NRLCA – National Agency Check with Inquiries (NACI) Award
The National Agency Check with Inquiries, better known as the “NACI,” is the test that the Postal Service uses to complete background checks for newly hired employees through the Postal Inspection Service. Recently, the Postal Service took the position that all postal employees are “conditional” employees until after the NACI ...
NEW VIDEO: From the NRLCA President’s Desk: July 2025 Update
In this message to NRLCA members, NRLCA President Don Maston highlights a challenging year marked by multiple threats to the future of rural mail delivery and the well-being of postal workers. These challenges include efforts to privatize the Postal Service, attempts by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to impose ...
Statement from NRLCA President Don Maston on House Majority Support for Preserving the Postal Service as an Independent, Public Institution
July 17, 2025 For Immediate Release Today, the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association celebrates a critical milestone in our campaign to protect the United States Postal Service: a bipartisan majority of members in the U.S. House of Representatives have now signed on to House Resolution 70, which affirms the Postal ...
Steiner begins tenure as postmaster general and issues a letter to employees
David Steiner began his tenure as the nation’s 76th postmaster general this week, expressing pride in the Postal Service, its employees and the organization’s public service mission. “I believe strongly in the role of the Postal Service as a pillar of America’s democracy and economic infrastructure, in the important support ...
Postal worker killed, several injured in Northport, AL crash
NORTHPORT, Ala. (WBRC) – The United State Postal Service (USPS) has confirmed that the woman killed in a four-vehicle crash in Northport Wednesday was an employee. Police identified the woman as 36-year-old Vonchelle Renee Gamble, of Tuscaloosa. Police say the crash happened at approximately 12:39 p.m. in the Southbound lanes ...
Register Today for the NRLCA 2025 National Convention Rally in Orlando
JOIN THE NRLCA IN ORLANDO DURING THE 2025 NATIONAL CONVENTION FOR A PROTECT THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE AND LETTER CARRIERS RALLY WHO: Members of Congress, Postal Union Presidents, and Rural Carriers from Across the Country WHAT: Rally to Protect the U.S. Postal Service and Rural Carriers WHEN: Monday, August 18, 2025 · ...
Privatize or downsize the USPS? Rural customers worry either option will hurt them
Nick Loomis, a reporter with The Midwest Newsroom, rides along with Nebraska mail carrier Roger McDonald in the spring of 2025 as part of Loomis' reporting on the future of the United States Postal Service. As a new Postmaster General with ties to FedEx assumes control of the agency, postal ...
Gun group sues to end US Postal Service’s ban on mailing handguns
July 15 (Reuters) – A gun rights lobbying group is suing the U.S. Postal Service in a bid to overturn its nearly 100-year-old ban on mailing handguns, arguing that the law wasn’t contemplated when the country’s founders drafted the 2nd Amendment in the U.S. Constitution. Gun Owners of America and ...
Trump’s hiring freeze has jeopardized postal workers’ health care, IG says
The inspector general charged with overseeing the federal government’s dedicated HR agency is warning that the system undergirding the U.S. Postal Service’s new employer-sponsored health benefits program could fail as a result of the Trump administration’s hiring freeze and efforts to drastically reduce the size of the federal workforce. The ...
Audit: PSHB Program at Risk of Underfunding, Understaffing; No Plan B
The Postal Service Health Benefits program faces “critical resource issues” and the OPM has not ensured that the underlying system “will remain fully staffed, supported and funded” in light of OPM’s downsizing and reorganization, an inspector general audit has said. OPM further does not have “a contingency plan to ensure ...
APWU (clerks) Members Ratify 2024-2027 National Agreement!
The American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO, membership has ratified a new three-year labor contract with USPS that will run through Sept. 20, 2027. Highlights of the agreement include annual general wage increases, semi-annual cost-of-living adjustments, measures designed to assist with postal support employee recruitment and retention, and continued operational flexibility ...
New USPS Careers Site Created for Mail Handler Assistant, Postal Support Employee & City Carrier Assistant jobs
USPS is currently rolling out a new online job application experience, which will only accept applications for the positions below from the new website, USPS Careers (jobs.usps.com): Applicants must use the new USPS Careers website to search, and apply for the following jobs: Mail Handler Assistant City Carrier Assistant PSE Mail Processing Clerk ...
NRLCA to Sponsor Two Events Commemorating USPS 250th Anniversary on July 24 and 25
The NRLCA will be sponsoring two events celebrating the 250th anniversary of the USPS in Jefferson County, WV, the birthplace of Rural Free Delivery. Join us in person or via livestream on Thursday, July 24 and/or Friday, July 25. Delivering America: The History and Impact of Rural Free Delivery This ...
This rural carrier aided a customer who fell down the stairs of his foyer
Rural Carrier David Wyman was recently delivering mail in Auburn, ME, when he heard persistent banging coming from a customer’s house. Wyman approached the home and saw the man on the floor inside. The 94-year-old customer had fallen down several steps in the foyer and had lost consciousness until he ...
Happy Independence Day
Photo by Stephanie McCabe on Unsplash The Fourth of July—also known as Independence Day or July 4th—has been a federal holiday in the United States since 1941, but the tradition of Independence Day celebrations goes back to the 18th century and the American Revolution. On July 2nd, 1776, the Continental Congress voted in favor of independence, ...
House Sends Reconciliation Bill to the President Without Anti-Postal Employee Provisions
Prior to vacating the U.S. Capitol for an abbreviated July 4th Recess, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1, the 2025 Budget Reconciliation Act, by a vote of 218-214 and sent it the President for his signature. The White House announced the bill signing will occur late tomorrow afternoon. NAPS allies ...