[Update 5:15 p.m.] Hundreds of mail-handling facilities have been named in a shutdown list released Thursday by the U.S. Postal Service as the agency tries to cut massive red ink.
The potential closings are the latest chapter in a fundamental overhaul of the agency that may also mean closing thousands of smaller post offices across the country, and cuts in tens of thousands of Postal Service jobs in years to come.
It may also result in a slightly longer time for the delivery of first-class mail.
"It is no exaggeration to say that we are radically re-aligning the way that we process mail, the way that we deliver mail, and the way that we operate our retail network," Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe told reporters at a Thursday briefing.
The latest list targets 252 processing facilities and related "network transportation," as the Postal Service calls its distribution system, which now consists of 487 facilities.
"Our immediate goal is to reduce our total costs by $20 billion by 2015," Donahoe said, including $3 billion in anticipated savings from the facilities realignment announced Thursday.
[Original post] The U.S. Postal Service released a list of locations that will be studied in order to decide whether they will be closed or consolidated as the agency tries to cut massive red ink.
The potential closings are the latest chapter in a fundamental overhaul of the agency that may also mean closing thousands of smaller post offices across the country, and cuts in tens of thousands of Postal Service jobs in years to come.
The latest list targets nearly 250 processing facilities and related "network transportation," as the Postal Service calls its distribution system. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe planned a news conference Thursday to explain the changes.
"With the dramatic decline in mail volume and the resulting excess capacity, maintaining a vast national infrastructure is no longer realistic," Donahoe said ahead of the news conference.
The US Postal Service is considering outsourcing some of its basic services to some local town halls, mini-marts or malls. It opened its first so-called "village post offices" last month in tiny Malone, Washington.
With the proposed change, postal officials say customers can expect a first class letter to take two or three days, instead of the one-to-three day standard the existing delivery system was designed to meet.
The full list below in alphabetical order by state:
POST OFFICE | CITY | STATE |
Anniston AL CSMPC | Anniston | AL |
Dothan AL CSMPC | Dothan | AL |
Huntsville AL P&DF | Huntsville | AL |
Mobile AL Annex | Mobile | AL |
Tuscaloosa AL CSMPC | Tuscaloosa | AL |
Fayetteville AR P&DF | Fayetteville | AR |
Harrison AR CSMPC | Harrison | AR |
Hot Springs Ntl Pk AR CSMPC | Hot Springs National Park | AR |
Jonesboro AR CSMPC | Jonesboro | AR |
Little Rock Lindsey Road AR Annex | Little Rock | AR |
East Valley AZÂ DDC | Gilbert | AZ |
North Valley AZÂ DDC | Phoenix | AZ |
Tucson AZ P&DC | Tucson | AZ |
