{"id":242671,"date":"2013-02-28T02:34:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T08:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=242671"},"modified":"2013-02-28T12:27:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T18:27:02","slug":"smith-county-postal-facility-to-begin-closure-next-month-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=242671","title":{"rendered":"Smith County Postal Facility to Begin Closure Next Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=242205\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-242205\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/02\/usps_etx_center-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"usps_etx_center\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-242205\" \/><\/a>OWENTOWN \u2014 Officials now say the East Texas Mail Processing and Distribution Center in Owentown will close beginning in mid-March. KETK reports mail originating in the greater Tyler area will go to Shreveport and Houston or Dallas and Austin for handling, all by May 1. The closure of East Texas P&#038;DC was originally reported in February of 2012, when the decision was made to shut down the facility. The issue of the processing center\u2019s shutdown was initially broached in December of 2011, when the U.S. Postal Service held a public meeting about the potential closure of several processing centers across the country in order to save money. The Waco and Lufkin centers were also among those slated to close. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OWENTOWN \u2014 Officials now say the East Texas Mail Processing and Distribution Center in Owentown will close beginning in mid-March. KETK reports mail originating in the greater Tyler area will go to Shreveport and Houston or Dallas and Austin for handling, all by May 1. The closure of East Texas P&#038;DC was originally reported in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=242671\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County Postal Facility to Begin Closure Next Month<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-05 13:54:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242671"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242754,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242671\/revisions\/242754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}