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What Pitney Bowes layoffs have meant for employees

If you work at Pitney Bowes and a new restructuring plan arrives with a range of positions to cut, the two ranges on record turned out to be early estimates, as the 2023 10-K, the 2025 10-K and the second-quarter 2026 10-Q show when their targets and final counts sit side by side. A range does tell you a plan is under way and how big the company expected it to be at the start. It can't tell you where the count stops or whether your team is in it, since the filings give one worldwide count per plan. Alongside the third plan, the company closed its Stamford, Connecticut corporate office at the end of 2025.

The ecommerce exit worked differently. Pitney Bowes sold control of most of its US ecommerce entities to Hilco on August 8, 2024, and two of those entities filed Chapter 11 cases that day so certain of them could be liquidated, its August 2024 release said. The former unit then wound down, setting more than 1,200 layoffs at its hubs that fall by Supply Chain Dive's count, and five of the year's Pitney Bowes filings in our WARN tracker line up by state, count and date with hubs on that list, from Monroe, New Jersey and Lockport, Illinois to Bloomington and Stockton, California. Anyone asked by a future employer why that job ended can point to interim CEO Lance Rosenzweig's words on the August 8 earnings call, as the outlet quoted them, that the shutdown was in no way reflective of the employees' performance.

If you're a regular full-time employee on the US payroll and your job ends in a shutdown, a sale or a reorganization, the plan that may apply is the Pitney Bowes Severance Pay Plan, restated in June 2024. It pays at least two weeks of pay, and anything more depends on signing the company's separation agreement with a release of claims. The plan counts pay at the base rate in effect on the last working day, leaving out overtime, shift differentials and incentive pay. Its Exhibit A lists the potential amounts the company may provide on that basis, 1.5 weeks of pay per year of service in bands A to C and two weeks of pay per year of service plus the applicable pro rata bonus in bands D to F, up to 26 weeks, along with three months of COBRA medical at the active-employee rate. Payments come in installments on regular paydays, and where a payment requires a release, the first installment follows the timely return of the signed release and the end of any revocation period. The board can amend Exhibit A, down to eliminating severance.

When Pitney Bowes said in 2023 that Greenwood's parcel work would shift to two other Midwest hubs, it said affected workers were welcome to apply for open positions at its other locations, Inside INdiana Business reported. If Pitney Bowes offers you a job at another site, the plan's comparable-job test decides what saying no costs. An offer made within 30 days before or after termination that pays at least 85% of base or hourly pay, at a site no more than 35 miles from the old one or with a shorter commute, ends eligibility for plan severance, as does taking any Pitney Bowes job in that window, and the plan's committee decides what counts as comparable. Measuring the drive and the pay against those two numbers gives a first sense of where an offer stands.

Pitney Bowes' 10-K for 2025 counts about 6,600 employees and says the company also relies on a contingent hourly workforce. If you're a temporary or contingent worker, or part-time at under 30 hours a week, the severance plan's definition of an employee leaves you out. Of the company's 25 tracker filings, 16 were made in four states, and for anyone whose job was in one of them, there's more on unemployment benefits in California, Indiana, Illinois and Florida.

A sourced history of Pitney Bowes layoffs

• June 2026, Jacksonville presort facility closing

  Pitney Bowes' June 10 letter to Jacksonville and Florida officials said its facility on Westside Industrial Drive, part of Presort Services, would close, with 68 people laid off from August 14 through September 18, the Jax Daily Record reported.

• October 2025, worldwide restructuring plan

  Pitney Bowes joined a targeted third-quarter plan and an October review into one worldwide plan to cut 300 to 400 positions, the 2025 10-K shows, and it ended in June 2026 with about 550 gone, per its second-quarter 10-Q.

• May 2025, Urbandale, Iowa presort center closing

  Pitney Bowes' Iowa notice set its Urbandale site's closing for May 19, with 168 employees laid off, WHO 13 reported, and Presort Services President Debbie Pfeiffer said the Des Moines center's volume would shift elsewhere in the Central Region.

• August 2024, Global Ecommerce exit and hub layoffs

  Pitney Bowes sold control of most of its Global Ecommerce unit to Hilco so parts could be liquidated in Chapter 11, per its August 2024 release, and the unit set more than 1,200 hub layoffs, Supply Chain Dive reported.

• May 2024, cost-reduction plan announced

  About 2,300 positions went in the third quarter of 2024 under the cost plan announced in May, aimed at corporate expenses and the SendTech and Presort units, Supply Chain Dive reported, and the 2025 10-K counts about 3,200 in all.

• June 2023, Greenwood, Indiana parcel and returns shutdown

  Pitney Bowes was moving parcel delivery and returns work from its Greenwood center to two other Midwest hubs, with September layoffs for 240 employees and 71 temps, and offered retention and severance for staying until then, Inside INdiana Business reported.

• May 2023, worldwide restructuring plan approved

  Pitney Bowes set out to cut 850 to 950 positions partly through shared services, automation and closing or consolidating select North American facilities, its 2023 10-K shows, and the plan ended in mid-2024 with 1,049 gone, per the 2025 10-K.

What to do if you're laid off from Pitney Bowes

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Pitney Bowes's biggest hubs: California, Indiana, Illinois, Florida. 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 Pitney Bowes's hub states run: California, Indiana, Illinois, Florida, 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.