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The United States Postal Service (USPS) Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has agreed to halt proposed changes to the mail delivery network that would have resulted in the closure of the Cheyenne and Casper Processing and Distribution Centers. This decision follows persistent appeals from U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY). The USPS has concurred to temporarily suspend reforms that would have left Wyoming without a single Processing and Distribution Center, compelling mail sent from one Wyoming community to another to be routed through Colorado or Montana for sorting.

"I am encouraged the U.S. Postal Service finally listened to the people of Wyoming’s concerns and halted its disastrous plans to recategorize the Cheyenne and Casper Processing and Distribution Centers," said Lummis. "Folks across the Cowboy State rely on timely mail delivery for their medicine, to pay their bills and to communicate with one another. I hope USPS continues to think about the true impacts this restructuring would have on our country’s most rural communities before downsizing any of our state’s processing facilities."

On May 8, 2024, Senator Lummis led a letter addressed to Postmaster General DeJoy along with Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee Chair Gary Peters (D-MI) and 27 other colleagues requesting USPS pause its planned closing of Processing and Distribution Centers, including those in Cheyenne and Casper.

Earlier on April 17, 2024, Senator Lummis introduced the Postal Operations Stay Timely and Local (POSTAL) Act. This legislation aims at preventing the U.S. Postal Service from closing, consolidating or downgrading its Processing and Distribution Centers nationwide if such an action would remove the sole center within a state or negatively impact mail delivery.

In March, Lummis introduced an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations bill aimed at preventing USPS from downgrading P&DC centers. She also introduced an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2025 appropriations bill last week, which would halt USPS from downgrading these facilities.