The United States Postal Service (USPS) will hold a meeting Wednesday, Jan. 18 regarding the future of the processing center on Main Street. The processing center is on a list along with seven others throughout the state being studied due to budget cuts.
The meeting will take place on Jan. 18 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Walter S. Parker Middle School, 45 Temple St., in Reading.
At the meeting, USPS managers will provide an overview of a proposal to move mail processing operations from the Main Street processing center into the Boston Processing and Distribution facility. They will also listen to input from community members.
According to Communications Program Specialist for the Greater Boston Postal District Dennis Tarmey, the study is not a proposal to close the processing center on Main Street, but a proposal to move some of the work.
“It is a proposal to shift some processing work from North Reading to the Boston plant,” he said. “In fact, there is a concurrent Area Mail Processing proposal where work from the Central Massachusetts plant in Shrewsbury and also the Northwest-Boston Plant in Waltham would be shifted into the Middlesex-Essex plant in North Reading.”
The studies are pending, final decisions have not been made, Tarmey said.
You will find the meeting agenda, presentation and summary of the brief on the USPS website one week prior to the meeting. The USPS will accept public comments for 15 days after the meeting. Please mail your comments to: Consumer Industry Contact Manager, Greater Boston District, 25 Dorchester Ave., Boston, MA 02205-9631.
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