The Postal Service is paying significantly more in costs to supervise city mail carriers than it does for rural carriers, says a Dec. 2 USPS inspector general report. For every 100 employees, supervisory costs – including salary and benefits – for city carriers were about $440,000 on average in fiscal 2013, the report (pdf) ...

Dermott, AR, Rural Carrier Vivian Prescott grew concerned when a customer hadn’t collected mail in several days. She asked a neighbor to check on her. The neighbor called the woman’s son, who entered the house and found his mother unconscious. Emergency responders took her to a hospital where she recovered ...

“I know that this particular home, they have a few dogs, and I just came around the corner there where they live and I saw the shed on fire,” Thompson told the Daily Reporter. “I thought, ‘I just gotta check, just in case.'” Sure enough, Thompson heard puppies whimpering from ...

Cameron Brown, Waynesville, NC Posted 12/2/14 Waynesville, NC, Rural Carrier Cameron Brown was delivering mail to a residence when he heard someone calling for help from an adjacent workshop. He found a man on the floor bleeding from a head wound. Brown notified the man’s wife, who called for help ...

A mail carrier is being honored for stopping a small brushfire before it became a wildlife in Jefferson County. Bob Trujillo was delivering mail near Genesee when he smelled smoke. He investigated and spotted a small brushfire near a customer's home, according to the United State Postal Service. "Because he ...

To the NRLCA, Recently, the plan for Amazon Sunday deliveries was put into effect by the USPS. The plan is to have “main” offices as the Hub for these deliveries, not just to that office’s city and rural areas, but also to surrounding areas. This in essence committed “substitute” carriers/RCAs, ...

Inman, SC, Rural Carrier Emily Hawkins was delivering mail when she noticed a woman lying in a yard. The woman said she’d been on the ground for an hour after she fell and injured herself. Hawkins ran to get the woman’s husband, and they helped the woman get back on ...

Postmaster General Donahoe to Retire February 2015 The United States Postal Service Board of Governors announced today that Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer Patrick R. Donahoe has decided to retire February 1, 2015, after 39 years with the Postal Service. At a public meeting of the Board of Governors ...

At 9 o'clock this morning, the NRLCA received the following information on the cyber-breach that compromised Postal Service employees' personal information and employment information just minutes before Stand Up talks on the subject began around the country in Post Offices. President Dwyer did receive a phone call on Sunday night ...

As a longtime postal worker, Donna Boles sees the same things each day. Boles stops by 716 mailboxes on her route, which is about 40 miles. On Friday, the unexpected happen. As Boles was delivering mail to the home of Bonnie Sturkie, Sturkie ran up to Boles saying she needed ...

Portage resident Jessica D. Halverson, 22, died Monday after her vehicle rolled over and crashed on Old Highway U in the town of Caledonia, according to the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office. Halverson was driving a 2001 Chevy Blazer from the right front passenger seat as part of her employment as ...

Will County authorities say a U.S. Postal Service driver has been killed in a crash southwest of Chicago. The county coroner's office said 48-year-old Daniel McGuire of Channahon died Thursday. A Will County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman says McGuire drove his mail truck off a road and onto the shoulder before ...

Carmel, CA, Rural Carrier Napoleon Bautista was delivering mail at a home when he heard someone calling for help. He soon found an 80-year-old woman lying on the ground. She said she fell 20 minutes earlier and couldn’t move. Bautista called 911 and stayed with the woman until emergency responders ...

Shortsville, NY, Rural Carrier David Zimmerman became concerned when he noticed one of his customers hadn’t collected his mail in several days, so he knocked on the man’s door. There was no response, but Zimmerman could hear the man’s dogs barking. Sensing something was wrong, Zimmerman contacted his Postmaster, who ...

Camden, ME, Rural Carrier Michael Matthews was delivering mail when he noticed a house on fire and immediately called 911. No one was inside the house. Firefighters arrived and Matthews continued on his route. Although the house couldn’t be saved, the homeowner later visited the Post Office to thank Matthews ...

HOUSTON – The United States has filed a motion of its intent to seek the death penalty upon the conviction of James Wayne Ham for the murder of a mail carrier with the United States Postal Service (USPS), announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Inspector in Charge Robert Wemyss ...

THE PS FORM 4003 This form is to update a route for regular carriers, but it also affects a relief carrier's paycheck if it is not updated.  RCAs also need to know this information!! The PS Form 4003 contains all the route’s current, active delivery data including an official line of ...