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Business/Economics, Idaho

“Why are you charging fees when they’re unconstitutional?” Postal shutdowns increase costs of operations! : U.S. Job Losses & Closings 17 – 18 November 2015

British empire Canada based oil pipeline company Enbridge announced it will eliminate 6-hundred jobs in both Canada and United States!

British empire Canada based Tim Hortons shutting down several restaurants in Maine and New York.  News reports out of Maine said employees were shocked as two restaurants have already shutdown, without warning before the official announcement was made.

Failed State Alabama: Cool Beans Cafe + Bistro shutdown, the owners are moving ‘north’.

California:  In San Luis Obispo, retailer Forever 21 shutting down in January 2016, 72 jobs lost.  Administrators did not say why the store was shutting down.  In Palm Springs, after 40 years The Alley gift store shutting down by the end of January 2016.

Failed State Florida:  Miami based Too Big to Jail Total Bank announced it will eliminate jobs “As a result of its continuous investments in technology…”  Fort Lauderdale based software company Citrix Systems announced it will eliminate 1-thousand in-house and contracted jobs starting now!  It’s part of their plans to cut operating costs.

Georgia: In Decatur, after 69 years Evans Fine Foods restaurant shutdown.

Idaho: In Nampa, HVAC maker Hart & Cooley (aka HCI) issued a shutdown WARN saying 67 people will lose their jobs right after the Gregorian New Year’s Day.  However, in a fine example of proof that ‘official’ WARNs do not reflect the actual number of employees affected, local TV station KIVI said “over 70 workers will lose their jobs”, citing an official Hart & Cooley letter received by the mayor of Nampa.  Test score rankings of home educated Idahoans versus traditional schools (yeah, the ones in blue are the homeschooled results).  Homeschooling is one reason why taxpayer funded public schools are losing students.  According to Idaho Coalition of Home Educators there’s an estimated 7-thousand kids being educated at home, in a state with a total official population of 1.5-million.  The reason the number of homeschool kids is an ‘estimate’ is that The Gem State does not have any laws regarding the tracking or even state testing of home educated kids.  In related news (and something I wish happened when my kids were attending School District 25), a local judge has ruled that West Ada School Board violated the Constitution of Idaho by charging fees.  In fact the ruling reveals just about all Idaho public schools are violating the state Constitution: “So we’re hoping that moms and dads will ask these questions about ‘Why are you charging fees when they’re unconstitutional?'”-Russell Joki, West Ada School Board member who actually agrees with the court ruling   (don’t forget that Idaho politicians and courts were recently found to be among the most corrupt in the U.S.)

Failed State Illinois: In Highland Park, after 30 years Ravinia BBQ & Grill shutting down before Thanksgiving.

Indiana: In Indianapolis, G. Thrapp Jewelers shutting down once the inventory is gone. The owner lamented a time when “There were a lot of women and really cheap rent.”

Maryland: In Baltimore, after 12 years Canton Club Health & Fitness shutting down in December.

Minnesota: Cliffs Natural Resources shutting down their Northshore Mining ops, 540 people jobless by the end of November!

Mississippi: In Ridgeland, Fitness Lady Health Club shutting down next week, the property was sold to a college.

Montana: The University of Montana eliminating 201 jobs due to what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome.  Since 2011 the University of Montana has lost nearly 5-thousand students!

Nevada: In Fallon, after 26 years Country Health store shutdown.

New Mexico: After 65 years Kurt’s Camera Corral shutdown: “Posterity ain’t what it used to be. People don’t give it that kind of importance that maybe we did.”-Jim Kubie, owner

Failed State New York: In Bronx, IAC Acoustics shutdown without warning, laying off at least 26 employees.   New York Life Insurance WARNed that they were “relocating” jobs within their
Information Technology and Finance Operations, at least 59 employees affected between February and September 2016.  In Glen Cove,  after 96 years (surviving the Great Depression and numerous recessions) restaurant Stango’s shutting down on New Year’s Eve.

