“There are 82 postal offices they want to eliminate, and it just can’t be done,” said Pam Jones, member of National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 533.

Jones said the public needs to be aware of the repercussions of the plant closing and help in the fight to keep delivery standards and jobs secure.

To Jones, sending Kokomo’s mail to Indianapolis isn’t economical or logical.

“If the machines are already going and you add our mail into their mail and separate our mail again just to bring it back again, with the transportation costs and everything, it just doesn’t make sense,” she said.

Besides bringing overnight delivery to a halt, it will also put a halt to countless, living-wage jobs, she said, adding that Kokomo’s plant has upwards of 100 employees.

Postal unions continue fight plant-closure battle