Lufkin, Tyler Postal Facilities to Close

EAST TEXAS — The U.S. Postal Service announced Thursday that some areas of East Texas will have their postal mail processing offices consolidated to other areas. According to KETK, the facilities that will be affected in East Texas are Lufkin and Tyler. Tyler’s services will be consolidated in Shreveport, Coppell, and Austin; Lufkin’s services will be moved to Beaumont. There was no immediate word on exactly when the closings would take place.

A statement issued Wednesday by USPS reads, in part, “In a move to help ensure the future of the nation’s mail system, while adapting to America’s changing mailing trends, the U.S. Postal Service today announced that the Area Mail Processing consolidation studies that began more than five months ago have been completed. These changes are a necessary part of a larger comprehensive plan developed by the Postal Service to reduce operating costs by $20 billion by 2015 and return the organization to profitability.” You can go to http://about.usps.com/what-we-are-doing/our-future-network/assets/pdf/communications-list-022212.pdf for a full list of closings nationwide.