MI SR0092

Opposes the United States Postal Service's plan announced in January 2024 to transfer mail processing and outgoing mail operations from the Iron Mountain Processing and Distribution Center in Kingsford, Michigan to the Green Bay Processing and Distribution Center in Wisconsin

Objects to the USPS's focus on financial optimization over service quality, citing recent negative impacts on rural Michigan's Upper Peninsula including changes to mail collection times and elimination of one-day Priority Mail Express shipping, effectively adding days to shipping times

Argues the transfer will harm Upper Peninsula businesses and residents who depend on timely local mail delivery, particularly water testing labs requiring 24-hour sample delivery, patients receiving medications by mail, and food businesses shipping frozen products

Notes the transfer will eliminate five craft employee positions with potential reassignments forcing workers to relocate, and expresses concerns that recent facility changes may have skewed the USPS's decision-making process

Directs the Michigan Senate to transmit copies of this resolution to the Governor of Michigan, President of the United States, congressional leadership, Michigan's congressional delegation, and the Postmaster General