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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 duties or responsibilities that are … Read more
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 9:30 a.m. Her vehicle was … Read more
Clever, Missouri lost a carrier yesterday. Michael Crane has been a rural carrier in Clever (DUO Republic, Missouri 2012) for over 25 years.
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 ex-husband, Cooper Williams, 52. Williams … Read more
The National Office has been receiving an alarming number of reports from the field about rural letter carriers being forced to deliver mail well into the evening hours – on some occasions even after midnight. Not surprisingly, these nighttime deliveries have resulted in dangerous conditions and “close calls”, including instances of frightened customers who confront … Read more
This special contract edition of the magazine represents the complete, current National Agreement between the USPS and the NRLCA. It supersedes the provisions of the 2010 USPS-NRLCA National Agreement. This Agreement (referred to as the USPS-NRLCA 2015 National Agreement) is entered into as of April 25, 2016, by and between the United States Postal Service … Read more
Earlier this year, the NRLCA and NALC filed a series of unfair labor practice (“ULP”) charges against the Postal Service in response to anti-union conduct committed by managers in a number of Houston District post offices, including Katy and Humble, Texas. Supervisors in those offices attempted to discourage rural carriers and stewards from using the … Read more
A Ruralinfo.net editorial A couple of years ago, Amazon had an epiphany. They decided they could start their own delivery service to cut out the middle man. (i.e. UPS, Fedex, USPS) So they went full steam ahead and started hiring people off the street to deliver their parcels. It started first in the big cities, but … Read more
The 2016 National Convention Proceedings issue of the National Rural Letter Carrier magazine has been posted in the “Magazine” section of the website under “Current Issue”. CLICK HERE to be directed to the magazine.
This was a rural carrier from Cleburne TX A Sunday head-on collision near the intersection of Texas 174 and Highland Road near Rio Vista resulted in the death of one driver. Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and Rio Vista firefighters responded to the scene at about 8:06 a.m. The driver of a Dodge pickup, … Read more