April 9, 2015 Duluth, MN (NNCNOW.com) — Thursday evening postal workers at the Duluth Mail Processing Center were told they could keep their jobs beyond a government set deadline for closure. That is also good news for postal patrons here in the Northland. The U.S. Postal Service was to begin consolidating the Duluth facility this…
By Newsroom staff – March 26, 2015 Duluth, MN — Expect delays in your mail delivery, starting as soon as next week, as the United States Postal Service begins consolidating the Duluth mail processing facility. According to Representative Rick Nolan, mail sent in northeastern Minnesota could take three or four days for mail to arrive…
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…
Web News Article #: 185-2014 10/15/2014 – A group of about 200 impassioned postal workers, elected officials, and community members rallied on Oct. 6, on the steps of the Federal Building in Duluth, MI, to save the city’s mail processing center. Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton, Duluth Mayor Don Ness, and Rep. Rick Nolan (D) joined…
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…
U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan said Tuesday that U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe has agreed to personally review the decision to close the Duluth mail processing facility. Nolan, DFL-Crosby, said he spoke to Donahoe on Friday and that the postmaster agreed to review the Duluth case. The Postal Service announced recently that it would close the…
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,…
