News & information

March 2025

The Postal Record, Vol. 138, No. 3

Cover story

• Fight Like Hell!

News and features

• Membership rejects tentative collective-bargaining agreement, interest arbitration next step
• Congress reintroduces bipartisan Protect Our Letter Carriers Act
• House introduces anti-privatization resolution
• Federal Retirement Fairness Act reintroduced in House
• Social Security Fairness Act implementation information
• PMG DeJoy makes preparations to step down
• Bill to establish vote-by-mail nationally introduced in House
• Wildres take toll on L.A. carriers
• Great Postal Strike remembered with videos available online
• Disciplinary interviews and Weingarten rights
• The car of a lifetime
• Still time to register for food drive
• How mail delivery connected rural America
• Honoring heroic letter carriers
• Positive news items about letter carriers and the mail
• Monthly columns by national officers and staff members

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Audiobook

• President’s Message

  ‘Fight Like Hell!’

• Letter carriers in action

  When national media outlets started reporting that the White House was planning to restructure the Postal Service, letter carriers banded together to do what we do best—fight for our jobs and our futures.

• Membership rejects tentative collective-bargaining agreement; interest arbitration next step

  The active membership of the National Association of Letter Carriers voted to reject the ratification of the tentative 2023-2026 National Agreement with the United States Postal Service.

• News from Washington

  Congress reintroduces bipartisan Protect Our Letter Carriers Act; House introduces anti-privatization resolution; Federal Retirement Fairness Act reintroduced in House; Social Security Fairness Act implementation information; More

• Wildfires take toll on L.A. carriers

  The fires killed at least 29 people, destroyed thousands of homes and businesses, and left many people homeless, making the fires among the most destructive in California’s history.

• Great Postal Strike remembered with videos available online

  Though it lasted barely more than a week, the strike that began on March 18, 1970, ushered in dramatic change for the union, its sister unions and postal operations, and led to letter carriers finally gaining collective-bargaining rights.

• Disciplinary interviews and Weingarten rights

  All letter carriers, regardless of how long they have been employed, have Weingarten rights, which means you have the right to have a union steward present during a meeting in which management asks you questions that could lead to discipline.

• The car of a lifetime

  One NALC member kept his first car and now wins awards for it in auto shows.

• Still time to register for food drive

  With just two months to go, time is running out for branches to register to guarantee that they will receive postcards. Registration is easy and requires only a few minutes.

• How mail delivery connected rural America

  It would take time—and it wouldn’t be easy—but eventually rural free delivery connected Americans in a way that they never had been before.

• Carriers and the mail make news online

  Mail-centered stories that have appeared on social media and online news sites.

• Proud to Serve

  Honoring heroic carriers

• Veterans Group

  Join the NALC Veterans Group today

• Executive Vice President

  A fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay

• Vice President

  United we stand

• Secretary-Treasurer

  IRS, Labor Department reporting and other important reminders

• Assistant Secretary-Treasurer

  Fighting the good fight

• Director of City Delivery

  Collection box reassignment

• Director of Safety and Health

  It hit the fan

• Director of Retired Members

  Updates

• Director of Life Insurance

  Individual Disability Income

• Director, Health Benefits

  Postal Service Health Benefits transition

• Contract Talk

  Administrative leave for acts of God

• Workers’ Compensation

  New administration rescinds policies for schedule awards, CA-9 form

• MDA Report

  Advocating for the MDA community

• Monthly CSRS annuity payments

  for letter carriers who retire on April 1, 2025

• Monthly FERS annuity payments

  for letter carriers who retire on April 1, 2025

• Letter from the Editor

  Back to basics