Bulk mail officially transfers to Santa Ana

Jennifer Kho

Despite complaints from the Costa Mesa business community, the bulk

mail department at the Adams Avenue post office has closed.

Customers of the department, which was more than 30 years old, must

now use another post office on Sunflower Avenue in Santa Ana as part of a

U.S. Postal Service attempt to streamline its facilities.

The switch occurred officially on Sunday, but the bulk mail department

wasn’t open Sunday, so the actual switch began Monday.

The department’s files were downloaded Friday and moved to the

Sunflower Avenue post office, where former Adams Avenue post office

customers began taking their bulk mail Monday.

Larry Weichman, a broker at the Real Estaters in Costa Mesa, said he

is unhappy about the extra trip he has to make to drop off his bulk mail.

Weichman has to verify his bulk mail in Santa Ana and then drop it off

at the Adams Avenue office to be delivered.

If the Real Estaters sends its bulk mail from Santa Ana to Costa Mesa

residents, it will cost approximately $300 more each month, he said.

However, the Real Estaters could save money when it sends bulk mail to

residences outside of Costa Mesa.

“I’m still upset about it, but what can I do?” he said. “It’s either

going to cost me time or money and, for the savings, I’ll go or I’ll send

an assistant. There is no other alternative. They’ve got us by the short

hairs on this thing. But if there was another service, I’d try them.”

Employees in the bulk mail department were transferred to other jobs

at the Adams Avenue post office.

Roosevelt Smith, formerly a business mail entry technician, now has no

title and does multiple tasks.

“It’s a new path, that’s all,” he said. “I just do whatever they need

me to do. Now I’m not going to be able to work with customers at all, but

that’s OK. Everybody tried, but we couldn’t change it. So you go with it,

you move on.”