{"id":7682,"date":"2014-06-02T16:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T21:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=7682"},"modified":"2014-06-02T16:00:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T21:00:46","slug":"apwu-condemns-gop-plan-to-loot-usps-to-save-highway-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/06\/02\/apwu-condemns-gop-plan-to-loot-usps-to-save-highway-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU Condemns GOP Plan to Loot USPS to Save Highway Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 2, 2014 &#8211; APWU President Mark Dimondstein issued a statement June 2 condemning a proposal by <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/transportation\/207779-house-to-tie-post-office-cuts-to-transportation-bill#ixzz33Qj12dT1\" target=\"_blank\">House Republican leaders<\/a> to raid the Postal Service treasury to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-05-28\/money-losing-post-office-said-to-be-highway-fund-target.html\" target=\"_blank\">shore up the Highway Trust Fund<\/a>. The statement appears below:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proposal by House Republican leaders to use Postal Service funds to help replenish the Highway Trust Fund is outrageous. It is another irresponsible attempt by House Republicans to loot the USPS and undermine postal service by eliminating Saturday mail delivery. <a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1aa-APWU-small.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7249\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1aa-APWU-small.gif\" alt=\"1aa-APWU-small\" width=\"295\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. Postal Service isn\u2019t funded by taxpayers. Its revenue comes from the sale of postage and services, so there is absolutely no justification for Congress to grab USPS funds for any federal project \u2013 even one as important as the Highway Trust Fund.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurthermore, the proposal is based on a fiction: It assumes there will be \u201creal savings for the Treasury\u201d from a hypothetical future event \u2013 a postal bailout \u2013 that no one is calling for or has proposed. Projected savings from the elimination of Saturday mail delivery are also highly questionable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe money grab and the elimination of Saturday mail delivery would be major steps toward dismantling the public Postal Service, which is based in the Constitution and provides universal, uniform mail service to every city and town in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHouse leaders can\u2019t have it both ways: If the Postal Service is strong enough financially to be able to fund other federal projects then it can\u2019t also be in dire financial straits that justify eliminating Saturday delivery, lowering service standards, shutting mail processing facilities, and closing post offices.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 2, 2014 &#8211; APWU President Mark Dimondstein issued a statement June 2 condemning a proposal by House Republican leaders to raid the Postal Service treasury to shore up the Highway Trust Fund. The statement appears below: \u201cThe proposal by House Republican leaders to use Postal Service funds to help replenish the Highway Trust Fund [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7682","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\/7682","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=7682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7683,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7682\/revisions\/7683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}