WASHINGTON – Postal union officials and Buffalo-area politicians are strongly objecting to a U.S. Postal Service proposal to move some operations from its William Street mail processing facility in Buffalo to a similar building in Rochester – even though no one knows exactly what that proposal is.
A day after the Postal Service announced an upcoming public meeting about the plan, officials complained that the agency has offered too few details about it.
Frank Resetarits, president of the American Postal Workers Union local in Buffalo as well as its statewide operation, on Wednesday termed the Postal Service’s description of the plan as “vague, sprinkled in with a heavy dose of deception.”
State Sen. Timothy Kennedy, a Buffalo Democrat, said: “I think it’s totally misguided. And I think it undermines the credibility of the United States Postal Service.”
And Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, a New York Democrat, wrote to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, saying: “The people of Western New York deserve full transparency from the USPS – and I am concerned that the present lack of full transparency is leaving our communities in the dark about the potential impacts of USPS’s proposed plan.”
In its announcement about the upcoming public meeting, the Postal Service on Tuesday said it is considering converting the Buffalo facility from a regional processing and distribution center into a local processing center.
“The Buffalo LPC will be a critical node to the unified movement of mail and packages across the regional processing and transportation ecosystem,” the notice said. “The facility will offer expanded and streamlined package processing capabilities in the local market and new workplace amenities for USPS employees. Additionally, the business case supports transferring some mail processing operations to the Rochester P&DC.”
The proposal is part of the agency’s decadelong “Delivering for…
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