LEXINGTON — Through rain, sleet, hail or snow — and sunshine too — Dick Childress has driven about 613,575 miles delivering mail on a rural route that extends to the Custer County line. His last day was Friday, as he steps into retirement, after 27 years. “My dad delivered this ...

Blair, WI, Rural Carrier Associate Mike Ressel was delivering his route when he spotted a very young girl outside wondering around half-dressed in the cold winter weather. He secured his vehicle and went to speak with the little girl. She was looking for her mother who had left the night ...

New Salisbury, IN, Rural Carrier Tony Sizemore was delivering mail recently when an SUV passed him as he was stopped at a highway mailbox. The SUV collided with another vehicle head-on, flipped over and caught fire. Sizemore and a passerby rescued the driver of the SUV before it became engulfed ...

A recent workday in Richmond, MN, got off to an alarming start when two rural carriers arrived at the Post Office at 6:30 a.m. and found a co-worker collapsed on the floor. Thomas Niehaus and Robert Vossen rushed to her side, and Vossen stayed with her while Niehaus called 911 ...

LeClaire, IA, Rural Carrier Associate Aimee Schultz recently helped a customer out of an unusual bind: The woman had locked herself out of her house while she was outside on a rear balcony. The woman’s dogs were inside the house, so Schultz and the customer devised a plan to distract ...

A controlled burn on a prairie near Bowman, ND, recently got out of control, threatening a postal customer’s home. Rural Carrier Stacey Scott encountered the encroaching blaze as she was delivering mail and got no answer at the front door, so she called the customer’s mobile phone. She learned that ...

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 ...