Talk:Rural letter carrier

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Wikified as part of the Wikification wikiproject! Don't forget to sign your talk page comments with four tildes ( ~ ) ... this article could likely be merged with Rural delivery service. JubalHarshaw 15:55, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Merge proposal
I do not think Rural Delivery Service and Rural Letter Carrier should be merged.

Why?

There are about 21,000 Highway Contract Routes which usually deliver mail in Rural Areas. There are about 80,000 Rural Routes. The territory these groups work in often overlaps but they are very different. — Preceding unsigned comment added by user name (talk) date

Rural Carriers are Employees of the Postal Service. Highway Contract Carriers are contractors.

My name “Surprise” is known on the Rural Carrier discussion board at    http://www.quicktopic.com/37/H/g5XbPDcfrGvBN

Surprise November 26, 2006 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.243.197.132 (talk) 19:46, 26 November 2006

Manual
The Rural Carrier contract is a manual EL-902 2002 as listed in the Directives and Forms Catalog pub223-2003. The identification number of it will change when a new contract is ratified. The Rural Carriers are now negotiating a contract. Please stop pulling it out of the list of manuals that apply to Rural Carriers.

A TRC can become an RCA but you don’t have to be a TRC first.

Surprise, March 25, 2007 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.243.164.108 (talk) 00:29, 26 March 2007

The PO-603 is Rural Carrier Duties & Responsibilities. The contract is whole different matter. I have no idea what EL-902 is.

Rural Route
I see that Rural Route redirects to this despite the fact that it isn't at all a US-only term. Why? --

NellieBly (talk) 13:49, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Q: Where is the US DOL web link for the Rural Craft explanation of duties and responsibilities? And the controversies associated with the Craft under labor conditions, safety issues (i.e. operating on heavily trafficked roadways and not wearing seat belts, non-provision of Right Hand Drive Vehicles by the employer, etc.)(Gdwyer2 (talk) 09:41, 27 May 2008 (UTC))


 * Separate articles now exist for both carriers (which as of this writing is focused on present-day union role and responsibilities) and rural delivery service. 68.165.77.179 (talk) 01:12, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Rural Carrier & Proud of It
I saw this entry and thought I would expand upon it. I also wrote the National Rural Letter Carriers' Association entry.--Johnny Spasm (talk) 18:39, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

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Intro
Maybe I'm biased because I was the one who put it up that way, but I liked it better with the other intro--Johnny Spasm (talk) 11:27, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

More History, especially pre-1913-16
1913 was the beginning of Parcel Post which I believe really boosted mail volume; 1916 was the year Congress authorized funding to assist post road improvements. Motor vehicles weren't common/reliable for at least two decades. Did carriers use walk, horses, then switch to wagons? Did they carry anything other than mail, or were they prohibited from the beginning from other carriage? The airmail contracts were designed to promote freight and passenger carriage in addition to the mails which heavily subsidized the routes; were similar intentions in the RFD appropriations from Congress. Mulp (talk) 20:49, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
 * google "rural mail carriers 1900" returned a number of pages providing information of interest, like "Feb 16, 2011 – The following story is an excerpt from the Feb. 16, 1933 edition of the Lodi Enterprise. It features George Kingsley Bancroft, great-grandfather to..." at http://www.lodienews.com/main.asp?SectionID=41&SubSectionID=154&ArticleID=3720 Is this personal narrative a good reference?  This is relevant to the carrier union he helped found and led in a different article.  Also this good reference http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/rfd.htm  Still nothing on whether carriers were prohibited from providing other services for added pay.  Mulp (talk) 21:11, 16 August 2012 (UTC)