On Wednesday Nevada Senators Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto joined a bipartisan group of legislators to oppose recent U.S. Postal Service plans.
Members of both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives decried recent consolidation and review announcements from the USPS, arguing to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy that they could severely diminish mail service reliability for postal networks across the country, including in northern Nevada.
“A common theme of these announcements is the so-called ‘modernization’ of Processing and Distribution Centers into Local Processing Centers,” the Members wrote. “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.”
Senators Rosen and Cortez Masto have strongly opposed the proposed relocation of mail processing from Reno to Sacramento because of the impact it would have on mail service reliability and local jobs.
You can read the full letter below.
