The 36-month contract covers 130,000 employees
4/18/25 – The Postal Service and the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association (NRLCA) have reached a tentative negotiated agreement.
Upon ratification by the union membership, which will take several weeks, the agreement will run through May 20, 2027.
“This agreement is economically responsible, fair to our employees and serves the best interest of our customers,” said Acting Postmaster General Doug Tulino. “The agreement aligns with the Delivering for America 10-year plan’s intent to provide reliable, value-driven mail and package delivery service to all Americans in fulfillment of our universal service obligation.”
The NRLCA represents more than 130,000 rural letter carriers nationwide.
NRLCA press release is below.
National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association
April 18, 2025
For Immediate Release
NRLCA Reaches Tentative Agreement with USPS for Three-Year
Contract
ALEXANDRIA, VA— The National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association and the United States
Postal Service have negotiated a Tentative Agreement to cover the 3-year period from May 21,
2024 to May 20, 2027. This Tentative Agreement must be ratified by a majority of the voting
membership of the NRLCA to become effective.
A detailed explanation of the changes will be presented in a special Tentative Agreement
edition of the National Rural Letter Carrier magazine and via ratification meetings to be held
in every state in accordance with Article XI, Section 1 of the Constitution of the National Rural
Letter Carriers’ Association.
The required ratification meetings will be held throughout the months of May and June 2025 in
conjunction with state conventions when possible; the time and place of each meeting will be
published on the NRLCA website as soon as possible.
The NRLCA National Board unanimously believes the Tentative Agreement is fair and
reasonable and is in the best interests of the 131,000 hardworking rural letter carriers across the
country. The Tentative Agreement provides for substantial gains in wages and benefits for all
classifications of rural carriers.
National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association
1630 Duke Street
Alexandria, Virginia 22314-3467
Phone: 703-684-5545
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The NRLCA, established in 1903, represents 131,000 career and non-career rural letter carriers
that operate out of more than 10,000 rural and suburban postal delivery centers servicing
80,000 routes.
rcas get screwed royally..I am one…we work extra time compared to the regular carriers but they get paid more then we do they get the benefits while we are here struggling to eithr get just 1 day off..or get full time hours
The proposed new contract totally sells out the RCAs. For the past few years the NRLCA has talked about doing something to ease the burden of many overworked RCAs but the do nothing about it! CCAs are giving the opportunity to quit working after 12 hour days or 60 hour weeks…why didn’t RCAs get the same? CCAs become career after a two year period, why don’t RCAs? CCAs received much better pay compensation than RCAs! The NRLCA did nothing to help RCAs! It’s going to be a BIG “NO” when voting to ratify!!!