News & information

March 2018

The Postal Record, Vol. 131, No. 3

Cover story

• A century of progress

News and features

• Spring agenda on Capitol Hill complicated by government shutdowns and the president’s budget proposals
• Food Drive preparations underway
• Deadlines set for national convention
• RAA, community service appointments
• Phone app is NALC members’ powerful tool
• Vet remembers filling in for ’70 strikers
• Carrier fights disorder that took his daughter
• Proud to Serve
• Customer Connect
• Monthly columns by national officers and staff members

• President's Message

  Countdown to Detroit

• A century of progress

  Honoring the march forward of women letter carriers

• News from Washington

  Spring agenda on Capitol Hill complicated by government shutdowns and the president’s budget proposals

• Food drive, convention and appointments

  Food Drive preparations underway; Deadlines set for national convention; RAA, community service appointments

• Phone app is NALC members’ powerful tool

  The NALC Member App for iPhone and Android smartphones is proving to be a powerful and popular resource with members.

• Vet remembers filling in for ’70 strikers

  The Great Postal Strike of 1970 began with only a few thousand letter carriers and lasted just a few days—but it would become a watershed event with an historic effect on the postal system, on NALC and on other postal unions.

• Carrier fights disorder that took his daughter

  Central Iowa Merged Branch 352 member Jason Berkley of Indianola, IA, turned tragedy into triumph for children with a rare genetic disorder.

• Customer Connect

  Letter carriers contribute sales leads that succeed for the Postal Service in Minnesota, Iowa and Pennsylvania.

• Proud to Serve

  Honoring heroic carriers from California, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Texas, New York, Minnesota, Ohio and Kansas.

• Executive Vice President

  Advancing our legislative and political agenda

• Vice President

  Local memorandum of understanding update

• Secretary-Treasurer

  Updates from the secretary-treasurer

• Assistant Secretary-Treasurer

  Branch bylaws: Meetings

• Director of City Delivery

  Letter carrier delivery vehicles

• Director of Safety and Health

  Is safety a real priority?

• Director of Retired Members

  The TSP Modernization Act of 2017

• Director of Life Insurance

  Planning, planning, planning

• Director, Health Benefit Plan

  Safeguard your health

• Contract Talk

  Voluntary reassignments

• Letter from the Editor

  Opportunity

• Compensation

  Vocational rehabilitation, Part 2

• Deliver the cure

  What you need to know about how to report MDA fundraising

• Education

  The Dispute Resolution Process—20 years old and counting