Laid off from Alan Ritchey.

What Alan Ritchey layoffs have meant for employees

Alan Ritchey's 2026 notices trace to a customer rebuilding its network. The Postal Service began replacing surface transfer facilities with larger regional hubs in September 2024, FreightWaves reported, and said hub work would come in-house by the end of 2025. For a company whose mail division has carried USPS mail since 1964, as WFMZ noted from its website, that put whole sites on someone else's calendar. USPS planned to run the Denver hub itself, and Irving's notice said the agency would take over that operation too, the Dallas Morning News reported. A lost contract and a company cutback leave you with separate things to find out, and the next operator's plans are the ones that shape your search.

The hub's contract already said where the Denver work was going. It carried language saying the Postal Service would insource the work before the end of 2025, USPS's inspector general wrote in a July 2025 management alert, and that alert recommended prioritizing the switch, with management giving a target date of August 30, 2026. Robby Ritchey still called the ending "not expected or foreseeable" in the letter Colorado Politics quoted, writing that the contract's performance period had been continuously extended and that word came December 29 "late in the day." He also wrote, per FreightWaves, that USPS officials had indicated they'd need several months for the changeover. Both accounts can be true at once, because the contract named the destination and the complaint was about the warning. If you're at a contractor-run postal site, an audit or a string of extensions can tell you where the work is heading without telling you when.

A February 2025 investigation led to the termination of three contract employees at the hub for theft or knowledge of the theft, that alert said, and postal managers voiced concern about contract employees opening sacks to take medications. The audit also faulted the Postal Service itself, saying in a passage FreightWaves quoted that USPS hadn't implemented adequate controls, that its officials at the hub hadn't provided necessary oversight and that the contract's statement of work left out specific requirements for registered mail. If a future employer brings up that audit, those are the specifics on record, set against a hub where Ritchey's letter listed 729 jobs.

The kind of handoff matters as much as the fact of one. Ritchey has been on the receiving end of a handoff that kept people employed, at least as the outgoing company described it. When LGSTX lost a USPS contract in Indianapolis in 2018, it said Ritchey, the incoming contractor, would offer continued employment and that staff would start with Ritchey on October 1 with no employment loss, Inside INdiana Business reported. That was one contractor replacing another, so a whole workforce could move with the work on paper. A chance to apply is a smaller promise than a change of employer, so if a notice names a next operator, it's worth checking which of the two it describes.

Contract risk at Alan Ritchey is older than the hub program. An unrenewed contract was already the stated reason for a 2023 closing on Mississippi's quarterly list, ahead of the network changes USPS began in 2024, and it's the same reason Phillipsburg's notice gave. If you're weighing a move to another Ritchey site, it's worth knowing which contract pays for that site's work and how long it has left.

A sourced history of Alan Ritchey layoffs

• June 2026, Irving transfer center notice

  Alan Ritchey filed notice that it would end its work at the Dallas Surface Transfer Center and lay off 232 non-union staff in mid-September, the Dallas Morning News reported. The notice said USPS would take over the operation and raised the prospect of jobs with the agency.

• April 2026, Phillipsburg hub closing notice

  Alan Ritchey's Phillipsburg hub went on New Jersey's April 2026 WARN list with 176 jobs and a July 17 date. The notice said Alan Ritchey was ending operations there because a USPS contract wasn't renewed, WFMZ reported, and it named nearly 60 forklift operators and 100 shippers and packers.

• January 2026, Denver Regional Transfer Hub in Aurora

  CEO Robby Ritchey's letter said operations would cease February 28 and 729 workers would be laid off, Colorado Politics reported, after USPS told the company December 29 that the contract was ending. FreightWaves reported USPS would take over the hub in March.

• August 2023, Plainfield, Indiana closing notice

  Alan Ritchey filed with Indiana on August 3 to shut its Plainfield operations on October 16, putting 242 employees out of work, the Indianapolis Business Journal reported.

• July 2023, Southaven, Mississippi closing notice

  A July 23 notice on Mississippi's quarterly WARN list recorded a closure in Southaven affecting 191 people, with a September 13 action date and a contract not being renewed as the stated reason.

• July 2011, Levittown, Pennsylvania plant closing

  A plant closing at Alan Ritchey's Philadelphia MTESC, as Pennsylvania named the site at 42 Runway Road in Levittown, went on the state's July 2011 WARN list with 191 affected and a September 1 effective date.

What to do if you're laid off from Alan Ritchey

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Alan Ritchey's biggest hubs: Colorado, Texas, New Jersey, Indiana. Somewhere else? Every state is here.
• Apply for financial and hardship assistance. Unemployment supplements income, but food benefits, health coverage and utility help are often available as well. Here's some of what Alan Ritchey's hub states run: Colorado, Texas, New Jersey, Indiana, and every other state is here.
• Mind the health insurance window. Losing coverage opens a 60-day special enrollment period, and an ACA plan usually beats unsubsidized COBRA. Compare your options before the employer coverage lapses, and read how the COBRA clocks run if you are weighing it seriously.
• Get your real runway number. Severance plus savings divided by reality. The calculator takes five minutes.
• Know which clocks are already running. Severance review windows, COBRA election, visa grace periods, and 401(k) rollovers all run on federal deadlines that started at termination. All five deadlines are here.