Bakersfield CA P&DC | Bakersfield | CA |
Eureka CA CSMPC | Eureka | CA |
Herb Peck CA Annex | Los Angeles | CA |
Industry CA P&DC | City Of Industry | CA |
Long Beach CA P&DC | Long Beach | CA |
Midway CA P&DF | San Diego | CA |
Modesto CA CSMPC | Modesto | CA |
North Bay CA DDC | Petaluma | CA |
North Bay CA P&DC | Petaluma | CA |
North Peninsula CA DDC | Burlingame | CA |
Pasadena CA P&DC | Pasadena | CA |
Redding CA CSMPC | Redding | CA |
San Bernardino CA P&DC | San Bernardino | CA |
Stockton CA P&DC | Stockton | CA |
Van Nuys CA FSS Annex | Van Nuys | CA |
Alamosa CO CSMPC | Alamosa | CO |
Colorado Springs CO P&DC | Colorado Springs | CO |
Durango CO CSMPC | Durango | CO |
Salida CO CSMPC | Salida | CO |
Southern Connecticut CT P&DC | Wallingford | CT |
Stamford CT P&DC | Stamford | CT |
Wilmington DE P&DF | New Castle | DE |
Ft Lauderdale FL P&DC | Fort Lauderdale | FL |
Ft Myers FL P&DC | Fort Myers | FL |
Gainesville FL P&DF | Gainesville | FL |
Lakeland FL P&DC | Lakeland | FL |
Manasota FL P&DC | Sarasota | FL |
Orlando FL P&DC | Orlando | FL |
Panama City FL P&DF | Panama City | FL |
South Florida FL P&DC | Pembroke Pines | FL |
St Petersburg FL P&DC | Saint Petersburg | FL |
Acworth GA CSMPC | Acworth | GA |
Albany GA CSMPC | Albany | GA |
Athens GA P&DF | Athens | GA |
Augusta GA P&DF | Augusta | GA |
Cartersville GA CSMPC | Cartersville | GA |
Columbus GA CSMPC | Columbus | GA |
Douglasville GA CSMPC | Douglasville | GA |
Marietta GAÂ DDC | Marietta | GA |
Savanna PO CSMPC | Savannah | GA |
Savannah GA P&DF | Savannah | GA |
Swainsboro GA CSMPC | Swainsboro | GA |
Valdosta GA CSMPC | Valdosta | GA |
Waycross GA CSMPC | Waycross | GA |
Carroll IA CSMPC | Carroll | IA |
Cedar Rapids IA P&DF | Cedar Rapids | IA |
Creston IA CSMPC | Creston | IA |
Waterloo IA P&DF | Waterloo | IA |
Pocatello ID CSMPC | Pocatello | ID |
Bloomington IL P&DF | Bloomington | IL |
Carbondale IL CSMPC | Carbondale | IL |
Centralia IL CSMPC | Centralia | IL |
Effingham IL CSMPC | Effingham | IL |
Fox Valley IL P&DC | Fox Valley | IL |
Irving Park IL P&DC | Chicago | IL |
Quincy IL P&DF | Quincy | IL |
Rockford IL P&DC | Rockford | IL |
Springfield IL P&DC | Springfield | IL |
Bloomington IN P&DF | Bloomington | IN |
Columbus IN CSMPC | Columbus | IN |
Gary IN P&DC | Gary | IN |
Kokomo IN P&DF | Kokomo | IN |
Lafayette IN P&DF | Lafayette | IN |
Muncie IN P&DF | Muncie | IN |
South Bend IN P&DC | South Bend | IN |
Terre Haute IN P&DF | Terre Haute | IN |
Colby KS CSMPC | Colby | KS |
Dodge City KS CSMPC | Dodge City | KS |
Hays KS CSMPC | Hays | KS |
Hutchinson KS CSMPC | Hutchinson | KS |
Liberal KS CSMPC | Liberal | KS |
Salina KS CSMPC | Salina | KS |
Topeka KS P&DF | Topeka | KS |
Bowling Green KY P&DF | Bowling Green | KY |
Campton KY CSMPC | Campton | KY |
Elizabethtown KY CSMPC | Elizabethtown | KY |
Hazard KY CSMPC | Hazard | KY |
Lexington KY P&DC | Lexington | KY |
London KY P&DF | London | KY |
Louisville KY Annex | Louisville | KY |
Paducah KY P&DF | Paducah | KY |
Somerset KY CSMPC | Somerset | KY |
