PALMETTO, Ga. — A long line of trucks wrapped around Georgia’s regional processing and distribution center Friday morning, as some drivers and employees reported that wait times at the new facility continued to drag on for hours.
11Alive crews captured images on camera after a source inside the Palmetto facility shared that trucks had been lined up overnight. One driver told 11Alive’s Liza Lucas he was making his first trip to the facility, a trip that began at 12:45 a.m. and didn’t conclude until 7:45 a.m.
The facility has had notable issues with long truck waits before. In March, shortly after the facility’s opening, 11Alive captured the lines of 18-wheelers along Roosevelt Highway. A recent audit conducted by the USPS Office of Inspector General revealed trucks were waiting around 20 hours to move through the facility at that time.
Such issues are linked to the launch of the regional processing and distribution center (RP&DC). The RP&DC is among the first facilities in the nation and part of the postal service’s 10-year “Delivering for America” plan, a $40 billion effort to streamline postal services and save money.