Acworth USPS Facility to Close

The Customer Service Mail Processing Center in Acworth is among the more than 200 mail processing facilities that face closure or consolidation.

The U.S. Postal Service announced today the completion of the Area Mail Processing consolidation studies on 264 processing centers across the nation that started more than five months ago.

As a result of the studies, 223 facilities face closure or consolidation, while 35 locations remain open and six pending further study.

Besides the Acworth location, processing centers in Marietta, Cartersville and Douglasville also face closure, according to a release issued by the USPS.

However, this does not affect the , according to USPS spokesman Michael Miles.

Mail processing centers are separate from the USPS retail locations, and deal with the behind the scenes operations. The USPS suggests that cutting some of these satellite processing centers is a necessary step to help return the Postal Service to profitability.

The Postal Service states that the organization is in the midst of a financial crisis due to economic recession, increased use of electronic communications, and and obligation to prefund retiree health benefits.

In response to its revenue lost and a forecasted $14.1 billion record loss by the end of this year, the Postal Service developed a comprehensive plan to reduce operating costs by $20 billion by 2015, including such changes as closing mail processing centers.

In an earlier statement, Miles said that there will be minimum impact on current jobs in the Acworth area.

“We have career plus temporary employees. If they are career, they won’t lose their jobs, but will be transferred to other locations," he said.