All of Jamestown’s mail processing moved to Fargo earlier this week
December 8, 2011 at 11:46 pm in The Jamestown Sun
The U.S. Postal Service officially moved processing operations out of its Jamestown branch earlier this week. For the time being, most mail will head to Fargo before returning here for next-day delivery.
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I wish Area Voices had an edit feature. Yes, I know it should be loss, not lose. Saw it after I posted but can’t correct it.
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This is environmentally irresponsible and it places postal drivers in dangerous situations when not necessary. I would imagine that with the extra trips to Fargo, insurance premiums are going to rise.
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What extra trips to Fargo? Before the processing center was shut down in Jamestown, the mail was sorted, and half the mail went to Fargo, because it was for Fargo and points east.
Now, they just load all the mail on a larger truck and take it Fargo, process it efficiently and bring back what goes to 584 zip codes.
It’s just far more efficient to move the plant and the jobs to Fargo. The Postal Service has looked at this for years, and should have been done long ago.
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it’s apparently not “far more efficient” to move it to Fargo. It only saves a little over $10,000 a year. That’s not even the annual cost of heat, electricity, etc., at a sorting facility. Most of the sorting facilities the postal service is closing are saving hundreds of thousands or millions each year.
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Well, if they aren’t closing it to save money, maybe the Postal Service feels the same way about Jamestown that I do, You don’t suppose the Postal Service just dislikes Jamestown, do you?
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