LAS VEGAS — The USPS revealed on Tuesday it will follow through with its strategy to reroute Reno-area mail processing to Sacramento, a relocation that drew bipartisan ire from Nevada legislators while raising concerns about the rate at which mail tallies can be processed in a populated part of a important swing state.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has cast the irreversible procedure as a expense conserving relocation, however federal, state and regional legislators have grumbled about a absence of openness in the procedure that might sluggish mail throughout the area.
Under the strategy, all mail from the Reno location will pass through Sacramento before reaching its location — even from one side of the city to the other.
Democratic Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar, the state’s top election main, formerly stated moving operations might sluggish the processing of mail tallies, and “has the prospective to disenfranchise thousands of Nevada citizens and would absolutely effect the results of Nevada’s elections.”
In the Tuesday declaration, the USPS stated “the service case” supported moving the procedures to California, since most of the mail processed in Reno is predestined inotherplaces. The Reno center will stay open as an location that prepares mail before it’s sentout out. USPS will invest $13.4 million in the center, mainly for remodellings, per the firm.
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