{"id":26936,"date":"2019-08-05T07:44:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T12:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=26936"},"modified":"2019-08-05T07:44:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T12:44:49","slug":"usps-lower-flags-after-texas-ohio-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/08\/05\/usps-lower-flags-after-texas-ohio-shootings\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS: Lower flags after Texas, Ohio shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USPS News Link &#8211; 8\/5\/19 &#8211; President Trump has ordered U.S. flags flown at half-staff to honor the victims of the recent mass shootings in El Paso, TX, and Dayton, OH.<\/p>\n<p>Flags should be flown at half-staff until sunset Thursday, Aug. 8.<\/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 Administrative Support Manual, which explains the organization\u2019s guidelines on U.S. flag\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/blue.usps.gov\/cpim\/ftp\/manuals\/asm\/html\/asmc4_020.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">display<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/blue.usps.gov\/cpim\/ftp\/manuals\/asm\/html\/asmc4_021.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">maintenance<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-twentyfourteen-full-width wp-post-image alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/FlagNotice_large-story.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/FlagNotice_large-story.jpg 500w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/FlagNotice_large-story-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/FlagNotice_large-story-71x85.jpg 71w\" alt=\"Flag at half-staff\" width=\"500\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"link-caption\"><em>President Trump has ordered U.S. flags flown at half-staff to honor the victims of the mass shooting in El Paso, TX, and Dayton, OH.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USPS News Link &#8211; 8\/5\/19 &#8211; President Trump has ordered U.S. flags flown at half-staff to honor the victims of the recent mass shootings in El Paso, TX, and Dayton, OH. Flags should be flown at half-staff until sunset Thursday, Aug. 8. To fly the flag at half-staff, hoist the flag to the peak for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26936","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\/26936","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=26936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26938,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26936\/revisions\/26938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}