{"id":5936,"date":"2013-03-28T13:20:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T18:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=5936"},"modified":"2013-03-28T13:20:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T18:20:53","slug":"apwu-denounces-usps-plans-to-accelerate-closure-of-mail-processing-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2013\/03\/28\/apwu-denounces-usps-plans-to-accelerate-closure-of-mail-processing-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU Denounces USPS Plans To Accelerate Closure of Mail Processing Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/APWU-News4.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5937\" title=\"APWU-News\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/APWU-News4-300x168.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/APWU-News4-300x168.gif 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/APWU-News4.gif 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe APWU is outraged by USPS plans to accelerate the closure of 71 mail processing plants that were originally slated for possible consolidation in 2014,\u201d said APWU President Cliff Guffey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese closures will eliminate jobs, harm communities, and delay mail delivery every day \u2014 Monday, through Saturday,\u201d he said. The consolidations will drastically curtail local mail sortation and will virtually eliminate overnight delivery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Postal Service is on the brink of cutting service in a way that will permanently damage our treasured institution. This would be a tragic mistake, and it is unnecessary,\u201d Guffey said. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/issues-consolidation\/consolidation-latest_list-usps_acceleratedclosurelist-120326.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">USPS notified<\/a> [PDF] the APWU on March 26 that it would implement 53 consolidations this year that were originally scheduled for 2014. In January, the Postal Service said it would accelerate implementation of 18 other closures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese closures could have been avoided entirely,\u201d Guffey said. \u201cThey are a casualty of congressional inaction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongress must act now to enact meaningful postal reform \u2014 reform that restores the Postal Service to financial stability without destroying service or harming postal workers,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd Congress must act now to prevent the Postal Service from implementing these devastating cuts in service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are calling on members of Congress to support the Postal Service Protection Act, which was introduced in the Senate and House on Feb. 13. This legislation would address the cause of the Postal Service\u2019s manufactured financial crisis and allow the USPS to develop new products and services, so that it can remain relevant in the digital age,\u201d he said. The Protect Service Protection Act would protect \u2014 at least temporarily \u2014 current service standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe APWU is outraged by USPS plans to accelerate the closure of 71 mail processing plants that were originally slated for possible consolidation in 2014,\u201d said APWU President Cliff Guffey. \u201cThese closures will eliminate jobs, harm communities, and delay mail delivery every day \u2014 Monday, through Saturday,\u201d he said. The consolidations will drastically curtail local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936","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=5936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5939,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936\/revisions\/5939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}