North Carolina: Yet another boat maker for the elites goes down.  Wanchese based GUNBOAT International now bankrupt busted blaming a “perfect storm” of low sales, competition from China and lawsuits.  Piggly Wiggly shutting down their grocery store in Stantonsburg after Thanksgiving, blaming years of decreasing sales and increasing costs.

Ohio: After 25 years the last Ponderosa Steak House in the Dayton area shutdown.  The Texas based company told local news that if they recover financially then maybe they’ll return.

Pennsylvania: Sharon based NASCAR themed restaurant chain Quaker Steak & Lube bankrupt busted and being sold off at a loss for only $25-million USD. Court documents say the new owner will be TravelCenters of America.

South Carolina:  In Greenville, after 69 years J.B. Lacher jewelers shutting down, the owner said “This finally has become a financial burden for me.”

Texas:  After losing their state funded Medicaid transportation contract TAPS Public Transit laid off 116 employees without warning, and without being paid! 

Utah:  In Saint George, after 65 years McArthur Jewelers shutdown, the owners suddenly realized “we’ve got a life to live.”

Washington DC: Despite starting its fiscal year with good news about $1.1-billion USD in increased revenues, yet again the U.S. Postal Service ended its fiscal year (in September) with a huge loss; $5.1-billion!  Despite all the USPS plant shutdowns and layoffs ( I being one of the layoff victims here in Pocatello, Idaho), postal administrators say their operating costs went up by $1.3-billion!  (the USPS is NOT taxpayer funded!)

Wisconsin: HVAC company Johnson Controls eliminating 277 Milwaukee jobs between January and June 2016!  In Waukesha, MetalTek laid off 60 people due to “reduced demand”.   Idaho based King’s Variety shutting down their 64 years old Little Chute store, blaming competition.

13-16 November 2015: “We…wish you the best of success in your new positions wherever they may be.” 

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.”

Business/Economics, Idaho

More Economic Decline: After Idaho shutdown, USPS takes 23 hours to deliver package that should have arrived in 3!

15 May 2015 (01:43 UTC-07 Tango 01)/25 Ordibehesht 1394/26 Rajab 1436/27 Xin Si (3rd month) 4713

The U.S. Postal Service’s Gateway Processing Center in Pocatello, Idaho, officially shutdown on April 18th.  Since then all parcel and bulk mail sorting is being done out of state in Salt Lake City, Utah.  I just received a package that, according to the tracking info, took 23 hours to go from Salt Lake City to Pocatello, a drive that normally takes 2.5 to 3 hours!

Here’s the actual info from the USPS: “Tracking # 9400109699938443767549

Departed USPS Facility May-13-15, 04:22 AM, SALT LAKE CITY, UT 84199

Arrived at Post Office May-14-15, 03:09 AM, POCATELLO, ID 83201″

 That’s right, it left Salt Lake City on May 13th at 04:22 hours (that’s 4:22 am for those of you on the 12 hours clock), but didn’t arrive in Pocatello until almost 23 hours later on May 14th at 03:09 hours!

Why did it take the truck driver 23 hours when it’s normally a 2.5 to 3 hours drive (by car, maybe 4 hours by truck) from Salt Lake City to Pocatello?

East Idaho’s Gateway Processing Center is one of 82 across the U.S. being shutdown this year.

Kentucky: In Paducah, the U.S. Postal Service shutting down the mail Processing Center.  Missouri: In Cape Girardeau, the U.S. Postal Service shutting down the mail Processing Center. 

One final look at the Idaho Postal Processing Center most east Idahoans didn’t even know about! 

Business/Economics

U.S. Job Losses & Store Closings, 02 – 03 April 2015: “The market conditions are severe, we’ve seen a 30% decrease…” Yet another women’s clothing chain going down! More healthcare, education and bank layoffs!

Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:

Obama Care Racism in the good ol’ U.S. of A?  The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) laid off employees in New York, Washington DC, California and Wyoming.  ACLU administrators blamed it on the loss of a major donor, but also mentioned the increased employee health care costs, caused by Obama Care.

