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Open Season 2025: Invest in You. Your Benefits, Your Choice: November 10 – December 8

Dear Employees, Open Season is here! This is your once-a-year opportunity to make changes to your Postal Service™ beneuFB01ts. Open Season begins on November 10, 2025, and ends on December 8, 2025. In this packet you will find: n All the resources you need to help you navigate the changes and learn about your...

2025 Christmas period for rural carriers begins Saturday, December 6, 2025

The 2025 Christmas period for rural carriers begins Saturday, December 6, 2025 (Week 2, Pay Period (PP) 26–2025), and ends Friday, December 26, 2025 (Week 2, Pay Period 01-2026). During this period, certain timekeeping and pay rules apply. Timekeepers, including postmasters, supervisors, and other employees responsible for rural carrier...

Employee shot outside U.S. Postal Service facility in Henrietta, NY

Henrietta, N.Y. — Police are looking for a suspect after a U.S. Postal Service employee was shot in the parking lot of the agency’s main Rochester facility on Jefferson Road in Henrietta early Thursday. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office responded to the facility around 12:40 a.m. for a report of...

NRLCA National Board Designates October 19-25, 2025 National Steward Recognition Week

The NRLCA National Board has designated the week of October 19-25, 2025 as “National Steward Recognition Week.” We hope you will join us in showing our stewards at every level that their dedication and commitment do not go unnoticed. Let us praise our stewards at least as often as we...

Support Letter Carrier Anthony Santoro’s Road To Recovery After Being Shot

Sadly, on Friday, October 3, 2025, while in the duties of his job, City Letter Carrier Anthony Santoro’s life was forever changed by the cowardice act of one individual, who, without cause, shot Anthony in the face while Anthony delivered the mail. RELATED

She goes the extra mile for her customers

No one was more surprised than Jolena Kees to learn she has one of the nation’s longest delivery routes. Kees, a Grayson, KY, rural carrier, drives 135 miles each workday to serve 479 delivery points. The Postal Service recently named Kees’ route one of the nation’s longest, a list released last month to help...

Chuck Grassley Details Investigation Into USPS Hiring Sex Offenders To Deliver Mail

During remarks on the Senate floor Thursday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) provided updates on his investigation into the USPS hiring registered sex offenders to deliver mail.

Federal and postal workers to see double-digit health care premium increases again next year

Enrollees in the new Postal Service Health Benefits Program, which replaced the U.S. Postal Service’s previous insurance offerings last fall, will see their premiums increase by 11.3% on average next year, a slightly larger increase from 2025’s 11.1% rate hike. The government’s share of PSHB premiums will increase 8.0%...

Employee shot outside U.S. Postal Service facility in Henrietta, NY

Henrietta, N.Y. — Police are looking for a suspect after a U.S. Postal Service employee was shot in the parking lot of the agency’s main Rochester facility on Jefferson Road in Henrietta early Thursday. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office responded to the facility around 12:40 a.m. for a report of...

2025 Christmas period for rural carriers begins Saturday, December 6, 2025

The 2025 Christmas period for rural carriers begins Saturday, December 6, 2025 (Week 2, Pay Period (PP) 26–2025), and ends Friday, December 26, 2025 (Week 2, Pay Period 01-2026). During this period, certain timekeeping and pay rules apply. Timekeepers, including postmasters, supervisors, and other employees responsible for rural carrier...

Support Letter Carrier Anthony Santoro’s Road To Recovery After Being Shot

Sadly, on Friday, October 3, 2025, while in the duties of his job, City Letter Carrier Anthony Santoro’s life was forever changed by the cowardice act of one individual, who, without cause, shot Anthony in the face while Anthony delivered the mail. RELATED

Amazon contractor claims self defense in shooting of postal worker, Everett PD says

EVERETT, Wash. (KOMO) — A contracted Amazon delivery driver who was allegedly armed with two guns, a large knife, and a bulletproof vest told detectives he shot a U.S. Postal Service worker in the head as an act of self-defense during an altercation in the mailroom of an Everett apartment...

She goes the extra mile for her customers

No one was more surprised than Jolena Kees to learn she has one of the nation’s longest delivery routes. Kees, a Grayson, KY, rural carrier, drives 135 miles each workday to serve 479 delivery points. The Postal Service recently named Kees’ route one of the nation’s longest, a list released last month to help...

Chuck Grassley Details Investigation Into USPS Hiring Sex Offenders To Deliver Mail

During remarks on the Senate floor Thursday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) provided updates on his investigation into the USPS hiring registered sex offenders to deliver mail.

Updated Salary Charts Reflecting Past Cost-of-Living Adjustments (COLA) and General Wage Increase (GWI)

Below find links to Rural Carrier salary charts reflecting $957 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) effective September 7, 2024 1.3% general wage increase effective (GWI) November 16, 2024 $416 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) effective March 8, 2025

Updated rural carrier salary charts including COLA increase on September 6th 2025

Cost-of-Living Raises Effective September 6, 2025 Pursuant to the release of the July 2025 Consumer Price Index - Urban Wage and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), and in accordance with Article 9.1.E , the third COLA adjustment of the 2024-2027 National Agreement will result in a $811.00 increase for eligible rural carriers....

2025 – 2026 – New Guarantee Year provisions important to rural carriers

There are certain rural carrier provisions that happen around the new Guarantee year and the end of the year.   Pay close attention to anything highlighted, or you may end up being surprised. Guarantee Year The new Guarantee year starts on October 4th, 2025 Carriers are paid overtime for all hours actually worked...
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