{"id":13026,"date":"2015-11-13T15:46:06","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T20:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=13026"},"modified":"2015-11-13T15:46:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T20:46:06","slug":"nalc-president-rolandos-statement-on-usps-fy2015-financial-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/11\/13\/nalc-president-rolandos-statement-on-usps-fy2015-financial-report\/","title":{"rendered":"NALC President Rolando\u2019s statement on USPS\u2019 FY2015 financial report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Postal Service today released its financial report for Fiscal Year 2015, covering the period from Oct. 1, 2014, through Sept. 30, 2015. Here is a statement from National Association of Letter Carriers President Fredric Rolando:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The $1.2 billion in annual operating profits reported today by the Postal Service is terrific news that augurs well for the future. The USPS\u2019 continuing financial upswing shows that dismantling services to the public would be precisely the wrong path to take.<a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/3-NALC-News-Small4.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6526\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/3-NALC-News-Small4.gif\" alt=\"3-NALC News Small\" width=\"254\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This is the second consecutive year with operating profits above $1 billion. Revenue earned by selling stamps has left USPS operations $2.6 billion in the black in the past two years alone, without a dime of taxpayer money. This also marks the third straight year in the black for USPS operations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Moreover, this impressive performance is no fluke. It results from two structural factors: An improving economy is helping stabilize letter revenue, and Internet-driven online shopping is sending package revenue skyrocketing\u2014up 11.4 percent over last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The timing couldn&#8217;t be better, with the holidays approaching. The Postal Service projects the delivery of 15.5 billion cards, letters and packages from Thanksgiving to New Year\u2019s Eve\u2014including a record 600 million packages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The red ink you hear about has nothing to do with the mail but rather with congressional politics\u2014the 2006 decision by a lame-duck Congress to compel the Postal Service to pre-fund future retiree health benefits. No other entity, public or private, is required to do this for even one year in advance; USPS must pre-fund 75 years\u2019 worth of these benefits in advance. That&#8217;s the \u201cred ink.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Today\u2019s good news is consistent with\u2014and reinforces\u2014the growing momentum to move forward with constructive reform that all stakeholders can buy into.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Postal Service today released its financial report for Fiscal Year 2015, covering the period from Oct. 1, 2014, through Sept. 30, 2015. Here is a statement from National Association of Letter Carriers President Fredric Rolando: The $1.2 billion in annual operating profits reported today by the Postal Service is terrific news that augurs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nalc-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13026","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=13026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13027,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13026\/revisions\/13027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}