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 ...

Winnebago, MN, Rural Carrier Evalynne Hoppe was concerned that a customer’s mail had piled up over several days, and she alerted the local Post Office. Authorities checked on the man, who had died. “Without Evalynne’s vigilance, he would have remained there for an extended period, as he apparently had no ...

Rural Carrier Associate Michelle Taylor detected a fire at a residence in Vincent, OH. She alerted her supervisor, who contacted firefighters, and banged on the front door. Getting no response, Taylor went to the house next door to see if anyone could locate the property owner, who turned out to ...

A very important FYI for anyone that uses their personally owned vehicle to deliver mail. Though an insurance company may tell you that your vehicle is covered please do not rely on it. This person had a commercial policy with Progressive.. Also here is some important info from the USPS ...

Rural Carrier Denise Martel-Bastien pulled into a Londonderry, NH, condominium complex recently when she saw a worrisome sight: a toddler alone in the street — shoeless and sobbing. Martel-Bastien and a concerned resident approached the boy, who managed to tell them only his name, that he was 3 and that ...

Rural Carrier Judith Gagnon recently came to the aid of an older customer in Newmarket, NH, who needed medical assistance. Gagnon was delivering mail when she discovered the man lying in his driveway, apparently knocked unconscious by a fall while he was home alone. The Postal Service employee called 911 ...

Rural Carrier Bryon Ivett was recently delivering mail to a customer’s home in Gowanda, NY, when he saw the man sprawled out in his front yard. Ivett rushed to help him get up, but the man was unable to stand. The Postal Service employee located a piece of cardboard in ...

This is a fairly technical overview and I do not know what some of the acronyms and such stand for, but there is still some good info to be had. Status Overview Development of system is complete - Beta version available Testing of system components is almost completed Bug fxes ...

A New Jersey motorist who recently suffered a seizure at an intersection praised a helpful Postal Service employee as “my guardian angel transformed into a human.” Rural Carrier Tammy Ventura and another passerby who saw the woman in distress were able to access her vehicle and turn off the ignition ...

Adrian Scott’s supervisor was surprised when he asked for a day off recently. Scott, a rural carrier associate at Fairfield Station on Hilton Head Island, SC, usually accepts all available work assignments. He initially didn’t explain why he was unable to work — but as the day approached, he couldn’t ...

Rain, snow, natural disasters -- not much stops the US Postal Service. But a heated incident on Sallie Manigault Lane in McClellanille did stop the delivery of mail in its tracks Tuesday.  Officials with the Awendaw-McClellanville Consolidated Fire District say no one was injured in the fire, and the cause ...

Temperance, MI, Rural Carrier Joan Oehlers was concerned by the sight of two loose dogs running in and out of traffic. She notified the nearest neighbor, who turned out to be the dogs’ owner. The woman later contacted the local Postmaster to express appreciation, explaining that the dogs were therapy ...

Waukesha, WI, Post Office employees have an aspiring Olympian in their midst. Rural Carrier Associate Nick Turro hopes to compete in long-track speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. “I was always really fast,” said Turro, whose ice finesse as a college and junior league hockey ...