PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Brockton’s loss could be Providence’s gain as the U.S. Postal Service considers whether to consolidate its operations in the region.

The potential changes are part of a nationwide review of mail facilities being carried out under U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s 10-year “Delivering for America” plan, which he says will include $40 billion of new investments in the postal service.

A February document prepared by Postal Service leaders suggests spending up to $7 million to convert the Brockton Processing and Distribution Center facility into a smaller Local Processing Center.

As part of those changes, the processing of outgoing mail would be transferred from Brockton to the Providence Processing and Distribution Center on Corliss Street.

“Currently, a majority of mail and packages are destined outside of the Brockton area to the rest of the world,” the document noted.

A public meeting about the proposal was held March 6 at the Brockton Public Library. As of Tuesday, there was still no timetable for a final decision, Postal Service spokesperson Steve Doherty told 12 News.

“Once a plan is finalized, an implementation schedule will be laid out,” he said in an email.

Steven Curreri, president of the union local that represents postal workers in Brockton, has warned his members that he fears for the future of the facility there, though Postal Service leaders argue their location will retain an important role in mail distribution regionally.

The 126,000-square-foot Providence postal facility opened in 1960, during the final year of the Eisenhower administration, and was hailed at the time as “the first automated post office in the United States.” (Some congressional critics argued the facility didn’t live up to the hype.)