EASTON, Md. - Talk of the Easton processing facility leaving the Eastern Shore is heating up again. Senator Barbara Mikulski wants a legitimate study completed on the issue.
Sen. Mikulski says she objects to this legislation, while the U.S. Postal Service continues a rushed study to close a needed mail center on the Eastern Shore. Mikulski placed a hold on the legislation that could send the mail facility across state lines to Delaware.
Vice President of the American Postal Workers Union Beverly Collins works at the Easton facility. She says right now, delaying the decision is all they can ask for.
"That simply means to us that were not one of the blanket stamped facilities that is just going to be consolidated," said Collins. "We are going to be looked at more closely."
The hold by Sen. Mikulski was an attempt to insure a fair review process was taking place. Then Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed a motion to hold a key vote on the postal reform bill as early as next week.
Collins believes a vote should wait until a more complete study is done.
"There has bee no process," said Collins. "We have not gotten our due process in this recent review for being moved to Delaware."
That vote will need the support of at least 60 Senators. The vote and the fate of the Easton mail processing plant could be delivered as early as Monday
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