{"id":3740,"date":"2012-02-23T12:16:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T17:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=3740"},"modified":"2012-02-23T12:16:02","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T17:16:02","slug":"usps-plans-to-cut-27000-jobs-as-they-close-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2012\/02\/23\/usps-plans-to-cut-27000-jobs-as-they-close-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS Plans to Cut 27,000 Jobs As They Close Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/USPS-News8.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3741\" title=\"USPS News\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/USPS-News8-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>February 23, 2012<\/p>\n<p>News outlets are being bombarded today with news of USPS closing and consolidating plants nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg tells us that USPS estimates an annual loss of $18.2 billion by 2015 and USPS plans to eliminate 4.9% of its workforce as they close almost half of their processing plants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Bloomberg: The U.S. Postal Service, which predicts an annual loss of $18.2 billion by 2015, plans to eliminate 4.9 percent of its workforce by closing almost half of its mail-processing facilities to cut costs. The service plans to shut 223 of its 457 mail-processing plants by February 2013, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said in a telephone interview today. The Postal Service will cut about 27,000 jobs through attrition, he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-02-23\/u-s-postal-service-to-cut-4-9-of-jobs-by-closing-almost-half-of-plants.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here To Read This Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 23, 2012 News outlets are being bombarded today with news of USPS closing and consolidating plants nationwide. Bloomberg tells us that USPS estimates an annual loss of $18.2 billion by 2015 and USPS plans to eliminate 4.9% of its workforce as they close almost half of their processing plants. Bloomberg: The U.S. Postal Service, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740","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=3740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3743,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740\/revisions\/3743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}