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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), member of the Senate Appropriations Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee, and Susan Collins (R-ME), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, led their bipartisan, bicameral colleagues in sending a letter to United States Postmaster General Louis DeJoy Wednesday. The lawmakers expressed their opposition to the United States Postal Service's recent nationwide consolidation and review announcements that could severely diminish mail service reliability for postal networks.
"A common theme of these announcements is the so-called 'modernization' of Processing and Distribution Centers into Local Processing Centers," the lawmakers wrote in part. "Taken together, these proposals dismantle parts of the Postal Service's robust network that helps distribute mail across the country and places outgoing sorting into more distant facilities. The result of this change is that mail will need to travel farther from its origin to its sorting, creating inefficiencies in the system, especially for local mail. These consolidation proposals never have had any discernible support from local communities."