U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) have sent a letter to the acting U.S. Postmaster and Board of Governors demanding that the Postal Service recommit to keeping local letter mail processing in Nevada.
Last year the USPS abandoned plans to transform the Reno Post Office on Vassar Street from a processing and distribution center to a local processing center only.
Originally, the USPS explained the mail would be rerouted through west Sacramento before being rerouted back to Nevada.
Sen. Rosen’s office says despite the reversal, some Nevadans have reported seeing local, first-class letter mail being processed out of state.
“On April 23, 2024, USPS officially announced its decision to proceed with its misguided plan to downsize and relocate outgoing mail processing operations from Reno, Nevada to Sacramento, California. After immense pushback from members of Congress, local officials, and the public, USPS agreed to keep local, first-class letter mail processing operations in Reno rather than moving forward with its plan to send local letter mail out of state to Sacramento and back again,” wrote the Senators. “In an August 2024 press release that has since been taken down from the USPS website, USPS officials announced that ‘[t]here will be no change to the location for canceling certain origination mail in Reno. In simpler terms, outgoing single piece mail will continue to be processed at its current location.’”
“We are therefore alarmed to hear concerns from Nevadans that local, first-class letter mail processing operations may indeed move out of state,” they continued. “As such, we would like for the Postal Service to reaffirm its commitment to the public to not proceed with its original misguided plan, and provide us with the official USPS policy at the Reno facility with respect to local, first-class letter mail processing.”
