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Today, Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (WA-01) issued the following statement on the U.S. Postal Service’s decision to cancel the planned consolidation of the Seattle East DDC mail processing facility in Redmond, WA.

“Today is a major victory for families and businesses in our region that rely on the post office every day. The planned consolidation of the Redmond facility would have further delayed mail delivery to nearly 1 million residents in King and Snohomish counties by routing mail through Tukwila.

“Earlier this year, supported by union leaders, I demanded Postmaster General DeJoy scrap his plan that relied on decade-old data to move operations from this facility. We delivered for our communities today by finally putting an end to this planned consolidation. Our region is growing and now is the time to invest in expanding postal capacity, not curbing it.”

In October 2021, DelBene led 40 of her colleagues in writing to DeJoy calling for a pause on the planned consolidation of 18 postal facilities across the country, including the East DDC. In January 2022, she again demanded DeJoy scrap plan to consolidate the Redmond facility following a tour of the site and a roundtable with union leaders.