The investments at these facilities will boost their package processing capabilities and shipping capacity without any staffing impacts, according to the Postal Service. That includes its Charleston, West Virginia, facility, where the agency will invest $7 million to install new sortation systems.
The Postal Service conducted reviews of these processing facilities earlier this year to determine whether it should move their operations elsewhere to reduce expenses. It paused the implementation of changes that resulted from these reviews until next year amid lawmaker scrutiny.
“The main objective of these reviews was to find cost efficiencies, primarily through transportation savings,” the Postal Service said in the Reno announcement.
