Phila is an NDC now with pretty much all our mail going to NJI BMC. Next week contractors are going to rebuild PSM 3 & then PSM 4. After that we are told that PSM 1 & 2 and the sack sorter will be removed, do not know what is going into that empty space. They had us running sacks on the low cost sorter, I guess to make sure it works. Rumor has it we are getting priority mail, hope so because there is not much mail in the building.

The BMCs may be called NDC now, but this article,

http://www.postalreporter.com/news/category/bmc/
says that only 3 eastern BMCs are using the new 3-Tier configuration.

Phase 1 of the conversion lasts 12 weeks. That means that some of the other BMCs may have their work loads change after Sept 1.

today I was told by my 204b that the detroit bmc will start to excess employees in a couple of months and the up to half of all employees will be leaving. does anybody know if this has happened at any other bmc to this extent? priority mail never did come to the bmc. the same 204b told me because we can't handle the little mail we have we will not be doing priority. i don't know if the 204 is just saying this to get me worried or if she knows something. any information would be nice as the union seems to know nothing.

A friend of mine told me that the NDC in maryland plans to excess folks to who knows where. They have folks sitting in rooms on standby. A supervisor said the folks are not even aware of this. She will be retiring in a few weeks. She told me the HASP work will be coming to the NDC soon too. She thinks all of this will take place by Oct. 1.

Roger, Thanks for that link it gave me some more insight into the realignment plan. New Jersey is a Tier 3 facility and is being fed by Springfield and Philadelphia, which are Tier 1 facilities. According to the articles Tier 1&2 facilities are going to be the losers and only Tier 3 facilities will be the winners. Our plant manager says we won't be experiencing much of a change, even though we are a Tier 2 facility.

We have had people excessed out, most of them going to the ISC which used to be the airport facility at LAX or World Way as we used to call it.

204b's are fed mis-information by managers knowing they will pass it on to their co-workers. Ask that 204b why you can't handle the mail you have now? If she blames the personnel I would say she is spreading fear. Watching what the PO did with NJ, Springfield, Philly and the changes to the relocation rules in the contract I am guessing that Detroit will be a Tier 1 NDC and will feed Chicago which could be a Tier 3 NDC. How far is it to Chicago from Detroit?

/1897

204b's are as scared as the rest of us.

I work in detroit and sure as hell hope they don't send my ass to chi town.

/m1899 Read the APWU page on excessing. Don't volunteer for anything. If they excess you to Chicago, they have to pay moving expenses. If you volunteer for, they don't pay a thing. If you are going to be excessed, dont panic. Take time to read and think.

Now my friend tells me that about 40 people got letters from the NDC in MD that they are being sent to the new building in Frederick, MD. It's about 45 miles from the NDC to Frederick. WOW!!!!

thanks Roger....won't panic....yet!

VwMgnC

Trying to go to a five day delivery, closing facilities and excessing? We're doomed people.

i live in detroit and work in detroit,and i visit chicago many times. chi-town, much better city than detroit. sometimes change is good

The rumor about excessing is true for the Det. BMC. Now what is uncertain is the number of people and where. Remember everyone else is doing the same thing so the question is where are they going to send all these people? Not everybody is going to fit in Chicago. I have heard that just like at the GWY there will be a holding room for those individuals to report to every day and because there is alot of grey area regarding preferred vets alot of people will be surprised to say the least.

The APWU BMC conference is in Philadephia July 18-20. There should be some good information coming out of that.

2112 how do you know the rumor is true first of all if it is true then it is not a rumor.( I'm not disputing what you say in the least), and when will this begin is it the first of the annual year or the first of the fiscal?