With the closing of the mail processing facility in Youngstown, a few hundred jobs will be lost. City income tax collections will also decline when these postal jobs are eliminated.
WEEP NOT FOR THEM
While work will be lost if these changes take effect and services would delayed, there wouldn't be much in the way of layoffs, at least not right away. There is a "no-layoff" clause in the current national agreement with the mail carriers' union, which doesn't expire until 2015.
Union leaders claim workers may not have much to do, but they'll still have to be paid, leaving union leaders wondering just how much is really going to be saved.
The newspaper indicates the job loss to the city will be
500
Jay, Youngstown IS NOT the only city that will loose a postal facility ... Akron and Toledo will also loose theirs.
We've known that this was going to happen for over a year now so it should come as no great shock to anyone.
Nothing you, I, or amyone else says will change the closure, so what purpose is there in harping on it ... it will change nothing, so live with it.
As to post offices, a growing number of supermarkets are going to have in store post offices such as the Belmont Giant Eagle, and the beauty of that is that for the folks that still use post offices as a source fot chatting up friends, the Belmont Giant Eagle also has a small in store restaurant where folks can meet and chat as well as shop, do their banking and yes even a dry cleaner for their Sunday going to church suits.