COMMUNITY SERVICE
Postal workers serve their networks consistently, six days every week, by simply going about their responsibilities, yet their obligation to support reaches out a long ways past strolling their mail courses. NALC-HQ long-term obligation to local area administration is clear at each level, from the postal workers who sort out and partake in various beneficent occasions to the organized endeavors by NALC-HQ Base camp that assist the aggregate endeavors of postal workers with having areas of strength for a, influence on the public level.
NALC-HQ believes local area administration to be important for its central goal. Local area administration endeavors are coordinated into NALC-HQ authority and correspondence endeavors at all levels, with aggressive objectives and solid help. NALC-HQ people group administration crusades include:
NALC-HQ Disaster Relief Foundation
The NALC-HQ Disaster Relief Foundation was created for NALC-HQ regular members with oversight from the NALC-HQ Executive Council. The purpose of the Foundation is to fill a need identified by many branches that have faced disasters, including wildfires, hurricanes and floods, to name a few. Download the NALC-HQ Disaster Relief Foundation Member’s Guide here.
Letter Carriers’ Food Drive
NALC-HQ is the main coordinator of the country’s biggest one-day food drive in the country. The NALC-HQ exertion is held yearly on the subsequent Saturday in May in 10,000 urban areas and towns in all aspects of the country.
Inhabitants put out durable food gifts on that day, which postal workers gather as they convey mail along their postal courses. The food is then taken to neighborhood food banks. The food drive has gathered more than 1.3 billion pounds of food since the public drive started in 1992. Click here for more data.
Letter Carrier Heroes
Six days per week, in each city and town across America, glad association postal workers venture to every part of the roads and byways, serving each home and business along their courses. What’s more, consistently, a transporter some place in America steps in to save a daily existence or forestall a debacle. It could b
e an older individual residing alone who has become sick, or a lost or grabbed youngster, or individuals caught in a house fire — many reports of postal worker legends come into NALC-HQ Central command every year. The everyday deeds of fortitude and basic sympathy by these gallant postal workers all over America do right by all of us. To perceive their additional degree of administration, NALC-HQ picks a gathering of Legends of the Year yearly and respects them in a service in Washinton, DC. Click here for more data.
Deliver the Cure for MDA (Muscular Dystrophy Association)
America’s postal workers have helped lead the quest for remedy for neuromuscular illnesses for 50 years. The NALC-HQ was the main public backer of the Strong Dystrophy Affiliation (MDA) and postal workers are among MDA’s top pledge drives, gathering more than $20 million in the beyond 15 years alone to fund research and give care and administrations to youngsters and grown-ups with solid dystrophies.
Chipping away at the nearby level, a large number of postal workers put together a wide range of sorts of gathering pledges and volunteer occasions, including bowlathons, raising money strolls and rides, pools, “fill the handbag” endeavors, charitable effort at MDA camps for youngsters with neuromuscular illnesses and different occasions they devise. Their work is perceived, empowered and upheld on the public level. Click here for more data.
Carrier Alert
Transporter Alert is a helpful local area administration program to screen the prosperity of old and impaired mail supporters. As an exception — and occasionally just — mark of human contact for home bound benefactors, postal workers are especially sensitive to signs that could mean a mishap or disease. Transporter Alert, started in 1982, is a framework to take advantage of that responsiveness.
Transporter Alert is a program of the NALC-HQ and the Postal Help that works in collaboration with nearby help associations working closely together. At the point when a worker postal worker notes something uncommon concerning a benefactor enrolled with Transporter Caution, the person reports it to a postal boss or other assigned person who thus contacts the supporting nearby office, which keeps an eye on the individual and contacts family, police or crisis administrations if fundamental. Click here for more data.
The Postal Employees’ Relief Fund (PERF)
PERF exists to help dynamic and resigned postal representatives, both administration and specialty, whose home, because of a significant cataclysmic event was totally obliterated or left dreadful — dislodging the postal worker and their family for a lengthy timeframe. Starting around 1990, PERF has been there to assist transporters, agents and other dynamic and resigned mailmen with rebuilding after tropical storms, hurricanes, tremors, floods, cyclones and fierce blazes.
PERF gives little alleviation awards to help qualifying survivors of such conditions restore home and to assist with recharging essential necessities in the consequence of an overwhelming misfortune. PERF is supported through willful gifts from postal workers, including postal workers. Click here for more data, or go to postalrelief.com.
Combined Federal Campaign
NALC urges postal workers to partake in the Consolidated Government Mission CFC), which permits administrative representatives to give to local area administration gatherings of their decision through check derivation. PERF (CFC No. 10268) and MDA (CFC No. 10561) are among the associations that get assets through CFC. Click here for more data.
LETTER CARRIERS’ STAMP OUT HUNGER® FOOD DRIVE
The Letter Carriers’ “Stamp Out Hunger” Food Drive—the nation’s largest all-volunteer one-day food collection effort—is held annually on the second Saturday in May and is a community outreach effort of the National Association of Letter Carriers.
MDA & DELIVER THE CURE
LETTER CARRIER HEROES
NALC DISASTER RELIEF FOUNDATION
An NALC sponsored foundation whose mission is to alleviate the suffering of members affected by natural disasters, including earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes and wildfires.
NALC VETERANS GROUP
CARRIER ALERT
POSTAL EMPLOYEES’ RELIEF FUND
UNION PLUS
COMBINED FEDERAL CAMPAIGN
KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY
KIDS FUN PAGE
Activities for kids to learn about letter carriers and the Postal Service
IN THIS SECTION
- Stamp Out Hunger Donor Drive
- Food Drive tool kit
- NALC MDA Donation Allocation Form
- About the Heroes of the Year Awards
- Nominate a Hero
- APPLICATION FOR RELIEF GRANT
- Donate to the NALC Disaster Relief Foundation by credit card
- NALC Disaster Relief Foundation Member’s Guide
