NEW WINDSOR – The regional general mail facility at Stewart Airport early on employed 700 people. It is now down to 151 with most of its mail sorting farmed out to the Albany Postal Service facility.
Plans to further consolidate services to Albany were put on hold last year and that is where they remain with no immediate plans to resume them, said spokesman George Flood.
“What are really driving it are the mail volumes,” Flood
said. “We have seen a decrease in the mail volumes over the years
so we have moved a proportionate amount of the responsibilities up to
our Albany processing and distribution center, so currently the next phase
of consolidation remain deferred.”.
While First Class mail has taken a big hit in recent years because of e-mail, Flood said package volume has gone up because of Internet sales.
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