Postal carrier observed working at another business on several occasions. U.S Attorney District of New Hampshire Press Release October 25, 2007 Arthur Martel, 55, of Hudson, NH, pleaded guilty to a four count Information before Judge Paul Barbadoro in U.S. District Court in Concord, New Hampshire. The Information charges Martel with two counts of Mail Fraud […]
(Press Release) The 300,000-member National Association of Letter Carriers (AFL-CIO) will announce its endorsement for the 2008 presidential election on Wednesday morning, September 12 in a briefing at 11 a.m. EDT at NALC Headquarters in Washington. NALC President William H. Young will be joined by the endorsed candidate at the event. The announcement will follow […]
Victoria Shaffer, a letter carrier was issued a notice of removal for threatening to kill her co-worker/former married lover. Shaffer filed a gender discrimination suit against the Postmaster General. According to federal court documents the case was recently dismissed because : 1) Shaffer’s evidence was not sufficient to support a finding that gender discrimination was […]
FSS will reduce city carrier work load by 85 per cent. Three-fourths of city carrier volume is flats, most City Carriers spend 2 hours in office and 6 hours on street with 30 minute fixed office time break. FSS will reduce office time and increase street time. The Memorandum of Understanding included in the USPS, […]
City Letter Carrier from Washington, DC. According to the Flickr Photo caption: “Daryl our super-friendly postman has been on his route in Columbia Heights since 1996. City Letter Carrier in Indianapolis, Indiana Flickr Photos
Tentative Agreement Reached On City Letter Carriers Contract NALC Press Release – The National Association of Letter Carriers reached tentative agreement today with the U.S. Postal Service on a new five-year National Agreement for all 222,000 city delivery letter carriers throughout the nation. The pact, which includes new limits on contracting out of city letter […]
Letter Carriers Set July 1 Picketing in New Jersey to Oppose ‘Contracting Out’ by Postal Service PATERSON, N.J.- Members of Paterson Branch 120 of the National Association of Letter Carriers will engage in informational picketing on Sunday, July 1, at the Paterson Post Office to protest a growing policy of the U.S. Postal Service to […]
by APWU President William Burrus on Contracting Out Mail Delivery My testimony last month [PDF] before the House Oversight and Reform Committee revealed differences of opinion between the APWU on the one hand and the other postal unions and management associations on the other, regarding the issue of congressional interference in collective bargaining. The long-standing APWU […]
Young Praises Move to Protect Letter Carriers (NALC Bulletin) Sen.Tom Harkin (D-IA) on May 23 introduced in the U. S. Senate legislation to protect city and rural letter carriers from having their work contracted out by the U.S. Postal Service to private firms and individuals. The bill, S. 1457, is titled the “Mail Delivery Protection […]
From a 1962 school poster series called “Community Helpers” “The mail is put on the trucks. Some trucks go to the train. Some trucks go to the airport. Some trucks carry mail to big ships. Other trucks deliver mail to the airport.” Flickr Photos