REDDING, California – Plans to transfer a portion of the operation of Redding’s mail processing center have been revised again.
U.S. Postal Service Spokesman Gus Ruiz said Wednesday that sorting for mail collected in Redding and surrounding areas (known as originating mail) will be transferred to West Sacramento starting April 18.
Just last week Ruiz said that that portion of the operation would not be consolidated to West Sacramento until July 1 at the earliest, pushing the date back from April 18.
But on Wednesday, employees and management in Redding were told of the revision.
Ruiz said the dates to transfer originating mail operations out of Petaluma and Eureka were switched from April 18 to July 11.
“We made a mistake and included Redding with it,” Ruiz said. “Redding should not have been a part of it.”
There were several articles on the closure of Redding, CA CSMPC to West Sacramento CA scheduled for January 10, 2015. But USPS quietly changed the move date in October 2014 to April 18, 2015.
USPS notified APWU several months ago that the following employees would be affected:
Sacramento District
Redding -04/18/2015 – 14 Mail Handlers – AMP
Redding -04/18/2015 – 14 clerks – AMP
Redding -04/18/2015 – (12) full-time maintenance craft employees (4 ET’s/2 MPE’s/6 Laborer Custodians) AMP
Redding CSMPC will have a reduction of 5 EAS positions and Sacramento P&DC will have an increase of 9 EAS positions. It is 161 miles from losing installation to gaining installation.
Keep our mail processing here in Redding. Don’t fix something that’s not broken! Your not saving money!
CSMPC will have a reduction of 5 EAS positions and Sacramento P&DC will have an increase of 9 EAS positions. That says it all. Saving money by paying people to sit in the break room at the old plant and hiring pses to work the mail at the new plant. Then you need almost twice as many supervisors to supervise the old break room and the new employees. Perfect Postal Symmetry. Saves tons of money since it takes a few days more to get you your mail.