The USPS have brought all salary schedules up to date, as required under the 2021-2024 National Agreement. The salary schedules linked below reflect a retroactive $1,935 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) effective August 28, 2021, a retroactive 1.3% General Wage Increase (GWI) effective November 20, 2021, and a $1,311 COLA effective February ...

Effective immediately, when carriers are performing 2nd  trips, they must also utilize the Hotkey 6 STARTLOADVEH and Hotkey 7 ENDLOADVEH to capture the load time associated with the 2nd  trip.  This will ensure proper compensation when RRECS is implemented.  In addition, 2nd trips are to continue to be compensated per Handbook F-21 563 ...

The article linked below was released in May 2022 Also came across this on Reddit - It will be interesting to see how it goes for them ...

Rural Carrier Associate Jason Holleran was delivering mail on a February day in Tarentum, PA, when he came upon an older customer in need of assistance. The man had slipped and fallen in his driveway, leaving him stranded in temperatures below freezing as he desperately yelled for help. Holleran rushed ...

The Special Contract Edition of the National Rural Letter Carrier magazine containing the 2021-2024 National Agreement is now available for viewing and downloading. It will also be mailed to all active bargaining unit members ...

Denise Hilpipre, a rural carrier in Plainfield, WI, was recently delivering mail when she noticed suspicious activity: Two strangers were removing firewood from a customer’s property. Hilpipre documented details of the incident, including a description of the pair’s vehicle and their appearance, and called the customer to ask if he ...

Rural Carrier Associate William-Jacques Jones was recently making deliveries in Clinton, OH, when he came upon a customer in distress. The man, who was choking on food, was attempting to walk to a neighbor’s house for assistance. Jones rushed to the customer’s aid, performing the Heimlich maneuver on him until ...

Shelby Milford, a rural carrier associate, was recently making deliveries in Michie, TN, when she came upon the scene of an accident that left a woman in her 20s injured. Milford immediately called for emergency assistance and stayed with the woman, whose car began to emit smoke. With help from ...

Jared Sprenger, a rural carrier in Zumbrota, MN, was recently delivering mail when he saw a man lying on a golf course, waving for help. Sprenger rushed to the man’s side and found that he was misdialing 911. The Postal Service employee completed the call and comforted him until emergency ...

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The NRLCA has officially requested that the Postal Service temporarily postpone the data collection period for the Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System (RRECS). Collection of data began on April 23, 2022; however, the NRLCA has identified many critical issues that must be resolved before the system can go “live.” We ...

Rural Carrier Johnnie Gatlin was recently making deliveries in a Junction City, KS, neighborhood when he grew concerned about an older customer whose mail was piling up. Gatlin heard a faint cry for help coming from inside the residence, at which point he looked through a window and spotted the ...

Every rural carrier should have received training on the new RRECS MDD scans from their supervisor or manager. Every rural carrier needs to be using these new entries daily ...

Much to the disappointment and anger of the family and friends of Sherry Ingold, her killer, Roland Mitchell Dampeer, has been found not guilty by reason of insanity following a 40-minute non-jury criminal trial in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Mississippi. The trial was held in an Oxford, ...

The National Office has received numerous calls and messages regarding the status of rural carrier salary schedules and back pay. The USPS is required to calculate and pay the retroactive salaries as soon as administratively possible. However, due to the complexities of the rural carrier salary structure, programming the payroll system ...

Jaiquan Williams, a rural carrier associate in Newtown, CT, was recently making deliveries when a crisis occurred: He saw a customer collapse. While 911 was called, Williams rushed to the woman’s aid, comforting her until emergency responders arrived. The customer recovered from the incident ...

The document below outlines the recent MDD update (version 7.53) which allows carriers to enter Zero parcels picked up at a Carrier Pickup Request location and also to enter a CARRIERPU when none of the parcels collected has a barcode ...