Area Mail Processing study of Utica halted

Utica—In a statement issued today, Edward F. Phelan, District Manager for the Albany District of the Postal Service provided an update to postal employees and customers on the status of local mail efficiency studies in Utica.

As you know, the Postal Service conducted an Area Mail Processing study to determine if efficiency could be increased by consolidating mail processing operations performed at the Utica Processing and Distribution Facility with those performed at the Syracuse Processing and Distribution Center.

While conducting the study, the Postal Service determined there are service issues that are still being worked on and cannot be resolved at this time. Therefore, we wish to inform you that we have halted the Utica study.

I understand that this AMP study did cause some concern. I personally thank you for your patience, cooperation and understanding of the need to conduct this study.

Earlier this spring, the Postal Service initiated studies that considered the consolidation of some postal operations now conducted in the Utica Processing and Distribution Facility, located at 100 Pitcher Street in Utica, into operations in the Syracuse Processing and Distribution Center.

The Utica AMP study was one of four undertaken by the Albany District. The Postal Service's Albany District reaches more than 3.5 million postal customers served by 718 Post Offices in an area that stretches from the Massachusetts and Canadian borders west to Waterloo and south to Binghamton and the Southern Tier.

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