HAMPDEN ( AP) — U. S. Sen. Susan Collins is vowing to fight the planned closure of a U.S. Postal Service mail processing center in Hampden.
The Maine Republican says workers received notice on Wednesday that the central Maine facility would be closed and operations consolidated with a facility in Scarborough, more than 100 miles away.
The Bangor Daily News reports that all but about a dozen of the plant’s 183 employees would lose their jobs.
Collins calls the decision “ill conceived.”
She says the plant is “essential to serving the businesses and residents” of northern, eastern and central Maine.
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