NALC Postal Record – February 2023 It’s not Batman’s lair or an underground city in a dystopian zombie movie—it’s where the Postal Service stores stamps. SubTropolis is an enormous underground office and warehouse complex in Kansas City, MO, that houses the USPS Stamp Fulfillment Services (SFS) office. From its cavernous office, SFS ships hundreds of…
January 20, 2023 NALC and USPS have agreed to memorandum of agreement (M-01988) pursuant to the May 24, 2022, Memorandum of Understanding Re: City Delivery Staffing Adjustment – Hiring Part-Time Flexible City Letter Carriers (M-01986), providing an additional 36 installations in which the Postal Service will convert all city carrier assistants to part-time flexible (PTF)…
December 5, 2022 The NALC’s Materials Reference System (MRS) Index and Summaries has been updated and contains summaries of key contractual documents and direct links to all M-number documents as well as C-numbered arbitrations. The MRS has a new look and format which will allow NALC to provide updates on a real time basis. The…
December 2022 Postal Record With staffing issues existing in many parts of the country, NALC has received numerous reports of management utilizing employees from other bargaining-unit crafts to perform city letter carrier work. There also have been reports of city letter carriers being forced to work in other crafts. Protecting the work in the letter…
November 22, 2022 Pursuant to the May 24, 2022, Memorandum of Understanding Re: City Delivery Staffing Adjustment – Hiring Part-Time Flexible City Letter Carriers (M-01986), NALC and USPS have agreed to additional memorandums of agreement (M-01988) providing for another 11 installations added to the all-career city letter carrier workforce model. In these installations, the Postal…
November 13, 2022 Mail carriers have become an integral part of many Americans’ daily lives with the rise in online shopping that came with the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, a TikToker and mail carrier has gone viral after telling viewers that, first, the USPS needs help, and second, viewers can make a lot of money in…
October 7, 2022 NALC and USPS have agreed on two additional memorandums of agreement (M-01988) pursuant to the May 24, 2022, Memorandum of Understanding Re: City Delivery Staffing Adjustment – Hiring Part-Time Flexible City Letter Carriers (M-01986), providing an additional 163 installations in which the Postal Service will convert all city carrier assistants to part-time…
The U.S. Postal Service’s package volume and weight have increased as First-Class Mail has declined, representing a change in mail mix. The OIG found a correlation between total package weight and letter carrier injuries. The OIG found that the Postal Service has no specific protocols in place outlining how a carrier should deliver a heavy…
