KIRON, IA— Congressman Steve King today announced that the United States Postal Service has abandoned its plans to move Sioux City’s Mail Processing Center to Sioux Falls, SD.  King, Iowa’s Senators, and Siouxland’s business and community leaders had fought the USPS’s proposal to move the center since the plan was first announced in late 2005.  King released the following statement regarding today’s announcement:

“Mission Accomplished!! It did not take long for our bipartisan coalition of elected officials and community and business leaders to see that the USPS in Washington, D.C. hadn’t done its homework before proposing the move of Sioux City’s mail processing work to Sioux Falls. For three years we have been fighting to force the Postal Service to defend its claim that the move would somehow result in better service to Siouxland area residents and businesses and operational gains to the Postal Service, and today’s announcement proves that we were right to challenge the Postal Service’s flimsy assertions of cost savings and efficiency gains.

“I am pleased that the Postal Service has relented in its attempt to strip Sioux City of its mail processing responsibilities, and I am proud of the work that this community has done to get us to this point.  If nothing else, the past three years has proven once again that when Siouxlanders come together to achieve a goal, anything’s possible.”