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Post Plan – The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

A Ruralinfo.net Editorial In July 2011, the Postal Service announced that nearly 3700 post office's would be studied for closure ...

Postal Déjà vu

Most people do not think of the job of a Postal worker as being a dangerous job.  In reality, there ...

Some USPS Saturday Delivery History

From the start, letter carriers delivered mail six days a week, usually Monday through Saturday.6 In May and June 1947, ...

Solving the Rural Carrier Relief Identity Crisis

I wanted to help clear the fog on all of the rural carrier relief designations and titles. Most of today's ...

L’Enfant Plaza – We have a spontaneous combustion problem

I have noticed a very disturbing thing in the last few years.  LLV fires - Lots of them..  The aging ...

Step 4 Grievance Settlement on Waiting for Mail that Requires Casing Before Strapping Out

Step 4 Grievance Settlement on Waiting for Mail that Requires Casing Before Strapping Out The issue in this grievance concerns ...

Step 4 Settlement on Requirement to Case (DPS) Letter Mail during DPS review

The issue in this grievance involves management requiring rural carriers to case Delivery Point Sequence (DPS) Letters during a DPS ...

Step 4 Grievance Settlement on Being Denied LWOP on Saturday

The issue in this grievance involves management denying LWOP on Saturday due to the unavailability of a leave replacement, when ...

Step 4 Grievance Settlement on Retrieving DPS Letter Mail When Not Staged by Route

The issue in this grievance involves rural carriers retrieving DPS letter mail from conveyances when DPS letter trays are randomly ...

The Neutral Engineer for the Rural Carrier Time Study

Dr. Louis A. Martin-Vega is the Dean of Engineering at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. With more ...

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