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WELCOME
To the Official Website of the Wisconsin Rural Letter Carriers

 Hi Folks;

5.13.2008

FORM 3227-R, STAMP PURCHASE ORDER (RURAL) UPDATE

There have been some questions from the field regarding the availability of the new Form 3227-R, Stamp Purchase order (Rural), revised to reflect the new stamp purchase rates effective with the May rate change. 

Postal Headquarters has confirmed that Form 3227-R, dated May 2008, which was revised to reflect the rate change, is available and can be ordered by local management utilizing   PSN: 7530-01-000-9885

5.10.2008

Our condolences go to Marilyn Laporte on the loss of her husband.
Gary Laporte passed away on Thursday Night after several years of failing health.
There will be visitation at the Scalzo-Taylor Funeral Home (221 Elm St) in Spooner from 6-8 PM on Sunday, May 11th.
Memorial services will be held at 11AM at the Spooner Wesleyan Church (1100 W maple St) on Monday, May 12th.

5.5.2008

Click here for your 2008 State Convention Registration Form.

5.2.2008

RURAL CARRIER ACADEMY INSTRUCTOR 
Green Bay

Madison
 

4.26.2008

A New 3849!?! 

4.25.2008

Louise (Jensen) Gonia was 67 and she passed away from a hemorrhagic stroke Monday April 21, 2008 while traveling in New York.

The memorial services for Louise Gonia.  There are two.  First one is 1 pm Tuesday at the Trinity Lutheran Church 1250 Broadway St Hammond WI (take Hammond exit off I94, go north on T and at the first stop sign take a left and it’s about a block or so down on the left side)  The second service is Thursday May 1st at St John’s Lutheran Church 20310 CO Hwy H Gilman WI  (this is east and south of Gilman) visitation from 3 – 5 that day and the service is at 5pm.  In lieu of flowers, contributions to St John’s Lutheran Church or a charity of your choice in remembrance of Louise are greatly appreciated.  

4.23.2008

Don't forget that the Wisconsin Auxiliary Scholarships are available on this web site, or by calling an Auxiliary Board Member.  All applications should be filled out completely and accurately and sent to June Strobel postmarked no later than May 20th.

4.7.2008

Dennis has updated the PAC Page, can you find your name?

3.29.2008

New Campaign and Improved Tools Target Unscheduled Absences

A new campaign has been developed to reduce unscheduled absences not protected by the Family Medical Leave Act — a problem that has resulted in operations disruptions and cost increases for the Postal Service™. 
Three kits urging employ
­ees to bank sick leave and protect their futures will be dis­tributed to postal facilities around the country on March 24, May 29, and October 16. Each kit will contain an animated DVD, a 9 inch by 12 inch poster, and a standup talk. 
A DVD featuring personal stories from real employees
about the benefits of saving sick leave will be distributed on May 29 as well.
A new screensaver featuring the same messages also
will run on all USPS® ACE computers from April 21 to May 4.

Leave Management Enhancements

Currently, managers and supervisors use two tools to identify, track, and address the root causes of unscheduled absences:

bulleteRMS, the enterprise Resource Management Sys­tem that automates and standardizes processing for all leave requests.
bulletTACS, the Time and Attendance Collection System to manage leave and record clock rings.

New software will merge ERMS and TACS, creating a more effective tool to pinpoint recurring patterns of unscheduled absences. Every area in the country will have the new tool by the end of May.

3.28.2008

HEROES’ CORNER 

Near the end of her Brodhead, WI, route, Rural Carrier Brenda Armitage saw a child and a dog walk out of the woods beside the road. She noticed the boy’s medical alert bracelet, and she stopped to talk to the child. But he wasn’t responsive. Armitage calmed the dog so that she could approach the boy and read his bracelet, which said he was autistic. She called a number on the bracelet and spoke to the boy’s mother, who had reported him missing hours earlier. Thanks to Armitage, the child was returned home safely.

3.26.2008

HEROES’ CORNER

While delivering mail to one of her Janesville ,WI customers, Rural Carrier Mary Murray saw a barn on fire. Two young girls who lived at the residence had already called 911. So Murray found a garden hose and sprayed the barn until firefighters arrived. Her actions saved the lives of the animals inside the barn and kept the fire from spreading

3.23.2008

Your March Newsletter is here!

3.21.2008

Our National Office has filed a Step 4 grievance on the 2008 mail count for failure to provide an even flow of mail.

3.16.2008

New Postal Shipping Rates Set

3.15.2008

EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCE

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the February 2008 CPI-W Private Transportation Index on March 14, 2008. Based on this release, the Equipment Maintenance Allowance (EMA) for NRLCA employees will remain unchanged from the current EMA rate of 57.0 cents per mile.

3.13.2008

Rural Carrier Request for Action Form is HERE!

3.11.2008

Bill Would Give Retirees Partial Pay for Unused Sick Leave

2.21.2008

The MOU on 'Carrier Pick - Ups'.

2.17.2008

Robert G Anderson, rural carrier from Monroe, is in need of donated leave.

