{"id":27746,"date":"2019-12-06T11:06:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=27746"},"modified":"2019-12-06T11:06:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:06:16","slug":"usps-facilities-must-fly-pow-mia-flag-year-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/12\/06\/usps-facilities-must-fly-pow-mia-flag-year-round\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS facilities must fly POW-MIA flag year-round"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-thumbnail link-fullfeature\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-twentyfourteen-full-width wp-post-image alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/powmiaFlagPolicy_large-story.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/powmiaFlagPolicy_large-story.jpg 900w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/powmiaFlagPolicy_large-story-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/powmiaFlagPolicy_large-story-768x640.jpg 768w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/powmiaFlagPolicy_large-story-102x85.jpg 102w\" alt=\"U.S. flag flying above POW-MIA flag\" width=\"527\" height=\"439\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"link-caption\"><em>Postal Service facilities must fly the POW-MIA flag whenever the U.S. flag is flown, effective Dec. 5.<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<p>USPS News Link &#8211; 12\/05\/19 &#8211; Postal Service facilities are required to fly the POW-MIA flag year-round under a new federal law.<\/p>\n<p>The law, which took effect in November, requires prominent federal buildings, national war memorials and Post Offices to fly the flag every day that the U.S. flag is flown.<\/p>\n<p>Although the law only requires Post Offices to fly the POW-MIA flag, USPS will extend the requirement to all postal facilities, effective Dec. 5.<\/p>\n<p>The POW-MIA flag was created during the Vietnam War by the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia. The black-and-white flag features a silhouette of a prisoner of war in front of a guard tower and barbed wire and the words \u201cYou are not forgotten.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Previously, postal facilities were required to fly the flag on special occasions and holidays.<\/p>\n<p>USPS has updated its Administrative Support Manual, which explains the organization\u2019s guidelines on flag display and maintenance, to reflect the new requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Managers of facilities without a POW-MIA flag should order one immediately by using the instructions in the Administrative Support Manual\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/blue.usps.gov\/cpim\/ftp\/manuals\/asm\/html\/asmc4_024.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">POW-MIA Flag Display section<\/a><\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Postal Service facilities must fly the POW-MIA flag whenever the U.S. flag is flown, effective Dec. 5. USPS News Link &#8211; 12\/05\/19 &#8211; Postal Service facilities are required to fly the POW-MIA flag year-round under a new federal law. The law, which took effect in November, requires prominent federal buildings, national war memorials and Post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27746","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\/27746","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=27746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27748,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27746\/revisions\/27748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}