S.D. congressional delegation wants answers on Postal Service plan
Mail would be trucked to Omaha instead of Sioux Falls
A U.S. Postal Service plan to downsize mail processing in Sioux Falls will have an adverse effect on mail service to rural South Dakota, the state’s congressional delegation is warning.
USPS is currently studying a proposal that would remove Sioux Falls as a processing and distribution center. Mail that is collected in Sioux Falls and dispersed to locations around the country would instead be trucked to Omaha and dispersed there. Local Sioux Falls mail would then be trucked back to Sioux Falls and distributed through a local processing center.
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About three dozen career service jobs would be eliminated in Sioux Falls.
It’s all part of a national plan by the Postal Service to make its delivery more efficient. Omaha would serve as one of 60 national regional processing and distribution centers while Sioux Falls would be designated as one of 190 local processing centers, a demotion from the services that the facility currently provides.
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