{"id":27552,"date":"2019-11-04T14:12:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T19:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=27552"},"modified":"2019-11-04T14:12:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T19:12:11","slug":"usps-offers-special-tokens-to-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/11\/04\/usps-offers-special-tokens-to-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS offers special tokens to veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-thumbnail link-fullfeature\"><a title=\"The badges for USPS employees who are military veterans feature a message from Postmaster General Megan J. Brennan.\" href=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/VetsBadge_large-story.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[52950]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-twentyfourteen-full-width wp-post-image alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/VetsBadge_large-story.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/VetsBadge_large-story.jpg 900w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/VetsBadge_large-story-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/VetsBadge_large-story-768x640.jpg 768w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/VetsBadge_large-story-102x85.jpg 102w\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"428\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"link-caption\"><em>The badges for USPS employees who are military veterans feature a message from Postmaster General Megan J. Brennan.<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<p>USPS News Link &#8211; 11\/04\/19 &#8211; To mark Veterans Day this year, the Postal Service will honor employees who served in the armed forces with a special badge and badge clip.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 100,000 military veterans are employed by USPS.<\/p>\n<p>The badges are designed to be worn with the employee\u2019s identification card and contain a message from Postmaster General Megan J. Brennan. The retractable badge clip features the words \u201cUSPS Veteran\u201d and \u201cProudly Serving America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Distribution of these items is underway, and military veteran employees will be recognized at local events.<\/p>\n<p>Employees who have questions can contact their district\u2019s veterans coordinator. A\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/blue.usps.gov\/hr\/jobs-workforce\/diversity-inclusion\/Veterans%20Coordinators%20Listing%2010-2-2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">list is available on Blue<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The badges for USPS employees who are military veterans feature a message from Postmaster General Megan J. Brennan. USPS News Link &#8211; 11\/04\/19 &#8211; To mark Veterans Day this year, the Postal Service will honor employees who served in the armed forces with a special badge and badge clip. Approximately 100,000 military veterans are employed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27552","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\/27552","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=27552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27554,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27552\/revisions\/27554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}