Akron, OH – Employees received the official 60-day notice of the planned April 18 shutdown earlier this month. The notices were expected; last year, the postal service had said it would begin closing distribution centers this spring.
The Akron main post office at the same building, at 675 Wolf Ledges Parkway, will remain open.
This year’s closures are to complete a money-saving plan to consolidate six Ohio mail-sorting operations — Akron, Canton, Youngstown, Mansfield, Toledo and Dayton — into two sites: Cleveland and Columbus. Some of Toledo’s operations will move to Detroit. Canton’s facility closed in 2012.
The Akron facility employs roughly 400, and those whose jobs will be affected by the closure will be offered jobs elsewhere, as provided under their union contracts, said David Van Allen, the postal service’s Ohio spokesman. Union officials say many of those jobs are likely to be in Cleveland.
While employees will continue to have jobs, the service to the public will diminish, said Mary Sitko, vice president of American Postal Workers Union Local 120.
Some of the employees will remain at the center. Those employees include workers involved with bulk mail, which will continue to be accepted at Wolf Ledges, as well as truck drivers, custodians, and personnel involved with maintenance of vehicles, equipment and the building, as well other duties.
Postal service says Akron mail-sorting operation to close in April
Please stop the USPS consolidation. We don’t want the mail slowed down any more! Save the US :Post Office!
Is anyone really surprised that the “new” PMG is continuing the path of destruction to OUR Service? A new face for the puppet, but the same old string pulling.