Ordonez to Head Postal Service Area

The U.S. Postal Service has announced that Richard Ordonez of Oxnard has been named district manager of the Van Nuys Customer Service District, an area that stretches from Pasadena to San Luis Obispo to the Mojave Desert.

“We have to continually strive to improve,” said Ordonez in a statement. “I believe we are headed in the right direction.”

The district, which serves 4.5 million residents, covers nearly 35,000 square miles, said Terri Bouffiou, a spokeswoman for the Postal Service. The district has about 8,000 employees at more than 100 facilities.

Ordonez, who has been with the Postal Service 21 years, was born and reared in Oxnard. He has a degree in business administration from Oxnard College.

He began his career as a part-time letter carrier in Ventura after serving four years in the Air Force.

In 1980, he was promoted to a management position at the Ventura Post Office and was named postmaster of Camarillo in 1990.

“Customer service and satisfaction are the two most important things that we can offer residents and businesses in the communities we serve,” he said. “I am committed to delivering customer satisfaction along with the mail each day throughout the Van Nuys District.”