{"id":73145,"date":"2011-02-19T05:59:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T11:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=73145"},"modified":"2011-02-21T02:10:57","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T08:10:57","slug":"postal-service-to-consolidate-e-texas-facilities-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=73145","title":{"rendered":"Postal Service to Consolidate E. Texas Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=73146\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-73146\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/02\/Postal-Service.bmp\" alt=\"\" title=\"Postal Service\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-73146\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLONGVIEW (AP) \u2014 A newspaper report says that the U.S. Postal Service will close its processing and distribution center in Lufkin and consolidate those operations in Tyler. The Longview News-Journal reported Friday that Postal Service spokesman McKinney Boyd told a group of 21 residents in Easton that he planned to announce the consolidation to Lufkin officials next week. The post office in Easton faces possible closure.<\/p>\n<p>Boyd said the Postal Service is losing $23 million a day, as Americans turn to texting, e-mail and social media sites to communicate rather than written mail. Lufkin Mayor Jack Gorden questioned the cost savings of closing the Lufkin plant, which employs about 40 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW (AP) \u2014 A newspaper report says that the U.S. Postal Service will close its processing and distribution center in Lufkin and consolidate those operations in Tyler. The Longview News-Journal reported Friday that Postal Service spokesman McKinney Boyd told a group of 21 residents in Easton that he planned to announce the consolidation to Lufkin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=73145\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Postal Service to Consolidate E. Texas Facilities<\/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-73145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 08:09:03","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\/73145","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=73145"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73427,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73145\/revisions\/73427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}