{"id":6153,"date":"2013-05-22T17:11:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T22:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=6153"},"modified":"2013-05-22T17:11:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T22:11:10","slug":"georgia-congressman-bishop-joins-effort-to-delay-usps-processing-center-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2013\/05\/22\/georgia-congressman-bishop-joins-effort-to-delay-usps-processing-center-closures\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Congressman Bishop Joins Effort to Delay USPS Processing Center Closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Congressman-Sanford-Bishop.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6154\" title=\"Congressman Sanford Bishop\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Congressman-Sanford-Bishop-300x168.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Congressman-Sanford-Bishop-300x168.gif 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Congressman-Sanford-Bishop.gif 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Georgia Congressman Sanford Bishop has\u00a0joined more than 40 other members of Congress asking PMG Donahoe to delay closing of USPS mail processing until spring of 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Congressman Bishop stated in his letter to the PMG&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;We urge you to recognize the disastrous impact that the elimination of overnight delivery standards and closings of Area Mail Processing Centers and other facilities across the country would have on local and national unemployment,&#8221; the bipartisan group of members wrote. &#8220;The USPS is a major employer around the country and employs over 500,000 workers. With an unacceptably high unemployment rate, it would be particularly inopportune for the USPS to close facilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bishop.house.gov\/sites\/bishop.house.gov\/files\/052113PostalClosuresLetter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read Congressman Bishop&#8217;s Letter<\/a>\u00a0(PDF)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Congressman Sanford Bishop has\u00a0joined more than 40 other members of Congress asking PMG Donahoe to delay closing of USPS mail processing until spring of 2014. Congressman Bishop stated in his letter to the PMG&#8230; &#8220;We urge you to recognize the disastrous impact that the elimination of overnight delivery standards and closings of Area Mail [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153","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=6153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6156,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153\/revisions\/6156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}