California: Los Angeles based American Apparel laid off 180 people!  This is the third year in a row the clothing company has laid off employees.  Some analysts say its their way of preventing employees from unionizing, however it could also be due to American Apparel losing $28-million USD in its 4th quarter of 2014!    Boeing announced that another round of layoffs will take place, this time nine people will be let go at the beginning of June.  In Santa Barbara, after less than two years Granada Books shutdown.  The owner tried an internet/social media based campaign to raise money to save the store, but it failed.   In Mountain View, OnLive issued a layoff WARN saying 98 people will become jobless by June.  In Los Alamitos, Dex Media issued yet another layoff WARN, this time saying the last of its employees will be let go in September.  In Irvine, legal drugs maker Allergan issued a layoff WARN saying 577 people will become jobless in June, due to takeover by Ireland based Actavis!  In Fresno, Charlotte’s BakerEatery sold to competitor Dusty Buns.  In Natomas, OfficeMax announced it will shutdown its North Freeway Boulevard store in May.  It’s part of a larger plan to shutdown more than 2-hundred stores across the U.S.: “In 2014, we closed approximately 165 locations and plan to close at least another 100 by the second quarter in 2015.”– Julianne Embry

Colorado: Boulder based children’s and women’s clothing chain Fresh Produce now chapter 11 bankrupt busted and up for sale.  Administrators say the company is in so much debt that they listed some as “unknown”.  Fresh Produce has several dozens of stores across six U.S. states.

Florida: FlexSteel Pipeline shutdown their Panama City factory, 76 jobs lost.  Administrators blame oil prices.

Illinois:  School District 65 will eliminate 29 full time jobs for the upcoming school year.  School administrators say they’re preparing for the state to slash and burn their funding even more.

Indiana: What automotive industry recovery?  Heavy vehicle maker Caterpillar continues to kill jobs, this time 250 jobs will be eliminated in Lafayette!  Also, driveline maker Oerlikon Fairfield laid off 35 people at its Lafayette factory.  The new Obama Care medical device tax, combined with a takeover by Tecomet, forcing Symmetry Medical Manufacturing to shutdown its Noble County factory by the end of the year, 130 jobs lost (layoffs start in June)!  In Indianapolis, Too Big to Jail Chase Bank announced it is shutting down its student loan center in May, 73 jobs lost.  It’s the final stage of the bank’s exit from higher education: “We have gotten out of the student loan business; that was announced years ago. So this is the trailing end of the servicing of the loans that were still on the books.”

Kentucky: In Paducah, the U.S. Postal Service shutting down the mail Processing Center, at least 41 jobs affected.  The loading dock will remain in operation, but work hours for those employees remaining will be greatly reduced.

Maine: Massachusetts based aerospace and oil industry parts supplier Midstate Berkshire laid off 70 people in Winslow and Waterville.  On top of that the Waterville factory will be shutdown by the end of the year, so more job losses are expected: “The market conditions are severe, we’ve seen a 30% decrease in our key markets over the past year!”-Duane Pekar, CEO

Massachusetts: In the state known as Boston Weak, the new Obama Care medical device tax, combined with a takeover by Tecomet, forcing Symmetry Medical Manufacturing to shutdown its New Bedford factory over the next 12 months.  Layoffs begin in June, 190 jobs lost!

Minnesota:  After 57 years Richfield’s Lariat Lanes bowling alley announced it will shutdown in May.

Missouri: In Cape Girardeau, the U.S. Postal Service shutting down the mail Processing Center, at least 45 jobs affected.

New York: In Clifton Park, California based Everett Charles Technology joined the exodus and announced they will layoff 25 people in August, by offshoring the jobs to Malaysia.  In Syracuse, Too Big to Jail JP Morgan Chase issued a shutdown WARN saying their Global Technology Department will cease to exist in June, 91 jobs lost.  In Bay Shore, Duralee Fabrics issued a WARN saying they’re joining the exodus from The Empire State and moving 64 jobs to North Carolina by July.  In Bronx, That Which Cannot be Named refuses to stop the sell-off of its Yeshiva University Albert Einstein School of Medicine, 1,512 jobs affected!  Apparently the school is being taken over by the College of Medicine.

North Carolina: In Raleigh, legal drugs maker Salix Pharmaceuticals is laying off 258 people!  Administrators blame it on the $11-billion they spent taking over Canadian drugs maker Valeant Pharmaceuticals.

