{"id":7401,"date":"2014-04-20T10:28:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T15:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=7401"},"modified":"2014-04-20T10:28:33","modified_gmt":"2014-04-20T15:28:33","slug":"protesters-use-postcards-to-oppose-postal-services-use-of-private-trucking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/04\/20\/protesters-use-postcards-to-oppose-postal-services-use-of-private-trucking\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters use postcards to oppose Postal Service&#8217;s use of private trucking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object id=\"flashObj\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&#038;isUI=1\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=3486600206001&#038;playerID=2436822742001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAPLpuSqE~,a1DdoZJH5WT7C8Y068BNUzNkGsOfv-0l&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&#038;isUI=1\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" flashVars=\"videoId=3486600206001&#038;playerID=2436822742001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAPLpuSqE~,a1DdoZJH5WT7C8Y068BNUzNkGsOfv-0l&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" swLiveConnect=\"true\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>April 19, 2014: A small group of protesters stood outside the U.S. Post Office hub at 715 NW Hoyt Street Saturday afternoon, waving signs that read &#8220;save postal trucking&#8221; and &#8220;stop privatization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Privatization&#8217;s got to go,&#8221; they shouted.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters were voicing their opposition to an alleged extension of a contract with private trucking company Dill&#8217;s Star Route Inc. Though the U.S. Postal Service has long used private trucking companies to transport mail between cities, the use of companies like Dill&#8217;s within cities is relatively new, said protest organizer and former letter carrier Jamie Partridge. Now, the protesters said, that new contract is being extended. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/portland\/index.ssf\/2014\/04\/protesters_use_postcards_to_op.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a>\u00a0at Oregon Live<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Sm-video-news-image.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6987\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Sm-video-news-image.gif\" alt=\"Sm-video-news-image\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 19, 2014: A small group of protesters stood outside the U.S. Post Office hub at 715 NW Hoyt Street Saturday afternoon, waving signs that read &#8220;save postal trucking&#8221; and &#8220;stop privatization.&#8221; &#8220;Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Privatization&#8217;s got to go,&#8221; they shouted. The protesters were voicing their opposition to an alleged extension of a contract [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-new-bytes","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7401","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=7401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7402,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7401\/revisions\/7402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}