The following pics were taken on 16-17 April 2015, the official last days of the Gateway Processing Center in southeastern Idaho, but do not show all the operations that took place. (click pics to make bigger)
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- Ergo Carts full of Bulk Business Mail (junk mail) and periodicals (magazines).
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- A busy loading dock, yet mail handlers were told they were let go “Due to lack of work”!
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- The Sectional Center Facility (SCF) pit where parcels shipped within east Idaho were sorted, by hand. Now it’s done in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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- Flying Monkey no longer has a warehouse full of employees to watch over.
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- One of two outgoing parcel sorting pits.
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- One of several letter sorting machines. At least one sorter has already been dismantled and shipped off to Salt Lake City.
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- Barney empathizes.
The United States Postal Service does not make money off taxpayers, they are solely funded by the postage they charge. The U.S. Congress controls what the USPS can charge, and, according to testimonies by the U.S. postmaster general, Patrick Donahoe, and Fredric Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, the U.S. Congress has forced the USPS to over pay into several federal funds.
EAST IDAHO MAIL HANDLERS ‘INVOLUNTARILY’ ESCAPE
Salt Lake Letter Processing Center unable to handle all of east Idaho’s letter mail
MORE ECONOMIC DECLINE: CONFUSION REIGNS OVER EAST IDAHO POSTAL PROCESSING CENTER SHUTDOWN!
MORE ECONOMIC DECLINE: MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT CONFIRMING SHUTDOWN OF EAST IDAHO’S ONLY POSTAL PROCESSING CENTER?
MORE ECONOMIC DECLINE: EAST IDAHOANS OBLIVIOUS TO SHUTDOWN OF THEIR ONLY POSTAL PROCESSING CENTER!
First announced in 2011: SURPRISE POSTAL SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT, WILL CLOSE DISTRIBUTION CENTERS NOT MENTIONED ON PUBLIC POST OFFICE CLOSING LIST. POCTELLO, IDAHO, TARGETED