{"id":5753,"date":"2013-02-06T22:33:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T03:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=5753"},"modified":"2013-02-06T22:33:14","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T03:33:14","slug":"apwu-condemns-usps-plans-to-cut-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2013\/02\/06\/apwu-condemns-usps-plans-to-cut-service\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU Condemns USPS Plans to Cut Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/APWU-News.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5752\" title=\"APWU-News\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/APWU-News-300x168.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/APWU-News-300x168.gif 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/APWU-News.gif 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>APWU Condemns USPS Plans to Cut Service &#8211; Dismantling Postal Service Will Not Save It<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>APWU President Cliff Guffey has issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe APWU condemns the <a href=\"http:\/\/about.usps.com\/news\/national-releases\/2013\/pr13_019.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Postal Service\u2019s decision<\/a> to eliminate Saturday mail delivery, which will only deepen the agency\u2019s congressionally-manufactured financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe USPS has already begun slashing mail service by closing 13,000 post offices or drastically reducing hours of operation, shutting hundreds of mail processing facilities, and downgrading standards for mail delivery to America\u2019s homes and businesses. The effects are being felt in cities and towns across the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUSPS executives cannot save the Postal Service by tearing it apart. These across-the-board cutbacks will weaken the nation\u2019s mail system and put it on a path to privatization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongress has the power to restore the USPS to financial stability. To do so, it must repeal provisions of the 2006 law that created the Postal Service\u2019s financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe agency\u2019s crisis is a direct result of an unsustainable congressional mandate that was imposed on the Postal Service by the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA). The federal law forces the Postal Service to pre-fund healthcare benefits for future retirees and to do so in a 10-year period. No other entity \u2014 public or private \u2014 bears this burden. Since the PAEA took effect in 2007, the Postal Service has been required to pre-pay approximately $5.5 billion per year. Yet the same law prohibits the Postal Service from raising postage rates to cover the cost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe USPS has a vital mission \u2014 to bind the nation together by providing efficient, inexpensive service to every part of the country. The Postal Service should be seeking ways to expand its offerings to the American people so that it can remain relevant in the digital age.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APWU Condemns USPS Plans to Cut Service &#8211; Dismantling Postal Service Will Not Save It APWU President Cliff Guffey has issued the following statement: \u201cThe APWU condemns the Postal Service\u2019s decision to eliminate Saturday mail delivery, which will only deepen the agency\u2019s congressionally-manufactured financial crisis. \u201cThe USPS has already begun slashing mail service by closing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753","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=5753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5755,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753\/revisions\/5755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}