Ohio:  After 130 years (surviving numerous depressions and recessions) God refuses to stop the shutdown of his Saint Aloysius School. It’s blamed on the Rapture, I mean what I call Disappearing Student Syndrome.  From the 2012-13 school year to 2014-15 they suffered a 50% drop in enrollment! Regency Hospital of Akron shutting down, 85 jobs lost.  New York based insurance company Assurant laid off 125 people in Dayton and Springfield due to lack of sales!  Gee, what happened to Obama Care forcing everybody to get insurance?

Oklahoma: SandRidge Energy laid off 132 people, blaming “Market conditions”!

Oregon: Netflix is going ahead with their May shutdown of their Hillsboro call center, saying the remaining 68 employees will become unemployed.  Last year news reports said 188 people worked at the call center!

Pennsylvania: In Honesdale, after 34 years the owners of Country Dawn say their greedy landlord is forcing them to shutdown in May.  The landlord wants to replace the gift shop with a bar.

Virginia: In Charlottesville, after almost 70 years Downtown Athletic Store shutdown.  It sounds like the company is going to focus on internet sales only.  Richmond based Health Diagnostic Laboratory announced it will begin laying off 42 more employees across the country.   Last year the medical testing company laid off 162 people!  It’s connected to a federal investigation, and subsequent $47-million fine, in which the company is accused of bribing doctors and hospitals.

Washington: What housing market recovery? Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle will layoff 109 people between now and January 2016!  Administrators say they still haven’t recovered from the 2008-09 housing market crash.

Washington DC: Steptoe & Johnson, a law firm that represents the oil industry, revealed it laid off 34 people across the U.S.

Wisconsin: Ohio based natural gas company Chart Industries laid off 50 more people from its La Crosse factory.  That’s on top of the 55 laid off at the end of 2014.  Company administrators said the economy still sucks, despite shelling out $50-million to expand their La Crosse ops.  University of Wisconsin Madison warned it must eliminate 4-hundred jobs and drop 320 courses over the next two years, no thanks to the new Right to Work (you over) state education budget!  Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) laid off less than 20 people from its central office.  MPS has a terrible graduation rate for high school students; in 2014 only 60.9% of students succeeded in graduating after four years of high school!  Of the students who took five years only 68.8% graduated, and those who took six years only 73.4% graduated!

01 April 2015: “we lost some very good people”

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.”

Business/Economics, Idaho

More Economic Decline: One final look at the Idaho Postal Processing Center most east Idahoans didn’t even know about!

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)

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

Business/Economics, Idaho, U.S.

More Economic Decline: East Idaho Mail Handlers ‘involuntarily’ escape the Hotel California!

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On 14 April 2015, Pocatello's Gateway Processing Center Mail Handlers were given this notice of work "release".

On 14 April 2015, Pocatello’s Gateway Processing Center Mail Handlers were given this notice of work “release”. Note that the letter is dated “April 10, 2015”. Why did administration wait until the 14th to hand out the notices?

Welcome to the Hotel California!

Your Post Office Receives Zero Tax Dollars

Business/Economics, Idaho, U.S.

More Economic Decline: Major announcement confirming shutdown of east Idaho’s only Postal Processing Center?

11 April 2015 (16:42 UTC-07 Tango 01)/22 Farvardin 1394/21 Jumada t-Tania 1436/23 Geng Chen 4713

In the past week employees at the doomed Gateway Processing Center in Pocatello, Idaho, were given news confirming the pending shutdown.

As of 17 April 2015 all remaining Mail Handlers will become unemployed, with no severance (told to apply for unemployment).  All parcel mail (packages) are supposedly to be shipped down to Salt Lake City for processing after that date.

Salt Lake Postal District administrators decided to save 16 Gateway Clerk jobs (on top of the original 13), but only temporarily.  The Salt Lake Letter Processing Center is, admittedly, unable to handle all of east Idaho’s letter mail, so, two of Gateway’s letter sorting machines will remain operational for at least six more months (apparently until Salt Lake gets another machine of their own).

This is more proof of how ineffectual your local ‘elected’ officials are.

