{"id":7132,"date":"2014-03-06T19:05:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T00:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=7132"},"modified":"2014-03-06T19:05:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T00:05:51","slug":"apwu-white-house-budget-misses-the-mark-on-postal-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/03\/06\/apwu-white-house-budget-misses-the-mark-on-postal-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU: White House Budget Misses the Mark on Postal Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The administration\u2019s budget proposal for 2015 misses the mark on postal issues, APWU President Mark Dimondstein said. \u201cThe White House budget echoes the misguided policies of Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe. It calls for severe cutbacks that will harm service, drive away business, and eliminate jobs,\u201d he said. The proposal calls for the immediate end of Saturday delivery and would allow the Postal Service to begin to shift from door delivery to centralized delivery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe budget fails to eliminate the pre-funding requirement of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, which is the fundamental cause of the Postal Service\u2019s manufactured financial crisis,\u201d he continued. Instead, the budget would simply restructure the payments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the Postal Service posting operating profits in mail and package delivery, there is absolutely no justification to continue a strategy of austerity,\u201d Dimondstein said. \u201cRather than damaging the infrastructure and network that is essential for providing service, the Postal Service must expand service.\u201d The recent report by USPS Office of Inspector General endorsing non-banking financial services is the exactly the kind of innovation that is needed, he added. <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 Postal Service is funded by its customers \u2014 not taxpayers \u2014 and therefore shouldn\u2019t even be a part of the budget process,\u201d the union president said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe four postal unions are now working together to build support for a strong and vibrant Postal Service that fulfills its mandate to the people of the country,\u201d Dimondstein said. \u201cWe are more than willing to sit down with the White House to discuss any and all proposals that will strengthen America\u2019s Postal Service.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The administration\u2019s budget proposal for 2015 misses the mark on postal issues, APWU President Mark Dimondstein said. \u201cThe White House budget echoes the misguided policies of Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe. It calls for severe cutbacks that will harm service, drive away business, and eliminate jobs,\u201d he said. The proposal calls for the immediate end of [&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-7132","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\/7132","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=7132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7133,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7132\/revisions\/7133"}],"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=7132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}