Guests who are staying at the Peppermill Resort during National Convention may have received an email concerning parking for Burning Man, a camping and arts event that takes place an hour outside of Reno. Please note that Burning Man event parking will have zero impact on parking for NRLCA convention attendees. The ...

Effective July 2024, the Postal Service™ revised PS Form 3227-R, Rural or Highway Contract Route Carrier Stamp Purchase Order Form, to update the information based on the recent rate increase. The revised edition is dated July 2024. All previous editions of PS Form 3227-R are obsolete and must be recycled. The July ...

Since eligible PSHB participants aren’t required to be enrolled in Medicare Part D — the section of Medicare that provides coverage of prescription drugs — OPM has planned for an option to opt out of the coverage, if a PSHB participant desires. But there is a crucial catch: Medicare-eligible USPS ...

USPS employees may participate in an upcoming virtual seminar on the new Postal Service Health Benefits (PSHB) Program. The session will be held Tuesday, July 30, from noon to 1 p.m. Eastern. PSHB — which takes effect in 2025 — is a new, separate program within the Federal Employees Health ...

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s latest video message focuses on the Postal Service’s new sorting and delivery centers. The centers, also known as S&DCs, combine several delivery units into a single large facility that serves multiple ZIP Codes in a geographic area. S&DCs support the new USPS operational model and are ...

At midnight on May 20, the contract between the National Rural Letter Carriers Association (NRLCA) and United States Postal Service (USPS) expired. The three-year span of that agreement saw historic sellouts by the union bureaucracy to USPS administrators and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. As part of the sweeping Delivering for America ...

David Redline had only been out of high school for a year when he learned that the Walnutport Post Office was secking a letter carrier. Redline took the Civil Service exam, a requirement at the time, and soon received a job offer. He accepted. That was more than 45 years ...

The Federal Flexible Spending Account Program (FSAFEDS) has temporarily disabled the enrollment function on its platform because of recent fraudulent activity. FSAFEDS identified a limited number of unauthorized enrollments in health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts, leading to unauthorized and unexpected deductions from affected employees’ pay. Current participants ...

Rural Carrier Associate Richard “Rich” Retig Jr. was delivering mail recently in Umatilla, OR, when he saw a customer pull over on the side of a road. The woman got out of her car to spread grass clippings in a nearby field and then collapsed. Retig ran to check on ...

On this day in 1971, the NRLCA and other postal unions entered into our first-ever contract with the US Postal Service, just days after the USPS formed as a result of the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970. Check out these historic pages from the National Rural Letter Carrier magazine that ...

The NRLCA has posted an easy-to-use 2080/2240 tracking tool for rural carriers to keep track of their work hours. It can be updated each year by simply updating the date in yellow to the first day of the guarantee year ...

Rural Carrier Associate Lucas Wight really got into the spirit of Independence Day. Wight arrived for a shadow day with Maple Falls, WA, Postmaster Michael Hinkle dressed as George Washington, complete with powdered wig. “He surprised us,” Hinkle said of the unexpected uniform. “None of us knew.” Luckily for Wight, the weather cooperated, topping out ...

A mail carrier was shot in her chest and has died Friday on the city’s Far South Side, fire officials said. Octavia Redmond, 48 and of the Loop neighborhood, has died, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. The “unfortunate” attack left the postal worker shot in the chest ...

The U.S. Postal Service and the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association have signed an MOU to rehire rural carrier annuitants as holiday assistant rural carriers (HARCs). These individuals will be used to deliver packages up to seven (7) days per week between November 2, 2024, through January 24, 2025 ...

The NRLCA was notified by the Postal Service of their intent to conduct two (2) isolated pilot tests involving RRECS Activity Editing. One in the CO-WY district involving 233 routes and one in the TX-2 district involving 565 routes. There will be NO CHANGE to RRECS evaluations as a result ...

Updated documents are now available under the RRECS Resources tab on our website concerning Route Resequencing: What to Look for in a Route Adjustment or Realignment ...

Rural Carrier Derek Nelson was delivering mail recently in Winthrop, ME, during stormy weather when he came upon an unresponsive man in a puddle, exposed to wind and rain. Nelson attempted to call for help but did not have a cellphone signal. However, local Postmaster Scott Allarie, who lives in ...