This map shows the areas in the United States that will be impacted by the Postal Service’s Regional Transportation Optimization (RTO) plan. All areas in blue indicate areas more than 50 miles from one of the nation’s 60 Regional Processing and Distribution Centers. In these areas, mail dropped off at Post Offices after morning pickup will sit overnight, not entering the Postal Service network until the following morning. Since most processing centers are near cities where the mail and package volume is heavy, the impact of this change is concentrated in rural areas.
