{"id":1239,"date":"2010-07-30T07:13:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T12:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2010-07-30T07:13:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T12:13:19","slug":"congressman-chaffetz-introduces-bill-designating-12-postal-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2010\/07\/30\/congressman-chaffetz-introduces-bill-designating-12-postal-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Chaffetz Introduces Bill Designating 12 Postal Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 29, 2010 5:40 PM<\/p>\n<p>Washington, DC\u2014Today Congressman Chaffetz introduced HR 5919. This bill would grant USPS Postmaster General the authority to implement up to twelve \u201cpostal holidays\u201d per year in order to reduce USPS operating costs. The Postmaster General would select days in which delivered mail volume is historically lower than normal. By reducing the number of delivery days, USPS will be able to achieve savings by reducing work hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUSPS is experiencing severe financial pressures due to competition from the Internet, reduced demand due to the recession, and large unfunded liabilities for retiree healthcare,\u201d said Chaffetz. \u201cWhile my bill will help to reform its dire financial situation, there is no silver bullet that will solve the Postal Service\u2019s financial problems. Postal holidays are one of many steps needed to reform the Postal System. I am also supporting efforts to consolidate postal facilities by replicating the successful BRAC process that was used to close surplus military facilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In past three years, USPS has lost $12 billion and is expected to lose about $7 billion this year.<\/li>\n<li>At the end of FY 2009, USPS was $10 billion in debt and is expected to reach its maximum debt limit of $15 billion in 2011.<\/li>\n<li>USPS Postmaster General John Potter has stated that USPS could lose $238 billion over the next ten years unless significant reforms are implemented.<\/li>\n<li>The USPS retiree health benefit plan was $52 billion underfunded at the end of fiscal year 2009.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 29, 2010 5:40 PM Washington, DC\u2014Today Congressman Chaffetz introduced HR 5919. This bill would grant USPS Postmaster General the authority to implement up to twelve \u201cpostal holidays\u201d per year in order to reduce USPS operating costs. The Postmaster General would select days in which delivered mail volume is historically lower than normal. By reducing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","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=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}