News & information

January 2024

The Postal Record, Vol. 137, No. 1

Cover story

• What every letter carrier needs to know about the Postal Service Health Benefits Program

News and features

• Letter carriers tell Phoenix: ‘Enough is enough!’ on crime
• House committee holds hearing on WEP and GPO repeal
• NALC selects convention venues for 2028, 2030 
• Postal Service considers fleet with mix of NGDVs and commercial vehicles
• The letter carrier of a thousand faces
• How do I get city carrier uniforms?
• Leadership Academy graduates urged to strengthen letter carriers’ cause
• Proud to Serve: Honoring heroic carriers
• NALC Branch publication competition call for entries
• Monthly columns by national officers and staff members

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• President's Message

  Evaluating our goals and priorities for 2024

• Letter carriers tell Phoenix: ‘Enough is enough!’ on crime

  Phoenix carriers hold the latest rally to call for stronger prosecutions and more protection by USPS amidst surge in attacks on carriers

• News from Washington

  House committee holds hearing on WEP and GPO repeal

• NALC selects convention venues for 2028, 2030

  The NALC Executive Council has selected the sites and dates for the 2028 and 2030 national conventions

• Postal Service considers fleet with mix of NGDVs and commercial vehicles

  As the process moves forward, with the first NGDV planned for delivery from the manufacturer (Oshkosh Defense) in June 2024, NALC will continue to meet with the Postal Service regarding the replacement of the delivery fleet

• What every letter carrier needs to know about the Postal Service Health Benefits Program

  We explain what carriers need to know about the PSHB Program

• The letter carrier of a thousand faces

  An Arizona letter carrier tells us about his acting in and moviemaking of Western films

• How do I get city carrier uniforms?

  It is important to know when a new employee becomes eligible for his or her uniform allowance, how much that allowance will be and how it will be provided, and the ways in which uniforms can be purchased

• Leadership Academy graduates urged to strengthen letter carriers’ cause

  NALC Director of Safety and Health Manuel L. Peralta Jr. presided over the graduation ceremony of the 31 members of NALC Leadership Academy Class 27

• Proud to Serve

  Honoring heroic carriers

• NALC Branch publication competition call for entries

  Editors of branch and state association newsletters and websites are invited to enter NALC’s biennial competition for outstanding periodical publications

• Executive Vice President

  Article 15–Interpretive Step

• Vice President

  Resolve to be more active in your branch

• Secretary-Treasurer

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

• Assistant Secretary-Treasurer

  New responsibilities

• Director of City Delivery

  New career orientation and MDD-TR updates

• Director of Safety and Health

  Investigating accidents, Finding the true cause

• Director of Retired Members

  Retirement by the numbers

• Director of Life Insurance

  Retirement savings plan settlement options

• Director, Health Benefits

  SilverScript Prescription Drug Program explained

• Contract Talk

  Back-pay compensation—PS Forms 8038 and 8039

• MDA Report

  New Year’s resolutions

• Workers’ Compensation

  Medical evidence and OWCP, Part 5—The CA-2 for occupational disease

• Staff Report: Kori Blalock Keller

  Team NALC

• Staff Report: Tim McKay

  The revival of the NALC Activist and other resources for representatives

• Monthly CSRS annuity payments

  for letter carriers who retire on March 1, 2024

• Monthly FERS annuity payments

  for letter carriers who retire on March 1, 2024

• Veterans Group

  Veterans’ legislative update

• Letter from the Editor

  Upbeat notes from the postal beat