Cases of COVID-19 Reported After Indiana Rural Letter Carriers’ State Convention
The NRLCA National Board was recently advised that at least five members who attended the Indiana State Convention have since tested positive for COVID-19 ...
Rural Carrier responds to customer’s collapse
Rural Carrier Jennifer Nieves was recently making deliveries in an Ocala, FL, neighborhood when she saw a customer fall to the ground as he was walking toward his mailbox. Nieves rushed to check on the man, who has cancer and a history of diabetes and strokes. Finding him unable to ...
Rural carrier catches distraught customer’s wave
Rural Carrier Associate Rhonda Krawetzke was making deliveries one morning in December when she spotted an older customer waving for help on the side of the road near his driveway. Krawetzke immediately pulled into the driveway to aid the man, who had been stranded for a half-hour after slipping on ...
July 4th, 2021 holiday for rural carriers
July 4th is on a Sunday, so Monday, July 5* will be observed by the USPS. If your regular day off is Monday, then Saturday becomes your holiday. The information below comes from the USPS ELM - Employee and Labor Relations Manual. Click here For Regular Carriers 518.2 Holidays on ...
Rural Carrier saves customer from danger near pond
Rural Carrier Steve Phifer was recently delivering mail in Ardmore, TN, when he spotted an older customer in trouble: The man had fallen out of his motorized wheelchair just a few feet away from a pond on his property. Phifer rushed to the customer’s aid, safely got him back into ...
NRLCA and USPS Agree to Extend COVID-19 Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) Through August 6, 2021
The National Rural Letter Carriers' Association and United States Postal Service have mutually agreed to extend the Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) linked below through August 6, 2021: Temporary Expanded Sick Leave for Dependent Care During COVID-19 Temporary Workplace Changes to Promote Social Distancing - COVID-19 Suspension of Temporary Additional Paid ...
Rural carrier performs CPR on collapsed customer
Rural Carrier Associate Mark Harper II was delivering mail one day last fall in Princeton, WV, when he came upon an older couple experiencing a crisis. During a walk through their neighborhood, the man had collapsed and his wife was sobbing beside him. Harper hurried to their aid and determined ...
Sick customer’s son thanks rural carrier for compassion
Smethport, PA, Rural Carrier Starr Silvis was recently delivering mail to an older customer she checks on regularly when she discovered that he’d fallen inside his home. The man was disoriented, telling Silvis he was in bed, and she immediately called 911 as well as the local Post Office. The ...
USPS and the NRLCA extend negotiations
The Postal Service and the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association (NRLCA) have agreed to extend contract negotiations on a new collective bargaining agreement. Although the contract with the NRLCA expired at midnight on May 20, USPS and the union have mutually decided to extend the negotiations. The NRLCA represents approximately ...
Rural carrier swoops in to lift up distraught customer
Rural Carrier Angela Creighbaum was making deliveries on a chilly, wet day last spring in Burlington, WI, when she encountered an older customer yelling for help. Creighbaum rushed to check on the woman, who had fallen outside her home two hours earlier and couldn’t get up. The Postal Service employee ...
Bleeding customer gets critical aid from rural carrier
Rural Carrier Anthony Alexander was recently making deliveries in Hayden, AL, when he encountered a customer in distress. The man had sliced an artery in his arm while working on a tractor outside his home, and he was struggling to get inside for help. Alexander rushed to his aid and ...
Rural carrier aids little girl upset after tumble
Rural Carrier Sue Christie was recently delivering mail in Crystal, MI, when she spotted a 5-year-old child walking alone in the roadway. Christie stopped to check on the girl, asking her where her parents were. Afraid she was in trouble, the child ran away and fell, scraping her knee and ...
Customer credits rural carrier with saving her life
Waddington, NY, Rural Carrier Associate Patrick Chapman was delivering mail one day last spring in a nearby hamlet, Chase Mills, when he heard a customer yelling for help inside her residence. Chapman rushed to the woman’s door and she directed him to spare keys. Upon opening it, he found that ...
Rural Carrier saves choking co-worker’s life
Rural Carrier Associate Melodie Walters was recently working at her case in a Fort Myers, FL, postal facility when she heard a colleague scream: “She needs help!” Walters, a former nurse, saw that another co-worker nearby was choking. She rushed to the woman’s aid and performed the Heimlich maneuver, dislodging ...
Rural carrier detects gas leak at customer’s home
Rural Carrier Forrest Bailey III was recently delivering mail in Humble, TX, when he smelled a strong odor of leaking gas at a customer’s residence. Bailey immediately called 911, and emergency responders and utility workers soon arrived on the scene. The customer, an 86-year-old woman who wasn’t there at the ...
Highway 35 accident claims the life of rural mail carrier
UPDATE - Authorities have released the identity of a Norfolk woman who was killed in a two-vehicle accident Thursday afternoon. Stanton County Sheriff Mike Unger said that Francine Wolff, 57, of Norfolk was pronounced dead at the scene. UPDATE: Victim identified in fatal Stanton County accident | News | norfolkdailynews.com ...