{"id":11388,"date":"2015-06-24T07:22:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T12:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=11388"},"modified":"2015-06-24T07:22:14","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T12:22:14","slug":"apwu-usps-seeks-to-derail-efforts-to-restore-service-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/06\/24\/apwu-usps-seeks-to-derail-efforts-to-restore-service-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU: USPS Seeks to Derail Efforts to Restore Service Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"news-date-inline\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">APWU &#8211; 06\/23\/2015<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>&#8211;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>The Postal Service has signaled it will try to derail a measure approved by the House Appropriations Committee on June 17 to restore postal service standards to the levels that were in place on July 1, 2012. The committee\u2019s vote would rescind the lower service standards the USPS implemented on Jan. 5 \u2013 which have wreaked havoc on mail delivery.<\/p>\n<p>APWU President Mark Dimondstein praised the committee\u2019s vote, calling the amendment \u201ca vivid example of how the demands of postal workers reflect the people\u2019s demand for good postal service.\u201d If enacted, the measure would require postal management to restore overnight mail delivery within cities and towns and the 2- and 3-day delivery standards that were wiped out in January. It also would make additional plant consolidations less feasible.<\/p>\n<p>But in a<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/about.usps.com\/news\/recent-statements.htm\" target=\"_blank\">statement on its website<\/a>, the Postal Service called the amendment \u201cfinancially and operationally indefensible,\u201d and said it \u201cencourages Congress to remove the requirement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to \u201cimmediate implementation costs,\u201d the USPS claimed \u201cforegoing the benefits\u201d of its \u201ccurrent operating model\u201d would cost the agency $1.5 billion annually.<\/p>\n<p>Dimondstein said the claim was preposterous. \u201cThe Postal Service should, at the very least, be honest with the American people and with Congress,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The APWU has vigorously opposed the degradation of service standards, calling it a step toward dismantling and privatizing the nation\u2019s mail system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a lot of work to do to win support for the amendment in the Senate,\u201d Dimondstein. \u201cWe will soon be calling on our members to help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\">The vote on the amendment, which was offered by Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA), was 26-23. Six Republicans joined all of the committee\u2019s Democrats to vote in favor of the measure.<\/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-full wp-image-10087\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1-APWU-New.jpg\" alt=\"1-APWU-New\" width=\"478\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1-APWU-New.jpg 478w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1-APWU-New-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APWU &#8211; 06\/23\/2015\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0The Postal Service has signaled it will try to derail a measure approved by the House Appropriations Committee on June 17 to restore postal service standards to the levels that were in place on July 1, 2012. The committee\u2019s vote would rescind the lower service standards the USPS implemented on Jan. 5 \u2013 [&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-11388","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\/11388","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=11388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11389,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11388\/revisions\/11389"}],"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=11388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}