Sept. 6, 2012 -- The NALC's second annual "Fill the Satchel" fundraiser for the Muscular Dystrophy Association officially is this Sunday, Sept. 9, but letter carriers from Lake Charles, LA Branch 914 got a jump on things over the Labor Day holiday weekend by collecting money for the NALC's only official charity outside a local shopping center. Their efforts received some good coverage from NBC affiliate KPLC-TV Channel 7.

Wisconsin State Association of Letter Carriers President Scott Van Derven's letter to the editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel was published on Sunday, Sept. 2.