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Rural delivery always has been a challenge for the Postal Service, which has developed guidelines over the years for how to balance its customers’ needs with the need to operate safely and ...
A Dodge Caravan used for rural delivery in Omaha, Nebraska. Rural carriers are responsible for furnishing all vehicle equipment necessary for safe and prompt handling of the mail, [7] unless a USPS-owned/leased vehicle is assigned to the route. (If a USPS-owned/leased vehicle is assigned to the route, relief carriers may be requested, but not ...
Rural Free Delivery (RFD), since 1906 officially rural delivery, is a program of the United States Post Office Department to deliver mail directly to rural destinations. The program began in the late 19th century.
The Daily Yonder examines the effects of the USPS's cost-cutting measures on rural areas. ... lawmakers said the USPS's on-time delivery rate for the second quarter of 2024 was 69.9%, far below ...
The U.S. Postal Service on Thursday said it needs to shave more costs from its operations to get into better financial shape. To do that, the postal agency wants to overhaul its delivery logistics ...
For example, in some areas rural delivery may require homeowners to travel to a centralized mail delivery depot or a community mailbox rather than being directly served by a door-to-door mail carrier; and even if direct door-to-door delivery is offered, houses still may even not have their own unique mailing addresses at all, but an entire road ...
The National Rural Letter Carriers' Association (NRLCA) is an American labor union that represents the rural letter carriers of the United States Postal Service (USPS). The NRLCA negotiates all labor agreements for the rural carrier craft with the USPS, including salaries, and represents members of the rural carrier craft in the grievance procedure.
Nov. 30—DICKINSON — In a recent conversation with Angela Bye, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) District Manager for North Dakota and Minnesota, Senator John Hoeven expressed ongoing concerns ...