Lafayette LA P&DF | Lafayette | LA |
New Orleans LA P&DC | New Orleans | LA |
Boston MA P&DC | Boston | MA |
Brockton MA P&DC | Brockton | MA |
Central Mass MA P&DC | Shrewsbury | MA |
Lowell MAÂ DDC | Lowell | MA |
Middlesex Essex MA P&DC | North Reading | MA |
Northwest Boston MA P&DF | Waltham | MA |
Wareham MA CSMPC | Wareham | MA |
Cumberland MD CSMPC | Cumberland | MD |
Eastern Shore MD P&DF | Easton | MD |
Suburban MD Annex | Gaithersburg | MD |
Waldorf MD CSMPC | Waldorf | MD |
Eastern Maine ME P&DF | Hampden | ME |
Detroit MI P&DC | Detroit | MI |
Iron Mountain MI P&DF | Iron Mountain | MI |
Jackson MI CSMPC | Jackson | MI |
Kalamazoo MI P&DC | Kalamazoo | MI |
Lansing MI P&DC | Lansing | MI |
Saginaw MI P&DC | Saginaw | MI |
Wheeler Street MI Annex | Saginaw | MI |
Bemidji MN CSMPC | Bemidji | MN |
Duluth MN P&DF | Duluth | MN |
Rochester MN P&DF | Rochester | MN |
St Cloud MN P&DF | Waite Park | MN |
Cape Girardeau MO P&DF | Cape Girardeau | MO |
Springfield MO P&DF | Springfield | MO |
Grenada MS CSMPC | Grenada | MS |
Gulfport MS P&DF | Gulfport | MS |
Hattiesburg MS CSMPC | Hattiesburg | MS |
Tupelo MS CSMPC | Tupelo | MS |
Helena MT CSMPC | Helena | MT |
Kalispell MT CSMPC | Kalispell | MT |
Missoula MT CSMPC | Missoula | MT |
Wolf Point MT CSMPC | Wolf Point | MT |
Asheville NC P&DF | Asheville | NC |
Fayetteville NC Annex | Fayetteville | NC |
Fayetteville NC P&DC | Fayetteville | NC |
Kinston NC Annex | Kinston | NC |
Kinston NC P&DF | Kinston | NC |
Rocky Mount NC P&DF | Rocky Mount | NC |
Devils Lake ND CSMPC | Devils Lake | ND |
Grand Forks ND CSMPC | Grand Forks | ND |
Minot ND CSMPC | Minot | ND |
Alliance NE CSMPC | Alliance | NE |
Grand Island NE P&DF | Grand Island | NE |
Norfolk NE P&DF | Norfolk | NE |
North Platte NE CSMPC | North Platte | NE |
Omaha NE Mail Consolidation Center Annex | Omaha | NE |
Manchester NH P&DC | Manchester | NH |
Nashua NH L&DC | Nashua | NH |
Jersey Shore DDC | Pleasantville | NJ |
Kilmer NJ P&DC | Edison | NJ |
Monmouth NJ P&DC | Eatontown | NJ |
New Jersey NJ L&DC | Kearny | NJ |
Northern NJ Metro P&DC | Teterboro | NJ |
South Jersey NJ P&DC | Bellmawr | NJ |
Alamogordo NM CSMPC | Alamogordo | NM |
Albuquerque NM ASF Annex | Albuquerque | NM |
Clovis NM CSMPC | Clovis | NM |
Farmington NM CSMPC | Farmington | NM |
Roswell NM CSMPC | Roswell | NM |
Socorro NM CSMPC | Socorro | NM |
Truth Or Cons NM CSMPC | Truth Or Consequences | NM |
Tucumcari NM CSMPC | Tucumcari | NM |
Elko NV CSMPC | Elko | NV |
Reno NV P&DC | Reno | NV |
Amsterdam NY CSMPC | Amsterdam | NY |
Binghamton NY CSMPC | Binghamton | NY |
Binghamton NY STC | Binghamton | NY |
Brooklyn NY P&DC | Brooklyn | NY |
Buffalo NY P&DC | Buffalo | NY |
Glens Falls NY CSMPC | Glens Falls | NY |
Mid Hudson NY P&DC | Newburgh | NY |
Mid-Island NY Annex | Melville | NY |
Monsey NYÂ DDC | Monsey | NY |
New York NY L&DC | Bethpage | NY |
Plattsburgh NY CSMPC | Plattsburgh | NY |
Queens NY P&DC | Flushing | NY |
Western Nassau NY P&DC | Garden City | NY |
