USPS announce job cuts

USPS has announced it is shutting three mail processing centres and cutting about 1,490 jobs in West Virginia, Indiana and Arizona – but not due to the current economic woes.

USPS has announced it is shutting three mail processing centres and cutting about 1,490 jobs in West Virginia, Indiana and Arizona – but not due to the current economic woes.

Spokesman Freda Sauter explained the closing are among five of 55 centres opened in 1990 to handle mail that couldn’t be read by optical scanners. However, better scanners now read about 95% of handwritten addresses, eliminating the need for these centres to remain open.

Centres in Wichita, Kansas, and Salt Lake City will remain open; with the Postal Service estimating the closings will save approximately $4.9m.