The United States Postal Service announced Wednesday night that it will close its processing center in Lima, OH. Its district representative said the post office will save $2.2 million annually but cannot substantiate the claim.

“I don’t have a breakdown. You’d have to request that through the Freedom of Information Act because a lot of that information is proprietary. I didn’t do the figures; that was done by another area of the post office, so I don’t have a breakdown,” David Walton said. “That was done by the area. I don’t have a name of who was involved — it could have been a group of people. I can tell you the study was initiated by the district manager in Cincinnati, Chu Falling Star, and it worked its way up.”

Local officials of the American Postal Union Workers expect post office leaders to sit down with them soon and detail how the USPS arrived at its findings.

“The bottom line is that we still don’t have anything in writing to confirm her facts and figures yet. Obviously, we’re upset about it but until they meet with the union, we don’t know anymore than the press has heard. We’re waiting and hope they will give us that information when they sit down with us in the very near future,” Treasurer Pat Suever said. Read more