{"id":12753,"date":"2015-10-20T14:34:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T19:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=12753"},"modified":"2015-10-20T14:36:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T19:36:09","slug":"nalc-responds-to-brookings-paper-on-usps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/10\/20\/nalc-responds-to-brookings-paper-on-usps\/","title":{"rendered":"NALC responds to Brookings paper on USPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NALC &#8211; 10\/20\/15 &#8211; A study published by the Brookings Institution, a Washington, DC-based think tank, absurdly calls for Congress to partially privatize the U.S. Postal Service, under the assumption that, as First-Class Mail volumes continue to decline, such a move would help the agency compete with private-sector competitors.<\/p>\n<p>NALC President Fredric Rolando has written a letter to the author of a Brookings Institution paper calling for the breakup and privatization of USPS.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nalc.org\/news\/nalc-updates\/body\/brookings.kamarck.fvr.10192015.letterhead.pdf\">Click here to read the letter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nalc.org\/news\/in-the-news\/what-to-make-of-flawed-brookings-study\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read NALC\u2019s reponses<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>that ran in<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em>The Washington Post<\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em>The Baltimore Sun<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/NALC-LOGO-Large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10984\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/NALC-LOGO-Large.jpg\" alt=\"NALC LOGO Large\" width=\"263\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/NALC-LOGO-Large.jpg 478w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/NALC-LOGO-Large-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/NALC-LOGO-Large-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NALC &#8211; 10\/20\/15 &#8211; A study published by the Brookings Institution, a Washington, DC-based think tank, absurdly calls for Congress to partially privatize the U.S. Postal Service, under the assumption that, as First-Class Mail volumes continue to decline, such a move would help the agency compete with private-sector competitors. NALC President Fredric Rolando has written [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-nalc-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12753","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=12753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12755,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12753\/revisions\/12755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}