What: Ribbon cutting for the new home of the USPS Central Plains District Office and Business Center. The building is the former USPS Air Mail Facility; located just north of Eppley Airfield.

When: 10:30 a.m., June 3, 2010

Where: 6005 Lockheed Ct, Eppley Airfield, Omaha, NE.

Who: Lloyd Wilkinson, USPS Central Plains District Manager
Greg Long, Congressman Lee Terry’s Office
Garry Gernandt, Acting Mayor, and President, Omaha City Council
Dan O’Brien, Industry Co-Chair, Omaha Postal Customer Council

Background: The existing building was dedicated to public service in 1990 under U.S. President, George Herbert Walker Bush, and Postmaster General; Anthony M. Frank. The facility served as an Air Mail Processing facility until January 2006, when it ceased operations.

In the fall of 2009, renovation began to change the facility from a mail processing facility to an administrative office building. On May 14, 2010, the offices of the Central Plains Postal District and Omaha Postmaster, including 105 employees, were relocated to the facility from two locations in West Omaha. Lloyd Wilkinson, USPS Central Plains District Manager said, “As a result of this move, the Postal Service no longer leases a facility for the district office in west Omaha, and our postal-owned Business Center at 92nd and Fort will be sold in the near future. We expect that this remodeling and move will have a return on investment of less than two years.”

The Central Plains Postal District encompasses 155,104 square miles, which includes all of Nebraska, most of Kansas and southwest Iowa; and serves a population of nearly 3.7 million people and more than 1.7 million addresses.

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