What closing the mail processing facility in Everett could mean

Published 7:41 am Saturday, October 29, 2011

Sometimes people who have additional perspective on a story reach out with information. That happened when George Engel of Everett sent me a note this morning concerning the story on the Postal Service’s potential closure of a mail processing facility in Everett.

Here’s part of what he wrote:

“The Everett Processing Facility does more than process the mail for Everett; it processes the mail for all cities from Lynnwood north. For this meeting to sway or to have any effect on the Postal Service; people in the northern cities of Blaine, Darrington, Bellingham, Friday Harbor etc need to be present and voice their concerns. Did the Postal Service inform these Cities and towns the meeting? …
For all practical purposes the Postal Service has already made up its mind to close the Everett plant. These meetings are a mere formality and will have no real affect on the decision making that has already taken place. However, It is time that the public be heard. Only an overwhelming response from the public will change the Postal Services decision. The Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and provides for a Postal Service. It is time the people use their rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution.”