Step 4 Settlement on Carriers Right to Take Parcels and Odd-Size Pieces to Your Case to Sort and Mark Your Case
These cases involve management not allowing carriers to sequence or mark parcels in the office if they will not make their leaving time for the route or if they would work over 10 hours for the day on their route. The parties agree that section 223.23 of the PO-603 allows ...
Engineering Panel Update: Comments Have Now Been Submitted by the Parties
Pursuant to the July 3, 2012 MOU on the Evaluated Compensation System Time Standards Project, the NRLCA and the Postal Service have an opportunity to evaluate and comment on the Industrial Engineering Panel’s Final Report on the Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System (“RRECS”), which it issued on October 31, 2017 ...
Husband of southern Indiana postal worker who drowned delivering mail says her death was preventable
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ind. (WDRB) -- Officials in southern Indiana now confirm an accidental drowning killed a postal worker delivering mail in Madison. Teelah Kappeler, 31 died Saturday. Her husband, Mark Kappeler, said her car was found upside down, flipped on its top in a creek off Little Brushy Fork Road ...
Rural Carrier celebrated for 55 years of post office service in Martinton, IL
John Moore, of Martinton, hasn't stopped working in 55 years at the Martinton Post Office on West Main Street — not even during the surprise gathering to celebrate his years of service, this past Friday morning. Moore, 75, started his Friday morning, unsuspecting as always, by arriving to work at ...
Rural Carrier Hero: Mary Blair, New Bethlehem, PA
Rural Carrier Mary Blair was recently delivering mail in New Bethlehem, PA, when she spotted a single-car accident. Blair stopped to assist the lone victim, a 21-year-old woman who was crawling out of the overturned vehicle and bleeding. The Postal Service employee called 911 and urged the woman — who ...
Family, friends grieve USPS worker killed on mail route Saturday
JEFFERSON COUNTY, IN (WAVE) - Family and friends are mourning a postal worker who died when her car went off the road Saturday night. The Jefferson County Sheriff's Department identified her as 31-year-old Teelah Kappeler of Hanover, Indiana. Her car was found overturned in a creek along her postal route off East Little Brushy ...
Police say missing southern Indiana postal worker (RCA) found dead in her vehicle
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Police in Jefferson County, Indiana, say a missing postal worker has been found dead. This is according to a post made Monday morning on the Jefferson County, Indiana Sheriff’s Department Facebook page. Police say a search began Saturday night for 31-year-old Hanover resident Teelah Kappeler after ...
Rural Carrier Hero: Deborah Amsbaugh, Polk City, IA
Rural Carrier Deborah Amsbaugh recently responded to a life-threatening emergency while delivering mail in Polk City, IA. She was at a home’s curbside mailbox when a teenager burst out of the garage, screaming for help. Amsbaugh soon learned that the boy had come home from school unexpectedly and discovered his ...
Rural Route Bidding System to Be Shut down from 2/17/18 Thru 2/20/18
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 Hero: Becky Illgen, Cottage Grove, WI
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 ...
NRLCA: Administration Releases FY 2019 Budget Proposal
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 Hero: Tab Eigenbrodt, East Chatham, NY
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 ...
Rural Carrier Hero: Kathy Lucero, Humboldt, IA
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 rural mail carrier retires after nearly four decades
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 ...
Notes from the Q and A session at SAC
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 ...
Body of missing Snohomish rural carrier found
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 Hero: Amber Kohn, Herrin, IL
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 ...