Fox 2 Detroit – 4/27/21 – The county prosecutor says this is an example of the video not telling the whole story after a road rage fight broke out with a postal carrier and two women in Flint.
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — 4/19/21 – Steal the mail, wash the check, repeat. The cycle of “check washing,” a scam that involves mail and bank fraud, continues in Hampton Roads. The cases of check washing at the post office on Thoroughgood Road in Virginia Beach, officially known as the Bayside station, go back as […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – An Albuquerque postal worker is under investigation after making videos mocking homeless people along his mail route. He then posts those videos on the popular social media app, TikTok. KRQE News 13 does not know who is behind the videos but believes he is a mail carrier and he’s doing this while […]
USPS News Link – 4/15/21 – The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) won’t hold its annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive as planned this year, but it isn’t giving up on the cause. Rather than leaving bags of food by their mailboxes on the second Saturday in May, postal customers will be urged to […]
NALC News – 4/14/21 – On April 10, all city letter carriers began earning their new pay rates in accordance with the 2019 National Agreement. The new pay rates include the following: For career city carriers: 1.1% General Wage Increase effective November 23, 2019 $166 Cost of Living Adjustment effective February 29, 2020 $188 Cost […]
USPS worker is savagely beaten by two women ‘trying to get stimulus checks’ outside her badly dented postal van in broad daylight attack in Flint, Michigan A USPS mailwoman has been savagely beaten by two women who were accused of trying to rob stimulus checks from her van in Flint, Michigan. Footage shows the two women pounding the […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (FOX 46 CHARLOTTE)- 4/01/21 – Postal workers are protesting, saying they aren’t receiving basic worker’s rights, like being able to use their earned paid time off, being treated with respect, and being able to take sick days without being belittled for doing so. The Charlotte-area American Postal Workers Union president says the constant […]
NALC – 3/23/21 – Today the U. S. Postal Service released it long-term strategic business plan, which many in Congress have been demanding for years. There are many positive elements in the USPS Delivering for America Plan, including: its adoption of a credible growth strategy (worth $24 billion in revenues over 10 years) focused on […]
NALC – 3/15/21 – The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 signed into law on March 11, 2021, provides an important new leave benefit for letter carriers affected by COVID-19. Effective March 12, it establishes a new category of leave called Emergency Federal Employee Leave (EFEL). EFEL is available to all federal employees if they […]
NALC News – 3/10/21 – The House of Representatives once again passed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (H.R. 1319), following Senate passage Saturday, by a vote of 221-211. The legislation is expected to be signed into law by President Biden this week to provide a fifth round of COVID-relief to the American people. […]