USPS To Celebrate 250 Years of Service
What: The U.S. Postal Service will release new stamps, one of which comes as part of a 32-page prestige booklet, to commemorate 250 years of service to the nation. The illustrated Forever stamps, 250 Years of Delivering, tell the story of a mail carrier making her daily rounds during a ...
Weekly Overview – Top Rural Carrier News This Week – 06/21/25
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DOGE holds meetings with White House, new postal leadership and Treasury to discuss reforming USPS
The White House and its Department of Government Efficiency are spearheading efforts to shake up the Postal Service, according to details of the meetings obtained by Government Executive, with topics including pricing for mail and general reform proposals. The meetings were not clearly within the scope of a memorandum of understanding ...
USPS Suspends Mail to Israel, Iraq, Iran
The USPS is temporarily suspending mail to three countries beginning June 20, 2025: Israel, Iraq, and Iran. The Postal Service said it places such suspensions in cases “where the foreign postal operator has indicated that they are unable to process or deliver international mail or services originating from the United ...
Sessions Announces Hearing to Examine U.S. Postal Service Operations from the Perspective of Key Stakeholders
WASHINGTON—Subcommittee on Government Operations Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Texas) today announced a hearing titled “The Route Forward for the U.S. Postal Service: A View from Stakeholders.” The hearing will review United States Postal Service (USPS) operations with key stakeholders, focusing on the implementation of the bipartisan Postal Service Reform Act and ...
NRLCA NOTICE: Premium Payments for Annuitants Who Make Payments Via the National Finance Center (NFC)
ATTN: Postal annuitants who make health insurance premium payments via the National Finance Center (NFC) ONLY: The NFC is preparing to send the first bill for 2025 premiums on July 1. Annuitants who have not paid any premiums yet for 2025 will be receiving bills for the year to date. You ...
Judge Restricts DOGE Access to OPM Systems Over Privacy and Cybersecurity Violations
On Monday, June 9, Judge Denise Cote granted a preliminary injunction blocking the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing some databases within the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Judge Cote found that by OPM accessing those databases, it had acted illegally and disregarded its established cybersecurity practices. The injunction ...
Amazon Prime Day 2025 dates officially announced
Key takeaways Prime Day 2025 is July 8-11. Prime Day expands to double the days, offering Prime members more time to shop millions of deals. New "Today's Big Deals" feature will drop themed daily deals from top brands like Samsung, Kiehl's, and Levi's. Amazon’s 2025 Prime Day event will start July ...
Juneteenth is this week
The Postal Service will observe Juneteenth National Independence Day on Thursday, June 19. Juneteenth is the oldest known nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. The holiday gets its name from the date in 1865 when 2,000 federal troops arrived in Galveston, TX, and declared ...
Two Injured In Crash Involving U.S. Rural Mail Carrier
Two people were injured in a crash Saturday morning on Highway 29 involving a car and a rural mail carrier’s vehicle. The crash happened around 9:40 a.m. on Highway 29 northbound between Cox Road and Sigler Road north of McDavid. Firefighters extricated the mail carrier from their vehicle following the ...
Postal and Federal Reconciliation Provisions to Bypass Senate Committee of Jurisdiction and Go Straight to Senate Floor
Over the weekend, NAPS was alerted that the provisions of the reconciliation bill Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Rand Paul (R-KY) released on June 12 will bypass his committee. Unlike the usual legislative procedure, the provisions are intended to be in the legislation that reaches the Senate ...
USPS mail carrier shot while delivering mail in South LA
An official with the Los Angeles Police Department said a 35-year-old postal worker was shot while out delivering mail near the intersection of Century Boulevard and Central Avenue in South LA’s Green Meadows neighborhood around 11:05 a.m. Aerial images from SkyFOX showed officers set up a perimeter at the scene ...
USPS Announcement – National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association approves contract with USPS
The National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association membership has ratified a new three-year labor contract with the Postal Service. The agreement will run through May 20, 2027. Highlights of the agreement include annual general wage increases, semi-annual cost-of-living adjustments, measures designed to assist with rural carrier associate retention, and maintenance of ...
2024-2027 NRLCA-USPS Tentative National Agreement Has Been Ratified
Pursuant to Article XI, Section 4 of the NRLCA Constitution, the Ratification Committee has completed the tabulation of ballots and reports that the 2024-2027 NRLCA-USPS Tentative National Agreement has been ratified by a vote of 9,730 to 4,880, or 67 percent voting in favor of ratification. A more detailed report from ...
Weekly Overview – Top Rural Carrier News This Week – 06/14/25
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Senate strips most retirement cuts from reconciliation, but anti-civil service provisions remain
An initial draft of the Senate Republicans’ version of the budget reconciliation package does away with several provisions that would have reduced federal workers’ retirement benefits but significantly increases the burden on new hires. On Thursday night, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee published its portion of the budget reconciliation bill, ...
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chair Paul Releases Proposed Postal Employee Cuts
On Thursday night, June 12, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Rand Paul (R-KY) released the text of his proposed cuts to the postal and federal workforce. These provisions would amend House-passed H.R. 1. The Paul proposal would require newly hired or promoted federal and EAS-level USPS employees to ...