Postal Service Health Benefits (PSHB) Five-Part Educational Video Series
Video 1 - Intro to PSHB and Medicare Video 1 gives background on the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022 (PSRA) which created the PSHB Program, a new, separate program within the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program. Video 1 also covers how the PSHB Program integrates with Medicare Part B, ...
Postal Service to end evening collection at thousands of post offices
Imagine if the Postal Service announced that it would continue providing 6-day delivery to urban areas but could no longer afford to do the same for rural communities because their relatively low mail volumes don’t justify the costs. People living in these communities would undoubtedly complain that the plan was ...
You can now sign up for daily alerts
Do you want to stay on top of rural carriers news? We just activated a way to do that. You can now get daily alerts to your email IF there are updates. Stay on top of everything and sign up below: ...
February 3-9, 2024 is Relief Carrier Appreciation Week
The delegates at the 2018 National Convention passed a binding resolution stating, “That a week during the year be designated as Relief Carrier Appreciation Week.” The NRLCA National Board has designated the first full week in February (February 3-9, 2024) as “Relief Carrier Appreciation Week.” We ask that you join ...
Florida House panel puts muzzle on dangerous dogs after ‘gruesome’ attack on RCA Pam Rock
Rep. Bobby Payne’s measure (HB 873) advanced unanimously by the Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee, would impose new parameters on how the state handles so-called dangerous dogs. He noted Virginia and Pennsylvania already have similar laws. The bill requires the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to create a statewide Dangerous ...
McKinney, TX rural carrier helps reconnect homeless Vietnam vet with nearly $10K in lost cash
MCKINNEY, Texas - A McKinney mail carrier is being celebrated for doing the right thing when she saw what ended up being $10,000 cash on the side of the road. It took months for police to figure out who all the cash belonged to, but now it is back in the hands of its ...
RCA helped a couple in need on a highway
Rural Carrier Associate Bryan Boyd was recently driving along his Bath, NC, route when he saw a couple near a vehicle parked on the side of a road. The woman was crying and the man was searching for something on the ground. Boyd pulled over and approached the couple. He ...
RCA delivers a bit of history
A rural carrier associate made a special delivery on Jan. 17 when he dropped a greeting card adorned with last year’s Black Heritage stamp into a residential mailbox in Chester, CT. The card was addressed to the current owners of a house that Constance Baker Motley — the legal pioneer ...
The next RRECS Mini Mail Survey will be held February 24-March 8, 2024
Mark your calendars! The next RRECS Mini Mail Survey will be held February 24-March 8, 2024. Additional details and updated forms will be added as soon as they are received. Check out the 2024 Mini Mail Survey page under the RRECS Resources tab on the NRLCA website for more information ...
USPS to Launch New MyHR Website
The NRLCA has been notified of a planned January 23, 2024, launch of a new MyHR website. MyHR is a new, modernized website equipping USPS employees with easily accessible, centralized, and simplified human resources (HR) information and tools. Employees will be able to access the MyHR website via LiteBlue. Stand ...
Make Sure Your Edit Book is Up to Date and DPM-LTM Systems Have Been Updated!
Attention Carriers: REMINDER: Everyone should be making sure that their Edit Book is up to date and the DPM-LTM systems have been updated with the most current data. This needs to be done now, prior to the beginning of the next Mini Mail Survey (February 24-March 8). We need to be ...
Rural mail carriers a special breed
Having worked for the Postal Service many years gives me perspective on the duties of employees in many of the craft areas. In the eyes of the public, it may appear to be an easy cushy kind of job that any idiot can do. But, they do not see all ...
Rural Mail Carrier mauled by dogs in Bulloch County, GA
A rural mail carrier has been life flighted to a regional trauma center after being mauled by dogs Friday evening January 19, 2024. Bulloch County 911 operators, at 6:49 pm, dispatched Bulloch County EMS, Bulloch County Sheriff’s Deputies and Bulloch County Animal Control to a lady being attacked by dogs ...
January rural carrier heroes
Rural carriers recognized as going above and beyond for their customers ...
Fake NRLCA website
From our National NRO Kirby Rickets- All, I am not sure if you are aware of this, but someone just made us aware of this fake website purporting to be the NRLCA: https://www.nrlca-hq.org/ The National Office is looking into what can be done, but for now please warn all the carriers ...
Rural carrier saves a customer’s canines from a house fire
Rural Carrier Gary Sherman saw smoke coming from a home in Warsaw, NY, while he was delivering mail recently. The Postal Service employee, who is also a volunteer firefighter, called 911 and headed to the residence to warn anyone inside. No one was home, but Sherman could hear the customer’s ...