{"id":1755,"date":"2010-12-08T10:31:12","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T15:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2010-12-08T10:33:52","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T15:33:52","slug":"postcom-responds-to-washington-post-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2010\/12\/08\/postcom-responds-to-washington-post-editorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcom Responds To Washington Post Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following letter to the editor of the Washington Post was sent today by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postcom.org\" target=\"_blank\">PostCom<\/a> President Gene Del Polito:<\/p>\n<p>As an editorial publication, the Washington Post is entitled to an opinion of its own. Regarding your recent editorial on the Postal Service, however, you&#8217;ve flat out gotten it wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Correcting the misallocation and misuse of postal payers&#8217; dollars on the funding of the Postal Service&#8217;s retirement-related obligations would not be a give-away to postal unions. Rather, it would be addressing properly an injustice that is bleeding money needed to reinvigorate the nation&#8217;s postal system, and appropriately reflect the enormous contributions already made by all who pay postage to ensure the nation&#8217;s postal system remains whole.<\/p>\n<p>Next time, please learn a bit more on what you are about to write before you write it. Using a bit more journalistic shoe leather to do correct and complete research will get you much farther than just accepting whole the line of misinformation some of those in postal management want you to swallow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following letter to the editor of the Washington Post was sent today by PostCom President Gene Del Polito: As an editorial publication, the Washington Post is entitled to an opinion of its own. Regarding your recent editorial on the Postal Service, however, you&#8217;ve flat out gotten it wrong. Correcting the misallocation and misuse of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editors-section","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755","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=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1758,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions\/1758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}