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updated: Oct 10, 2012, 8:16 PM

More mail is moving through the Goleta Postal Center as Ventura County's mail is added.

Comments in order of when they were received | (reverse order)

REXOFSB	2012-10-10 08:23 PM
I guess the question is why? What happened to the Ventura facility?
COMMENT 330214P	2012-10-10 08:34 PM
What does this mean for local delivery?
COMMENT 330220P	2012-10-10 11:11 PM
Means, if you lived in Ventura and mailed a letter to Ventura, might not get delivered the next day. Mail collected in Ventura, will be brought to Goleta, processed and delivered back to Ventura.
COMMENT 330224	2012-10-11 06:21 AM
More traffic too.
COMMENT 330229	2012-10-11 07:21 AM
My letter carrier said they were instructed to get back to the office by 4pm when they had double the work because of the holiday, hour and a half extra to hustle in their required 8 hr day, crazy and we still did get our ballots.
REXOFSB	2012-10-11 07:42 AM
But WHY?? What's the reason? Is this temporary or have they permanently closed the Ventura postal center? How does this affect SB County residents? Way ta go, KEYT!
COMMENT 330255	2012-10-11 08:20 AM
Carpinteria mail used to go south, maybe this means it will go north now.
CAPTAIN HALEY	2012-10-11 08:54 AM
There never was a Ventura processing and distribution facility. Their mail used to be worked in Oxnard. The Oxnard facility was closed a couple of years ago, and the mail was worked in Santa Clarita. Sounds like they are bringing Ventura's mail to Santa Barbara for processing now.
COMMENT 330271	2012-10-11 08:58 AM
Rex - The postal service is consolidating processing facilities to save money as mail volume shrinks due to the bad economy and the electronic diversion of hard copy communications. The facility in Oxnard was closed and the facility on Storke road in Goleta is taking on their workload. Some of that workload may also be going to Santa Clarita. Bad for Oxnard, but more jobs for Santa Barbara.
COMMENT 330293	2012-10-11 09:47 AM
No wonder these guys go postal!
COMMENT 330379	2012-10-11 11:58 AM
Ventura County mail has been going to Goleta since June. Isn't it typical that KEYT is the last one one the story again? 5 months late.
D8VANILLA	2012-10-11 04:11 PM
And, don't forget that most of the employees at the Oxnard Mail Processing Plant, are working at the Goleta Mail Processing Plant now.
COMMENT 330476	2012-10-11 04:18 PM
This doesn't bode well for SB mail delivery because as it is, we already get a lot of mail delivered to us for the wrong address (similar to our address but wrong and not our address). It will only get worse now that they're handling a million more pieces of mail!

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