President Dwyer’s Opening Statement for 2018 USPS/NRLCA Contract Negotiations
While today is not the time for specifics, we want you to know that any new contract should have appropriate general wage increases along with a continuation, if not improvement, of the COLA formula. And it should come as no surprise to you, and especially not to Doug, who has ...
NRLCA: Senate Introduces S. 2629 – Postal Service Reform Act of 2018
On March 22, Senators Tom Carper (D-DE), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Heide Heitkamp (D-ND), and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) introduced the bipartisan Postal Service Reform Act of 2018, titled “Improving Postal Operations, Service, and Transparency.” The legislation is a comprehensive reform bill that would put the Postal Service on firm financial footing ...
In memoriam – Sheila Coffman, RCA, Hot Springs Arkansas
Sheila Coffman was a RCA in Hot Springs, AR 71901 and her mother is a Rural Carrier at 71901 - Her Aunts are retired rural carriers from 71901 and 71913. Her cousin is a rural carrier at 71901. She carried her route Saturday and had a medical emergency at home ...
RCA dies after being pinned by own vehicle near Ann Arbor
LYNDON TOWNSHIP, MI – A woman was pinned by a U.S. Postal Service vehicle against a handrail and died in Lyndon Township Wednesday, March 21, according to authorities. Authorities believe she may have been a postal worker delivering packages, but couldn’t confirm her identity Wednesday. The incident took place in ...
March Rural Carrier Heroes
James Hunter, Prosper, TX Rural Carrier James Hunter was recently delivering a package to a customer’s home in Prosper, TX, when the man’s housekeeper asked for help. Her boss had fallen in the garage, she said, and she couldn’t get him up on her own. Hunter, who had assisted the ...
Step 4 Settlement on Carriers Right to Take Parcels and Odd-Size Pieces to Your Case to Sort and Mark Your Case
These cases involve management not allowing carriers to sequence or mark parcels in the office if they will not make their leaving time for the route or if they would work over 10 hours for the day on their route. The parties agree that section 223.23 of the PO-603 allows ...
Engineering Panel Update: Comments Have Now Been Submitted by the Parties
Pursuant to the July 3, 2012 MOU on the Evaluated Compensation System Time Standards Project, the NRLCA and the Postal Service have an opportunity to evaluate and comment on the Industrial Engineering Panel’s Final Report on the Rural Route Evaluated Compensation System (“RRECS”), which it issued on October 31, 2017 ...
Husband of southern Indiana postal worker who drowned delivering mail says her death was preventable
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ind. (WDRB) -- Officials in southern Indiana now confirm an accidental drowning killed a postal worker delivering mail in Madison. Teelah Kappeler, 31 died Saturday. Her husband, Mark Kappeler, said her car was found upside down, flipped on its top in a creek off Little Brushy Fork Road ...
Rural Carrier celebrated for 55 years of post office service in Martinton, IL
John Moore, of Martinton, hasn't stopped working in 55 years at the Martinton Post Office on West Main Street — not even during the surprise gathering to celebrate his years of service, this past Friday morning. Moore, 75, started his Friday morning, unsuspecting as always, by arriving to work at ...
Rural Carrier Hero: Mary Blair, New Bethlehem, PA
Rural Carrier Mary Blair was recently delivering mail in New Bethlehem, PA, when she spotted a single-car accident. Blair stopped to assist the lone victim, a 21-year-old woman who was crawling out of the overturned vehicle and bleeding. The Postal Service employee called 911 and urged the woman — who ...
Family, friends grieve USPS worker killed on mail route Saturday
JEFFERSON COUNTY, IN (WAVE) - Family and friends are mourning a postal worker who died when her car went off the road Saturday night. The Jefferson County Sheriff's Department identified her as 31-year-old Teelah Kappeler of Hanover, Indiana. Her car was found overturned in a creek along her postal route off East Little Brushy ...
Police say missing southern Indiana postal worker (RCA) found dead in her vehicle
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Police in Jefferson County, Indiana, say a missing postal worker has been found dead. This is according to a post made Monday morning on the Jefferson County, Indiana Sheriff’s Department Facebook page. Police say a search began Saturday night for 31-year-old Hanover resident Teelah Kappeler after ...
Rural Carrier Hero: Deborah Amsbaugh, Polk City, IA
Rural Carrier Deborah Amsbaugh recently responded to a life-threatening emergency while delivering mail in Polk City, IA. She was at a home’s curbside mailbox when a teenager burst out of the garage, screaming for help. Amsbaugh soon learned that the boy had come home from school unexpectedly and discovered his ...
Rural Route Bidding System to Be Shut down from 2/17/18 Thru 2/20/18
Due to the scheduled HCES system outage running from Saturday 2/17/18 - 5 AM through Tuesday 2/20/18 - 6 AM, rural carrier postings closing on the dates listed below will be extended to close the appropriate number of affected days after the system comes back up on 2/20/2018. Closing date: ...
Rural Carrier Hero: Becky Illgen, Cottage Grove, WI
Rural Carrier Becky Illgen was recently delivering mail in Cottage Grove, WI, when she spotted a little girl who was clearly confused and scared. Illgen stopped and offered to help the child — a third-grader who had gotten off at the wrong bus stop and had no idea where she ...
NRLCA: Administration Releases FY 2019 Budget Proposal
On Monday, February 12, the Administration released details to their FY2019 Budget Proposal, titled “Efficient, Effective, Accountable: An America Budget”. The proposed budget is a $4.4 trillion budget that sets forth the Administration’s priorities as Congress begins to prepare spending legislation for the next fiscal year. This is the first ...