{"id":24951,"date":"2018-12-03T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=24951"},"modified":"2018-12-03T09:01:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T14:01:39","slug":"usps-to-fly-flags-at-half-staff-to-honor-president-george-h-w-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2018\/12\/03\/usps-to-fly-flags-at-half-staff-to-honor-president-george-h-w-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS to fly flags at half-staff to honor President George H.W. Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-thumbnail\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-twentyfourteen-full-width wp-post-image alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/FlagsBush_large-story.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/FlagsBush_large-story.jpg 900w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/FlagsBush_large-story-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/FlagsBush_large-story-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/FlagsBush_large-story-120x80.jpg 120w\" alt=\"U.S. flag flying at half-staff\" width=\"647\" height=\"431\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"link-caption\"><em>To honor the late President George H.W. Bush, USPS facilities should fly flags at half-staff until Dec. 30.<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<p>USPS News Link &#8211; 12\/01\/18 &#8211; All Postal Service facilities should fly the U.S. flag at half-staff to honor former President George H.W. Bush, who died Nov. 30.<\/p>\n<p>Flags should be flown at half-staff until sunset Dec. 30.<\/p>\n<p>To fly the flag at half-staff, hoist the flag to the peak for an instant and then lower it to the half-staff position. The flag should be raised to the peak again before it\u2019s lowered for the day.<\/p>\n<p>For additional information, refer to the Postal Service\u2019s guidelines on U.S. flag\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/blue.usps.gov\/cpim\/ftp\/manuals\/asm\/html\/asmc4_020.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">display<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/blue.usps.gov\/cpim\/ftp\/manuals\/asm\/html\/asmc4_021.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">maintenance<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To honor the late President George H.W. Bush, USPS facilities should fly flags at half-staff until Dec. 30. USPS News Link &#8211; 12\/01\/18 &#8211; All Postal Service facilities should fly the U.S. flag at half-staff to honor former President George H.W. Bush, who died Nov. 30. Flags should be flown at half-staff until sunset Dec. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24951","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=24951"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24955,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24951\/revisions\/24955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}