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WASHINGTON — Incidents involving dog attacks on Postal Service employees rose to more than 6,000 cases last year. As part of the 2025 USPS National Dog Bite Awareness Campaign, the organization is offering crucial information on how dog owners can be good stewards for safe mail delivery and ensure the ...

USPS has released updated guidance for promoting semipostal stamps, along with information for employees who want to purchase special T-shirts. The organization offers four semipostal stamps, which raise money for specific causes, and sets aside four months each year to promote them: • September for the Alzheimer’s stamp; • October for ...

With some key primary elections at the state level occurring in the coming weeks, the Trump administration has begun notifying employees they can no longer use paid administrative leave to vote. The reminder, so far sent out at least to various agencies within the Agriculture Department, complies with an executive ...

By now, many of you have received your ratification ballots in the mail. They were sent via U.S. Mail on Friday, May 9th. I want to speak to you today, not just as your president, but as an experienced rural carrier who understands exactly what is at stake ...

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FLORIDA - A new Florida law targeting dangerous dog attacks is now in effect, following the 2022 death of a mail carrier who was fatally mauled while on her delivery route. The “Pam Rock Act,” signed by Governor Ron DeSantis, honors 62-year-old Pamela Rock, who died after being attacked by ...

Though Democrats were able to excise a plan to base federal retirees’ annuity payments on their highest five years of salary, rather than the current high-3, proposals to eliminate the FERS supplement and to charge employees for their civil service protections remain on the table. In the intervening weeks, House ...

Memorial Day, a time to honor the men and women who gave their lives in service to the country, will be observed on Monday, May 26. The first national commemoration was held in 1868, after Gen. John A. Logan of the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of former ...

The NRLCA is saddened to learn of the passing of Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA). Throughout his years of service in Congress, Rep. Connolly has been a true champion of federal and postal workers, standing shoulder to shoulder with us in the fight to preserve and strengthen the Postal Service as a ...

UPDATE 5/19/25: On Sunday night, May 18, the House Budget Committee passed a revised version of the budget reconciliation bill out of Committee. Changes made to the original language proposed by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee included: The increase in FERS contributions for employees hired before 2014 to ...

House Republicans on Monday unveiled a series of changes to a bevy of proposed cuts to federal workers' retirement benefits aimed at making them more politically palatable following bipartisan backlash. But Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, said he and some other Republicans would not support the measure on the floor because some of ...

Severe weather moving through the Central and Southern Plains into the Eastern U.S. and the Great Lakes regions in the U.S. (Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Ohio, West Virginia, and Virginia) may impact the processing, transportation, and delivery of mail and packages ...

Ruralinfo note: Although this is from the NALC, I still feel it is good information to know.. NALC Headquarters has been made aware of some of our members receiving invoices from USPS regarding non-payment of health benefit premiums. These should not be ignored, and each instance should be individually investigated ...

Sen. Mark Warner urged OPM’s acting director to ensure identity protection services continue for the more than 21 million individuals affected by the 2015 breach. A top Senate Intelligence Democrat is warning the Office of Personnel Management against cancelling identity protection services that have been provided to current and former ...

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s proposal to overhaul the federal government’s pension benefit system would save nearly $51 billion over the next decade, an analysis from the Congressional Budget Office found. It would constitute major savings to help offset the cost of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” — if ...