CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WAND) — After a year of concern from residents and local lawmakers, the United States Postal Service announced that local mail processing operations will stay in Champaign.
A previous plan announced last year would have moved local processing to Chicago, meaning that mail sent from one Champaign address to another would have had to travel north before arriving back in Champaign.
“Our proposed operational strategy will generate substantial savings for the Postal Service. This strategy provides a solution that will ensure our organization can cover the cost of local originating mail processing operations in the Champaign facility,” said Postmaster General Louis DeJoy in a statement.
The newly proposed strategy will focus on boosting services at the Champaign facility to handle package mailing and shipping, letters, and flats, as well as express services and accept bulk and permit mail, further improving its delivery services.
