NALC and USPS new agreement allows hiring retirees to work as ‘Holiday Carrier Assistants’

New MOU on Holiday Carrier Assistants in 2014 Sept. 23, 2014—The NALC and USPS have entered into the Memorandum of Understanding Re: Holiday Carrier Assistants – 2014 (M-01844). This MOU allows the Postal Service to begin hiring retired employees that wish to work during the upcoming four week December period. However, such employees shall not […]

NALC and USPS agree to new joint route adjustment process

NALC and USPS agree to new joint route adjustment process Sept. 23, 2014—The NALC and USPS have agreed upon a new joint route adjustment process called City Delivery Route Alternative Adjustment Process (CDRAAP) for 2014 and 2015. The new Memorandum of Understanding Re: City Delivery Route Alternative Adjustment Process – 2014-2015 (M-01845) establishes the process. […]

Wisconsin man charged after dispute with postal carrier over postage due

BLOOMINGTON, Wis. — A rural Bloomington man was arrested Wednesday on a charge of disorderly conduct after he got in a dispute with a rural letter carrier. On September 17, 2014 at 12:30 p.m., the rural Bloomington Postal Carrier arrived at the residence of Darrel Mish, 49 of Bloomington, to deliver two packages. Mish became upset […]

NLRB adopts get-tough remedy for USPS response to union information requests

The NLRB adopted a get-tough remedy last week involving information requests.  United States Postal Service Roswell, GA, September 12, 2014.  Charges filed by National Association of Letter Carriers Branch #4862. Based on the above findings of fact, the Formal Settlement Stipulation, and the entire record, and pursuant to Section 10(c) of the National Labor Relations […]

USPS recruiting more city carrier assistants

Help wanted The Postal Service is recruiting more people to serve in city carrier assistant (CCA) positions, non-career jobs that offer a stepping stone toward permanent employment with USPS. CCAs fill in for regular carriers on their routes and perform other mail delivery and collection tasks. Since the position was created in 2013, more than […]

Residents say non-career postal carriers deliver more panic than mail

(Santa Fe, New Mexico) It was the kind of day at Santa Fe’s upscale Zocalo condominiums that gives new meaning to the term “going postal.” A debit card landed in the wrong mailbox, misplaced by a postal carrier. How did mail delivery get this bad? He (Mike Flores, operations manager of Postal Service in this […]

USPS Graphic: City letter carriers returning after 5 p.m. in FY 2014

(September 7, 2014) In July 2014 the USPS Office of Inspector General (OIG) released an audit report on “City Letter Carriers Returning After 5.P.M.” in the Capital District.” Although the report addressed a growing problem of city carriers returning after 5 p.m. in USPS’ Capital District–it included the percentage of city letter carriers returning after […]