tate and community leaders and a local citizens group will converge Monday on Duluth’s Federal Building in an effort to protect the city’s mail sorting facility from being closed.
Gov. Mark Dayton, Rep. Rick Nolan, Mayor Don Ness and others are scheduled to speak in support of “Save our Post Office,” an effort by the Concerned Citizens of Northeast Minnesota and Northwest Wisconsin. The group is urging the United States Postal Service to reverse its decision to close the center.
If the mail processing center on the 2800 block of West Michigan Street is closed as it is scheduled to do sometime in 2015, the Concerned Citizens said in a statement, “All mail from this area will be collected and sent to the Twin Cities to be sorted, and then sent back to the Northland.”
Advocates for the center call the plan “misconceived” and say it will add delays of up to two or three times federal postal service standards.
Seventy or more jobs would be affected by the center’s closure. It is not known how many would be given the opportunity to transfer.
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At least 70 jobs would be affected if the center closed.