MOU

When the August 15, 2011 MOU expires on March 24, 2012, a large number of withheld residual routes and auxiliary routes converted to regular routes will be posted. As a result, many leave replacement carriers will become regular rural letter carriers and become eligible for comprehensive health insurance coverage under the Federal Employees Health Benefits [...]

On August 15, 2011, the NRLCA and the USPS signed an MOU that superseded both the July 28, 2008 and the August 10, 2009 MOUs, which provided for certain exceptions to Article 12. Any residual route that was withheld per the August 15, 2011 MOU, that is not in an office scheduled for implementation of [...]

Attached is the signed Mutual Understanding signed today regarding the use of the end of run (EOR) report for delivery point sequence (DPS) flats during a mail count. This Mutual Understanding will be in effect with the National September 2011 mail count that begins Saturday September 17, 2011 and for any counts thereafter. The parties [...]

Due to the potential impact of the upcoming national mail count, increased implementation of DPS flats, and to assist management with adjustments and assignments of rural routes following implementation of the mail count results, several modifications to existing MOU’s have been made which address residual vacancies, auxiliary routes, route adjustments, excessing of rural carriers, and [...]

This letter will confirm our mutual understanding regarding Job Bid Management (JBM) -Rural as it applies to the option for part-time flexible (PTF) rural carriers and rural carrier associates (RCAs) to “Select All” during online bidding when a vacancy notice is posted for more than one vacant regular rural route. Effective June 4, 2011, in [...]

Rural Mail Carrier Postal News: Here is the Casing DPS First settlement that I posted last week..Now on the Nat. website

http://www.divshare.com/direct/11114342-967.pdf

Rural Mail Carrier Postal News: USPS and NRLCA REACH AGREEMENT ON STANDARDIZED REVIEW PROCESS FOR DPS LETTER MAIL: “USPS and NRLCA REACH AGREEMENT ON STANDARDIZED REVIEW PROCESS FOR DPS LETTER MAIL”

National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association http://www.divshare.com/direct/9272609-70f.pdf

On July 28, 2008, the parties signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) concerning a temporary modification of three contractual provisions of the National Agreement between the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association (NRLCA). After further consideration of the impact of delivery point sequence (DPS) flats on rural routes, the parties [...]

http://www.divshare.com/direct/12460097-e53.pdf

Temporary DPS Flat credit for mail counthttp://www.divshare.com/direct/6550060-772.pdf

Mutual Understanding on residual vacancy being held under FSS MOUhttp://www.divshare.com/direct/5437101-ae8.pdf

From NRLCA Whats New page The parties recognize the potential impact to rural route evaluations from the implementation of DPS flats; therefore, the parties have agreed to temporarily modify three contractual provisions in rural delivery offices which are scheduled for the implementation of DPS flats. Additionally, the parties have agreed to expand the application of [...]

It is agreed that when, as a result of a job related illness or injury, a leave replacementcarrier(substitute, RCA or RCR), except when assigned work pursuant to the RehabilitationAct, is unable to perform all the duties of his or her leave replacement assignment(s) fora period of six months, or has submitted medical certification indicating that [...]