{"id":28342,"date":"2020-03-11T11:05:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T16:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=28342"},"modified":"2020-03-11T11:05:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T16:05:02","slug":"usps-service-alert-regarding-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2020\/03\/11\/usps-service-alert-regarding-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS Service Alert Regarding COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 1rem; color: #101820; font-family: HelveticaNeueW02-55Roma, 'Segoe UI', 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 17.5px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">USPS &#8211; 3\/10\/20 &#8211; The Postal Service is continuing to monitor the circumstances around the novel coronavirus, also known as \u201cCOVID-19.\u201d\u00a0 We are sharing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s (CDC) guidance regarding the COVID-19 epidemic to our employees via stand-up talks, employee news articles, messages on bulletin boards, and internal messaging inside USPS workplaces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 1rem; color: #101820; font-family: HelveticaNeueW02-55Roma, 'Segoe UI', 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 17.5px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Currently, we are not experiencing operational impacts as a result of the COVID-19 epidemic and we are using this time to review\/revise our contingency plans should they be needed.\u00a0 Customers can view our most recent media statement and find a link to the CDC guidance at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/about.usps.com\/newsroom\/statements\/usps-statement-on-coronavirus.htm\">https:\/\/about.usps.com\/newsroom\/statements\/usps-statement-on-coronavirus.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 1rem; color: #101820; font-family: HelveticaNeueW02-55Roma, 'Segoe UI', 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 17.5px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Regarding the importation of packages, the CDC states there is likely very low risk that the COVID-19 can be spread from products or packaging shipped from China, because of poor survivability of coronaviruses on surfaces.\u00a0 Also, according to the CDC, there currently is no evidence to support transmission of coronavirus associated with imported goods; and there have been no reported cases of COVID-19 in the United States associated with imported goods.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26203\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/usps1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/usps1.jpg 282w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/usps1-123x70.jpg 123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USPS &#8211; 3\/10\/20 &#8211; The Postal Service is continuing to monitor the circumstances around the novel coronavirus, also known as \u201cCOVID-19.\u201d\u00a0 We are sharing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s (CDC) guidance regarding the COVID-19 epidemic to our employees via stand-up talks, employee news articles, messages on bulletin boards, and internal messaging inside USPS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28342","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\/28342","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=28342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28343,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28342\/revisions\/28343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}