{"id":9209,"date":"2014-11-25T15:24:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T20:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=9209"},"modified":"2014-11-25T15:24:41","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T20:24:41","slug":"young-people-love-the-postal-service-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/11\/25\/young-people-love-the-postal-service-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Young People Love the Postal Service Best"},"content":{"rendered":"
An Unexpected Finding:<\/div>\n

Young People Love the Postal Service Best<\/h2>\n

11\/25\/2014<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>–\u00a0APWU<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Few postal workers were surprised by a recent Gallup Poll that found that Americans rate the Postal Service highest among 13 government agencies \u2013 after all, the USPS routinely ranks at the top of such surveys.<\/p>\n

But many people were surprised to learn that young people gave the Postal Service the highest rating: 81 percent of 18-29 year olds gave the USPS \u201cexcellent or good\u201d marks. \u201cThe most curious finding in the poll is who likes USPS most,\u201d the\u00a0<\/span>National Journal<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>observed in an article about the survey.<\/p>\n

\u201cPundits have convinced many people that the future of the Postal Service is bleak because young people consider it irrelevant,\u201d APWU President Mark Dimondstein said, \u201cbut this poll shows the opposite is true.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAll age groups gave solid approval ratings to the Postal Service,\u201d Gallup noted, but young people gave the agency the best scores.<\/p>\n

Sixty-five percent of respondents over 50 gave the Postal Service \u201cexcellent or good\u201d marks, which exceeded the ratings they gave to all other federal government agencies ranked in the survey. Seventy-three percent of women and 70 percent of men rated the USPS as \u201cexcellent or good.\u201d The poll, conducted Nov. 11-12, surveyed 1,020 adults in all 50 states by telephone.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe results of the Gallup Poll demonstrate that the Postal Service is, indeed, a national treasure,\u201d Dimondstein said. \u201cThe USPS won high marks, despite efforts by the Postmaster General and Board of Governors to dismantle it, degrade service standards, close mail processing plants, and despite ongoing threats to end Saturday mail delivery,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt makes you wonder how much better the results would be if postal management truly embraced its mission and worked to improve rather than cut service.\u201d<\/p>\n

The survey results \u201ccould be good news for an organization that has been battered by bad publicity for quite some time,\u201d Gallup wrote. Despite its difficulties, \u201cthe overall image of the agency has remained remarkably positive,\u201d the polling company said. \u201cThis reservoir of goodwill may serve the Postal Service well as it strives to adapt to the changing world in which electronic communication and commerce are rapidly replacing the traditional mailed letter.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the volume of letters has declined, the USPS has evolved to become as much a courier of packages as it is a way to send and receive first-class mail,\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Time<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>magazine wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this day of rapidly advancing ecommerce, the survey shows that the future of the Postal Service could be very bright,\u201d Dimondstein said.<\/p>\n

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– See more at: http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/news\/web-news-article\/young-people-love-postal-service-best#sthash.Fbd9nBOd.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Unexpected Finding: Young People Love the Postal Service Best 11\/25\/2014\u00a0–\u00a0APWU Few postal workers were surprised by a recent Gallup Poll that found that Americans rate the Postal Service highest among 13 government agencies \u2013 after all, the USPS routinely ranks at the top of such surveys. But many people were surprised to learn that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9209","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\/9209","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=9209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9211,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9209\/revisions\/9211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}