{"id":9903,"date":"2015-01-29T16:39:10","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T21:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=9903"},"modified":"2015-01-29T16:39:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T21:39:10","slug":"shrinking-first-class-mail-a-big-joke-to-postal-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/01\/29\/shrinking-first-class-mail-a-big-joke-to-postal-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Shrinking First-Class Mail a Big Joke to Postal Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

APWU – 01\/29\/2015<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nThe “onion” stamp created and tweeted by the Postal Service.<\/h6>\n

Apparently, the reduction in first-class mail volume is hilarious to USPS management.<\/p>\n

Last week,\u00a0<\/span>The Onion<\/em>, a satirical news site, published an\u00a0<\/span>article<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>about a new line of commemorative stamps honoring \u201cAmericans who still use the US Postal Service,\u201d mocking those who \u201cstill\u201d send birthday cards or pay bills by mail.<\/p>\n

The Postal Service\u2019s press office \u2013 management\u2019s official mouthpiece \u2013 responded with a\u00a0<\/span>tweet<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>The Onion<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>featuring an image of a stamp with onions on it that said, \u201cStay tuned for the 2015 program @TheOnion. You may make the cut, too!\u201d<\/p>\n

Going a step further, USPS spokesperson Toni DeLancey told the\u00a0<\/span>Federal Times<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/span>in the only story written about the exchange, \u201cWe can laugh with the best of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cExcuse me, but do you see anything funny here?\u201d asked USPS customer Ewing Crowder. \u201cThis entire escapade demonstrates the total disregard management has for the mail \u2013 as if we needed any more indication. It also demonstrates just how much time the folks at L’Enfant Plaza [USPS headquarters] have on their hands to waste on frivolous nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n

To make this happen, Crowder pointed out, members of the press office at the Postal Service would have had to discuss the issue, ask a graphic designer to create the mock onion stamp and reach out to their contacts at the\u00a0<\/span>Federal Times<\/em>. Does this seem like the best use of time and resources for an entity is slashing jobs and service standards left and right?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe self-serving Tweet and story about the service’s \u2018response\u2019 to\u00a0<\/span>The Onion<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>showed me further just how little regard leadership and much of the workforce at L’Enfant have for what the hard-working employees of USPS do and go through,\u201d Crowder added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s an old story about how Nero fiddled while Rome burned,\u201d he went on. \u201cIt looks like they’re handing out violins at [USPS] headquarters.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

APWU – 01\/29\/2015 The “onion” stamp created and tweeted by the Postal Service. Apparently, the reduction in first-class mail volume is hilarious to USPS management. Last week,\u00a0The Onion, a satirical news site, published an\u00a0article\u00a0about a new line of commemorative stamps honoring \u201cAmericans who still use the US Postal Service,\u201d mocking those who \u201cstill\u201d send birthday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9903","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=9903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9905,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9903\/revisions\/9905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}