{"id":36403,"date":"2024-09-27T16:30:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T21:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=36403"},"modified":"2024-09-27T16:30:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T21:30:09","slug":"congressman-jake-laturner-r-ks-introduces-the-usps-serves-us-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2024\/09\/27\/congressman-jake-laturner-r-ks-introduces-the-usps-serves-us-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Jake LaTurner (R-KS) Introduces the USPS Serves Us Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>9\/27\/24 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/laturner-introduces-comprehensive-postal-reform-legislation\/\">News\/Media Alliance<\/a> &#8211; Congressman Jake LaTurner (R-KS) introduced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/118th-congress\/house-bill\/9839\/text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">H.R. 9839<\/a>, the USPS Serves Us Act on September 25, which makes needed updates and reforms to the postal regulatory process by empowering the Postal Regulatory Commission with a clear mandate to hold the USPS accountable for efficiency and service performance. It also reduces rate authority and removes the 2% underwater surcharge. Please see the bill\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/The-USPS-SERVES-US-Act-Section-by-Section-.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">co-sponsor memo<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/The-USPS-SERVES-US-Act-Section-by-Section-.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0summary<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/LATURN_019_xml.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legislation<\/a>. The Alliance has worked closely with a stakeholder coalition on this comprehensive language.<\/p>\n<p>Read it: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/The-USPS-SERVES-US-Act-Section-by-Section-.pdf\">The USPS SERVES US Act<\/a> (PDF)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PEN-NEWS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29060\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PEN-NEWS-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PEN-NEWS-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PEN-NEWS.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9\/27\/24 &#8211; News\/Media Alliance &#8211; Congressman Jake LaTurner (R-KS) introduced H.R. 9839, the USPS Serves Us Act on September 25, which makes needed updates and reforms to the postal regulatory process by empowering the Postal Regulatory Commission with a clear mandate to hold the USPS accountable for efficiency and service performance. It also reduces rate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36403","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\/36403","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=36403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36404,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36403\/revisions\/36404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}