{"id":10563,"date":"2015-04-07T08:16:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T13:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=10563"},"modified":"2015-04-07T08:16:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T13:16:45","slug":"your-post-office-gets-zero-tax-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/04\/07\/your-post-office-gets-zero-tax-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Post Office Gets Zero Tax Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"news-date-inline\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">APWU News &#8211; 04\/06\/2015<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>&#8211;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>On April 15, APWU members will greet last-minute tax filers and reporters at post offices around the country with a message many of them haven\u2019t heard before: The Postal Service gets zero tax dollars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTax day is a good time to inform the public about this little-known fact,\u201d said APWU President Mark Dimondstein. \u201cIt also presents a great opportunity to point out that many of our contract demands coincide with our customers\u2019 desire for improved postal services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We will let the people know that in bargaining with the Postal Service, the APWU is demanding that management:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reverse the reduction in service standards implemented on Jan. 5, which is causing massive delays in mail delivery;<\/li>\n<li>Stop the closure and consolidation of mail processing centers, which would delay mail delivery even further, and<\/li>\n<li class=\"last\">Provide customers with expanded hours of service, shorter wait times in line, and new services \u2013 such as non-profit postal banking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On tax day, APWU members will pass out<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/sites\/apwu\/files\/resource-files\/Tax%20Day%20Flyer%20041515.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">flyers<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>urging customers to call members of Congress with messages of support. It will mark the beginning of a month-long campaign to win support for the union\u2019s objectives:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em>Good Postal Service! Good Jobs! Good Contract!<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"last\">Contact your local or state president, Contract Action Team (CAT) leader, or retiree chapter president to find out about events in your area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\"><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/apwu-no-tax-dollars.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10564\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/apwu-no-tax-dollars.gif\" alt=\"apwu-no-tax-dollars\" width=\"425\" height=\"550\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APWU News &#8211; 04\/06\/2015\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0On April 15, APWU members will greet last-minute tax filers and reporters at post offices around the country with a message many of them haven\u2019t heard before: The Postal Service gets zero tax dollars. \u201cTax day is a good time to inform the public about this little-known fact,\u201d said APWU President Mark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10563","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\/10563","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=10563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10565,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10563\/revisions\/10565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}