An alert Postal Service employee recently saved three children and their grandmother from a fire that threatened a McKinney, TX, home. Rural Carrier Associate Jeffrey Jones was delivering a parcel when he spotted flames spreading quickly in the bushes in front of the residence. Jones could see the kids inside, ...

Updates from various sources - Let's all thank them for giving us the information. Engineer Study Panel chair recommends everything turned over by October 31st, 2017.  Parties evaluate and comment by November 30th, 2017.   Chair issues final determination by February 28th, 2018 PMG Brennan PMG was present and spontaneously ...

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Elizabeth Terrebonne A Postal Service employee in Papillion, NE, recently came to the aid of an 85-year-old customer who’d fallen out of his wheelchair. Rural Carrier Elizabeth Terrebonne was delivering mail in the man’s neighborhood when she saw that he’d taken a spill in his driveway. She rushed over to ...

This case involves management requiring a carrier to dismount and go into a business that participates in the Ship from Store program and is required to scan a barcode, without calling the delivery point an official dismount. The parties agree that in those instances when a business participates in the ...

Eun Bu "Euni" Kim, 60, passed away on Sunday, August 13, 2017 in Bluffton. Euni is survived by her loving husband of 40 years, Chong Se, her son and daughter-in-law, Raymond and Megan, her two grand-daughters, Sophie and Sarah, and her two canine companions, Hana and Azura. She enjoyed over ...

In Dillwyn, VA, Rural Carrier Lois Shumaker checked on a 95-year-old customer whose mail was piling up. When the woman answered the door, she was distraught, complaining of chest pains and other symptoms. Shumaker calmed the customer, called 911 and the woman’s daughter, and stayed with her until emergency responders ...

A Postal Service employee in Center, TX, recently helped a 4-year-old girl who was stranded alone at a bus stop on a rainy day. Rural Carrier Associate Jakyric Driver was delivering mail when he saw the girl, who was expecting to go to a relative’s house after school but found ...

The NRLCA signs Letter of Mutual Understanding to address outstanding compensation issues for rural carriers while conducting the test of “Service Performance Measurement” (SPM). This letter also addresses the retroactive compensation for SPMs for the period of September 3, 2016 through September 1, 2017. If you have any questions related ...

This case involved management refusing to consolidate a 21-hour auxiliary route into two “J” routes and one “H” route following a mail count to create two “K” route assignments for a PTF. The parties agree if the number of “K” routes decreases in the office, and the office no longer ...

This case involves management requiring rural carriers to take a 30 minute lunch break after 6 hours of work even if the carrier did not want to take a lunch break. The parties agree that rural carriers at their option may take a lunch break, provided the time does not ...

Rural Carrier Darryl Plowman was delivering mail recently in Duncansville, PA, when he noticed a car blocking a mailbox he needed to access. As he pulled over to investigate, Plowman realized that the vehicle in question was running, and he soon saw that the driver was slumped over. Finding the ...

Residents of a Sandpoint, ID, neighborhood were grateful that Rural Carrier Associate Heather Solce spotted a house fire while delivering mail and called 911.Although firefighters couldn’t save the structure, which was unoccupied at the time, “the neighbors praised Heather for a quick response that prevented damage to other homes,” said ...

On June 2, Brenda Schaefer, former treasurer of National Rural Letter Carriers Association Local 39, was charged in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan in a one-count information with willful failure to maintain records of the Chesterfield Township (Macomb County) union. The charge follows an investigation by ...

On July 18, the NRLCA filed a Step 4 grievance concerning the Postal Service’s increased use of lengthy “tests” involving new delivery services and other rural carrier functions on rural routes. Despite repeated efforts to determine the Postal Service’s position on the appropriate duration of such tests without building any ...

Rural Carrier Stacy Chamberlain was delivering mail recently in Gays Mills, WI, when he spotted an older customer who’d fallen down an embankment near her home. He pulled over and rushed to help the woman. He was joined by her son, who came running from the family’s barn when he ...

An older Postal Service customer in Joplin, MO, who had recently returned home after being hospitalized told his companion he would be OK by himself while she ran an errand. Yet that was not the case for the ailing man, who fell in the garage, losing his cane and glasses ...