ROANOKE, Va. –\u00a0 We’re learning more about the postal service decision to delay closing the Roanoke Mail Processing Facility.<\/p>\n
The U.S. Postal Service cited “operational considerations,” and the need to ensure “prompt, reliable and predictable service,” when it announced it will delay its consolidation plan.<\/p>\n
A local union leader says the facility in Greensboro that was slated to process Roanoke’s mail cannot handle the increase.<\/p>\n
Carlton Cooper is the President of American Postal Workers Union Local 482.<\/p>\n
He says Roanoke’s mail now goes to Greensboro to be cancelled. Then he says, 60 to 80 percent of it is hauled back to Roanoke for processing. More<\/a><\/p>\n