Rumors have been circulating for days around the region that the processing center was being reopened, or would be somehow used again by the Postal Service. "It’s not true. The consolidation did occur as planned; mail is now going to Evansville for processing." said Corporate Communications for USPS, David Walton, in an e-mail to West Kentucky Star.
The processing center was closed earlier this year as part of a downsizing that will ultimately impact more than 200 processing centers across the country.
Walton said people are mailing fewer first class letters these days, and the Postal Service has an overabundance of processing ability for a volume of mail that is no longer happening in America.