At Monday night's meeting, people wanted to make sure their input was part of this decision. Brenda hale, president of the Roanoke Valley NAACP doesn't want people to loose their jobs.
"Roanoke is a vibrant city; it needs every employee here in the valley. We need the mail processing center to stay and if you want to do something, send the Greensboro mail up here,” says Hale.
And like many people, State Senator John Edward’s concern was delivery time.
"It would cause delays just from delivering mail from one part or Roanoke to the other part of Roanoke just from one side of town to the other side of town. Take it to Greensboro and back makes no sense at all",” says Senator Edwards.
It is some of the concerns we asked district manager Darryl Myers.
We asked him if there would be a delay in delivery.
“Absolutely not the type of medications we are talking about are the type of medications that go through our national distribution centers, they are already in bulk and sent out. They haven't seen any change they will be on a virtual un-noticed in the future,” says Myers.
And we asked him if post office workers in Roanoke would loose their jobs.
"They would be impacted as to who would loose a job if they would loose a job, I can't really say yet it is too early in the study,” says Myers.
But one thing the study didn't figure out was when this could all happen. While these comments will be taken into consideration, the decision now rests in the hands of the postal service.
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