Cortez Masto Joins Bipartisan Letter Urging USPS Board of Governors to Reverse Decision to Relocate Mail Processing to Sacramento

Nevada's Federal and State Leaders Have Been Leading The Efforts To Stop The Relocation Of Processing Operations From Reno To Sacramento

WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), Congressman Mark Amodei (R-NV-02), and Governor Joe Lombardo sent a bipartisan letter to the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors expressing their serious concerns with the plan to downsize and relocate part of the operations of the Reno Processing and Distribution Center to California. This bipartisan group insisted the Board exercise its oversight authority to stop Postmaster General DeJoy from implementing this misguided plan.

"On April 23, 2024, USPS officially announced its decision to proceed with its misguided plan to downsize and relocate outgoing mail processing operations from Reno, Nevada to Sacramento, California," wrote the lawmakers and the Governor. "This announcement came despite multiple requests from the undersigned for USPS to present the data that informed this decision - requests that were left unanswered for months, refused during in-person meetings with USPS staff, ignored during a United States Senate oversight hearing with the Postmaster General, and finally purported to be addressed in a May 2024 letter that failed to directly address any of the specific concerns Nevada stakeholders and elected officials have raised."

"As the USPS Board of Governors, we urge you to conduct your oversight responsibilities to stop this ill-considered plan from going into effect. The Board should not allow Postmaster General DeJoy to proceed with downsizing and relocating Nevada's Reno P&DC absent critical Nevada-specific data," they continued. "Finally, if you feel that the Postmaster General has served as an active impediment to conducting meaningful oversight, then it is time to seriously consider who leads the USPS in the future."

The full text of the letter can be found HERE.

Senators Cortez Masto and Rosen, and Congressman Amodei have consistently opposed the proposed relocation because of the impact it would have on mail service reliability and local jobs. They recently sent a bipartisan letter expressing serious concern about the proposed relocation of mail processing in Reno. Senators Cortez Masto and Rosen also joined a group of over 20 Senators in a letter urging Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to stop any changes or relocations to USPS processing facilities that would result in job losses and further degrade mail delivery performance, especially in rural states.

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