Fate of Bluefield post office depends on ongoing study

BLUEFIELD - The fate of Bluefield's Mail Processing andDistribution Facility remains unknown.

Although postal officials launched what is called an Area MailProcessing, or AMP, study in February to determine if the CumberlandRoad facility will remain open or be consolidated with existingpostal centers in Charleston and Johnson City, the study itself isapparently still ongoing.

"We have not heard anything, and we have no information,"Bluefield Mayor Linda Whalen said of the ongoing study. "We arestill waiting to be able to publicly voice our opposition to thisfacility being closed. We understand they do need to economize andprobably consolidate, but we …