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USPS News Link – 7\/16\/20 – The Postal Service has a new resource to help ensure compliance with its face covering policy in states and cities across the nation.<\/p>\n
USPS\u00a0requires<\/a><\/em>\u00a0all employees to wear face coverings when there is a state or local face covering order or directive in place or when an employee \u2014 including those who do not deal directly with the public \u2014 cannot achieve or maintain social distancing in the workplace.<\/p>\n The new resource \u2014 an\u00a0online dashboard<\/a><\/em>\u00a0available through the \u201cPlaybook \u2013 Field and District\u201d tab on the\u00a0COVID-19 Blue page<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2014 lists all known mandatory face covering orders and directives that may be applicable to postal operations, by state and local jurisdiction.<\/p>\n The Postal Service updates the dashboard regularly to assist employees with identifying these state or local orders and directives.<\/p>\n Because hundreds of state and local mandatory face covering orders have been issued nationally \u2014 and because new orders are being added daily \u2014 employees should still check for state or local face covering orders that may exist in their location, even if those orders are not identified on the dashboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" USPS News Link – 7\/16\/20 – The Postal Service has a new resource to help ensure compliance with its face covering policy in states and cities across the nation. USPS\u00a0requires\u00a0all employees to wear face coverings when there is a state or local face covering order or directive in place or when an employee \u2014 including […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28969","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\/28969","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=28969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28971,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28969\/revisions\/28971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}