Wallingford Mail Center Slated for 2014 Closure

The U.S. Postal Service is moving ahead with a plan to eliminate up to 140 distribution centers  through February 2013. The first phase doesn’t list the Wallingford mail distrubution center.

However, the USPS plans to close the center in 2014, according to the Record Journal.

“We revised our network consolidation timeline to provide a longer planning schedule for our customers, employees and other stakeholders, and to enable a more methodical and measured implementation,” said Patrick R. Donahoe, Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer of the Postal Service, in a press release. 

The Postal Service will begin consolidating operations this summer – which mostly involve transferring mail-processing operations from smaller to larger facilities  Approximately 5,000 employees will begin receiving notifications next week related to consolidating and other efficiency-enhancing activities to be conducted this summer.

The Postal Service workforce will be reduced by approximately 13,000 employees and, when fully implemented, will generate cost reductions of approximately $1.2 billion annually.