Workers at Toledo's main post office have been notified that mail-sorting operations there will end about two months from now, a U.S. Postal Service spokesman said today.
The end of mail sorting in Toledo is the second phase of a process that began about 18 months ago when sorting of the city's outbound mail was shifted to Detroit, spokesman David Van Allen said.
But until about April 18, postal workers in Toledo will continue to sort inbound mail into batches for each of the local post offices served by the main post office, he said.
Mr. Van Allen said 117 of the 243 workers now assigned to Toledo's main post office will be affected, but exactly which ones remains to be determined. All affected employees were given 60 days' formal notice of the change.
"They've known about it for years," the spokesman said. "This process started in 2012."
While mail sorting will be eliminated, the main post office will still need such workers as truck drivers, mail handlers, retail clerks, and custodians.
The Detroit regional center where Toledo's sorting is to relocate has ample ability to sort mail for northwest Ohio's local post offices, Mr. Van Allen said, because plunging first-class mail volume has left the USPS with excess capacity.
First Published February 12, 2015, 5:33 p.m.