News & information

January 2016

The Postal Record, Vol. 129, No. 1

Cover story

• Has the paperless push gone too far?

News and features

• Cyber attacks, Rademacher, FEMA, convention committees, Executive Council
• Looking ahead at what 2016 holds in store for carriers
• ‘Favorable’ surveys, Board of Governor(s), media coverage
• Iowa letter carrier goes ‘running with Ryan’
• News: New leaders graduate; Leadership Academy founder retires
• Feature: Remembering the Postal Savings System
• Branch convention publication competition call for entries
• Proud to Serve
• Monthly columns by national officers and staff members

• President’s Message

  Making the best private practices into public policy in 2016

• Cover: Has the paperless push gone too far?

  As agencies move closer to greater dependence on the Internet, pushback against the actual effectiveness of Internet communications and over security concerns is re-focusing attention on the advantages of maintaining the option of postal mail.

• News: Cyber attacks, Rademacher, FEMA, convention committees, Executive Council

  Update on cyber attacks; Political Fund issue; Executive Council meets at Headquarters; President Emeritus Rademacher dies; FEMA looking to hire retired carriers; Rolando names standing committees

• News: Looking ahead at what 2016 holds in store for carriers

  The Postal Record presents this look ahead to the challenges and opportunities that letter carriers will face in the new year: Contract negotiations, presidential election, legislation, national convention, letter carrier training, public service

• News: ‘Favorable’ surveys, Board of Governor(s), media coverage

  USPS ‘most favorable’ federal agency; overwhelming majority favor relaxing pre-funding; Board of Governors now down to just one member; letter carriers in the news media

• Feature: Iowa letter carrier goes running with Ryan

  Mason City, IA Branch 471 carrier (and avid runner) Brad Gentz runs races while pushing a specially outfitted wheelchair used by a patron who has spina bifida.

• News: New leaders graduate; Academy founder retires

  Retired NALC Executive Vice President Jim Williams, who founded the NALC Leadership Academy in 2005, performed his last official act on Dec. 11.

• Feature: Remembering the Postal Savings System

  The concept of postal banking has emerged as a way to ease financial burdens faced by America’s poorest. Time was, the Post Office was the safest bank in the country; the idea of postal workers running a bank convinced millions to do any banking at all.

• Proud to Serve

  Stories of heroism by letter carriers from Illinois, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Florida and Maine

• Convention: Branch publication competition call for entries

  Editors of branch and state association newsletters and newspapers are invited to enter NALC’s biennial competition for outstanding periodical publications.

• Executive Vice President

  Postal Service annual report

• Vice President

  Updates for the new year

• Secretary-Treasurer

  Reporting to the Department of Labor

• Assistant Secretary-Treasurer

  How to submit branch bylaw changes

• Director of City Delivery

  Uniform program for city carrier assistants

• Director of Safety and Health

  In memory of Alton Cargile Hall III

• Director of Retired Members

  Leave balances at retirement

• Director of Life Insurance

  The MBA member services team (part 3)

• Director, Health Benefit Plan

  Your journey to a healthier lifestyle

• Muscular Dystrophy Association

  Continuing strong

• Contract Talk

  Family and Medical Leave Act

• Compensation Department

  100 years of federal workers’ compensation

• Director of Education

  Don’t step back

• Letter from the Postal Record editor

  Media interconnectivity