NALC is aware of an effort by the Postal Service in different parts of the country to convince customers to agree to change their mode of mail delivery to cluster box or centralized delivery. This page contains the latest information detailing the rights of both postal customers and letter carriers, and we have created a…
(October 24, 2014) Canada is getting cluster boxes, and lots of them. This week Canada Post rolled out it plan to replace home delivery at the door to centralized delivery at a cluster box down the block. Nearly 100,000 residences, plus over 3,300 businesses, have been converted so far. Over the next five years, Canada…
FORSYTH COUNTY — Thanks to a new federal guideline, residents of future subdivisions in Forsyth County may have to walk a little farther to check their mail. “What we’re hearing from the United States Postal Service is that for new development they’re going to require what they call cluster box units,” said Tom Brown, the…
(September 12, 2014) The U.S. Postal Service as we know it is continually under attack in this Congress. It is most important to understand the USPS has the dubious distinction of being the only employer, public or private, required by the federal government to prefund retirement health benefits for 75 years out, for workers not…
July 15, 2014—NALC is aware of an effort by the Postal Service in different parts of the country to convince customers to agree to change their mode of mail delivery to cluster box or centralized delivery. This page contains the latest information detailing the rights of both postal customers and letter carriers, and we have…
Cost-saving fixes for the United States Postal Service routinely spark hot debates – one still-developing measure on Capitol Hill had a short-lived run in Kilgore this week. In late May, the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee approved the Secure Delivery for America Act of 2014 (HR 4670). Next headed for a…
Dec. 1, 2013—NALC has recently become aware of an effort by the Postal Service in different parts of the country to convince customers to agree to change their mode of delivery to cluster box or centralized delivery. The following information details the rights of both postal customers and letter carriers: Customer Rights Sections 631.6 and…