East Idaho’s Gateway Processing Center is one of 82, across the United States, that are being shutdown before summer.

Zero Hour approaches fast for east Idaho’s only Postal Processing Center! 

Business/Economics, Idaho, U.S.

More Economic Decline: Notices posted in Post Offices as Zero Hour approaches fast for east Idaho’s only Postal Processing Center!

06 April 2015 (13:52 UTC-07 Tango 01)/17 Farvardin 1394/16 Jumada t-Tania 1436/18 Geng Chen 4713

Some east Idaho Post Offices have posted collection time changes (“Due to operational changes…”) for parcels and letters dropped off at their location.   The new collection times are 30 minutes earlier than normal and go into effect on 18 April 2015.

Notice posted inside the Clark Street PO in Pocatello, Idaho.

Notice posted inside the Clark Street PO in Pocatello, Idaho.

18 April is supposedly the day all east Idaho mail will be shipped to Salt Lake City, Utah, for processing.  That’s ALL mail; inbound from out of the area, out bound to other states and countries, and even cross-town letters!

17 April is the official last day of operations for the Gateway Processing Center in Pocatello.  Many people are confusing the Processing Center with the Gateway Post Office, which is located in the same building.   About 13 Clerks will remain employed after 17 April to continue operating the Post Office and the loading dock in the Processing Center.  The loading dock will remain open because beginning 18 April all east Idaho mail (in the 832 zip code area) will be loaded straight onto trucks bound for out of state processing centers in Salt Lake City.

East Idaho mail in the 834 zip code area will be sent to the main PO in Idaho Falls (IF) to be shipped to Salt Lake City.  This will be a logistical nightmare because the loading dock at the IF PO has only one door, which means trucks will have to wait in line to unload and load.

About 50 good paying jobs are in the process of being lost to a combination of early retirements, forced (“involuntary”) transfers and outright layoffs (with no severance).

There are rumors that eventually all Post Offices in Pocatello will be shutdown except for the Gateway Post Office, meaning the residents of Chubbuck and Pocatello will have only one Post Office.

Postal administrators swear up and down that delivery times will not be adversely affected by the shutdown.  I’ve got another reason why that is a lie: Performance Ratings.   For more than two decades the Gateway Processing Center has maintained some of the highest performance ratings in the Salt Lake Postal District, I’ve read that’s it’s as high as 92%.  Guess who has maintained the lowest performance ratings?  Yep, the Salt Lake Processing Centers!

Here’s some other disturbing news.  While Salt Lake postal administrators want to shutdown Gateway, for some odd reason in the past month they’ve more than doubled the mail volume they’ve been sending to Pocatello for processing!  Gateway Mail Handlers and Clerks state that the mail volume is now as high as during the end of year holiday season, and they’re operating with fewer employees due to forced retirements and transfers, and Salt Lake administrators will not allow the hiring of more employees due to the pending shutdown!

Question: If Salt Lake postal administrators think Pocatello is inefficient, and that Salt Lake can handle processing better, then why are they sending more and more mail our way?

A recent Idaho State Journal article indicated that Chubbuck city administrators have joined with Pocatello to try and stop the shutdown.  No word on any of the dozens of other east Idaho cities joining the fight, even though the shutdown will directly affect them as well.  Also, still no word from the dozens of east Idaho mail order companies, that use Priority Mail to ship out their products, showing any concern over the shutdown (companies like Weigh Vest, Fin Fun Mermaid, some company that sends Priority Medium Flat Rate boxes filed with dirt and exotic flower bulbs, another company that sends heavy boxes marked “liquid”, etc).  Those companies will see a delay in their shipments as a result of the shutdown, despite what Salt Lake postal administrators say.

Pathetic turnout for east Idaho Mayor’s last ditch effort to save Postal Processing Center!

Business/Economics, Idaho, U.S.

More Economic Decline: Pathetic turnout for east Idaho Mayor’s last ditch effort to save Postal Processing Center!

17 March 2015 (16:10 UTC-07 Tango 01)/26 Jumada I-Ula 1436/26 Esfand 1393/27 Ji Mao 4713

Only one city council seems concerned with the shutdown of east Idaho’s only mail sorting and processing center; Pocatello.  This is despite the fact the closure will affect all of eastern Idaho!

