News & information

January 2022

The Postal Record, Vol. 135, No. 1

Cover story

• A year of giving back: Community service stories

News and features

• Postal reform in the new year?
• How to request overtime or auxiliary assistance and complete a PS Form 3996, Carrier-Auxiliary Control
• Let them eat cake
• Branch publication competition call for entries
• 2020 NALC Publication Contest winners
• The Postal Record wins nine ILCA awards
• Last call to sign up for CFC
• Mail to the chief: U.S. Presidents and the mail
• Proud to Serve: Heroic letter carriers
• Letter carriers and the mail on social media
• Monthly columns by national officers and staff members

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• President’s Message

  Facing the Amazon challenge

• News from Washington

  Postal reform in the new year?

• How to request overtime or auxiliary assistance and complete a PS Form 3996, Carrier-Auxiliary Control

  Rules for what to do when you believe that the route you are assigned to carry has more work than you can complete within eight hours, or you believe that you cannot complete all the work assigned to you for the day within your scheduled time.

• Proud to Serve

  Honoring heroic carriers

• Letter carriers and the mail on social media

  News stories and interesting anecdotes that celebrate letter carriers and the mail

• Let them eat cake

  A San Francisco letter carrier used to be a pastry chef

• Publication competitions

  Branch publication competition call for entries; the list of the 2020 NALC Publication Contest winners; and The Postal Record wins nine ILCA awards

• Last call to sign up for CFC

  It’s not too late to sign up to support the charity of your choice through the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) in 2022, but time is running out—the campaign season goes through Jan. 15.

• A year of giving back

  For letter carriers, it’s a time to look back at the way they’ve given of themselves.Letter carriers don’t simply deliver to their communities, they make those communities stronger by the act of caring.

• Mail to the chief

  U.S. presidents and the mail

• Three appointed to Executive Council

  President Rolando names a new trustee and two new NBAs

• Executive Vice President

  New year, same problems, more opportunities?

• Vice President

  Arbitration report

• Secretary-Treasurer

  Reporting to the DOL: Electronic filing required for Forms LM-2, LM-3 and LM-4

• Assistant Secretary-Treasurer

  COVID-19: Branch and state association administration

• Director of City Delivery

  City delivery updates

• Director of Safety and Health

  Emergency action plans

• Director of Retired Members

  Frequently asked questions

• Director of Life Insurance

  Whole life insurance without paying for your entire life

• Director, Health Benefits

  Meeting your goals for the new year

• Contract Talk

  Revocation of driving privileges

• MDA Report

  The Tough Mudder

• Community Services

  Hawaii World War II memorial rededication ceremony

• Workers’ Compensation

  Meeting OWCP’s burden of proof

• Monthly CSRS annuity payments

  for letter carriers who retire on April 1, 2022

• Monthly FERS annuity payments

  for letter carriers who retire on April 1, 2022

• Veterans Group

  Join the NALC Veterans Group today

• Letter from the Editor

  One-two punch