News & information

October 2017

The Postal Record, Vol. 130, No. 10

Cover story

• A hard rain: Stories of letter carriers surviving, helping others and returning to their routes

News and features

• Carriers encouraged to give through CFC
• New contract’s pay increases and adjustments update
• For NALC’s activists, extended deadlines present lobbying opportunities
• What you need to know about skin cancer
• NALC Executive Council meets
• Graceful Envelope: The art of the mail honors innovation
• Proud to Serve
• Monthly columns by national officers and staff members

• President’s Message

  A time to focus on the long game

• A hard rain: Stories of letter carriers surviving, helping others and returning to their routes

  Hurricane Harvery resulted in the greatest flood—and one of the costliest natural disasters—in U.S. history, wreaking devastation for hundreds of miles along the Gulf Coast of Texas.

• Carriers encouraged to give through CFC

  Letter carriers can make charitable donations through the world’s largest annual workplace giving program, the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC), through deductions from our paychecks.

• New contract’s pay increases and adjustments update

  Because of the many calculations to determine the full extent of the increase in pay and back pay for each letter carrier covered by the new 2016-2019 National Agreement, some of the provisions of the new agreement could not be made effective immediately.

• For NALC’s activists, extended deadlines present lobbying opportunities

  Debt ceiling. Fiscal Year spending levels extended. CBO issues report on possible changes to federal retirement. House hearing in international drug shipments through the mail. Postal reform update.

• What you need to know about skin cancer

  Letter carriers need to remember that our job brings a risk of a disease that affects an estimated one in five people in their lifetime.

• NALC Executive Council meets

  Among other things, the Council discussed implementation of the many provisions of the new 2016-2019 National Agreement, recent Article 12 withholdings and key legislative items.

• Proud to Serve

  Honoring heroic letter carriers from Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin.

• Customer Connect

  Success stories from Columbia, MO Br. 763’s Jonathan Bond; St. Louis Br. 343’s Michele Jones; Grand Rapids, MI Br. 56’s Carl Roscoe; and NALC members from from Philadelphia Branch 157.

• The art of the mail honors innovation

  “Pushing the envelope” was the theme of the 2017 Graceful Envelope Contest.

• Executive Vice President

  Organizing update

• Vice President

  National-level arbitration update

• Secretary-Treasurer

  Convention 2018: Convention Call, amendments and resolutions info

• Assistant Secretary-Treasurer

  NALC regulations governing local branch elections

• Director of City Delivery

  Filling full-time regular opportunities

• Director of Safety and Health

  Increased parcel workload

• Director of Retired Members

  Divorce and retirement delays

• Director of Life Insurance

  Unclaimed property

• Director, Health Benefit Plan

  Be prepared for Open Season

• Contract Talk

  Changes to Article 8

• Postal Record editor

  Heroes in Houston

• Chief of Staff

  NALC promotes vote-by-mail at elections conference

• Community Service

  An evolving NALC Auxiliary

• Compensation Department

  Which form do I file?

• Deliver the Cure

  There’s no place like MDA Summer Camp or MDA Lock-Up

• Director of Education

  The first labor strike in America

• Veterans Group

  A means of assistance when it is needed most