Akron OH P&DC | Akron | OH |
Athens OH CSMPC | Athens | OH |
Canton OH P&DF | Canton | OH |
Chillicothe OH CSMPC | Chillicothe | OH |
Cincinnati OH P&DC | Cincinnati | OH |
Dayton OH P&DF | Dayton | OH |
Ironton OH CSMPC | Ironton | OH |
Steubenville OH CSMPC | Steubenville | OH |
Toledo OH P&DF | Toledo | OH |
Youngstown OH P&DF | Youngstown | OH |
Mcalester OK CSMPC | Mcalester | OK |
Poteau OK CSMPC | Poteau | OK |
Tulsa OK P&DC | Tulsa | OK |
Woodward OK CSMPC | Woodward | OK |
Bend OR CSMPC | Bend | OR |
Eugene OR P&DF | Springfield | OR |
Mount Hood ORÂ DDC | Mount Hood Parkdale | OR |
Pendleton OR CSMPC | Pendleton | OR |
Salem OR P&DF | Salem | OR |
Sunset ORÂ DDC | Hillsboro | OR |
Altoona PA P&DF | Duncansville | PA |
Erie PA P&DF | Erie | PA |
Greensburg PAÂ DDC | Greensburg | PA |
Horsham PAÂ DDC | Horsham | PA |
Lancaster PA P&DC | Lancaster | PA |
New Castle PA P&DF | New Castle | PA |
Pittsburgh PA Building II Annex | Pittsburgh | PA |
Reading PA P&DF | Reading | PA |
Scranton PA P&DF | Scranton | PA |
Southeastern PA P&DC | Southeastern | PA |
Williamsport PA P&DF | Williamsport | PA |
Catano DMDU PR Annex | Catano | PR |
Florence SC P&DF | Florence | SC |
Dakota Central SD P&DF | Huron | SD |
Rapid City SD P&DF | Rapid City | SD |
Chattanooga TN P&DC | Chattanooga | TN |
Clinton TN STC | Clinton | TN |
Jackson TN P&DF | Jackson | TN |
Jet Cove TN Annex | Memphis | TN |
Johnson City TN CSMPC | Johnson City | TN |
Abilene TX CSMPC | Abilene | TX |
Austin TX Annex | Austin | TX |
Beaumont TX P&DF | Beaumont | TX |
Bryan TX CSMPC | Bryan | TX |
Dallas TX P&DC | Dallas | TX |
East Texas TX P&DC | Tyler | TX |
Lufkin TX CSMPC | Lufkin | TX |
Mcallen TX P&DF | Mcallen | TX |
Waco TX Annex | Waco | TX |
Waco TX P&DF | Waco | TX |
Provo UT CSMPC | Provo | UT |
Lynchburg VA P&DF | Lynchburg | VA |
Norfolk VA Annex | Norfolk | VA |
Norfolk VA P&DC | Norfolk | VA |
Roanoke VA P&DC | Roanoke | VA |
Burlington VT P&DF | Essex Junction | VT |
White River Junction VT P&DC | White River Junction | VT |
Everett WA P&DF | Everett | WA |
Olympia WA P&DF | Tumwater | WA |
Pasco WA P&DF | Pasco | WA |
Seattle WA East DDC | Redmond | WA |
South Sound WA DDC | Fife | WA |
South WA DDC | Kent | WA |
Tacoma WA P&DC | Tacoma | WA |
Wenatchee WA CSMPC | Wenatchee | WA |
Eau Claire WI P&DF | Eau Claire | WI |
Kenosha WI CSMPC | Kenosha | WI |
La Crosse WI P&DF | La Crosse | WI |
Portage WI CSMPC | Portage | WI |
Wausau WI P&DF | Rothschild | WI |
Bluefield WV CSMPC | Bluefield | WV |
Clarksburg WV P&DF | Clarksburg | WV |
Parkersburg WV CSMPC | Parkersburg | WV |
Petersburg WV CSMPC | Petersburg | WV |
Rawlins WY CSMPC | Rawlins | WY |
Rock Springs WY CSMPC | Rock Springs | WY |
Wheatland WY CSMPC | Wheatland | WY |
DHS should be paying half of the USPS budget, they are an important part of our eyes and ears in America, that does not take away our freedoms...Why has Congress pasted laws says USPS can not compete with Fedex and UPS in the package shipment area,,,did a special interest lobby buy them off?
