If you know about an active or retired member of your branch who has performed some sort of heroic action, contact us as soon as possible at 202-662-2851 or postalrecord@nalc.org. We’ll follow up with you to obtain news clippings, photos or other information for use in The Postal Record's Proud to Serve section, a semi-regular compilation of heroic stories about letter carriers in our communities.
Six days a week, in every city and town across America, proud union letter carriers travel the streets and byways, serving every home and business along their routes. Because these brothers and sisters are everywhere, every day, they represent the front line of safety for many in our communities, not only the elderly or the young, but Americans of every age and in every station of life.
These good men and women believe that serving America means more than delivering the mail. For them, a vital part of "universal service" is a sense of universal caring.
There are tens of thousands of courageous letter carriers all across America whose daily deeds of bravery and simple compassion make us all proud:
Letter carriers put their own lives and safety at risk.
Letter carriers cast a watchful, protective eye over the neighborhoods they serve.
Letter carriers selflessly give of their own personal time and talents to help the needy.
Letter carriers raise millions of dollars for MDA.
Letter carriers collect tens of millions of pounds of food each year in NALC's National Food Drive.
For them, to serve means to protect, to assist, to help every citizen at any time the opportunity arises.
On duty or off, letter carrier heroes generously deliver that "extra service" to the American public every day, and in doing so they proudly carry on a great tradition of delivering for America, six days a week.
2011 NALC Heroes of the Year
NALC President Fredric V. Rolando honored the 2011 Heroes of the Year at a special ceremony in Washington.
Each month in The Postal Record, we publish stories of bravery and community service performed by our members. Over the course of a year we highlight hundreds of these stories—and we know that many of the most impressive acts go unreported. And why is that? Because after helping someone, maybe even saving one or more lives—most of our carriers simply go back to work.
If we do find out, it’s often because a neighbor or relative of the person or family that was aided writes a letter or calls to tell us what happened.
This year’s winners were selected by three distinguished judges: Chief Richard Bowers of the Montgomery County, MD Department of Fire and Rescue Services; Bud Biscardo, the AFL-CIO’s Community Services Liaison to the United Way of America; and Richard Daschbach, chair and chief judge of the Employees’ Compensation Appeals Board at the U.S. Department of Labor.
