{"id":238,"date":"2012-03-06T12:07:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T18:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gofranklingo.wordpress.com\/?p=238"},"modified":"2018-07-13T02:04:53","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T08:04:53","slug":"usps-releases-list-of-mail-processing-facility-closings-and-consolidations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/06\/usps-releases-list-of-mail-processing-facility-closings-and-consolidations\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS Releases List of Mail Processing Facility Closings and Consolidations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of its plan to <a href=\"http:\/\/about.usps.com\/what-we-are-doing\/our-future-network\/welcome.htm\">reduce costs by $20 billion<\/a>, the Postal Service (USPS) released its decisions on closing and consolidating mail processing facilities. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/about.usps.com\/what-we-are-doing\/our-future-network\/assets\/pdf\/communications-list-022212.pdf\">Click here<\/a> for the complete list of facilities. \u00a0There will be no actions taken until May 15, the end date of the moratorium agreement between the Postmaster General and the Congress.\u00a0 Moreover, the closing and consolidations are contingent upon revisions to the next day delivery standards for First-Class Mail which is before the Postal Regulatory Commission for an Advisory Opinion and then will be before the USPS Board of Governors.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>USPS announced that there will be no changes in retail operations or mail acceptance units as a result of these closings and consolidations.\u00a0 If a business mail acceptance unit must be relocated within the community, mailers will be given 120 days-notice of the move.\u00a0 USPS announcement stated,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur commitment to you is:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>No immediate changes to business acceptance locations or hours of\u00a0 operation<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Deliberate timing of operational moves to limit customer impact<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Continuation of Destination Sectional Center Facility (DSCF) discounts at affected Bulk Mail Entry Units (BMEUs).<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Expanded Drop Shipment Appointments will be available<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Continual communications\u201d<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In addition, USPS stated that there will be no closings or consolidations during both the fall mailing season and the election mailing season.\u00a0 Any action by USPS will not affect presort or drop ship discounts.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Direct Marketing Association<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of its plan to reduce costs by $20 billion, the Postal Service (USPS) released its decisions on closing and consolidating mail processing facilities. \u00a0Click here for the complete list of facilities. \u00a0There will be no actions taken until May 15, the end date [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[33,68,92,132,134,136],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-posts","tag-direct-mail","tag-mail-delivery","tag-postage","tag-usps","tag-usps-closings","tag-usps-facility-closings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}