Simon Storey, the Postal Service’s human resources vice president, will retire Monday, Sept. 30, after more than three decades with the organization.
Storey joined USPS as a letter sorting machine part-time flexible clerk in Billings, MT, in 1989. He later become a frontline supervisor before moving into leadership roles in human resources at the district, area and national levels.
In 2017, Storey was named employee resource management vice president. After becoming human resources vice president in 2020, he led the transformation of human resources in the field as the Postal Service realigned reporting relationships and standardized hiring, recruitment, retention, and development programs and policies.
During the pandemic, Storey served as co-lead of the organization’s COVID command team, helping USPS keep employees safe while maintaining its service commitment to the public.
In a memo announcing the retirement, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy praised Storey’s contributions.
“Simon has been a valuable member of the Human Resources leadership team for many years and his efforts to improve employee onboarding and hiring processes to ensure we have the right people, at the right time, with the right skill sets will serve us for years to come,” DeJoy wrote.