While delivering mail in Belt, MT, recently, Rural Carrier Associate Joseph Visocan came upon an older customer lying on the ground near her garage. The woman, who lives alone, had fallen the previous afternoon while taking her trash out. With no way to call for help, and not enough strength ...

Your 2025-2026 NRLCA National Board: President Don Maston Vice President Patrick Pitts Secretary-Treasurer Tommy Turner Director of Labor Relations John Adams Director of Steward Operations Nicky Phillips Executive Committee Chair Michael Merola Executive Committeeman Kirby Ricketts Executive Committeeman Bethany Small Executive Committeeman Natasha Patterson ...

ORLANDO, Fla.—The Postal Workers and the Rural Letter Carriers (NRLCA) have launched complementary campaigns against the GOP Donald Trump regime’s threat to privatize the Postal Service. The NRLCA, the smaller of the two, went first, with a mass march of its 500 convention delegates, plus supporters, through downtown Orlando, Fla., ...

SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. (DC News Now) — With a new administration in Washington, many federal programs are being targeted for elimination. Mail carriers in rural communities fear they fall into that category. They met in Shepherdstown as the week closed out in hopes that it would not be the case. Letter ...

Do you have a package coming your way from overseas? (I do, it’s a gift, and I’m very annoyed.) Hopefully it’s not urgent, because it’s going to be a minute before that thing gets to our shores. Questions surrounding the Trump administration’s ongoing tariff regime, including a policy to end ...

A couple hundred postal workers and allies rallied outside of Orlando City Hall Monday to protest ongoing concerns about the privatization of the U.S. Postal Service under the corporate-friendly Trump administration. One of four USPS unions, the National Rural Letter Carriers Association, is hosting its annual convention in Orlando this week, and ...

EDMOND POST OFFICE MASSACRE. No strangers to large-scale episodes of violence, Oklahomans have endured collective and individual events ranging from the 1868 Battle of the Washita to the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing. The event that occurred on August 20, 1986, at the United States Post Office in Edmond was, at ...

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 ...

On August 15, 2025, the NRLCA and USPS signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) agreeing that regular work force career employees covered by the USPS-NRLCA Agreement may carry over 520 hours of accumulated annual leave from leave year 2025 to leave year 2026, and from leave year 2026 to 2027 ...

On August 15, 2025, the NRLCA and the USPS signed an MOU to allow regular carriers to volunteer to work on Sundays and to volunteer to provide assistance on other routes in the office. No carrier will be required to perform either of these duties. All work performed in accordance with this MOU shall be paid at the ...

Florida Reps. Soto and Frost to Join National Union Presidents in Fight to Protect Postal Workers and the USPS ORLANDO, FL, UNITED STATES, August 15, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- On Monday, more than 500 rural letter carriers, other postal workers and their allies, will gather in Orlando to rally against misguided ...

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 $790.00 increase for eligible rural carriers. This COLA adjustment will be effective ...

The Postal Service is slashing costs as its new leader aims to advance a controversial 10-year transformation plan. Nearly 10,500 U.S. Postal Service employees accepted the agency’s voluntary early retirement offer this year, according to its Q3 results for fiscal year 2025. The $15,000 payout per employee was available to eligible employees in crafts ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued new guidance directing all federal agencies to eliminate any record of a federal employeeʼs COVID-19 vaccination status, prior noncompliance with vaccine mandates, or requests for exemptions from such mandates ...

The Postal Service will launch 10 new sorting and delivery centers (S&DCs) serving the nation on September 6 and will launch one more on October 18. Five of these new S&DCs will open September 6 without additional 5-Digit ZIP Codes being moved into them and five S&DCs will open with ...

According to legally-protected whistleblower disclosures provided to my office, the United States Postal Service (USPS) hired a registered sex offender as a mail carrier. The whistleblower disclosure noted that the employee disclosed his status as a registered sex offender on his job application. It’s been further alleged that instead of ...

The Postal Service has notified the Postal Regulatory Commission of temporary price changes for some package services for the holiday shipping season. The planned adjustments, which the USPS governors approved Aug. 7, will affect prices on Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail, USPS Ground Advantage and Parcel Select. No other products ...