Long Island now has one of the fastest, most efficient and reliable mail services in the country thanks to a high-tech Postal Service upgrade covering both its counties, officials say.
A US Postal Service state-of-the-art sorting and delivery center opened in Huntington Station in Suffolk County last week as part of a $40 billion nationwide modernization effort aimed at dragging the country’s aging mail system into the 21st century.
The move comes after the October opening of Nassau County’s revamped hub in Hicksville — making Long Island one of the only regions in the country where both counties are fully modernized.
“With these upgrades, Long Island now has one of the most efficient mail systems in the country,” USPS spokeswoman Amy Gibbs told The Post.
Officials said results are already being delivered to residents throughout both counties.
“Customers are definitely getting their packages faster,” said Robert Kasten, who oversees vehicle operations for the Atlantic 4 territory, which includes Long Island.
Inside the Huntington Station facility, sleek new machines can sort 6,000 packages in under two hours — a job that used to take five hours. Carriers also can now make up to 500 stops a day thanks to newly optimized routes, earlier dispatch times and state-of-the-art EV delivery trucks.
USPS has already deployed 16 of the new electric Ram ProMaster trucks across Suffolk, with plans to eventually replace the county’s entire decades-old 1,400-vehicle fleet.
Unfortunately, this is factually incorrect. This facility, like all others, has the POTENTIAL to be very efficient if management allows it to. Once workhour constraints come to the fore it’s likely that the mail is going to sit. This has been the pattern across the country in all of these facilities. The post office thinks that these places can be run with a skeleton crew; the clerks revolt, the mail sits, and the phones start to ring. A case of premature celebration.