U.S. Sen. Bob Casey today announced that the United States Postal Service has decided to keep the New Castle Mail Processing Facility open.

As part of its announcement, USPS said that it would transfer the processing of a small portion of its mail to Pittsburgh. It is expected that the 23 New Castle Post Office employees affected by this change will be offered other USPS positions, a statement from Mr. Casey said. The New Castle facility has 175 jobs.