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General News: Opposition Heard to Closing Mail Facility
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| Orange County Executive Ed Diana (center) was among the public officials who opposed closing the mail processing center. |
December 02, 2011
By Charlie B. Scirbona
Local officials and union members spoke out against the proposed closing of the Mid-Hudson Processing and Delivery Center during a public hearing Thursday night.
The Area Mail Processing study that was released in September recommended closing the Mid-Hudson center in Newburgh and consolidating it with the Albany processing center. The study found that about $15.3 million in savings could found by closing the Newburgh facility. This would also result in the loss of around 234 jobs.
The first half of the meeting was devoted to explaining these findings and the postal service’s overall plan to reduce the amount of mail processing centers nationwide and to switch first class mail service from next-day delivery to two- to three-day delivery. However throughout the presentation some people booed, one person shouted, “Tell them to bring Albany’s mail here!”
Chris White, local representative for U.S. Representative Maurice Hinchey, read a letter from the congressman that said he was working to reverse a law that requires the postal service to put aside $5.1 billion for the health benefits of retirees years before it’s needed, something that many people who commented said was an unnecessary expense and the real problem for the postal service.
Orange County Executive Ed Diana read a resolution passed in the county legislature that opposed the closing of the Newburgh facility. Town of Newburgh Supervisor Wayne Booth said that the was no fiscal reason to close the center, and that the expense of relocating people and materials to Albany would not be cost effective.
Newburgh Town Councilman Gil Piaquadio told the officials from the postal service to let the town council know if there was anything more they could do to make it more desirable to keep the facility here.
Andrew J. Zarutskie, Newburgh town clerk, said that it made no sense to move the facility to Albany because Orange County was one of two counties that was still growing, according to the 2010 Census data.
“We want you, we need you, we love you,” said Zarutskie.
The New Windsor Post Office on Route 94 had been on the list for possible closure but it was removed last month.
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