{"id":10980,"date":"2015-05-19T07:48:02","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T12:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=10980"},"modified":"2015-05-19T07:48:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T12:48:02","slug":"always-treat-u-s-flags-with-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/05\/19\/always-treat-u-s-flags-with-respect\/","title":{"rendered":"Always treat U.S. flags with respect"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Handle with care<\/h1>\n<h2>Always treat U.S. flags with respect<\/h2>\n<p><time class=\"pubdate\" datetime=\"2015-05-18T14:42:00.000Z\">USPS News Link &#8211;\u00a05\/18\/15<\/time><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/liteblue.usps.gov\/news\/link\/2015\/05may\/images\/news19s4.jpg\" alt=\"Flag reminder\" width=\"220\" \/><\/div>\n<h6>The Postal Service has guidelines for<br \/>\nthe display and maintenance of U.S. flags.<\/h6>\n<p>The Postal Service reminds Postmasters and other managers to regularly inspect the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blue.usps.gov\/cpim\/ftp\/hand\/po209\/po209_ch13_025.htm\">U.S. flags<\/a><\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>flown at their facilities to make sure they\u2019re serviceable and displayed with respect.<\/p>\n<p>The flag must never be displayed with the union down except as a signal of dire distress.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the flag must never be used as drapery, festooned or drawn back. It must always be allowed to fall free.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blue.usps.gov\/cpim\/ftp\/manuals\/asm\/html\/asmc4_021.htm\">Frayed or torn<\/a><\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>flags must be neatly hemmed. Badly worn flags must be properly destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>For additional information, read the Postal Service\u2019s guidelines on flag<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blue.usps.gov\/cpim\/ftp\/manuals\/asm\/html\/asmc4_020.htm\">display<\/a><\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blue.usps.gov\/cpim\/ftp\/manuals\/asm\/html\/asmc4_021.htm\">maintenance<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Handle with care Always treat U.S. flags with respect USPS News Link &#8211;\u00a05\/18\/15 The Postal Service has guidelines for the display and maintenance of U.S. flags. The Postal Service reminds Postmasters and other managers to regularly inspect the\u00a0U.S. flags\u00a0flown at their facilities to make sure they\u2019re serviceable and displayed with respect. The flag must never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-section","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980","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=10980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10982,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980\/revisions\/10982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}