Rebecca Shaver works at the counter Tuesday in the Shallowford Road postal facility.Laurie Conklin survived one U.S. Postal Service closing, but if the organization closes the local mail processing facility where she works, it could send her into bankruptcy.
She worked at a local mail facility for years until it closed in 2009. She was transferred across several jobs until finally settling down back in Chattanooga. If the General Mail Facility closes, it could be the last straw.
“If we’ve got to go bankrupt, we’ve got to go bankrupt,” she said. “We’ve done everything we can.”
The Postal Service is looking to close the Shallowford Road facility by March, killing 110 jobs but saving the organization up to $2 million annually.
The Chattanooga facility is one of 252 across the country being scrutinized for shutdown. The federally mandated but not federally funded organization is trying to eliminate 220,000 jobs from its nearly 560,000-strong workforce by 2015 in the face of dropping revenues and rising overhead.