"...“Our trucks have been late from Birmingham,” Cheatham said. “The Postal Service has consolidated Huntsville and Tuscaloosa in Birmingham, and they haven’t been able to work all the load.” As of 10:45 a.m. Thursday, Cheatham said the Alexander City Post Office had yet to receive its Birmingham mail shipment. ..."
"...local officials, who say a government plan to close a regional mail-processing facility in Huntsville next month is already causing mail delays, collection changes and other issues across North Alabama that the public doesn't realize. "The level of services we've become accustomed to will be no more," Michelle Jordan, director of the City of Huntsville Economic Development Department, said last week...."
"...“It doesn’t seem appropriate to me that Huntsville, Ala., would be the one that would lose the postmark. It seems like it would be more effective and more cost efficient for everything to move to Huntsville as opposed to that,” said Huntsville resident Ray Dunavant. ..."
