Horsham Council and about three dozen residents, many of them postal employees, were displeased with the responses from a postal official concerning the potential move of the Horsham Post Office.
Richard Hancock, a real estate specialist with the the U.S. Postal Service, spent nearly two hours Wednesday night answering questions and explaining a plan to sell the 40,000-square-foot Enterprise Road building for $3 million and rent a 2,000 square foot space along Horsham Road to maintain its retail component.
He said a USPS study found operations at the Horsham post office could be reduced to provide retail services only.
He admitted, however, that redevelopment of the former Willow Grove Joint Reserve Base was not factored into the decision. That project could bring hundreds of homes and thousands of jobs to the area.
When it came to answers about what a new facility would supply residents, council members were perturbed at Hancock’s frequent “I don’t have that information.”
Asked by Councilman Gregory Nesbitt how many workers are at the post office and how many would remain, Hancock said he didn’t know.
Under the plan, which would shift Horsham’s 32 carriers to Ambler and Hatboro, the facility would lose the ability to process bulk mail and possibly passport services. But where township residents would go to receive those services has yet to be determined, Hancock said.
Postal official can’t deliver answers in Horsham
And for those in the APWU,those will be 30 hr/week NTFT bids,thanks Cliff Goofy!
I agree that these town hall meetings are worthless,the USPS is willing to mark time,then they STRIKE,LAUGHING as the employees fight among ourselves for the jobs that are left. For the upcoming plants to be closed, take it from us old Hickory,NC boys,grab any job you can.
I went to one of these public meetings in my home town. The meeting was a farce. Only local and district managers were present. They had no information of any value and were not in a position to make an actual decision as orders are coming from postal headquarters. When the managers were asked why there was no announcement of the meeting in the newspaper or a mailing to the public, the response was the largest local mailers were sent post cards. None of the bulk mailers showed up for the meeting. The current plan is stacking the deck for large mailers in large towns. Only 26% of revenue comes from bulk mail, 43% of revenue comes from 1st class letters (source is Post Office 2013 annual report). Postal management has forgotten that bulk mailers are only one part of the business. Apparently someone that that knows how to run a business should be hired to replace the postmaster general.