South Park Town Hall · Motion 3 of 5
Motion Three — close the plant, it's underused
MOVED: that the local processing facility be consolidated and the service standard relaxed, since the plant is running below capacity anyway.
Underused plant, obvious cut. The town congratulates itself on finally making a hard decision instead of just raising the price. This is the only motion all night that anyone calls courageous.
Slower mail is worth less to the mailer. A postcard that lands nine days late cost full postage to be irrelevant — so the mailer buys fewer of them, and the plant gets even more underused.
The town cut the cost of the network by making the product worse, which reduced demand for the product, which is the argument for the next cut.
Source: USPS Delivering for America service standard revisions; USPS FY2025 Form 10-K