Postal Processing Returns to Duluth, Minnesota
File photo: October 2014 – About 100 people gathered with picket signs outside the federal courthouse in Duluth, MN
The postal service moved mail processing from the facility on W. Michigan Street in Duluth, MN to St. Paul, MN earlier this year. However, according to media reports the move added several days to mail delivery times. Postal customers, union members, Gov. Mark Dayton, Congressman Rick Nolan and U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar have been critical of USPS’s decision to move mail processing operations. The facility in Duluth still performs sorting and sequencing of incoming mail but outgoing mail is sent to St Paul.
WDIO-TV reported that an internal source said all mail from Duluth, Iron Ranger and the North Shore will no longer be sent down to St. Paul (Minnesota) to be processed. However, there are no other media sites reporting on this news.
As with the PD&F in Sioux City, Iowa….send ALL processing to Sioux Falls SD! No more over night to nearly anywhere now. 3-5 days to get mail from one side of the city to the other side!
Iowa has/ had 4 large processing, Sioux City was the only one in the NW part of the state. The unions proved Sioux City was more productive than any of other three which are in the SE part of the state. PLUS the city of Sioux City was going to GIVE the Postal Service a 13 million dollar building which was larger to keep processing in Sioux City. No one entertained that thought and now EVERYONE is wishing they would have, except the USPS.
After collapsing 6 PD&C’s into 1, Houston is 68th out of 68 large plants in productivity.
Lubbock, Houston GPO, North Houston, Bryan, NDDC, Beaumont plants where shoe horned into 1 plant. Houston is now on special management oversight. Washington DC sent overseers. Area is still here. Nothing has improved. As Thanksgiving nears, everyone expects gridlock soon.
Oh well. As long as check clears.
Sorry….big mistake made by Duluth management. Told carriers/clerks all mail for Duluth area, the range and north shore to stay and not be sent to the cities for processing. Oh, but wait. Higher ups told Duluth the next day, no, you never got permission (in other words, who do you think you are?). All mail is still sent to the cities….. a little hand slap for Duluth.
All is on hold till 2016. No telling what will happen after Jan 1 2016.
I hope this is true. Now they should review all the other closings and start putting them back. The cost should be taken from any bonuses that would be given to the District Managers in the affected area. And if the deciding manager was promoted then cut their pay back to the previous level and use that and any bonuses they have and would receive to pay for the rebuilding of the offices shutdown. If enough of these managers would have had the ba@@s to say no the the consolidations we wouldn’t be in this situation but they only thought about them selves not the hundreds of workers forced to travel or retire early. Experience is something you can’t hire back.