To give immediate help, donate through paypal to JTouchton76@gmail.com Also need paper towels, baby wipes, work gloves, brooms, dust pans, garbage bags, etc. Not in Florida but want to help? Here’s the address to ship any supplies to. Julie Touchton will make sure supplies are distributed. Amazon would be a great option. Julie Touchton-Rural Carrier C/O Panama … Read more
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Hearing news of a new tool corporate is using (supposedly) in every district. It reports (by office) every time a carrier backs up, u-turns, left turns, deviates, accelerates too fast, brakes too fast. They are calling those “Events”. They intend it to be a tool for the PM’s to get lists of people they have … Read more
JJ: Joey Johnson JD: Jeanette Dwyer SB: Shirley Baffa RS: Ronnie Stutts Q: IF VOLUME DISAPPEARS DURING MAIL COUNT DOES THE UNION HAVE A PLAN? JD: ONLY IF WE CAN PROVE THEY DID IT DELIBERATELY Q: When we receive oversize parcels how do we handle team lift ? JD: you do not use team … Read more
I keep hearing from RCAs that say they are being told by their Postmaster/Supervisor that all RCAs get paid hourly instead of evaluated during the Christmas period. This is NOT correct. Only RCAs that are designation 79 will get paid hourly during the Christmas period. Most rural carriers hired after 1987 are Designation 78 … Read more
Good news. The ruralinfo.net redesigned mobile app is now back up. A couple of things to know: IMPORTANT – Before installing, please delete the old Ruralinfo app from your device. Some new features have been added. I hope you like them.. Download for Apple Download for Android Browser App Scan the QR code on the … Read more
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, so things are moving on this. We will get there, I promise. It is just … Read more
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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 Progressive.. Also here is some important info from the USPS on tort claims.. https://knowledgebase.ruralinfo.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/tort-claim1.pdf Please share … Read more
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 not as that is an issue that rears it’s head every year in the world … Read more
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 David Heather, Director of Steward Operations, NRLCA. This seminar focused on the work place environment. … Read more
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 off the street to deliver their parcels. It started first in the big cities, but … Read more
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 phase and they anticipate there might be some problems with that because there are factors … Read more