{"id":3351,"date":"2011-12-22T00:16:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T05:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=3351"},"modified":"2011-12-22T00:16:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T05:16:09","slug":"funding-bill-postpones-pre-funding-due-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2011\/12\/22\/funding-bill-postpones-pre-funding-due-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding Bill Postpones Pre-Funding Due Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/APWU-News8.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3352\" title=\"APWU-News\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/APWU-News8-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The government funding bill Congress approved over the weekend included a reprieve for the Postal Service: It delays until August the due date for the USPS to make a $5.5 billion payment to pre-fund healthcare benefits for future retirees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased by the postponement, but we recognize the urgency of passing legislation that will correct the underlying cause of the Postal Service\u2019s financial difficulties,\u201d said APWU President Cliff Guffey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongress can act at any time to pass a bill that would severely damage the USPS \u2014 or it can resolve the crisis,\u201d he said. \u201cWe cannot afford to let our guard down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will do everything in our power to encourage lawmakers to act responsibly and protect service to the American people. We encourage our members to contact their senators and representatives and urge them to support legislation that will bring stability and growth to the U.S. Postal Service.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government funding bill Congress approved over the weekend included a reprieve for the Postal Service: It delays until August the due date for the USPS to make a $5.5 billion payment to pre-fund healthcare benefits for future retirees. \u201cWe are pleased by the postponement, but we recognize the urgency of passing legislation that will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351","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=3351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3354,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions\/3354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}