{"id":26263,"date":"2019-04-29T09:13:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T14:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=26263"},"modified":"2019-04-29T09:13:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T14:13:29","slug":"postmasters-and-mail-superintendents-among-fastest-declining-occupations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/04\/29\/postmasters-and-mail-superintendents-among-fastest-declining-occupations\/","title":{"rendered":"Postmasters and Mail Superintendents Among Fastest Declining Occupations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26268\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Bureau-of-Labor-Statistics.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Bureau-of-Labor-Statistics.jpg 340w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Bureau-of-Labor-Statistics-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>April 12, 2019\u00a0&#8211; According to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/emp\/tables\/fastest-declining-occupations.htm\">Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a> (BLS) postmasters and mail superintendents rank number 13 on their list of fastest declining occupations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/15-jobs-disappearing-fastest-us-130013381.html\">Yahoo<\/a> says, &#8220;These federal workers handle the operational and administrative services of a post office. A combination of automated sorting systems, cluster mailboxes and tight budgets will drastically reduce the number of all postal workers working by 2026, according to the BLS. Add in the fact that more people are opting for electronic bill pay and email to handle tasks that once only went through the mail and the demand for these services isn&#8217;t what it once was.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/emp\/tables\/fastest-declining-occupations.htm\">BLS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26266\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BLS-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"761\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BLS-2.jpg 761w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BLS-2-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BLS-2-570x455.jpg 570w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BLS-2-701x559.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 761px) 100vw, 761px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 12, 2019\u00a0&#8211; According to the\u00a0Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) postmasters and mail superintendents rank number 13 on their list of fastest declining occupations. Yahoo says, &#8220;These federal workers handle the operational and administrative services of a post office. A combination of automated sorting systems, cluster mailboxes and tight budgets will drastically reduce the number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26263","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\/26263","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=26263"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26269,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26263\/revisions\/26269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}