Western Bay of Plenty will be hit hard by the latest announcement of job cuts and the forecasted closure of Tauranga's mail centre, says the Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union.
On Friday, NZ Post announced up to 2000 positions nationwide would be cut over the next three years.
These job losses are on top of the 500 part-time and full-time jobs - including 20 positions at Tauranga mail centre - that NZ Post announced in June would be cut.
The EPMU said the latest round of cuts would impact on at least one-fifth of the NZ Post workforce and there was "significant" concern for Tauranga posties.
Tauranga's Chapel St mail centre would move to another in the Waikato before eventually being transferred to Auckland, taking the jobs with it, said the union's postal industry organiser, Joe Gallagher.