60 to lose jobs when postal service center closes : News-Record.com : Greensboro & the Triad's most trusted source for local news and analysis

GREENSBORO — New Breed Logistics said it will lay off 60 workers when it closes a postal equipment service center at the end of March.

The closing comes because the U.S. Postal Service center is consolidating some of the 22 similar centers it operates nationwide, said Joe Haulk, New Breed's vice president of marketing and communications.

New Breed operates five of those centers. The only one of its facilities affected by the consolidation is the one in an industrial park on Gallimore Dairy Road.

The workers there were notified of the closing Monday and have been offered severance packages based on their length of service with the company.

The service center will close by March 30. After the layoffs, New Breed will have about 370 employees in Guilford County.

Haulk said New Breed helped the postal service develop these mail transport service equipment centers in the early 1990s. At these facilities, workers inspect and repair equipment such as mail bags, trays, pallets and other equipment used to process mail delivery at post offices and private business.

Based in High Point, New Breed manages more than 8 million square feet of warehouse space across the country and has about 6,000 employees.

Beachwalk

January 6, 2010 - 4:36 pm EST

I am very sorry for the ones who will lose their jobs. Once again the question has to be asked; How's that "Hope and Change" working out for you?

10 more months democRATs forcing their liberal socialist ideas on America.

armyjackson

January 6, 2010 - 4:59 pm EST

Actually it's worked for me quite well Beachwalk, and I have a job because of it. However, how rude of you to jump onto such a sad story to throw in your ignorant "Obama's not Jesus" comment in here. You would have to be to believe that just 10 months into his presidency that he could fix all that ails the world. You make me sick with your underhandedness.

And to the Postal workers, sorry guys, thoughts and prayers with you. Things will get better.

shadow operator

January 7, 2010 - 3:21 am EST

I am certain that Al Gore is ultimately to blame, due to his mightiest miracle The Birth of the Interwebs. More epostal actions equals less postal actions. Oh yeah and blame the other feds, ex that is, and don't forget about the brownshirts in their strange brown vans.

tledford

January 6, 2010 - 5:28 pm EST

Well, it took the RepubliCONs 27 years (1981 - 2008) to f**k things up this badly, gotta give Obama a little more time to undo Ray-gun-omics. :-D

I feel badly about these folks losing their jobs, but these are middle-class folk, and the Republican Party declared war on the Middle Class in 1981, this shouldn't be a surprise. The GOAL of the Republican Party is to make certain that 99% of Americans live in abject poverty while the other 1% consists of multi-billionaires.

timflowers

January 6, 2010 - 6:57 pm EST

Truly. Republicans must think the American people have really short memories. Aside from a few bright moments in the Reagan administration, no Republican President since then has left office with our country in better shape than they found it. The GOP always screws things up, gets voted out, and then they spend the rest of their time blaming the Democrats for everything.

And for the record, I'm a registered Libertarian so please don't accuse me of bias toward either of the bigger parties.

January 6, 2010 - 7:49 pm EST

And for the record, I'm an Anarchist. :-D

January 6, 2010 - 10:21 pm EST

Funny how the obonzo sheep so easily forget that Jimmy Carter was the worst president this country has ever had. You also forget that economist all agree G.W. Bush inherited a recession from Clinton. Plus Bush had 911 to deal with, which wouldn't have happen in the first place if Clinton had taken care of Bin Laden when he had the opportunity.
Of course Obonzo is giving Carter a run for his money for the title of worst ever president.

dandyseniors

January 7, 2010 - 1:45 pm EST

AGREED!!!

January 7, 2010 - 5:19 pm EST

And we have a winner! Every single claim in BW's post is 180 degrees from the truth! Congratulations, BW! Pick up your prize (kool-aid and a straight razor) from the surly-looking man at the back of the room!

jeffic_fail

January 7, 2010 - 3:17 am EST

Beachwalk - You sir are a Jeffic Fail.

mikec

January 7, 2010 - 5:29 am EST

You know, regardless of politics, this is a blow to the community as a whole and devistating to the employees involved. I received the news yesterday that our company will have another round of lay-offs very soon. Our workforce will be down to a shadow of what what we once were. Frankly, I'm sick of the political wrangling as I firmly believe most of our representatives and senators are in it for personal gain. It's time for term limits.

Mike

January 7, 2010 - 5:17 pm EST

I agree with you about our "elected" (as in "bought and paid for") representatives, but I oppose term limits. Instead, public financing of campaigns is what is needed.

jhauck

January 10, 2010 - 9:20 pm EST

Why is everyone politicizing this news? These people are being laid off because the postal service business is significantly down in volume due to things like -- more and more people using on-line bill pay instead of sending checks through the mail, sending electronic cards instead of cards by mail, etc, etc. Lets just wish these folks well and leave politics out of it.

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