News & information

October 2011

The Postal Record, Vol. 124, No. 10

Cover story

• Calling on Congress: Letter carriers lead the charge to inform Congress and the American public about the real truth about the Postal Service's financial crisis.

News and features

• Negotiating a postal future: NALC and USPS continue talks toward a new collective-bargaining agreement; bargaining committees are set
• Preview of the 2011 Heroes of the Year awards
• Natural disasters take toll on PERF: Postal Employees' Relief Fund strains to keep up with demand
• Global unions share postal innovations: NALC co-hosts worldwide forum on new products and services
• MA postal community praises Customer Connect program
• NALC gives MDA check for $1.75M; fundraising effort continues
• Proud to Serve
• Monthly columns by national officers and staff members

• President's Message

  Taking it to the streets—and to the airwaves

• Negotiating a postal future

  The uncertainty over legislation that could address USPS' financial crisis hung over negotiations between USPS and NALC as USPS continued to push for slash-and-burn options while NALC was working toward building a stronger future for USPS.

• Calling on Congress

  Active members, retired members, Auxiliary members and family members are lobbying on Capitol Hill, and NALC rallies with the three other postal unions in every congressional district to ask citizens to join with us to save America’s Postal Service.

• Natural disasters take a toll on PERF

  Natural disasters and fires don’t rest, and we can’t either.

• Global unions share postal innovations

  NALC co-hosts worldwide forum on new products and services.

• Customer Connect

  Massachusetts postal community praises Customer Connect program

• NALC gives MDA $1.75 million

  Letter carriers made a muscle for MDA at the 46th annual MDA Labor Day Telethon by presenting a check for $1.75 million on the show, which aired in a new primetime spot, Sunday, Sept. 4, the evening before Labor Day.

• Proud to Serve

  Honoring heroic letter carriers.

• Executive Vice President

  October 2001

• Vice President

  Tough times

• Secretary-Treasurer

  Convention delegate information, resolutions and amendments

• Assistant Secretary-Treasurer

  A world of possibilities

• Director of City Delivery

  Bad form

• Contract Talk

  Joint Alternative Route Structure Test 2011

• Director of Safety and Health

  Abuse on the workroom floor continues

• Director of Retired Members

  What have/will you fight for?

• Director of Life Insurance

  MBA's Hospital Plus plan

• Director of Health Benefits

  Important plan information

• MDA Coordinator

  2011 MDA telethon credits the past, looks to the future

• Compensation Department

  Strains and sprains and denied claims

• Director of Education

  Delivering to blocked mailboxes

• Letter from the Editor

  PMG's slash and burn campaign