{"id":15241,"date":"2016-06-09T18:59:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T23:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=15241"},"modified":"2016-06-09T18:59:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T23:59:41","slug":"apwu-house-committee-adopts-amendment-to-restore-postal-service-standards-approves-budget-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/06\/09\/apwu-house-committee-adopts-amendment-to-restore-postal-service-standards-approves-budget-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU: House Committee Adopts Amendment to Restore Postal Service Standards, Approves Budget Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

APWU News – 06\/09\/2016<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>–\u00a0<\/span><\/span>The House Appropriations Committee overwhelmingly approved an amendment\u00a0on June 9 to restore the USPS service standards that were in place on July 1, 2012. The amendment, which was offered by Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), was adopted in a\u00a0<\/span>voice vote, with strong support from both Democrats and Republicans. After all the amendments were considered, the committee approved the Financial Services Appropriations bill in a vote of 30-17.<\/p>\n

If enacted, the legislation would rescind the lower service standards the USPS implemented on Jan. 5, 2015 \u2013 which have wreaked havoc on mail delivery.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is great step forward for postal workers and our customers \u2013 big and small,\u201d said APWU President Mark Dimondstein. \u201cIf it is passed into law, the bill would require the Postal Service to restore overnight mail delivery within metropolitan areas and towns, and re-establish the 2- and 3-day delivery standards for first-class mail and periodicals that were wiped out in 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a powerful example of how the demands of postal workers reflect the people\u2019s demand for good postal service.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it is just the first step in a long process,\u201d Dimondstein said. The full House must approve the Financial Services Appropriations bill and the Senate also must approve a similar provision in a final appropriations bill before it can become law.<\/p>\n

A similar measure passed the House committee last year but never made its way through the Senate.<\/p>\n

Legislative and Political Director Judy Beard said, \u201cI want to thank Rep. Kaptur who introduced the amendment; Rep. David Joyce (R-OH), Rep. Jose Serrano (D-NY) and Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA) who spoke forcefully in support of the measure, and all the committee members who voted for it. I also want to thank our locals, state unions, retiree chapters and the APWU Auxiliary that have been educating their members of Congress about postal issues and about the importance of service standards.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPassing the amendment represented a real bipartisan effort in defense of the Postal Service \u2013 as it should be,\u201d Dimondstein said. \u201cThe APWU will do everything in our power to make sure the amendment becomes law. With your help we can succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very appreciative of the legislators who voted for the amendment and of the postal workers, customers, union officers and staff who encouraged them to \u2018do the right thing,\u2019\u201d he added \u201cIf enacted, it will greatly improve customer service and strengthen the USPS.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

APWU News – 06\/09\/2016\u00a0–\u00a0The House Appropriations Committee overwhelmingly approved an amendment\u00a0on June 9 to restore the USPS service standards that were in place on July 1, 2012. The amendment, which was offered by Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), was adopted in a\u00a0voice vote, with strong support from both Democrats and Republicans. After all the amendments were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15241","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=15241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15244,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15241\/revisions\/15244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}