News & information

July 2024

The Postal Record, Vol. 137, No. 7

Cover story

• Getting ready for Boston: NALC 73rd Biennial Convention

News and features

• Senate subcommittee holds hearing on WEP/GPO repeal
• Renfroe makes regional appointments
• NALC Emergency Response Team already helping letter carriers
• Carrying the load: the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive
• The forever stamp
• Carriers and the mail make news online
• Monthly columns by national officers and staff members

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• President’s Message

  Supporting each other is solidarity

• News from Washington

  Senate subcommittee holds hearing on WEP/GPO repeal

• Renfroe makes regional appointments

  President Brian L. Renfroe recently made several appointments in a few of the union’s regional offices.

• NALC Emergency Response Team already helping letter carriers

  Emergency Response Team members are called on to help letter carriers dealing with trauma at their postal stations

• Stamp Out Hunger food drive

  Carrying the load

• Carriers and the mail make news online

  A few mail-centered stories that have appeared on social media and online news sites

• Getting ready for Boston: NALC 73rd Biennial Convention

  Proposed amendments to the NALC Constitution, take a tour of Boston, convention workshop schedule, NALC standing committees members

• The forever stamp

  We take a look at the growing trend of people getting postage stamp tattoos

• Executive Vice President

  Leaving no members behind

• Vice President

  We are one

• Secretary-Treasurer

  Boston bound

• Assistant Secretary-Treasurer

  Peer to peer

• Director of City Delivery

  Informed Facility/TV monitors

• Director of Safety and Health

  The Protect Our Letter Carriers Act

• Director of Retired Members

  Medicare Part B Special Enrollment Period

• Director of Life Insurance

  MBA term life policies

• Director, Health Benefits

  The Postal Service Health Benefits program and convention information

• Contract Talk

  Route inspections

• Workers’ Compensation

  Medical evidence and OWCP, Part 10

• MDA Report

  July 2024 Branch Challenge

• Veterans Group

  Veterans’ legislative update

• Letter from the Editor

  Color and strategy on the media beat