{"id":736,"date":"2010-02-17T17:08:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T22:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=736"},"modified":"2010-02-17T17:08:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T22:08:37","slug":"postal-service-dpmg-and-coo-pat-donahoe-continues-discussion-of-possible-move-to-five-day-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2010\/02\/17\/postal-service-dpmg-and-coo-pat-donahoe-continues-discussion-of-possible-move-to-five-day-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal Service DPMG and COO Pat Donahoe continues discussion of possible move to five-day delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 17, 2010<\/p>\n<p>DPMG and COO Pat Donahoe continues his discussion about the possibility of USPS moving from a six-day to five-day delivery week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing I have to emphasize \u2026 is that nothing can be implemented without Congress changing current law and the president signing the legislation to permit that change,\u201d emphasizes Donahoe. \u201cThat\u2019s important to understand. I know some of you may be under the impression that this can just be done by management. It can\u2019t. It needs Congressional approval to make the change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Donahoe thanks employees for their great efforts in cutting costs in 2009 by reducing workhours, changing transportation models, and making facility adjustments. \u201cBut no matter how many costs we wring out of the system, it simply will not be enough,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis would be a big change,\u201d concludes Donahoe. \u201cBut it\u2019s a necessary change if we are to remain strong as a business.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 17, 2010 DPMG and COO Pat Donahoe continues his discussion about the possibility of USPS moving from a six-day to five-day delivery week. \u201cOne thing I have to emphasize \u2026 is that nothing can be implemented without Congress changing current law and the president signing the legislation to permit that change,\u201d emphasizes Donahoe. \u201cThat\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","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=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}