{"id":2224,"date":"2011-05-18T10:47:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T15:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2011-05-18T10:47:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T15:47:48","slug":"florida-rep-dennis-ross-says-just-a-tip-for-any-usps-union-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2011\/05\/18\/florida-rep-dennis-ross-says-just-a-tip-for-any-usps-union-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Rep. Dennis Ross says Just a tip for any USPS Union Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Dennis-Ross.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2225\" title=\"Dennis Ross\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Dennis-Ross-150x150.gif\" alt=\"Dennis Ross\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On his Facebook page Florida Rep. Dennis Ross wrote:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Just a tip for any USPS Union Member reading this facebook page. If you think I have not had dozens and dozens of meetings with your leadership, don&#8217;t know the issues facing the USPS, and do not have a Ranking Member whose judgment and experience I value &#8211; you are as blindly partisan as you accuse me of being. The &#8220;debate&#8221; I have had with some members does not help those of your colleagues who are civilized people.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Regarding USPS prefunding of retirement Mr. Ross said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The USPS did not &#8220;overpay&#8221; any bill. It was required to prefund retirement. I will grant that prefunding is rare, but not unheard of. Nor should it be out of the ordinary. Prefunding protects future retirees and is more cost effective in&#8230; the long run. But in the end, USPS retirement and health benefits have the guarantee of the taxpayer. To NOT prefund is to toss that risk more to the taxpayer. But all the prefunding argument is meaningless if the USPS continues to operate at labor costs of 80% of revenues. 1st class mail is going, going, and will be gone in the future. Either USPS changes its business model (and yes, reduces staffing), or the taxpayers will demand it be privatized or sold. That is reality.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Check out his Facebook page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/US-Representative-Dennis-Ross\/186775984680072\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> &#8211; oh yeah, please let him know your thoughts. PEN Ed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his Facebook page Florida Rep. Dennis Ross wrote: Just a tip for any USPS Union Member reading this facebook page. If you think I have not had dozens and dozens of meetings with your leadership, don&#8217;t know the issues facing the USPS, and do not have a Ranking Member whose judgment and experience I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224","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=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2226,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions\/2226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}