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Thursday, February 23, 2012
A mail processing center at the post office on Quintard Avenue will close, along with three others in the state and a total of 223 nationwide, the United States Postal Service announced today.
Processing that happens now in Anniston, Huntsville and Tuscaloosa will move to a facility in Birmingham. Work done at a processing center in Dothan will move to Montgomery, the Postal Service said in its announcement.
Retail operations and services for businesses at each location will remain unchanged for now, according to the release. Vehicle maintenance facilities also will remain open for now.
The announcement is the result of studies the Postal Service started five months ago to find ways to deal with a decline in mail volume and steep financial losses. The Postal Service said it lost $3.3 billion dollars in the most recent fiscal quarter. The closure plan is part of a larger strategy to save $20 billion in costs by 2015, the announcement said.
At a December public forum on the planned closure in Anniston, the Postal Service said the move would affect the jobs of 11 workers here. Four jobs would likely be created in Birmingham because of the work moved from Anniston, the Postal Service projected. The closure of the Anniston processing facility was expected to save the Postal Service just more than $1 million.
The Postal Service did not say when the facilities will close, but said it will not be before May 15, the end date of a moratorium on closures and consolidations the service agreed to in December.
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