{"id":12418,"date":"2015-09-18T14:38:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T19:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=12418"},"modified":"2015-09-18T14:38:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T19:38:44","slug":"postal-service-prepares-for-papal-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/09\/18\/postal-service-prepares-for-papal-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal Service prepares for papal tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title-full\">VIP visit<\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"link-subhead-full\">Postal Service prepares for papal tour<\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><span class=\"entry-date\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2015-09-18T11:02:09+00:00\">USPS News Link 9.18.15<\/time><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content full\">\n<div class=\"post-thumbnail\"><a title=\"Pope Francis will visit the United States from Sept. 22-27. Photo: Wiki Commons\" href=\"http:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/papal_visit_largestory.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-twentyfourteen-full-width wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/papal_visit_largestory.jpg\" alt=\"Pope Francis and crowd\" width=\"420\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"link-caption\">Pope Francis will visit the United States from Sept. 22-27.<br \/>\nPhoto: Wiki Commons<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<p>USPS will keep the mail moving when Pope Francis embarks on a six-day U.S. tour Sept. 22, although some customers might experience service interruptions in the cities he visits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Postal Service is taking measures to continue moving the mail,\u201d said Chief Operating Officer David Williams. \u201cExtra security measures when moving, delivering and picking up the mail are being taken to safeguard our employees, customers and the mail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first two stops on the pope\u2019s tour \u2014 Washington, DC, and New York City \u2014 will be limited and only minimal disruption to deliveries and collections in the immediate area of events are expected, Williams said.<\/p>\n<p>The papal visit will conclude in Philadelphia from Sept. 26-27. This stop has been declared a national security event and will restrict the Postal Service\u2019s ability to conduct deliveries and retail operations in the immediate area.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia Metropolitan District and the World Family organization have joined together to deliver an<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em><a href=\"http:\/\/link.usps.com\/2015\/03\/30\/direct-contact\/\">Every Day Direct Mail<\/a><\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>piece to alert more than 97,000 customers who will be affected by this event.<\/p>\n<p>Updates are posted to the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em><a href=\"http:\/\/about.usps.com\/news\/service-alerts\/welcome.htm\">USPS Service Alerts site<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIP visit Postal Service prepares for papal tour USPS News Link 9.18.15 Pope Francis will visit the United States from Sept. 22-27. Photo: Wiki Commons USPS will keep the mail moving when Pope Francis embarks on a six-day U.S. tour Sept. 22, although some customers might experience service interruptions in the cities he visits. \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12418","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=12418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12420,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12418\/revisions\/12420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}