{"id":10474,"date":"2015-03-28T09:15:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T14:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=10474"},"modified":"2015-03-28T09:15:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T14:15:26","slug":"apwu-postal-service-profits-1-4-billion-so-far-in-fiscal-year-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/03\/28\/apwu-postal-service-profits-1-4-billion-so-far-in-fiscal-year-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU: Postal Service Profits $1.4 Billion So Far in Fiscal Year 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"news-date-inline\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">APWU &#8211; 03\/27\/2015<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>&#8211;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>The Postal Service\u2019s operating profit totaled $1.4 billion for the first five months of fiscal year 2015, according to a<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prc.gov\/docs\/91\/91828\/2015.3.24%20February%20FY2015%20PRC%20Report--final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">USPS report<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>provided to the Postal Regulatory Commission.<\/p>\n<p>This result exceeds the $1.375 billion operating profit for the entire year in fiscal year 2014.<\/p>\n<p>As of the end of February, total mail volume is up .5 percent and total mail revenue increased 3 percent, compared to the same period last year. Although first-class mail volume declined by .7 percent, first-class revenue rose by 3 percent. Standard mail revenue increased 4.5 percent, and shipping and package revenue jumped 8.5 percent compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\">\u201cCompare the facts to the gloom and doom reported by the corporate media and privatizers,\u201d said APWU President Mark Dimondstein. \u201cThe future of the public Postal Service is bright.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\"><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1-APWU-New.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10087\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1-APWU-New-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"1-APWU-New\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1-APWU-New-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1-APWU-New.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APWU &#8211; 03\/27\/2015\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0The Postal Service\u2019s operating profit totaled $1.4 billion for the first five months of fiscal year 2015, according to a\u00a0USPS report\u00a0provided to the Postal Regulatory Commission. This result exceeds the $1.375 billion operating profit for the entire year in fiscal year 2014. As of the end of February, total mail volume is up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10475,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10474\/revisions\/10475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}