BUFFALO, N.Y. — U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced that the United States Postal Service will not move forward with plans to move some of the operations from the William Street facility to Rochester.
The postal service had announced in January that it was considering transferring some of its William Street operations to Rochester as a part of a $40 billion nationwide investment aimed at modernizing mail delivery.
“Victory! Today is a massive win for Western New Yorkers that will ensure more efficient mail delivery for the region’s seniors, families, and businesses and that will ensure job security for our hardworking postal workers at the Buffalo William St. Facility. I personally called Postmaster DeJoy to make sure he heard the voices of Western NY loud and clear. Our hardworking postal workers work day in and day out to deliver high-quality mail service throughout Western NY, and USPS’s planned transfer of operations for the Buffalo’s William Street Postal Facility put our local mail service and dedicated postal workers’ jobs at risk. In January, I pushed to get answers from USPS on their plans for our local communities, and today, I am here to say USPS will not move forward with any plans that will reduce mail service or negatively impact workers,” said Senator Schumer. “I fought to save this facility in 2011 because I know the importance of the William St. Postal Facility to this community, and I promised to save it again this time. Today, I can say a promise made is a promise kept. Western New York can look forward to smooth mail delivery from the Buffalo William St. Postal Office for years to come.”
If that change had gone through, that would have meant mail that is dropped off at a post office locally in Buffalo would have to travel to Rochester before returning to Buffalo and the suburbs for delivery.
The USPS sent a statement in regards to the decision. A portion of it reads: "There will be no changes at the Buffalo facility as part of this MPFR process. Business mail entry, Post Office, station, branch retail services and delivery services will remain unchanged."
Schumer and former U.S. Rep. Brian Higgins had voiced their opposition of moving some of the operations to Rochester.
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