{"id":6682,"date":"2012-05-17T14:13:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T19:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=6682"},"modified":"2012-05-17T14:18:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T19:18:25","slug":"postal-centers-in-muskogee-and-tulsa-will-be-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/05\/17\/postal-centers-in-muskogee-and-tulsa-will-be-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal Centers in Muskogee and Tulsa Will be Closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6683\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Post Master General and U.S. Postal Service CEO Patrick Donahoe\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/05\/usps.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6683\" title=\"Post Master General and U.S. Postal Service CEO Patrick Donahoe\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/05\/usps-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Chip Somodevilla \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Post Master General and U.S. Postal Service CEO Patrick Donahoe<\/p>\n<\/div><p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/federal-eye\/post\/postal-service-moving-ahead-with-closing-mail-sorting-hubs-though-closures-will-move-slowly\/2012\/05\/17\/gIQAqfKQWU_blog.html\">announced<\/a> today.<\/p><p>The Tulsa facility employs about 600 and is among 89 such locations scheduled to close in 2014, the <em>Tulsa World<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulsaworld.com\/news\/article.aspx?subjectid=297&articleid=20120517_297_0_Aunion594465\">reports<\/a>. Muskogee\u2019s sorting center is among 140 others that will be shuttered sometime before early 2013.<\/p><p>Most of the Tulsa jobs are expected to be eliminated or shifted to Oklahoma City, reports the <em>World<\/em>\u2019s Randy Krehbiel.<\/p><p><!--more--><\/p><p>Officials expect about 13,00 jobs to be lost nationwide, most through attrition, the <em>Washington Post<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/federal-eye\/post\/postal-service-moving-ahead-with-closing-mail-sorting-hubs-though-closures-will-move-slowly\/2012\/05\/17\/gIQAqfKQWU_blog.html\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s sorting center is among 140 others that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":6683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[300],"tags":[373],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6690,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6682\/revisions\/6690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}