Postal Officials say moving processing operations wouldn't impact residents

By By JOLEEN FERRIS

Story Created: May 19, 2009 at 4:00 PM EDT

Story Updated: May 20, 2009 at 9:44 AM EDT

UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) - The U.S. Postal Service is considering moving some mail processing operations from Utica to Syracuse.

What does that mean to the average person?

Nothing. According to postal officials in Utica Tuesday to discuss the proposed changes. They say you wouldn't notice anything different, and that your mail would reach its destination in the same amount of time. But that the move would save money.

"Our initial estimates are somewhere in the ballpark of about $980,000 we'd be able to save in a year if we did this as initially sketched," Maureen Marion of Postal Service Public Affairs said.

Postal officials were in town Tuesday to talk to concerned citizens about the proposal to move processing from Utica to Syracuse.

They plan to make a decision in the next month or so.
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