PEORIA, Ill. – Congressmen Darin LaHood (IL-16) and Eric Sorensen (IL-17) on Friday released a joint statement in response to the United States Postal Service’s recent decision that originating mail processing operations will stay at the Peoria Mail Processing and Distribution Center.
This comes after a letter written by LaHood and Sorensen last February, to the U.S. Post Master General Louis DeJoy, urged a pause in any movement of the Peoria Mail Processing and Distribution Center.
“The Peoria Mail Processing and Distribution Center provides essential services to our community, small businesses, farmers, and veterans,” LaHood and Sorensen said. “We are pleased that USPS has committed to pausing any additional changes through 2025. Together, we will work in a bipartisan manner to protect high-paying and high-quality jobs in Peoria and throughout central Illinois.”
In 2021, the United States Postal Service announced the Delivering for America plan to streamline the mail process. This would have caused the Peoria Mail Processing and Distribution Center to downsize and force the mail to travel hundreds of additional miles to other processing and distribution centers.
On Monday, April 7, the USPS announced that it would not move jobs from the Peoria Mail Processing and Distribution Center, while also investing up to $8.8 million in the Peoria facility to move forward as part of a ten-year Delivering for America plan to modernize the nation’s aged and neglected postal network.
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