 1.12.2008

Check out the project, project items, scholarships, and junior contests on the updated Auxiliary page!

1.8.2008

*Don't forget to check out the 'For Sale' page*

12-13-2007

An interesting read about the FERS Flu!

12-11-2007

Once the overtime period is over if management requires you to take DPS to the street you have the right to file a grievance. Please contact the Steward assigned to your office for assistance.

12-5-2007

Arbitrator Fishgold's Award is here!

11-20-2007

ARBITRATOR EISCHEN DENIES “FLETTERS” GRIEVANCE
You really need to read this!

11-17-2007

Management gets a reminder about employee rights.

11-1-2007

Are you, or do you know anybody out on Workers' Comp.?
A VERY Interesting read!

10-31-2007

Upon request of your State Steward,  The Bloch Award!

Don't Do It For Free

Two documents have been added to the forms link to help with 'Second Trip' Issues.

Management Can Always Use Some Guidelines

Northland District's 4003 Instructions and Lakeland District's 4003 Instructions

Push to the Bottom of Your Worry List

Consolidation of mail distribution centers unlikely
MARV BALOUSEK
608-252-6135
mbalousek@madison.com
 The U.S. Postal Service has no immediate plans to consolidate its Madison and Milwaukee distribution centers, according to a Postal Service spokeswoman. 
Distribution centers in Madison, 3902 Milwaukee St., and Milwaukee were on a list of about 130 potential consolidation targets made public last July. A consolidated distribution center could be located somewhere between the two cities.
 But the Postal Service is unlikely to pursue consolidation of the two Wisconsin distribution centers in the near future, said Terri Bouffiou, Postal Service spokeswoman in Madison. 
She said the mail volume is expected to drop this year because of the May 14 increase in postage rates.
"If the volume falls precipitously, it enters into the realm of the possible to do consolidations," she said. "Mail volume would have to drop in half for a Milwaukee-Madison consolidation."
Bouffiou said consolidation of the Oshkosh and Green Bay distribution centers is likely to happen first.
A survey and public hearings are needed before a consolidation could move forward, said Martin Mater, Madison area president of the American Postal Workers Union.
"As far as I know, there are no plans on the table to do away with the processing plant here in Madison," he said. Bouffiou said some Saturday mail from Madison is taken routinely to Milwaukee for canceling because it reduces the number of Madison postal employees needed to work Saturdays.
Mater said taking the Saturday mail from Madison to Milwaukee for processing could be a precursor to consolidation.

For Your Curiosities

Attached is the latest "rollout schedule" for FSS and a map of the impacted sites.  The green dots are site scheduled to receive FSS flats, the red dots are sites that could be impacted by excessed carriers.  You may note that this latest projection shows that the rollout dates have slipped up to 11 months.

Always Important

As you can see the Postal Service has reacted to our Harkin CDS bill.  We must all continue to contact our representatives and encourage support of our Bills on CDS deliveries.

Letter from PMG Potter

Below is an updated list of co-sponsors of Sen. Harkin’s “Mail Delivery Protection” bill, S. 1457.  There is one republican currently signed on, Thad Cochran of MS.  Also, Potter has actively been on the Hill meeting with Senators in opposition to this bill.   

Sen Baucus, Max [MT]

  Sen Bingaman, Jeff [NM]

Sen Boxer, Barbara [CA]

  Sen Brown, Sherrod [OH]

Sen Cantwell, Maria [WA]

  Sen Cardin, Benjamin L. [MD]

Sen Casey, Robert P., Jr. [PA]

  Sen Clinton, Hillary Rodham [NY]

Sen Cochran, Thad [MS]

  Sen Conrad, Kent [ND]

Sen Dorgan, Byron L. [ND]

  Sen Feinstein, Dianne [CA]

Sen Kennedy, Edward M. [MA]

  Sen Kerry, John F. [MA]

Sen Landrieu, Mary L. [LA]

  Sen Lautenberg, Frank R. [NJ]

Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT]

  Sen McCaskill, Claire [MO]

Sen Mikulski, Barbara A. [MD]

  Sen Murray, Patty [WA]

Sen Nelson, Bill [FL]

  Sen Schumer, Charles E. [NY]

Sen Tester, Jon [MT]

  Sen Wyden, Ron [OR]  

 
Thank You!
Ronnie W. Stutts
Director Of Steward Operations
National Rural Letter Carriers' Association
703-684-5545

Please contact your members of Congress today, and let them know this is a practice that must stop now.

 

To see a list of current Co-Sponsors of H. Res. 282 go to:

 

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HE00282:@@@P

 

For a sample letter to send to Congress, go to:

 

http://www.nrlca.org/legisupdates.html 

 

(Personalize the letter by expanding on examples you have seen within your post office of a contract carrier violating/breaking the law or not doing the job properly.)  

 

We need more co-sponsors, but we especially need more Republican co-sponsors.
 
Christine M. Baker
National Rural Letter Carriers' Association
Assistant Director of Governmental Affairs
(703) 797-8415 direct
(703) 548-8735 fax
(434) 386-7234 cell

 

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