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The Postal Service is centralizing some of its functions, and some positions are on the chopping block.
Senior Correspondent
The U.S. Postal Service is consolidating its organizational structure of 67 districts down to 50, a move that will shake up and downsize the mailing agency’s workforce.
Postal management is offering voluntary early retirement to impacted staff, which includes non-bargaining unit administrative personnel at its Washington headquarters, as well as those in “headquarters-related” area and district offices. USPS said it will make the offers, which will not include a separation incentive and would become effective April 30, to avoid forced layoffs, or reductions in force. The agency said the changes would “improve efficiency” and better serve postal customers.