News & information

November 2025

The Postal Record, Vol. 138, No. 11

Cover story

• Open Season is here (Nov. 10-Dec. 8) Choose a letter carrier-owned and operated plan with your unique interests in mind

News and features

• News from Washington: Government shutdown persists
• What is Open Season for benefits?
• Review your investments in the Thrift Savings Plan
• Donate now with CFC
• The rapping mailman
• Frances Perkins: FDR’s secretary of labor
• Veterans presence
• Thank you for your service
• Letter carrier heroes
• Veterans Group
• Carriers and the mail make news online
• Monthly columns by national officers and staff members

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Audiobook

• President’s Message

  During Open Season, choose the plan made for you

• News from Washington

  Government shutdown persists

• What is Open Season for benefits?

  Now is the time for carriers to review benefit options available to them and make changes that best suit them and their family

• Review your investments in the Thrift Savings Plan

  And Still time to contribute through CFC

• The rapping mailman

  An Ohio letter carrier tells us about his music career

• Proud to Serve

  Honoring heroic carriers

• Labor history

  Frances Perkins: FDR’s secretary of labor

• Carriers and the mail make news online

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

• Veterans Group

  Making deposits for military service

• Veteran presence

  Post office renamed for Tuskegee airman and Veteran, carrier, council member, monument-maker

• March for diabetes

  Letter carrier drafts others to help raise money for research

• Catch-22

  Carrier struggles then succeeds in getting service dog approved by management

• NALC Veteran Group

  Thank you for your service

• Executive Vice President

  Start your hiring off on the right foot with employment verification compliance

• Vice President

  The contract guarantees assistance for veterans when it is needed most

• Secretary-Treasurer

  Important reminders

• Assistant Secretary-Treasurer

  Talk to your people

• Director of City Delivery

  USPS pilot testing and scanner updates

• Director of Safety and Health

  Keeping check on heat injuries

• Director of Retired Members

  Civil service is maxing out

• Director of Life Insurance

  Group insurance

• Director, Health Benefits

  Open Season

• Contract Talk

  Article 25, Higher Level Assignments—vacant carrier technician positions

• Chief of Staff

  The rising cost of health care

• Workers' compensation

  Sprains, strains and denied claims

• Research Director

  2025 UNI Global Union Post & Logistics World Conference

• MDA Report

  Q3 Branch Challenge final results are in

• Letter from the Editor

  Military, message, media