Postal Centers in Muskogee and Tulsa Will be Closed

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  Joe Wertz was a reporter and managing editor for StateImpact Oklahoma from 2011-2019. He reported on energy and environment issues for national NPR audiences and other national outlets. He previously worked as a managing editor, assistant editor and staff reporter at several major Oklahoma newspapers and studied journalism at the University of Central Oklahoma.

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Post Master General and U.S. Postal Service CEO Patrick Donahoe

A U.S. Postal Service processing plant in Tulsa and a sorting center in Muskogee are among more than 200 sites slated for closure, the USPS announced today.

The Tulsa facility employs about 600 and is among 89 such locations scheduled to close in 2014, the Tulsa World reports. Muskogee’s sorting center is among 140 others that will be shuttered sometime before early 2013.

Most of the Tulsa jobs are expected to be eliminated or shifted to Oklahoma City, reports the World’s Randy Krehbiel.

Officials expect about 13,00 jobs to be lost nationwide, most through attrition, the Washington Post reports.

The consolidations will affect delivery of First Class mail to some degree, officials said, with some letters arriving in three days instead of two. Local delivery would not change.