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May 12, 2009 - The United States Postal Service Is Once Again Performing An "Area Mail Processing Feasibility Study" For The 474 Zip Code Area.
This web site is provided by the American Postal Workers Union, Local 2122 -AFL-CIO, located in Bloomington Indiana.
Our Goal is to give our customers in the 474 zip code area a better
understanding of the May 12, 2009 announcement by managers of the United
States Postal Service to once again conduct an Area Mail Processing/Consolidation (AMP) study for the 474 zip code area. This idea is nothing new and in fact has been
tried before in Bloomington in 1992 with disastrous results. Customer service suffered
drastically then, when only the operation of canceling the mail was sent to Indianapolis, and we predict it will again.
We are asking for the support of our customers in the 474 zip code area to voice their opinions, to make the USPS aware that we will not stand for a degradation of our mail service. With your help, we the members of the Bloomington APWU Local 2122, can ensure that the level of service that we are currently
providing to the businesses and citizens of the 474 area continues.
The
important thing to keep in mind is that this consolidation plan, if
enacted, will add an unneeded 100 mile trip to your mail and
effectively eliminate the Bloomington postmark.
This recent announcement comes on the heels of a similar study, conducted by USPS management, during the time period of December 2005 until March 2007.
The decision of that study was:
"After exhaustive review, it has been determined that there are currently no significant opportunities to improve efficiency through consolidation of our mail processing or transportation operations."
Now it is two years later and AMP is back. The major difference is that this time the USPS has not indicated if they are studying the consolidation of the canceling of collection mail (the mail that you place into a collection receptacle or hand to a window clerk), the processing of our local mail (the mail that you receive in your mailbox) or BOTH TYPES OF MAIL into the Indianapolis Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC), located in downtown Indianapolis.
We will do our best to keep you updated concerning the status of the study via this website and the local media/newspapers, as we expect to be notified of its initial outcome by mid July 2009. Please check back often and contact us if we can be of any assistance or answer your questions. Our information is located on the CONTACT US page for your convenience.
If enacted what will this mean to you, our customers of the 474 zip code area?
First - This will entail trucking the
mail to the Bloomington Mail Processing Annex ( MPA) located on Vernal Pike, from the outlying 474 zip codes and Bloomington City collection receptacles.
Second - Instead of processing this mail in house at the MPA as we currently do, it will be transferred to different trucks and the transported to the Indianapolis P&DC for canceling and further sorting operations. Depending on the outcome of the study, it is possible that our local 474 mail will then be returned to us for processing at the MPA and then presented to our carriers for delivery to our customers, or it could stay in Indianapolis at the P&DC for final processing before being shipped back to the MPA for distribution.
Please contact the United States Postal Service and tell them, "Keep the SERVICE in my Postal Service!"
To contact the USPS directly concerning this matter please send a letter to:
Faith Roell
Consumer Affairs Manager
3939 Vincennes Road
Indianapolis Indiana 46298-9631
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