{"id":24957,"date":"2018-12-04T09:50:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T14:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=24957"},"modified":"2018-12-04T09:50:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T14:50:17","slug":"usps-suspends-retail-and-delivery-services-in-honor-of-president-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2018\/12\/04\/usps-suspends-retail-and-delivery-services-in-honor-of-president-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS Suspends Retail and Delivery Services In Honor Of President Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-twentyfourteen-full-width wp-post-image alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/BushObservance_large-story.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/BushObservance_large-story.jpg 500w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/BushObservance_large-story-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/BushObservance_large-story-71x85.jpg 71w\" alt=\"President George H.W. Bush speaks at podium\" width=\"500\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"link-caption\"><em>President George H.W. Bush speaks during a ceremony for U.S. military personnel in Sumter, SC, in March 1991. Image: U.S. Army<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<p>USPS &#8211; 12\/03\/18 &#8211; President Donald J. Trump has\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/presidential-proclamation-announcing-death-george-h-w-bush\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proclaimed<\/a><\/em>\u00a0Wednesday, Dec. 5, as a national day of mourning and has called on the American people to pay homage to the memory of former President George H.W. Bush that day.<\/p>\n<p>Out of respect for President Bush, the nation\u2019s 41st commander in chief, and to honor his vast contributions to the United States during his lifetime, and consistent with the presidential proclamation, the Postal Service will observe the national day of mourning.<\/p>\n<p>The Postal Service will suspend regular mail delivery and retail service Dec. 5. USPS will provide limited package delivery service that day to ensure that the postal network remains fluid and USPS does not experience any impacts to its package delivery operations that might negatively affect customers or business partners during the remainder of the busy holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>All Postal Service facilities \u2014 including headquarters in Washington, DC, and area and district administrative offices \u2014 are included in the national day of mourning. Local managers will advise employees on staffing levels to maintain operations and prepare for the resumption of regular activities Thursday, Dec. 6.<\/p>\n<p>Pay and leave administration for the national day of observance for affected bargaining unit employees is governed by section 519.4 of the\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/about.usps.com\/manuals\/elm\/elm.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Employee and Labor Relations Manual<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and provisions of May 4, 2000, memorandums of agreement between the Postal Service and its unions.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, USPS facilities are required to\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/2018\/12\/01\/in-remembrance-17\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fly the flag at half-staff<\/a><\/em>\u00a0through sunset Sunday, Dec. 30, to honor President Bush, who died Nov. 30 at age 94.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President George H.W. Bush speaks during a ceremony for U.S. military personnel in Sumter, SC, in March 1991. Image: U.S. Army USPS &#8211; 12\/03\/18 &#8211; President Donald J. Trump has\u00a0proclaimed\u00a0Wednesday, Dec. 5, as a national day of mourning and has called on the American people to pay homage to the memory of former President George [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24957","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=24957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24960,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24957\/revisions\/24960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}