Postal Service: Employee Issues Associated with the Potential Closure of the San Mateo IT Center

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A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "While the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) rationalizes its infrastructure, it is weighing a proposal to close and sell its Information Technology (IT) center located in San Mateo, California. According to USPS, closing the IT center and selling the facility should save USPS about $74 million over the next 10 years and result in increased efficiency. All IT union employees and about half of IT management employees will be offered the opportunity to relocate with their jobs to other postal IT centers. The San Mateo IT Center … continued below

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United States. General Accounting Office. January 31, 2003.

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A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "While the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) rationalizes its infrastructure, it is weighing a proposal to close and sell its Information Technology (IT) center located in San Mateo, California. According to USPS, closing the IT center and selling the facility should save USPS about $74 million over the next 10 years and result in increased efficiency. All IT union employees and about half of IT management employees will be offered the opportunity to relocate with their jobs to other postal IT centers. The San Mateo IT Center also houses an Accounting Service Center whose functions and staff are to be moved into leased space in the San Francisco Bay Area. GAO undertook this study to, among other things, identify the process USPS is following in making its decision about closing the IT center and determine the impact such a closure would have on IT employees at the center."

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United States. General Accounting Office. Postal Service: Employee Issues Associated with the Potential Closure of the San Mateo IT Center, report, January 31, 2003; Washington D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc290794/: accessed July 11, 2025), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.

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