A federal judge in Texarkana denied a request to certify a civil suit filed by seven U.S. Postal Service mail carriers as a class action lawsuit.The suit alleged the carriers had been forced to work more than 40 hours per week without overtime compensation, had timecards altered to their detriment by a supervisor, been forced […]
San Rafael residents and businesses say recent postal route changes have severed years-long relationships with their letter carriers and resulted in unreliable mail delivery. On Aug. 14, the U.S. Postal Service eliminated five of San Rafael’s 75 postal routes and changed about half of the remaining routes, said James Wigdel, a postal service spokesman. No […]
Capt. Dan Casey of the St. Charles Fire Department said the man was delivering mail in a truck about 12:30 p.m. when he touched a metal mailbox in the 100 block of Hastings Way. Lightning struck nearby and traveled through the mailbox, he said. Casey said the mail carrier called 911. He had chest pains […]
ANAHEIM, Calif., Aug. 13- Letter Carriers union President Fredric V. Rolando was elected by acclamation to a four-year term as head of the 295,000-member postal union by delegates to the 67th Biennial Convention of the National Association of Letter Carriers, the union announced today. Rolando, who also is a vice president of the AFL-CIO, currently […]
WASHINGTON — The Postal Service is ready to deliver lifesaving drugs to about a quarter of the residents of Minneapolis-St. Paul, the only metropolitan area in the nation where letter carriers have been trained to dispense medication after a large-scale terrorist attack involving biological weapons. Six years after the government began exploring the idea of […]
USPS has notified a Local California APWU President of its intent ( it appears that the assignment has already been posted) to post a “combined full-time assignment” , consisting of six (6) hours of carrier duties and two (2) hours of clerk duties. The Postal Service has proposed to post this job as a City […]
Man assaulted and robbed letter carrier of $26 while delivering mail The U.S. Department of Justice’s U.S. Attorney’s office for Eastern District of Louisiana issued the following press release: July 16, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CHRISTOPHER ISAAC, age 20, of Marrero, Louisiana, pled guilty in federal court yesterday before U. S. District Judge Helen G. […]
HAYWARD — It was a match made in Hayward’s Post Office more than 30 years ago. Ron McMahan spied Peggy standing at the time clock, ready to begin work. “Would you go out sometime?” he asked. “I would if someone asked me. You can call me,” she replied. “That stopped him for a moment,” Peggy […]
Letter Carriers, Victims, Doctors Promote National Dog Bite Prevention Week CHICAGO, May 13 – Fifty-four Chicago U.S. Postal Service letter carriers were among the 2,863 postal employees attacked by dogs last year, yet that pales in comparison to the 4.7 million Americans bitten annually — the majority of whom were children. According to the City […]
President Rolando announced May 4 that the NALC and the Postal Service have reached an agreement on the next phase of a Joint Alternate Route Adjustment Process. However, the agreement makes it clear that finalizing a number of incomplete revisits of 2009 MIARAP adjustments must be given priority over the evaluation and adjustment of routes/zones […]