Duluth, Minnesota postal center moves toward closure

By Lisa Kaczke – February 13, 2015 U.S. Postal Service officials said Friday that they’ll soon start notifying Duluth mail processing center employees of their options as plans move forward to close the center in nine weeks. In total, about 78 employees will be affected starting April 18, when the Postal Service will begin sorting…

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Outstate MN cities fight postal service closings

50 U.S. senators have joined Minnesota mayors in the fight to save four processing centers. National lawmakers have joined Minnesota mayors in the fight to keep mail processing centers in four outstate cities from closing. Earlier this summer, the U.S. Postal Service announced a plan to shutter dozens of mail processing centers across the county…

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Opinion: Postal Service isn’t transparent with proposals

Here we go again. The United States Postal Service is telling its employees in the Bemidji office that a bunch of them will be displaced, the preferred word is excessed, sometime after January 2015. The latest proposal is a regurgitation of the previous so called studies that have determined that the public and the Postal…

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Sen. Franken to Postal Service: Don’t close mail processing centers in Minnesota

WASHINGTON, D.C. [07/02/14]—Today, U.S. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) pressed the U.S Postal Service to reconsider its plan to close four mail processing centers throughout Minnesota. The closures, he said, will hurt Minnesota’s rural communities and drive more and more customers away from using the Postal Service. In a letter to the Postmaster General sent Wednesday,…

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