Before the U.S. Postal Service made its formal decision to move its Reno mail processing operations to California, it asked residents to share what they thought of the idea.
Their universal opposition — revealed in new Freedom of Information Act documents — appears not to have mattered in the face of projected financial benefits.
Terrible, crazy and stupid were common reactions to the plan.
“This idea for moving the processing facility’s operations to Sacramento is insane,” reads a typical comment received by the USPS. “It will be expensive and energy wasting not to mention slowing down the delivery of the mail.”
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