As part of the Delivering for America plan, the Postal Service has been implementing an initiative to relocate letter carriers from the delivery unit in the back of post offices to larger facilities called Sorting & Delivery Centers (S&DCs).
When it was being rolled out three years ago — the first S&DC launched in Athens, GA in November 2022 — the plan was extremely ambitious. As many as 100,000 carrier routes — over 40 percent of the nation’s routes — would be consolidated to 400 or 500 S&DCs from as many as 7,000 post offices.
Based on the implementation progress thus far and numbers cited in a couple of official reports, it appears that the initiative has been significantly downsized. Either that or the plan has a long way to go before it will be fully realized.
