The USPS has also brought on carriers from Monterey and Santa Clara counties to assist with holiday deliveries. The other hires in the county include two holiday clerks in Watsonville, two holiday carriers in Aptos and one holiday carrier in Capitola. Santa Cruz and Scotts Valley post offices have brought on 20 carriers and two clerks in the past 90 days, according to Ruiz. 20, during which USPS expects to handle 200 million packages nationwide, an average of nearly 28 million packages per day, Ruiz said. The peak week of the mailing season starts Monday through Dec. The number of year-round employees hasn’t changed significantly compared to last year, Ruiz said.Ĭarriers start deliveries as early as 5 a.m., according to Ruiz, and during peak mailing season, they finish their day on average by 8 p.m.
For seasonal holiday service from around Thanksgiving to January, the USPS hired 29 carriers and three clerks for the post offices countywide, he said. USPS has held two hiring workshops in Santa Cruz this year.
In October, USPS received 120 applications from a hiring workshop it held in Santa Cruz to attract county residents to become employees, according to Ruiz. USPS has hired seasonal workers to staff offices across the county in order to beat the heavy package volume.
Santa Cruz County has more than 10 post offices with about 450 regular employees, according to Augustine Ruiz, spokesman for the San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland USPS branches. The artwork holds significant importance in the opinion of many members of the Winter Park community, and its potential removal has become a controversial point of discussion.SANTA CRUZ - While USPS has hired employees to face the busiest mailing week of the year, it may still take until day’s end for residents to receive their mail. The cost to purchase the necessary land and build a new facility could total between $12 million and $15 million, and the assessed value of the current post office is only $4.8 million.Īdditional considerations include the debate surrounding the importance of maintaining the midcentury modern mural that wraps around two sides of the current building. In June, six former Winter Park mayors penned an editorial column in the Orlando Sentinel warning the current commission about overpaying to acquire the post office. “It’s hopefully a way to get to people out there that we might not have thought of.” “ doesn’t exclude us from negotiating other opportunities,” Knight said in the meeting. The RFP will stay open between 30 and 90 days. Knight predicts that approximately two to two and a half acres of land will be necessary to meet these needs.Īccording to the discussion at the meeting, the City will use social media and other channels to advertise the RFP, inviting locals with a qualifying property to contact the City with more information. The site for the new facility will need to be large for a 23,000-square-foot, single-story building and 137 surface parking spaces. They then approved the hiring of a lobbyist based in Washington, D.C., Thorn Run Partners, to assist in federal legislative lobbying, advocacy services, and purchase negotiations. In May, commissioners instructed City Manager Randy Knight to continue pursuing a deal with the federal government to purchase the post office by providing a replacement for its retail and distribution facility.
New York Ave., the USPS property is an ongoing conversation for the City, which has been working on negotiations with USPS to purchase the property for years.ĭuring its city commission meeting on August 25, commissioners moved to create a request for proposal (RFP) for a property that meets the requirements to house a new post office elsewhere in the city. As discussed in previous work sessions, the City is considering potentially expanding green space in Central Park with the 2-acre parcel of land that currently houses the facility. In efforts to relocate the United States Postal Service (USPS) facility, the City of Winter Park announced plans last week to open its property search to the public.
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