Postal contractor Matheson Trucking shuttering operations after 60 years

Postal Service contractor Matheson Trucking and wholly owned subsidiaries Matheson Flight Extenders and Matheson Postal Services of Sacramento are winding down operations after six decades in business.

Postal Service contractor Matheson Trucking and wholly owned subsidiaries Matheson Flight Extenders (MFE) and Matheson Postal Services (MPS) of Sacramento are winding down operations after six decades in business.

Over the past five months, the Matheson entities have laid off nearly 3,500 workers, a source familiar with the situation told FreightWaves.

“It’s kind of sad to see that a 60-year-old company that made its bread and butter moving U.S. mail is closing its doors,” the source said.

According to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s SAFER website, Matheson Postal Services has 191 power units and 325 truck drivers.

The news comes after MFE, a mail processing, transportation and logistics contractor, filed its latest Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act notice on Monday with the Missouri Office of Workforce Development that it plans to close its Kansas City facility, eliminating 40 jobs. The company also filed a WARN notice on Dec. 1 that it is slashing 60 jobs at its facility near Denver International Airport and eliminating 92 jobs in Grapevine, Texas. The letters list Jan. 31 as the timeline for the closures.

Source: freightwaves.com