Patrick Donahoe, postmaster general of the United States Postal Service, announced today that the USPS will cut 13,000 people out of its workforce by 2014.
“We simply do not have the mail volumes to justify the size and capacity of our current mail processing network,” Donahoe said in a statement today. “To return to long-term profitability and financial stability while keeping mail affordable, we must match our network to the anticipated workload.”
The USPS plans to close 140 mail processing centers through by February 2013. “These consolidating activities will reduce the size of the Postal Service workforce by approximately 13,000 employees and, when fully implemented, will generate cost reductions of approximately $1.2 billion annually,” the USPS explained.
The process begins next week, when 5,000 employees “will begin receiving notifications next week related to consolidating and other efficiency-enhancing activities to be conducted this summer.”
