{"id":7010,"date":"2014-02-09T17:27:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T22:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=7010"},"modified":"2014-02-09T17:27:09","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T22:27:09","slug":"apwu-now-you-see-it-now-you-dont-manufactured-crisis-hides-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/02\/09\/apwu-now-you-see-it-now-you-dont-manufactured-crisis-hides-good-news\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU: Now You See It, Now You Don\u2019t &#8211; Manufactured Crisis Hides Good News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Postal Service\u2019s financial report for the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2014 shows the agency enjoyed an operating surplus of $765 million. But the agency\u2019s good news was buried in most media accounts, which said the USPS suffered a loss of $354 million loss. <a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/4-APWU-Small1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6545\" alt=\"4-APWU-Small\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/4-APWU-Small1.gif\" width=\"322\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe USPS reported losses for the first quarter of 2014 for one reason \u2014 the congressional mandate that requires the Postal Service to pre-fund healthcare benefits for future retirees.\u201d said APWU President Mark Dimondstein. No other government agency or private company faces such a requirement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe USPS is suffering from a manufactured crisis,\u201d Dimondstein said. \u201cPrivatizers have used the ginned-up crisis to undermine a great national treasure. They\u2019ve been closing mail processing plants, outsourcing retail operations, threatening to eliminate six-day delivery and generally harming service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fredric Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, said the first-quarter report \u201cshow why the postal network must be maintained and strengthened, not degraded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The operating surplus for the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2014 continues a trend that began last year. The USPS showed an operating surplus of $100 million for the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese trends augur well for the future, because they reflect the opportunities increasingly presented by the Internet and by an improving economy,\u201d Rolando said. Package revenue increased by more than 14 percent during the quarter, due to online shopping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe solution to the postal crisis is clear,\u201d Dimondstein said. \u201cCongress must eliminate the pre-funding requirement and allow the USPS to enhance service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/news\/webart\/2014\/14-025-usps-financial-presentationpdf.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for the USPS Presentation on Finanical Report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Postal Service\u2019s financial report for the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2014 shows the agency enjoyed an operating surplus of $765 million. But the agency\u2019s good news was buried in most media accounts, which said the USPS suffered a loss of $354 million loss. \u201cThe USPS reported losses for the first quarter of 2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7010","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=7010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7011,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7010\/revisions\/7011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}