(Shakes Magic 8-Ball) Signs point to yes
actually no need to get to congress or other actions. the special interests control the post office directly. google postal regulatory commission. then google the names you find. look for fed-ex , ups, and major mailer ties.first class postage mentioned as going up.. how about non-profit ($0.05) standard ($0.10) . then there are unfunded mandates like political mail non-profit costs with preferential first-class delevery.
THEY SHOULD PUT THE POST OFFICES BACK IN THE SMALL TOWN STORES LIKE THEY USE TO BE, I LIKED IT BETTER WHEN THEY WERE TOGETHER. MAIL MINGLE AND SHOP ALL TOGETHER LIKE IT SHOULD STILL BE,WAS A MISTAKE CHANGING IT.
PMG is not trying to sve 6 day delivery he is lining his pockets. He recived a 75000 as a bonus last year when there was suppose to be a wage freeze, No telling what he slide into his pension fund. He wants to say he saved the post office millions but he doesn't tell the whole picture. He Cuts sorting cenrter saves x amount of dollars then he gets big bonus . He says the mail volume is down then why did,t the carriers loose any time when they had mail count acouple a weeks ago? He says service is great . When we mail a letter 10 milesa way it takes 3 day to get there if you are lucky. Its trucked approximately 300 miles to make it 10 miles .Does this save Money befor It would only go 25.
These are the neighborhoos PO's, not the big processing facilities.
Actually the P&DC stands for processing and distribution center which are quite large. The one I worked at had over 3000 employees and ran 24/7
Every time these lists come out, I look for our P&DC facility. So far, not yet – but that doesn't mean we won't get shut down or merged. I'm still hoping that ours is "big enough" to stay .... but with the PO, never know what they'll do. A bit of advice – choose "mail" whenever possible – "going green" can be recycling and renewable energy, doesn't have to mean email, lettercarriers are the eyes and ears of the neighborhood and have saved plenty of lives when disaster strikes. Save the Post Office!! Politicians vote YES on HR 1351 and NO on HR 2309. We need our lettercarriers and our P&DC's!!
lost ours over a year ago....
The postal service is cutting back because of the decrease in mail volume, but they are lengthening delivery times because it will take longer to handle. Hmmmm... so, they are telling me it takes longer to handle less mail, and that longer handling times are cured with fewer handlers? Sounds like a case study in inefficiency to me.
no jim, you are actually way off.
what that means is that with fewer people the workers will not be able to get to all the first class mail in that day. it will have to be set aside for the following day. as opposed to now where we are required to attempt a delivery on all first class mail recieved that day.
Jim, look at the story again. The Postal Service workforce has shrunk by a quarter of a million jobs just in the last few years, leaving that many fewer workers to help process and deliver our mail. I've read elsewhere that while the volume of mail has also been dropping, the rate of decrease in the number of workers has been faster than the decrease in volume - meaning fewer workers for X number of pieces of mail than before.
THE REASON they are in the red is they cannot pay a huge bond to cover RETIRED employees HEALTH INSURANCE BENEFITS. Huh?! Ponzi anyone?
Are you aware that the Postal Service is REQUIRED BY LAW TO KEEP UP-TO-DATE WITH THOSE PAYMENTS (unlike anything ELSE the Congress runs) yet is ALSO prohibited by law from competing against private carriers such as FedEx and DHL in delivering packages, etc.? The Postal Service is left hamstrung right out of the gate - and it's not easy to increase politically unpalatable rates. It's NOT a Ponzi scheme, IceHearted Fishwoman. If you want to gripe - as I do - look at the criminals: members of Congress.
