Save the Tulsa Post Office Processing & Delivery Center

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Save the Tulsa Post Office Processing & Delivery Center

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We are a grass roots organization working to keep the Tulsa USPS processing & distribution center open.

Currently, the United States Postal Service is in the process of proposing the shut down of approximately 250 of its 500 distribution centers nationwide due to a $5.1 billion loss last fiscal year and consistently dropping mail volumes over the last several years.

This optimization of facilities might be make sense overall from a financial perspective. However, we believe that the closure of the Tulsa facility does not fit well into the USPS's plan to save money and streamline services.

The USPS held a hearing on the evening of December 1, 2011, at the Tulsa Technology Center's Lemley Campus. Based on the information provided by postal officials at the meeting, the following information and conclusions have been drawn. These disregard the fact that the USPS would have been profitable the last 4 years, if not for a law which the United States Congress passed in 2006 requiring that USPS retirement and benefits packages be pre-funded 75 years in advance.

1) The Tulsa Post Office Processing & Deliver Center is the 3rd most efficient distribution center in the nation. The facility it is to be merged with in Oklahoma City does not make the top 10 for efficiency.

2) The Tulsa distribution center is currently making a profit. The Oklahoma City center is currently NOT making a profit.

3) The final number of 250 distribution centers that the USPS proposes averages one per approximately 1.25 million people nationally. Northeastern Oklahoma , which the Tulsa center serves, which has a population of over1.3 million. The region has the population to justify its own servicing facility.

4) USPS officials do not know the exact number of vehicles that will be required to haul mail from its origination point in the Tulsa region to the replacement Oklahoma City facility and back to Tulsa. This brings into question the accuracy of their proposed $11.1 million in cost savings by consolidating facilities.

5) The USPS reported that 10 management positions at the Tulsa facility cost $2 million per year. This equates to $200,000 on average. Based on this, it seems the post office is structurally top heavy with overly generous management compensation packages which could be a factor in USPS's consistent losses recently.