Just a quick FYI on the engineer study. Both parties received the study results November 1 they have 30 days to review and take questions and concerns back to the engineers. Note: This info came from a very reliable source,…
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September mail counts have always been confusing. Sometimes we all count, sometimes we don’t.. So, hopefully this will help clear things up a bit in regard to September mail counts. The most important thing to know is there is ALWAYS…
A very important FYI for anyone that uses their personally owned vehicle to deliver mail. Though an insurance company may tell you that your vehicle is covered please do not rely on it. This person had a commercial policy with…
It is that time again. Every year the NALC sponsors the Stamp Out Hunger food drive. In 2010, the NRLCA became an official partner of the food drive. I am not going to get into whether you should help or…
Submitted by attendee – Thanks for sharing. You know who you are 😉 Work Place Environment – Harassment The first seminar was Saturday evening from 6:30-9:30 pm. It was given by Joey Johnson, Director of Labor Relations, NRLCA, and…
This always seems to be a confusing matter year after year.. NON DELIVERABLE DPS – Rural carriers are paid less to deliver a piece of DPS than they are for a regular worked letter. The premise of DPS is that…
A Ruralinfo.net editorial A couple of years ago, Amazon had an epiphany. They decided they could start their own delivery service to cut out the middle man. (i.e. UPS, Fedex, USPS) So they went full steam ahead and started hiring people…
Location: Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Nashville, Tennessee Here is what I know that happened at the convention The 2015-2018 contract hard copy should be available by the end of September The engineer study is in a scale up…
Who knows what MMM mail or 3M mail? MMM is mail from your DPS that is: Missorted – This is mail that belongs to a different route in your office. Missequenced– This is mail that is out of sequence in your…
(Edited by Ruralinfo.net for clarification and to fix an error) This is something many managers like to deny credit for during a count. Remember all of those times throughout the year where you get mail back from CFS for whatever reason?…
Let the games begin, because really that is what they are.. Games.. I mean what other time of year are we considered “petty” when we ask for time for things we do EVERYDAY? These are not fun games, these…
By Ruralinfo.net You might have seen an article I posted yesterday about the Postal Service approving new larger mailbox standards. While it will not affect boxes currently on rural routes, (unless a customer voluntarily goes to the larger box) it…
The rural carrier contract ends on May 20th, 2015. Just two days from now. The NRLCA previously announced back in March that they were going into negotiations but we have not received any information. Will we get any information before…
Two years ago this month, specifically May 17th, one of own was brutally murdered by a customer. If you are not familiar with the story, she was delivering mail and a customer waited for her, shot her and burned her mail…
In July, Wheeler Bros., Inc. (WBI) was awarded a delivery order to supply 10,000 engineered shelving kits to the United States Postal Service for use in the Long Life Delivery Vehicles (LLV). This delivery order has a value of $2.9…