U.S. Postal Service and labor union officials are meeting today to hammer-out details on the closure of the postal service’s Charlottesville Processing & Distribution Facility off of Airport Road.
Postal officials announced yesterday that they would close the facility, built in 1998, in hopes of saving $6.3 million.
The closure announcement came after the postal service conducted a closure study last summer that recommended closing the local center and shipping mail instead to a new, larger facility in Sandston.
The local center has collected mail from zip codes beginning in 229, 228 and 244, officials said. That mail will still be collected at local retail post offices, but will taken directly to Sandston for processing.
The closing will impact an estimated 170 full-time postal employees. Under the employees’ collective bargaining contract, they will not lose their jobs, but will be offered positions elsewhere within the postal service.
Between now and April, officials will develop plans for redistribution of the mail to Sandston. The plans will be phased in beginning in April.
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