The United States Postal Service (USPS) announced plans on Tuesday to move some operations from the Missoula Post Office on Kent Street to Spokane.
The decision comes following what a news release describes as a “thorough business review and solicitation of public feedback on the facility’s future.”
The Kent Street facility will remain open with the USPS stating that it will be “modernized as a Local Processing Center (LPC).”
USPS says outgoing operations will move to the Spokane Processing and Distribution Center, noting that a majority of mail and packages are destined outside of the Missoula area to the rest of the world.
The USPS plans on investing over $12 million “which will result in expanded and streamlined package and mail processing and distribution capabilities for the facility,” the release states.
Some of the $12.2 million will be used to modernize the facility and to pay for deferred maintenance.