All these cutbacks and plenty of closings in MA, yet my hometown of North Attleboro still has 2 post offices...
I would guess the congress critter for that district must have cut a deal for those post offices. I fully expect both my Senators (Texas) to raise holy hell about proposed closings in the Lone Star State. And I imagine my voluble Governor will be piping up, too.
Another 2000 word article with no mention of the fact that the postal service is the only organization of any significant size that is prefunding its retirement. And not just prefunding it a few years, but 75 years in advance. If you placed the same requirements for prefunding these benefits on any other organization in this country and it would bankrupt them, too.
Prediction: The Republican Party will block the transfer of funds from the CSRF to the FERS that the postal service needs to stay afloat. The post office will lay off 200,000 people before election day. 1,000,000 more jobs will be lost. The GOP will point out that it was under Obama's watch that all these jobs are lost and unemployment is on the rise. Rick Perry will be elected president. The administration will pay the PO the $50 Billion dollars they owe them and they will hire a bunch of people. Then the new administration will take credit for creating all those jobs.
the American people are not that stupid. The repubs gotta go. further I don't understand how public funds can be applied to the private sector bailout and investors but not applied to a federal agency serving the people. And why would you close a processing and distribution center in New Orleans that still recuperating from Katrina?
Jim, I hope to every god there is you're wrong - that they fail miserably - but I fear there's a very good chance you're right. And who should we blame for that? - we need to go look in the mirror, since WE'RE the ones that allow the clowns in Congress to get away with this sort of crap.
Jim, you are right on. Another thought, how many Republican Employers have laid-off employees to make a point; the President is to blame. Everything the Republicans have done and said in the last 2-1/2 years is simply atrocious. They want to win the next election so they can continue to strip the middle-class and the poor of all they own. If the Republicans win the 2012 election, things will go back to spending our tax dollars to benefit big business and their wealthy friends without any thoughts to the debt or deficit. Remember Cheney, 'debt does not matter', unless it's a Democratic President in office. The Republican behavior is treasonous to this country and to the very people that pay their salaries and all other perks. They need to be paid on commission according to how well they perform for the benefit of this country and all it's people. If this was so, there would be no Republicans in office.
The prepaid postal health care money probably does not exist in any fund. It's has been robbed the same as the taxpayers paid-for social security fund. Is this something the American people want to continue to tolerate, or should we cast our votes in order to clean the mess and have 'Change for America'? Yes we can, and it's up to all voters to save this great country! We can either make a change in Congress, or we can regret not doing it.
i think this is wrong for shuting down any of the post office u r not even thinking of all the employs that need the job to susprt their familys i think u guys can do cuts some where else i still use the post office and i sure alot of people still does
Good riddance.
Okay here goes, we are a postal family that is scheduled to be closed in Ft Myers Florida, which means that SW Florida will have their mail extremely impacted by this, and most of all, all the familes that will be impacted too! In times, where we are supposed to be trying to create jobs and bring the economy up, we seem to be going in the opposite direction. We have families and friends here where we live and what sense does it make to move a facility to the east coast in the town of West Palm Beach which is over 160 miles away to work west coast mail. I agree that if we continue any sort of elections involving Repulicans, this country will be in one extremely sad sad shape! The middle class and the poor will disappear into oblivian. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, DO NOT ELECT ANY REPULICANS TO OFFICE!
There is still time to save the Fort Myers P&DC – attend the meeting!
An Area Mail Processing (AMP) study was initiated to evaluate moving the mail processing operations from the Fort Myers FL Processing & Distribution Center (P&DC) to the West Palm Beach FL P&DC. The initial results of the study support the business case for consolidation. This study, currently in review at United States Postal Service Headquarters and its Area Office is subject to change.
A public meeting will be held to share the initial results of the study and allow members of the community to ask questions and provide feedback. The public’s input will be considered prior to a final decision. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 6pm at Edison State College, Walker Hall, Bldg AA, Room 177, 8099 College Parkway in Fort Myers.
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