That is drop boxes ‘reduced from3 to only ONE
That’s normal, the district plant is where postmarking is usually done. Goes to the plant, gets postmarked then sorted into delivery order, returns to the town the next morning.
I bought something on Ebay on 12/3. Been scanned twice and moved about 45 miles in the twelve days. I hope it gets here before I’m retired.
Not odd. They closed the Canton sorting mail and then later closed Akron. So when I send a card to my Mom across town it now goes to Cleveland and adds a few more days. That is why we took our Absentee ballots to the Stark County board of elections. And such is our new 3rd world system 😡
Yep, we mail from our town, they truck them 60 miles, sort and postmark them and send the local mail back.
You bought you stamps before you sent your mail.
They got what they wanted.
IF you didn’t get what you wanted, please file form twenty six zed niner baker stroke six in triplicate with the office of information retrieval.
6 or 7 years ago they started centralizing processing. Tucson’s mail all goes up to Phoenix to get processed and postmarked. Honestly mail speed is about the same. As for the number of dropboxes was it ever full? Could you ever not put mail in it? If not so what.
Not really. Generally, it's more efficient to sort it at a regional facility. Remember, if you live in a small town, very little of what is mailed from there goes to the same small town.