Will ship as far south as Alexandria: Blue Bell Creameries is converting a company transit station in Bossier City to a distribution center. Company sales executive Steve Byrd told The (Shreveport) Times the center will open later this month and will create five to 10 new jobs. Byrd says the expansion will create a 13,000-square-foot warehouse with 5,500 square feet of freezer space capable of storing 600 to 700 palettes of ice cream. There will be 11 to 12 shipping routes from the center reaching as far south as Alexandria. Blue Bell operates four other distribution centers in Louisiana: in Ruston, Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Lafayette. There are 52 distribution centers nationwide.
Delayed payment will help agency: The White House may pull the Postal Service back from the brink of insolvency, at least for a few months. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe reports the agency will be unable to make a required $5.5 billion payment to the Treasury at the end of September. But the Office of Personnel Management says the White House may delay the payment for 90 days as part of a larger economic package in the works. Postal spokeswoman Yvonne Yoerger says she has no details of the plan and that a long-term solution will still be needed.
