The U.S. Postal Service has terminated its contract with the company running the agency’s Denver Regional Transfer Hub, part of a larger move to bring more of its operations in-house and improve the security of packages.
Alan Ritchey Inc., a trucking and distribution company based in Valley View, Texas, informed the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment that it will lay off the 729 employees at the hub, located at 20500 E. Colfax Ave. in Aurora, on Feb. 28.
“This layoff will be permanent, and the Company’s operations will permanently cease. Affected employees are not represented by a union and bumping rights (that is, the right to avoid termination by displacing another employee) do not exist. However, employees may apply for positions at other Company facilities,” Robby Ritchey, the company’s CEO, wrote in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, or WARN, letter to the state on Tuesday.
Ritchey expressed regret in the letter that he couldn’t provide more notice, but added that the USPS informed the company on Dec. 29 that it would terminate its contract Feb. 28 and that it had refused to extend the performance period as it had done over the past year.
The USPS has too many useless management employees that don’t touch the mail. Start getting rid of all the deadwood making over a 100k to sit on Facebook all day and ignore customer calls.