{"id":8295,"date":"2014-08-22T08:18:43","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T13:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=8295"},"modified":"2014-08-22T08:19:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T13:19:43","slug":"usps-are-you-on-the-bucket-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/08\/22\/usps-are-you-on-the-bucket-list\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS: Are you on the bucket list?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font: 13px\/16px sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">August 20, 2014 &#8211; The Postal Service\u2019s ethics office is hearing from a lot of employees who have questions about the ALS ice bucket challenge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 13px\/16px sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">The challenge involves people dumping a bucket of ice water on themselves to raise awareness of ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease, and then encouraging others to do the same or make a donation to the ALS Association.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 13px\/16px sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Videos of people taking the challenge have gone viral on social media in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 13px\/16px sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Here\u2019s some general guidance:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font: 13px\/16px sans-serif; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\" type=\"disc\">\n<li>Employees are welcome to participate in the challenge on their own time and at locations other than Postal Service property.<\/li>\n<li>Colleagues who are friends outside the workplace are welcome to participate and nominate each other for the challenge, as long as they do it on their own time and use their own equipment.<\/li>\n<li>Employees shouldn\u2019t use government equipment to participate in the challenge, and they shouldn\u2019t do it on government property. Also, employees shouldn\u2019t issue the challenge to subordinates, and they should carefully consider whether it would be appropriate to challenge supervisors or other bosses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font: 13px\/16px sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">If you have questions regarding participation in the ice bucket challenge or any other ethics issue, please send an email to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em><a style=\"color: #551a8b; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"mailto:ethics.help@usps.gov\">ethics.help@usps.gov<\/a><\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0or call the ethics hotline at 202-268-6346.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 13px\/16px sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/liteblue.usps.gov\/news\/link\/2014\/08aug\/images\/news21s4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 20, 2014 &#8211; The Postal Service\u2019s ethics office is hearing from a lot of employees who have questions about the ALS ice bucket challenge. The challenge involves people dumping a bucket of ice water on themselves to raise awareness of ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease, and then encouraging others to do the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8295","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=8295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8298,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8295\/revisions\/8298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}