PORTLAND, OR — The United States Postal Service is now accepting online applications for more than 300 seasonal, non-career holiday term employees to work in Oregon – 278 of them in Portland’s mail processing facilities. Applicants must be at least 18 years old or a high school graduate. Background checks and drug tests will be […]
(September 21, 2014) SALT LAKE CITY, UT — In the coming weeks the U.S. Postal Service will hire approximately 400 employees to work at select Utah Post Offices; 360 of the positions are temporary for the holidays only, and 40 are year-long appointments. Most of the positions are based in the Wasatch Front. The temporary […]
A Jefferson County mail carrier was taken to jail after authorities said she was under the influence while on her job and on her route Monday night. Sheriff’s deputies responded around 7 p.m. to a report of a white Jeep Wrangler driving recklessly on Taylor’s Ferry Road in western Jefferson County. A witness called the sheriff’s […]
OVID TOWNSHIP — Three people suffered non life-threatening injuries in an accident on Central Road at the Behnke Road intersection just after 3 p.m. Thursday. An Ohio couple was heading west in an SUV when they turned left in front of a rural mail carrier truck headed east on Central Road. The two vehicles collided […]
A Ponca City rural mail carrier died of massive injuries at the scene of a two-vehicle collision Tuesday about two miles northwest of Ponca City. Two Ponca City men are also injured in the rural area wreck which happened at 12:57 p.m. in the unmarked intersection at West Tower Road and South W Street. Brandi […]
Equipment Maintenance Allowance Schedule for Rural Routes Rural Carriers Effective July 12, 2014 (pay period 16-14), in accordance with the provisions of Article 9, Section 2.J.3 of the Rural Carrier National Agreement, the equipment maintenance allowance (EMA) will increase from 72.0 cents per mile to 75.0 cents per mile. The EMA is 75.0 cents per […]
Midlothian, VA, Rural Carrier James Whitt had almost completed his route along a residential street when his LLV backfired and started running roughly. As soon as Whitt turned off the vehicle, the engine caught fire. Whitt determined it was safe to unload the vehicle and moved the mail to a nearby lawn while a customer […]
WILLISTON, N.D. – Senator John Hoeven today announced that a new full-service retail postal facility in Williston will open its doors to customers on Tuesday, July 1 at 9 a.m. United States Postal Service (USPS) Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe approved the facility’s lease in March. Hoeven hosted Donahoe in North Dakota last year to hear […]
Senator’s bill will protect six-day delivery, rural post offices (US SENATE)—Senator John Walsh today cosponsored the Postal Service Protection Act to modernize the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to protect six-day delivery, overnight delivery standards, and protect rural post offices. Walsh’s support for the Postal Service comes at a time when the U.S. House of Representatives […]
Successful Results for Letter Carriers’ 2014 Annual Food Drive Another Excellent Effort Helps Americans and Communities in Time of Slow Economy, Natural Disasters WASHINGTON, June 17, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The annual food drive of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) collected almost 73 million pounds of food to help restock food banks, pantries and […]