600, the odds of winning the top prize in the Virginia Lottery’s Hot Millions Multiplier game. Bill Malsch, a mail carrier who lives in Purcellville, ...

A Union woman and postal service employee was hurt when the mail truck she was driving slid off the roadway and struck a utility pole Monday, Jan. 15. According to a Missouri State Highway patrol preliminary report Susan Luedde, 50, Union, was driving a 1990 USPS truck on Crider Road, ...

Jacksboro, TN, Rural Carrier Associate Jacqueline Shoupe was delivering mail recently when she noticed something amiss at a disabled customer’s home. The front curtain was torn down and the woman was waving frantically, trying to get Shoupe’s attention. Upon closer inspection, the Postal Service employee saw the customer’s caregiver lying ...

The Postal Service has a message for employees: There’s new revenue to be found everywhere — even rural areas. Through its Rural Reach program, USPS encourages rural carriers to help identify new sales opportunities for the organization. Here’s what you should know: • Rural Reach targets small-business customers. The program leverages ...

“I thought about working until Feb. 1 and then retiring. That would have given me a full 45 years working for the postal service. But I decided I really didn’t want to haul over the Christmas holidays. That’s one of our busiest times of the year. So I retired on ...

A Cookeville woman lost her life in a single vehicle accident early Saturday afternoon. Deborah M. Spriggs, 58, of Cookeville, was declared dead at the scene. According to a report filed by the Tennessee Highway Patrol, Spriggs was traveling southbound on Hwy. 96 in a 2002 Nissan Altima around 12:15 ...

Rural Carrier Vicky Hunter was the first person on the scene following a recent single-vehicle accident in Ashford, AL. Hunter was on her way to work when she saw that a car had crashed into a deep ditch alongside the road. The Postal Service employee called 911 and stayed with ...