Postal Service proposes scaled-back facility

The U.S. Postal Service has proposed building a scaled-back version of a massive mail-processing facility in Aliso Viejo and expand its existing center in Anaheim to accommodate increasing mail volume in southern Orange County, officials said Monday.

The building would sit on about eight acres of a 26-acre parcel the agency owns on Liberty Avenue, and would open by 2010.

Officials in Aliso Viejo and San Juan Capistrano, where the agency also had proposed building, have opposed the facility, saying it would be too large and bring unwanted noise and truck traffic.

Postal Service officials said the agency needed a facility in the southern part of the county to serve the 30,000 new addresses expected there in the next five years.