Smith County Postal Facility to Begin Closure Next Month

OWENTOWN � Officials now say the East Texas Mail Processing and Distribution Center in Owentown will close beginning in mid-March. KETK reports mail originating in the greater Tyler area will go to Shreveport and Houston or Dallas and Austin for handling, all by May 1. The closure of East Texas P&DC was originally reported in February of 2012, when the decision was made to shut down the facility. The issue of the processing center�s shutdown was initially broached in December of 2011, when the U.S. Postal Service held a public meeting about the potential closure of several processing centers across the country in order to save money. The Waco and Lufkin centers were also among those slated to close.