News & information

January 2023

The Postal Record, Vol. 136, No. 1

Cover story

• NALC President Brian L. Renfroe sees challenges for new leadership team:
  • crime
  • staffing
  • postal operations reorganization
  Vows to work to protect letter carriers

News and features

• USPS to purchase 66,000 electric vehicles by 2028
• News from Washington
• MRS and Shop Steward’s Guide updated
• Last chance to contribute through CFC
• Renfroe makes HQ, regional appointments
• Back in service
• Monthly columns by national officers and staff members

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• President's Message

  Empowered solidarity

• USPS to purchase 66,000 electric vehicles by 2028

  USPS announces its intentions to increase the purchase of electric drive vehicles

• News from Washington

  118th Congress convenes

• MRS and Shop Steward’s Guide updated

  NALC has updated two resources for letter carriers—the Materials Reference System Index and the NALC Shop Steward’s Guide—and published them on nalc.org

• Renfroe makes HQ, regional appointments

  17 letter carriers and professional Headquarters staff take on new roles for the union

• Installation

  NALC President Brian L. Renfroe sees challenges for new leadership team: • crime • staffing • postal operations reorganization Vows to work to protect letter carriers

• Back in service

  A Utah letter carrier tells us about his hobby of restoring military vehicles

• Executive Vice President

  Where would we be without NALC?

• Vice President

  Updating NALC’s publications

• Secretary-Treasurer

  Reporting to the DOL: Forms LM-2, LM-3 and LM-4

• Assistant Secretary-Treasurer

  Aggressive representation

• Director of City Delivery

  Electric delivery vehicle pilot testing update

• Director of Safety and Health

  Conversion to career cleans the slate

• Director of Retired Members

  Now that you are retired

• Director of Life Insurance

  Beneficiaries

• Director, Health Benefits

  Postal Service Health Benefits Program

• Contract Talk

  Office time—Management’s arbitrary and often unrealistic expectations

• MDA Report

  Three steps to find reliable information on neuromuscular disease research

• Chief of staff

  Thank you for everything, Jim

• Workers' Compensation

  You haul 16 tons and what do you get?

• Community Services

  Register for the food drive

• Veterans Group

  Join the NALC Veterans Group today

• Letter from the Editor

  Flipping the script