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 ...

As Rural Carrier Michael Thomas recently approached a mailbox in Leland, MS, he could see a bicycle lying nearby in the grass. But when he got closer, there was more: a 72-year-old customer who’d fallen off the bike and couldn’t get up, and her 2-year-old grandson trying to help her ...

Rural Carrier Associate Debra Feist was delivering mail recently in White Cloud, MI, when she heard a customer call out for help. She found the woman stranded inside her home, unable to get up after a fall. Feist helped her into a chair and called the local Postmaster. Emergency responders ...

Clever, Missouri lost a carrier yesterday. Michael Crane has been a rural carrier in Clever (DUO Republic, Missouri 2012) for over 25 years ...

Cedaredge, CO, Rural Carrier Patsy Arnold was delivering mail recently when she noticed an occupied car alongside the road. She stopped to offer assistance and found that the driver was the son of a co-worker and was on his way to a hospital because he was suffering an allergic reaction ...

While delivering mail recently in Lincoln, NE, Rural Carrier James Farnstrom noticed a familiar customer wandering around who appeared to be disoriented. Concerned that she may have been dehydrated, he gave her a bottle of water and struck up a conversation. Customer Services Supervisor Sharon Smock was conducting a driver ...

Rural Carrier Christopher Meskan was outside the Waterville, MN, Post Office recently loading mail for delivery when he saw a girl around the age of 3 wandering nearby. Seeing no sign of an adult and aware of hazards such as an adjacent bay, Meskan took the girl inside and police ...

A postal customer in Fuquay-Varina, NC, recently sought out help in a moment of crisis and found it when she went outside and saw Rural Carrier James Sutton approaching her door with a package. The woman told Sutton that her 86-year-old mother was inside and had suddenly become weak and ...

It was a hot day in Lubbock, TX, recently when Rural Carrier Eddie Santos noticed something amiss while delivering mail: He spotted a woman who seemed disoriented wandering around with a dog. The postal employee stopped to check on her, but apparently she did not speak English. He then enlisted ...

On the first day Congress convened the new 115th Congress, 1st Session, Congressman Graves and Congressman Connolly introduced H. Res. 15, a resolution expressing the sense of the House that the Postal Service should take all appropriate measures to ensure the continuation of its 6-day mail delivery service. The same ...

Last Saturday was Joe Calvert's final day of work at the Morehead post office. Calvert, who has worked for the United States Postal Service for 40 years, began his career for the Morehead post office when he was 18 years old. He took the civil service exam when he was ...

POPE, Miss. — A woman was shot and killed Friday afternoon in Panola County in a murder-suicide, officials said. It happened on Enid Shores Road around 3 p.m., according to the coroner. The coroner identified Pamela Williams, 54, as the victim and said the man who shot her was her ...

Two postal customers in Berlin, MD, recently got the help they needed in an emergency from Rural Carrier Tamela Donaway. A man had seriously injured his hand while operating a bench lathe at home, and his wife — who was recovering from heart surgery — couldn’t come to his aid ...