Funeral set for 10-year North Carolina Rural Carrier tomorrow U.S. mail carrier Lisa Rudisill Wilkerson died Saturday in Denver, N.C. when a large tree fell onto her mail truck during a severe thunderstorm. Wilkerson lived in Sherrill’s Ford and had two children, a son, 19, and a daughter, 22. Her daughter is pregnant with Wilkerson’s […]
APWU, Sister Postal Unions Win Right to Bargain Over Cyber Intrusions 06/02/2015 – In a precedent-setting agreement approved by the National Labor Relations Board, the APWU and its sister postal unions won the right to bargain with the Postal Service over a massive data security breach that took place in 2014. The historic May 19 […]
Florida Governor signs bill allowing rural carriers to deliver mail without wearing seat belts May 22, 2015 – Northwest Florida state senator Greg Evers (R-Baker) sponsored a bill last year that would allow rural letter carriers to deliver mail without wearing seat belts. The state’s law requiring motorists to wear seat belts included limited exemptions, […]
Doug Hughes wouldn’t like this story. After all, the Florida letter carrier who landed a gyro-copter at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday has long insisted that his message — not he — is what’s important: “I’m just delivering the mail.” Hughes, 61, of Ruskin, Florida, piloted his small open-cockpit gyro-copter from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to Washington, […]
Postal Bulletin: Equipment Maintenance Allowance (EMA) Schedule for Rural Routes Rural Carriers In accordance with the provisions of Article 9, Section 2.J.3, of the Rural Carrier National Agreement, effective April 18, 2015 (pay period 10-15), the equipment maintenance allowance (EMA) will decrease to 64.5 cents per mile. The EMA is 64.5 cents per mile, or […]
Mailman’s friend warned Secret Service about plan to land gyrocopter on U.S. Capitol lawn Doug Hughes’ close friend and co-worker, Mike Shanahan, said today that the Ruskin mailman is not a terrorist and did not mean any harm with his protest. And just hours before Hughes landed in Washington, Hughes’ friend said he called a […]
NRLCA Announces: NLRB Issues Complaint Against United States Postal Service for Failing to Bargain Over and Provide Information to National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association Regarding Massive USPS Data Breach ALEXANDRIA, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has issued a Complaint against the Postal Service alleging that it violated federal labor law by failing to […]
From Postal Bulletin 22406 – January 8, 2015 In accordance with the provisions of Article 9, Section 2.J.3 of the Rural Carrier National Agreement, effective January 10, 2015 (pay period 03-15), the equipment maintenance allowance (EMA) will decrease to 69.5 cents per mile. The EMA is 69.5 cents per mile, or a minimum of $27.80 […]
(December 3, 2014) Northwest Florida state senator Greg Evers (R) filed a bill Tuesday that would allow rural letter carriers to deliver mail without wearing seat belts. The state’s law requiring motorists to wear seat belts includes limited exemptions, such as for workers collecting garbage or recyclable goods. Evers’ bill (SB 160) would add an […]
HOPE, Ind. (AP) — Plans to raze a Hope museum that honors rural mail carriers are being postponed until spring. The Indiana Rural Letter Carriers Association Museum was scheduled to be demolished as part of a $100,000 town square beautification project after the three-day Hope Heritage Days festival in September. But The Republic reports organizers hadn’t […]