Night  shift added at  Mansfield Post Office

MANSFIELD – Ten mail handlers’ jobs are being restored at Mansfield’s downtown post office — but a spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service said that change will not result in bringing mechanized mail processing back to the city.

David Van Allen said the mail handlers will start work Saturday from 10 p.m. to 6:30 a.m., the hours when processed mail arrives in Mansfield.

It means a second shift of mail handlers is being added.

“The people who will be filling the positions already work for the USPS. They previously worked in Mansfield and have elected to transfer back to Mansfield from Columbus and Cleveland,” Van Allen said.

The change “is an operational shift to increase network efficiency between Cleveland and Mansfield,” he said.

No mail processing equipment will be returned to Mansfield, he said.

“This is a manual hub operation. It involves manually re-containerizing and loading onto trucks mail that has been processed in Cleveland for delivery in the ‘448’ ZIP code area,” Van Allen said.

Night shift added at Mansfield post office