Press Releases from the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas : (HOUSTON) – A mail handler for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has been indicted for mail theft, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today. Johnny McCoy, 49, of Spring, Texas, has been charged in a one-count indictment with theft of mail […]
Illinois Letter Carrier fired for failing to report income earned playing bass guitar for a rock band called BANG! Truhlar sued the Postal Service and NALC Branch. TRUHLAR v. U.S. POSTAL SERVICE KENNETH T. TRUHLAR, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, et al., Defendants-Appellees. No. 09-1652. United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit. Argued December […]
Glenview, IL, Letter Carrier Joe Kraus is celebrating 50 years of delivering the mail. Nothing has slowed him down. He’s a rarity. Most people change jobs many times. But for Kraus, delivering the mail in his hometown was an excellent fit. “My parents bought a new house in 1940 when I was a boy,” he […]
From PostalReporter reader: Our Union is in receipt of the attached arbitration case. It has awarded close to $30,000 to letter carriers in the Milford Post Office (New Hampshire) . It also includes some retirees and transfers from the Milford Post Office. The case deals with Postal Managers that “Stole Time” from the electronic time […]
Burrus Update A Letter Carrier wrote to me recently in response to an Update I posted last month, praising my work on behalf of postal employees and the USPS, and offering some alternate ideas about how the Postal Service could grow. The Letter Carrier suggested that my column (Update 21-2009) downplayed the importance of generating […]
Annual Holiday food drive to benefit local charities SANTA BARBARA, CA—Postal Service letter carriers will deliver more than mail on Saturday, Dec.12, 2009. With the help of residential Postal customers, and the support of the Postal Service and the National Association of Letter Carriers Union, Postal employees in Goleta, Santa Barbara, Montecito and Carpinteria will […]
On Wednesday, November 25, any USPS letter carrier can visit Dunkin’ Donuts restaurants throughout the country for free coffee, any size CANTON, Mass. (November 24, 2009) — On the eve of the holiday season, Dunkin’ Donuts, America’s all-day, every day stop for coffee and baked goods, is delivering a very special gift to the men […]
USPS notifed NALC of the following: This is to advise you of the intent of the Los Angeles Performance Cluster to utilize the provisions of Article 12.5.C.5 to involuntarily reassign up to 315 fulltime carriers and 8 part-time flexible carriers from the craft and/or installation at the selected post offices listed below: FT Impact PTF […]
Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) introduced legislation for the U.S. Postal Service to team up with Census Bureau. The letter carriers will help with the once-a-decade count of how many people live in America. Below is the text of the legislation introduced July 10, 2009. So far the bill has nineteeen co-sponsors. 111th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. […]
Fredric V. Rolando assumed the presidency of the 300,000-member National Association of Letter Carriers (AFL-CIO) today, following the retirement of William H. Young after more than 6 1/2 years as head of the postal union. Rolando, 56, a member of Sarasota, Florida NALC Branch 2148, moved up from his position as the union’s executive vice […]