Southeastern Postal Plant to Close

After months of discussion, speculation, public hearings and a review, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has made it official. The Southeastern Processing and Distribution facility in Wayne, Tredyffrin Township will be closed later this spring.

While no specific date for the closure has been set, the USPS has previously indicated it wants to move on the closings as soon as possible. The USPS announced in December that no facility would close before May 15.

According to a Postal Service press release issued Thursday morning "once the transfers are completed, the mail processing operations of these facilities will cease. There will be no change to the retail units, business mail entry units, and vehicle maintenance units at the closing facilities at this time."

The Southeastern facility houses a retail post office with hundreds of post office boxes in addition to serving as a mail sorting and distribution plant.

Clerks at the retail post office told TE Patch back in December that they expected to be offered the chance to retire or to transfer to the regional processing plant on Lindbergh Boulevard near Philadelphia International Airport.

At a meeting with regional USPS officials members of the postal workers union, local politicians, and the public expressed concern about the impact closing the facility would have on mail delivery speeds.

For its part, the postal service says it must find ways to cut expenses since it has lost billions of dollars over the past decade, due in large measure to the increase in email and electronic information sharing that used to be done through the mail.

Click on the PDF to read the full press release issued Thursday morning by the Postal Service