{"id":13332,"date":"2015-12-07T18:43:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T23:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=13332"},"modified":"2015-12-07T18:43:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T23:43:22","slug":"u-s-tries-to-kill-staples-office-depot-marriage-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/12\/07\/u-s-tries-to-kill-staples-office-depot-marriage-again\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. tries to kill Staples-Office Depot marriage. Again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. government is once again taking an eraser to big merger plans between Staples and Office Depot.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Trade Commission announced a challenge on Monday to the $6.3 billion acquisition of Office Depot (ODP) by rival Staples (SPLS). The agency successfully blocked a merger of the two office suppliers back in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>In the current action, the FTC argues that the Staples and Office Depot combination would violate antitrust laws by &#8220;significantly reducing competition nationwide.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2015\/12\/07\/investing\/office-depot-staples-ftc-blocks-merger\/index.html\">Read more<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/news\/web-news-article\/ftc-challenge-merger-staples-office-depot\">APWU<\/a> covers this article as well.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/money\/.element\/script\/7.0\/players\/embed.js?videoid=\/video\/news\/2015\/02\/04\/staples-buying-office-depot.cnnmoney\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/office-depot-crushed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13334\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/office-depot-crushed.jpg\" alt=\"office-depot-crushed\" width=\"439\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/office-depot-crushed.jpg 439w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/office-depot-crushed-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. government is once again taking an eraser to big merger plans between Staples and Office Depot. The Federal Trade Commission announced a challenge on Monday to the $6.3 billion acquisition of Office Depot (ODP) by rival Staples (SPLS). The agency successfully blocked a merger of the two office suppliers back in 1997. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13332","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=13332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13335,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13332\/revisions\/13335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}