Mail Processing Center to Close
The processing center in Tacoma that handles mail for the Olympic Peninsula will be closing. Mail processing operations in Tacoma, Everett and Olympia are all being consolidated with the processing center in Seattle. The Postal Service is hoping the job reductions (139 in Tacoma) can be achieved through attrition instead of layoffs.
The problems being faced by the Postal Service have nothing to do with the usual stereotypes about inefficient government agencies and faceless bureaucrats. Under the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006, the U.S. Postal Service is required to pre-fund the future health care benefit payments of all Postal Service retirees for the next 75 years. And this pre-funding has to take place in a ten-year time frame. The Postal Service has had to put aside billions of dollars to pay for the health care benefits of employees who haven't even been hired yet.
No other government agency, and no private company, is required to do anything even remotely similar to this.
The problems being faced by the Postal Service have nothing to do with the usual stereotypes about inefficient government agencies and faceless bureaucrats. Under the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006, the U.S. Postal Service is required to pre-fund the future health care benefit payments of all Postal Service retirees for the next 75 years. And this pre-funding has to take place in a ten-year time frame. The Postal Service has had to put aside billions of dollars to pay for the health care benefits of employees who haven't even been hired yet.
No other government agency, and no private company, is required to do anything even remotely similar to this.
posted by Tom Harper at 12:10 AM
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The TV news said 35,000 jobs were to be cut, nation wide.
Two days instead of one? Another reason to move to Port Angeles.
The king monkey half no opinion.
Investorplace.com - 1 hour ago
The United States Postal Service on Thursday said up to 35000 jobs would be cut as part of a larger plan to save $20 billion in operating costs by 2015 and ...
I'm wondering why the Elks is having a "Twilight" merchandise sale. Did those folks bail out without paying some of their rent?
Mail service has been screwed ever since it was set off on it's own as a "commercial" operation. It's going to get as bad as Canadian mail.
BBC, I was wondering that, too about the Twilight sale. It was there one day gone the next. Sure seemed like "we give up, we quit" and locking the doors behind them. Was an ill fated business, anyway. Single and short sighted. Barb at the Downtown Association thought it was a brilliant idea. Typical of this town. Short sighted, at best.
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