Yes, the employees would be a huge cost, and everyone is complaining about finding reliable employees, so that could be a disaster trying to hire for that.not to mention, that each would need to have a lot more employees and equipment.
I don't fully understand the system, since there is a stopping point in Phillipsburg NJ, close enough to me.. it's supposedly a dist point.
Then mail heads to Jersey City and Kearny NJ both HUGE dist systems. I don't understand the JC and Kearny ... why 2.. I don't understand what the phillispburg one does, since it is small, but is considered a dist point. Everything coming into NJ stops there, before continuing on.
I looked into this a while back when I was curious why all the my local mail had Hartford cancellation stamps on them, what I found made a lot of sense with their regional sorting facilities. Your example with Phillipsburg makes sense if JC and Kearney are larger distribution centers feeding the entire Northeast that then feed the smaller local distribution centers. That is also a transportation center, so easy to put mail on trains or planes that are going to other parts of the country. I’ve had shipments come to me here in CT through Kearny before my distribution center in Hartford, so I’m guessing they handle most, if not all, the mail in this corridor. The volume of mail in the Northeast is huge, JC and Kearny might not have had enough space to handle it in one facility, so they built up two. Just a guess on my part.