The National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association (NRLCA) membership has ratified a new three-year labor contract with the Postal Service. The contract covers approximately 119,000 employees represented by the union. Highlights of the agreement include annual general wage increases, a reduction in the employer share of health premiums, and the preservation ...

Mena, AR, Rural Carrier Sandy Rummell recently called 911 when she noticed a building burning next to a customer’s house. She also alerted the customer, who safely escaped before firefighters arrived and extinguished the blaze. The customer was grateful for Rummell’s actions. Source: Sandy Rummell, Mena, AR | USPS News ...

Pursuant to Article XI, Section 4 of the NRLCA Constitution, the Ratification Committee has completed the tabulation of ballots and reports that the 2015-2018 NRLCA-USPS Tentative National Agreement has been RATIFIED by a vote of 16,739 to 3,368, or 83 percent voting in favor of ratification. A more detailed report ...

UPDATE:  Georgia State Patrol is still investigating what caused the death of a postal employee on Highway 27 at Collard Valley Road on the Cedartown bypass earlier this afternoon. Polk County deputy coroner Marty Robinson said that officials are still investigating how postal employee Gina W. Jackson, 52, of a ...

TAMARACK, Minn. — For most of us, retirement will come in our 60s. But Aitkin County mail carrier Bill Onstad is anything but your average worker. When asked how many years he’s been a mail carrier, Onstad quickly replies, “Well, that’s what I don’t know. I can’t remember when I ...

Westbrook, MN, Rural Carrier James Patterson recently approached a customer’s door with a package. After knocking, he heard a faint cry for help. Patterson found the customer in the basement. She was in pain after falling and breaking her hip. Patterson called 911 and stayed with the woman until medical ...

Naples, FL, Rural Carrier Toni Staples was leaving work on a recent day when she heard screaming coming from a nearby parking lot. Staples found a woman sitting in the passenger seat of a car that was slowly rolling backward toward six lanes of traffic. Staples jumped into the driver’s ...

The National Board of the NRLCA is pleased to announce the dates and location of the 2020 National Convention. Mark your Calendar! The 116th Annual Convention of the National Rural Letter Carriers' Association will be held in Spokane, Washington at the Spokane Convention Center on August 18-21, 2020. Special room ...

This case involves proper credit for mail containerized at the carrier’s case during a mail count. This case involved firm bundles and non-scanned parcels for a closed school. The parties agree the carrier has the option of handling odd-size articles either with flat mail or separately, regardless of how the ...

Pocatello, ID, Rural Carrier Lesley Greenwell was on her route recently when she spotted a truck engulfed in flames. Greenwell stopped to see if the occupants needed help. They told her they were okay but had no cell phone reception, so Greenwell drove to the nearest house and asked the ...

Sheriff's deputies investigating the shooting death of a U.S. Postal Service worker in rural Nevada say they don't consider her husband a suspect in what he originally reported was an accident. Lyon County Sheriff Al McNeil has released few details about Tuesday's death of 26-year-old Johnie Nichole Shadden at her ...

This case involved management requiring rural carriers during a snow storm to park their vehicle, dismount and deliver by walking to each box on portions of the route. The parties agree that rural carriers are not required to dismount and provide service on foot when roads or entire blocks, or ...

This case involved management assigning rural carriers on limited duty to work in a different office without mileage reimbursement. The parties agree when rural carriers are required to travel to a temporary duty station within a 50-mile radius of their permanent duty station, the carriers are entitled to mileage reimbursement ...

The Latest on the shooting death of a U.S. Postal Service delivery worker in rural northern Nevada (all times local): 4:15 p.m. A sheriff's official says a U.S. Postal Service delivery worker who was killed on the job in northern Nevada was delivering mail to her own home, and her ...

The Lyon County Sheriff's Office reports that 26-year-old Johnie Shadden succumbed to a gunshot wound sustained around 11:30 a.m. on March 22, 2016 in Mason Valley. According to officials, Ms. Shadden was on-duty as a postal worker and had stopped at her home as part of her normal route at ...

On Wednesday, February 10, 2016, announcement of a Tentative Agreement on a three-year contract was posted to the NRLCA website "What's New“ newsfeed. Article XI Section 1 in part requires that at least one ratification meeting shall be held within each State Association. Ratification meetings were scheduled for March 5-6, ...

In the flier distributed this week, the postal worker wrote in part: "During the period of March 12- March 26, 2016, I would really appreciate your help. The USPS "counts" every piece of mail, parcels, etc. that I handle. The purpose of this 2- week sampling is to set my ...