Mail Station — Business Overview
Identification
- Trade name: Mail Station
- Description: Postal and business services center.
- Address: 325 W Washington St, San Diego, CA.
- Operator: Charles Nibley (Respondent) — sole operator.
Nature of services
A postal and business services center — a brick-and-mortar storefront providing mailbox rental, package shipping (multi-carrier), notary services, copying / scanning / faxing, and related small-business support services to walk-in customers. Not a “pack and ship”; not a single-carrier franchise. The business serves a localized customer base around the Washington Street corridor in central / Mission Hills San Diego.
Operational characteristics relevant to support-side analysis
- Daily physical presence required. As sole operator, Charley is physically present during business hours to receive customers, accept packages, sign for deliveries, run the register, and execute notarizations. The business cannot be operated absentee.
- Hours-bound revenue. Revenue is constrained by foot-traffic and business hours; income capacity is not elastic in the way salaried employment is.
- Operating costs. Lease, utilities, equipment, supplies, point-of-sale, insurance, and any employee labor (presently sole-operator) flow through the business before reaching distributable income.
- Established post-Parry-Labs layoff (February 2025). Mail Station was launched as Charley’s response to the involuntary February 2025 layoff from Parry Labs. The transition is a documented, good-faith career adjustment, not a voluntary income-reduction maneuver.
Why this matters for the 6/1 RFO
Opposing counsel’s primary imputation theory seeks to attribute Charley’s pre-2025 Northrop Grumman / Parry Labs salaried income to him as if the W-2 employment had continued. Mail Station’s operational characteristics — daily physical presence, hours-bound revenue, the post-layoff origin — distinguish it from any “voluntary income-reduction” fact pattern under In re Marriage of McHugh and In re Marriage of Berger. The income that actually flows through Mail Station is the operative §4058 figure, subject to FC §4059 deductions. See Objections to Petitioner’s Xspouse Calculation and Responsive Declaration for the comprehensive support-side analysis.