{"id":14961,"date":"2016-05-12T19:41:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T00:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=14961"},"modified":"2016-05-12T19:41:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T00:41:59","slug":"video-postal-service-doing-well-loss-of-2-billion-a-congressional-hoax-union-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/05\/12\/video-postal-service-doing-well-loss-of-2-billion-a-congressional-hoax-union-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Postal service \u2018doing well,\u2019 loss of $2 billion a congressional \u2018hoax\u2019 \u2013 Union boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/\">RT America<\/a> &#8211; 5\/11\/16 &#8211; The US Postal Service has been hamstrung by Congress and the agency is not getting a single dime of taxpayer money despite losing $2 billion last year. But it\u2019s not all bad news: The agency\u2019s revenue went up five percent last quarter. Mark Dimondstein, president of the American Postal Workers Union joins \u2018News With Ed\u2019. Dimondstein calls the situation a \u2018hoax\u2019 by Congress.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uKckNTdhTdE\" width=\"475\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14962\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/rt-america.jpg\" alt=\"rt-america\" width=\"275\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/rt-america.jpg 275w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/rt-america-256x300.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Find RT America in your area:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"yt-uix-sessionlink \" href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/where-to-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-sessionlink=\"ei=yx81V8K0FNSlqQXFnrGwDg\" data-url=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/where-to-watch\/\">http:\/\/rt.com\/where-to-watch\/<\/a><br \/>\nOr watch us online:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"yt-uix-sessionlink \" href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/on-air\/rt-america-air\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-sessionlink=\"ei=yx81V8K0FNSlqQXFnrGwDg\" data-url=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/on-air\/rt-america-air\/\">http:\/\/rt.com\/on-air\/rt-america-air\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"yt-uix-sessionlink \" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RTAmerica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-sessionlink=\"ei=yx81V8K0FNSlqQXFnrGwDg\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RTAmerica\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RTAmerica<\/a><br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"yt-uix-sessionlink \" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RT_America\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-sessionlink=\"ei=yx81V8K0FNSlqQXFnrGwDg\" data-url=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RT_America\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/RT_America<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>PEN Editor: <\/strong><\/em><em>RT stands for Russia Today &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/feature\/what_is_russia_today.php\">read here<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RT America &#8211; 5\/11\/16 &#8211; The US Postal Service has been hamstrung by Congress and the agency is not getting a single dime of taxpayer money despite losing $2 billion last year. But it\u2019s not all bad news: The agency\u2019s revenue went up five percent last quarter. Mark Dimondstein, president of the American Postal Workers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14961","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\/14961","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=14961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14963,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14961\/revisions\/14963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}