{"id":3570,"date":"2012-02-07T23:23:06","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T04:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=3570"},"modified":"2012-02-07T23:23:06","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T04:23:06","slug":"congressman-carter-calls-for-review-of-south-temple-post-office-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2012\/02\/07\/congressman-carter-calls-for-review-of-south-temple-post-office-closing\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Carter Calls for Review of South Temple Post Office Closing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Congressman-John-Carter.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3571\" title=\"Congressman John Carter\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Congressman-John-Carter-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(WASHINGTON, DC) \u2013 Congressman John Carter (R-TX31) says the U.S. Postal Service is wrong to close down 20 private contract post offices that provide good service and revenue to the Postal Service while posting $8.5 billion in losses, and that the decision should be reversed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though the United States Postal Service was 8.5 billion dollars in the hole in 2010, and the owner of the South Temple Post Office sends a one million dollar check each year to the Postal Service, the Union made a contractual agreement with the Postal Service to close 20 of these locations down,\u201d Carter said on the House floor. \u201cThis is just plain wrong, my constituents should have a choice as to what post office they want to use, and if a privately owned contract office is performing better and easier to use, they should be able to use that location over a main branch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carter says he will continue pushing the Postal Service to re-open the South Temple, Texas branch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(WASHINGTON, DC) \u2013 Congressman John Carter (R-TX31) says the U.S. Postal Service is wrong to close down 20 private contract post offices that provide good service and revenue to the Postal Service while posting $8.5 billion in losses, and that the decision should be reversed. \u201cEven though the United States Postal Service was 8.5 billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570","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=3570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3573,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions\/3573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}