Harley,
They have closed the HR shop you went through at the Training Center. They do this from time to time and reconstitute when they will hire again. IMO, which isn't worth anything, is that UPS is unsure what they are going to do depending on what the 60-63 years olds bid. They will have to award bids to cover the 12 new airplanes coming, but also absorb the crews from the planes leaving. 9 747 classics and several DC8's being parked (not sure if UPS knows the final number yet. Crew wise, I'm guessing it's a wash.
The real challenge is going to be training all the displaced and changing crews. They may actually need some new crews, that is where I would guess they would draw from you backpaddlers. (Hopefully), but it would be late summer to early fall (I'm only guessing based on possible training center loadout)
Good Luck!