What’s worse it seems that even the residents of Pocatello don’t give a damn.  According to local TV station KPVI, only 50 people showed up to the mayor’s “11th Hour Town Hall to Reverse USPS Plant Closure” meeting.

A lot of blame can be placed on east Idaho news media for failing to explain the situation, as I’ve written before most east Idahoans are oblivious to the whole situation.  Even in the latest lazily done KPVI report no mention of the fact that this shutdown will affect all of east Idaho is made, they only mention Pocatello and “the county”.

The time of the Pocatello mayor’s meeting was set right at the height of operations at the Gateway Station; 18:00 hours to 20:00 hours, when trucks filled with the days mail from all over east Idaho (and even trucks from Boise) come in and employees are busy “hashing” everything out in time for outbound shipments after midnight (actually postal workers are busting butt right up ’till deadlines, but the mayors meeting was set for 6pm to 8pm, the time when the trucks roll in to dump their mail).  But, if anybody is wondering why Postal Employees haven’t spoken up or gone on strike it’s because they’d be instantly fired from their job, or fined or imprisoned (starting in 1947 with the Taft-Hartley Act which was replaced with the 1955 Act and several other Acts down the road, however, that didn’t stop a massive postal strike in 1970 that actually worked).

Either the people of east Idaho are so stupid as to not understand the importance of their only Postal Processing Center being shutdown, or they take their Postal Service for granted thinking it’s one of those things that will always be there.  Several countries in the European Union have fully privatized their postal systems in the past decade, and with disastrous results.  I remember reading about when Italy shifted to a fully privatized postal system just a few years ago, and the initial result was total chaos when it came to deliveries, and prices went up.  Many U.S. ebay sellers stopped selling to Italian buyers, it was so bad.

Ponder this east Idaho: You never know how good you had it ’till you lose it.

East Idahoans oblivious to shutdown of their only Postal Processing Center! 

Business/Economics

Staples takes over U.S. Postal Service? Staples takes over Office Depot, 1-thousand closings to follow!

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After shutting down dozens of stores OfficeMax has sold off Office Depot, and not even for cash!  Mitt Romney wunderkind Staples is the new owner of Office Depot after trading $6.3-billion USD worth of stocks for it!  Reports say 1-thousand stores will be shutdown!

The American Postal Workers Union is challenging the sale, calling it “monopolistic and unlawful”.  The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) recently signed a deal with Staples to contract out your local Post Office jobs to Staples!  The administrators of the USPS admitted the contracting out of postal jobs is to greatly reduce pay and eliminate benefits.

Office Depot joins shutdown gang

Staples ups the ante

24/7 Wall St reporting that eight retailers will close more stores in 2013: Best Buy, Sears Holding (Kmart and Sears stores), JCPenney, Office Depot, Barnes & Noble, Gamestop, Office Max and RadioShack. 

Business/Economics, International

All home postal deliveries to stop by 2019! 8-thousand job cuts! Who said the Queen of England was just a figure head?

12 December 2013 (10:38 UTC-07 Tango)/08 Safar 1435/21 Azar 1392/10 Jia-Zi (11th month) 4711

The evil British empire country of Canada just announced that all home postal deliveries will stop by 2019.  People will have to pick up their mail at centralized locations (such as cluster boxes).

Canada Post Corporation (aka Canada Post) is a tool of the evil Queen of England.  It is part of the royal Crown Corporations of the monarchical Commonwealth (empire).  In Australia, Crown Corporations are called Government Business Enterprise (GBE).

Canada Post also said 8-thousand employees will be rendered unemployed by 2019!

The shift to centralized mail pick up might not be that bad for Canadian postal customers, according to reports only one third of Canadians get their mail delivered to their homes.  However, representatives of old Canadians (elderly) who still live in their own homes have pointed out that they have no way of getting to any centralized mail pickup point.

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (also a Crown Corporation) said this could be the “nail in the coffin for Canada Post”.

The empire country of New Zealand recently announced major cuts to their postal system.