WASHINGTON – The U.S. Postal Service is once again considering moving some mail processing operations from its William Street facility in Buffalo to a similar building in Rochester, and local members of Congress are not at all happy about it.
The Postal Service on Tuesday offered some bare-bones details about its proposal in a notice of an upcoming public meeting about the review it is undertaking of the William Street operation. The notice said the Postal Service 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 decade-long “Delivering for America” plan. The Postal Service said the plan “includes initiatives to improve organizational and operational processes and actively make the Postal Service an efficient, high-performing, world class logistics and delivery provider.”
Buffalo-area residents and businesses won’t notice any change in their mail delivery during the review, and jobs at the William Street facility – which employs about 700 – won’t be immediately affected, either, the Postal Service said.
“The evaluation is a first step in the Postal Service review and investment process in this facility and will not result in this facility’s closure or career employee layoffs,” the Postal Service said.
But Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, a New York Democrat, expressed concerns about the proposal.
“Any plans to alter operations at Buffalo’s William Street postal facility that…
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