USPS Consolidations update: Most activities deferred until 2016

May 27, 2015 Most of the plant consolidations that were scheduled to take place this summer as the final stage of the Network Rationalization Initiative will be deferred, the Postal Service announced May 27. The Network Rationalization Initiative is the multi-phase, multi-year effort announced in 2011 to balance mail processing infrastructure costs against current and…

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UPDATED (5/22/15): USPS Network Rationalization Consolidations Put On Hold?

Most dates changed to TBD In this latest update from RIBBS, it appears the Network Rationalization Schedule has been put on hold (TBD) for most of the remaining consolidations. APWU has requested clarification of what this actually means but my sources tell me the “on-hold / TBD” status will be at least until 2016. We’ll…

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2015 Plant Consolidation Schedule Updated October 10, 2014

Date changes for Southern Connecticut P&DC; Stamford P&DC, Central Mass P&DC, Northwest Boston P&DF, Mid-Hudson P&DC, Queens P&DC. Click Here for 2015 Network Rationalization Schedule updated 10/10/14 [XLXS]

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Postal official can’t deliver answers in Horsham, PA move

Horsham Council and about three dozen residents, many of them postal employees, were displeased with the responses from a postal official concerning the potential move of the Horsham Post Office. Richard Hancock, a real estate specialist with the U.S. Postal Service, spent nearly two hours Wednesday night answering questions and explaining a plan to sell…

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Postal workers continue fight to keep Roanoke mail processing center (audio)

(August 7, 2014) Postal workers at Roanoke’s mail processing center are fighting Postal Service plans to move those operations to Greensboro sometime next year, and a full-court press is on in efforts to keep the Roanoke center going. The workers say such a move will mean slower delivery times that will result in lost business. …

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