{"id":29786,"date":"2020-12-09T11:36:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T16:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=29786"},"modified":"2020-12-09T11:36:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T16:36:47","slug":"usps-wins-wounded-veteran-employer-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2020\/12\/09\/usps-wins-wounded-veteran-employer-award\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS wins wounded veteran employer award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/2020\/12\/09\/honorable-mention-2\/\">USPS News Link<\/a> &#8211; 12\/09\/20 &#8211; The Postal Service was recently recognized for its contributions as an employer of wounded military veterans.<\/p>\n<p>USPS received the Wounded Veteran and Military Caregiver Employment Award during a virtual awards ceremony on Nov. 18. The award, presented by the Hiring Our Heroes initiative, is awarded to a company or organization that demonstrates leadership in addressing the employment challenges facing wounded veterans and military caregivers.<\/p>\n<p>Hiring Our Heroes, a program of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, is a nationwide effort to connect veterans, service members and military spouses with meaningful employment opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Postmaster General Louis DeJoy accepted the award on behalf of the organization, delivering remarks in a prerecorded message.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have long recognized the skills that veterans bring to the table,\u201d DeJoy says in the video. \u201cThey have a fantastic work ethic, they\u2019re disciplined and resilient, they solve problems and deliver results. They\u2019re the kind of people you want on your team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Past recipients of the award include the Wounded Warrior Project, USAA and the Elizabeth Dole Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The Postal Service workforce includes more than 100,000 current or former service members.<\/p>\n<p>USPS has also been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/2019\/10\/02\/veteran-friendly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>recognized<\/em><\/a>\u00a0as one of the nation\u2019s top employers of veterans by Viqtory, a media and marketing company that produces magazines and websites for veterans and service members.<\/p>\n<p>The Wounded Veteran and Military Caregiver Employment Award ceremony can be viewed on the Hiring Our Heroes\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiringourheroes.org\/watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29303\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Newslink-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Newslink-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Newslink.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USPS News Link &#8211; 12\/09\/20 &#8211; The Postal Service was recently recognized for its contributions as an employer of wounded military veterans. USPS received the Wounded Veteran and Military Caregiver Employment Award during a virtual awards ceremony on Nov. 18. The award, presented by the Hiring Our Heroes initiative, is awarded to a company or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29786","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\/29786","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=29786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29787,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29786\/revisions\/29787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}