Postal Workers at Duluth Minnesota’s mail processing center were informed Thursday that some mail sorting will remain in Duluth and employees will retain their jobs here beyond a previously announced closure date, a union official told the News Tribune. While plans are going forward to send most outgoing mail to the Twin Cities to be […]
Duluth Postal Services employees and leaders from across Minnesota rallied against closing Duluth’s mail processing center Monday. About 100 people gathered with picket signs outside the federal courthouse in Duluth, many of whom were some of the 70 postal service employees who could lose their jobs if the processing center closes in 2015 like it is […]
The City Council in Superior, Wisconsin passed a resolution opposing the closure of the Duluth Processing and Distribution Facility and three Duluth branch post offices. The Duluth Processing and Distribution Facility is one of 82 mail processing facilities under consideration for closure/consolidation beginning in January 2015. The City Council’s resolution stated: The Duluth/Superior area could […]
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Eighth District Congressman Rick Nolan announced today that U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe has agreed to personally review the decision to close the Duluth mail processing facility, set to take place in 2015 and affect some 70 jobs. The two spoke by telephone on Friday – “a very friendly and productive conversation” […]
The U.S. Postal Service has some explaining to do. I soon will be talking with U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe in Washington. I’ll have hard questions about the ill-conceived decision to close the mail-processing facility in Duluth, one of the finest and most efficient in the nation. Make no mistake. We are continuing to fight […]