{"id":30261,"date":"2021-03-03T12:44:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T17:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=30261"},"modified":"2021-03-03T12:44:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T17:44:13","slug":"usps-has-worst-year-for-mail-delays-in-a-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2021\/03\/03\/usps-has-worst-year-for-mail-delays-in-a-century\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS has worst year for mail delays in a century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" 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I think there\u2019s some problems that overtime we have developed in the system where we really can\u2019t get at the root of the problem,\u201d Aderholt, a Republican, said.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama\u2019s U.S. Postal Service sent a statement to News 19 Tuesday saying they\u2019ve been working with union leadership to retain employees, stabilize operations and realign their organizational reporting structures for quicker response to issues. <a href=\"https:\/\/whnt.com\/news\/huntsville\/u-s-post-office-has-worse-year-for-mail-delays-in-a-century\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30262\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Huntsville-AL-Mail-Delays-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Huntsville-AL-Mail-Delays-300x170.jpg 300w, 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All that growth and there isn\u2019t a mail distribution center in Huntsville. This has been causing delays in mail deliveries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30261","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=30261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30263,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30261\/revisions\/30263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}