Postal Service Studying Twin Falls, Idaho, Operations
Posted on: Wednesday, 14 December 2005, 18:00 CST
By Chris Baldus, The Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho,
Dec. 14--TWIN FALLS -- Twin Falls mail might be sent to Boise for processing. Or, nothing could change.
Some post office employees might be reassigned. Or, nothing could change.
What happens when the U.S. Postal Service is done studying the mail processing operations at the Twin Falls Post Office is undetermined, said Teresa Rudkin, a spokeswoman in Denver.
"What we're doing in Twin Falls is taking a look at the local mail processing operation to make it more efficient," she said.
She expects the study to be finished in four to six weeks.
"There's plenty of options, and one of them starts with doing nothing," she said.
The study is to determine the feasibility of consolidating certain mail processing operations, said a Dec. 12 letter from labor specialist John W. Dockins of the U.S. Postal Service to William Burrus, president of the American Postal Workers Union. The letter, posted on the union's Web site, referenced 10 possible consolidations across the United States, including merging Twin Falls' processing into Boise's.
"The reason for the survey is to address the shifting mail volume and the need to manage capacity needs while improving efficiency," Twin Falls Postmaster Bill Reese wrote in a letter to The Times-News.
The Twin Falls Post Office has 43 mail clerks, of whom 33 are in the processing operation, said Rudkin. It also employs 38 mail carriers, 13 maintenance workers, five supervisors and Reese, she said.
It services 30 post offices in the area and handles about 50,000 incoming and 80,000 outgoing pieces of mail each day, she said.
The Spokane District, which includes Twin Falls, has the best service of the Postal Service's 85 districts, and "we don't want to change that," said Rudkin. That distinction is based upon on-time delivery of first-class mail, she said, which the latest numbers indicate happens 97 percent of the time.
Reese referred questions about the study to Rudkin, and local American Postal Workers Union President Robert Hendrickson referred them to the union's national office.
Cathy Bentley of First Federal, who's involved with the local bank's mailing of thousands of financial statements each week, hoped the speed of mail delivery would not slow if changes are made.
And she added, "I would hate to lose the customer service I have with the business mailing (personnel)."
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