News & information

October 2020

The Postal Record, Vol. 133, No. 10

Cover story

• What's at stake for letter carriers in the 2020 elections?

News and features

• Working safely through the pandemic
• Extreme weather puts carriers at risk
• Branches find creative solutions to pandemic-related election issues
• Stamp Out Hunger Donor Drive raising money locally for food banks
• Carriers encouraged to give through CFC
• Union Plus offers free online college program
• Executive Order 10988: The 1962 presidential order that led to NALC being recognized and negotiating the first national agreement
• ‘Horse-crazy gal’
• Customer Connect adds up for USPS
• Monthly columns by national officers and staff members

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• President’s Message

  Voting and the Postal Service are essential

• Working safely through the pandemic

  Last month, NALC and the Postal Service agreed once again to continue several pandemic-related memorandums of understanding (MOUs).

• Vote

  What’s at stake for letter carriers in the 2020 elections

• Extreme weather puts carriers at risk

  The NALC Disaster Relief Foundation quickly provides relief to letter carriers who are victims of natural disasters

• Stamp Out Hunger Donor Drive raising money locally for food banks

  And Carriers encouraged to give through CFC

• Branches find creative solutions to pandemic-related election issues

  Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many branches have had to request dispensation to change the way they conduct elections

• Union Plus offers free online college program

  95 NALC members or family members have taken advantage of the program to date

• Executive Order 10988

  The 1962 presidential order that led to NALC being recognized and negotiating the first national agreement

• ‘Horse crazy gal’

  A Turners Falls, MA Branch 1614 member shares her love of horses

• Customer Connect adds up for USPS

  Some recent stories about Customer Connect leads submitted by letter carriers that have helped USPS earn new revenue

• Veterans Group

  Making deposits for military service

• Executive Vice President

  The election that defines the future for letter carriers

• Vice President

  A time to remember

• Secretary-Treasurer

  More important reminders

• Assistant Secretary-Treasurer

  The rules and rights of voting

• Director of City Delivery

  USPS delivery initiatives updates

• Director of Safety and Health

  Be a hero

• Director of Retired Members

  A brief history of CSRS and FERS

• Director of Life Insurance

  Help with your Hospital Plus claim

• Director, Health Benefits

  FEHB Open Season

• Contract Talk

  Leave provisions

• MDA Report

  MDA fundraising telethon returns

• Workers’ Compensation

  The politics of workers’ compensation

• Letter from the Editor

  The mail, the message(s)