{"id":39082,"date":"2026-02-28T13:24:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=39082"},"modified":"2026-02-28T13:24:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:24:24","slug":"pen-exclusive-is-an-early-out-coming-for-letter-carriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2026\/02\/28\/pen-exclusive-is-an-early-out-coming-for-letter-carriers\/","title":{"rendered":"PEN EXCLUSIVE: Is An Early Out Coming for Letter Carriers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PEN EXCLUSIVE<\/strong>: On Friday February 27 PEN received the following message relating to possible early outs for letter carriers. We <strong>CANNOT<\/strong> verify whether the information is accurate or not. If you have any further information, please contact us [homepage under More PEN].<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>Early out coming for carriers, not sure about anyone else.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>Postmaster stand up, 50 k to leave,hiring freeze (NC) at least, after the fallout, some routes will not be delivered every day. He is a good guy and always keeps people informed. He\u2019s never told anything that wasn\u2019t true. I thought I would return the favor because you\u2019ve kept me informed over the years. He also said that this will be coming out \u201cover the next few weeks.\u201d Great for contract negotiations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PEN1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23396 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PEN1-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PEN1-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PEN1.jpg 391w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PEN EXCLUSIVE: On Friday February 27 PEN received the following message relating to possible early outs for letter carriers. We CANNOT verify whether the information is accurate or not. If you have any further information, please contact us [homepage under More PEN]. Early out coming for carriers, not sure about anyone else. Postmaster stand up, [&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-39082","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\/39082","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=39082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39083,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39082\/revisions\/39083"}],"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=39082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}