The Roanoke post office is a management sectional center covering the 240-245 zip code areas. The facility has 140,000 square feet under roof on a site of 11 acres in central Roanoke, easily accessible by highway and a major primary roadway.
The facility ships approximately one million pieces of mail daily. Several daily dedicated transports connect the Roanoke office with the bulk mail center, one of the most modern, up-to-date centers in the country. The Roanoke office itself is a fully mechanized and automated area distribution center, with two letter sorting machines, two optical character readers, two bar code sorters, one flat sorter and a call face cancel operation capable of processing 66,000 pieces per hour. The facility is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
The Roanoke office already serves a number of large plant load type operations including Orvis, Inc., Home Shopping Network, and Hanover Direct.