Deutsche Post ships 125 jobs to Jersey
Deutsche Post ships 125 jobs to Jersey
Deutsche Post Global Mail is moving 125 jobs from Sterling to Rutherford, N.J., just outside of New York City. That accounts for more than 55 percent of the company’s local work force.
The Sterling-based North American arm of the massive German parcel delivery company is downsizing its Dulles mail operations in favor of increased operations in the New York area.
The northern New Jersey center will employ about 250 workers when its is fully operational, says DP Global Mail CEO Harry Geller.
The move stems from Global Mail’s July acquisition of International Postal Consultants. Hanover, Md.-based IPC had a mail facility in Fairfield, N.J..
The combined companies will move that operation north to the new Rutherford center.
“It’s not layoffs at all,” says Geller, cognizant of the recent spate of job cuts by local and national tech firms.
Global Mail was acquired by Deutsche Post in 1998. Geller, who was one of Global Mail’s founders, says the company will still have about 100 employees in Fairfax County, including it’s headquarters.
The displaced workers will be let go the end of February, according to company filings with the Virginia Employment Commission.
DP Global Mail has 850 employees total.
