{"id":9951,"date":"2015-02-03T09:17:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T14:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=9951"},"modified":"2015-02-03T09:18:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T14:18:36","slug":"video-politics-delaying-consolidation-of-florence-mail-processing-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/02\/03\/video-politics-delaying-consolidation-of-florence-mail-processing-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Politics delaying consolidation of Florence mail processing plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FLORENCE, SC (WMBF) &#8211; The Florence mail processing and distribution facility now has three more months before it&#8217;s scheduled to be completely relocated to Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>Political pressure from Congress has caused the United States Postal Service to delay the consolidation of a total of 82 processing facilities from January 15, to April 18, according to Harry Spratlin, district communications coordinator for the Greater South Carolina district.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve still been protesting out in front. We had a protest back in November,&#8221; said Isaac Nixon, president of the American Postal Workers Union Florence Local 2408. &#8220;We met with Congressman Rice,&#8221; Nixon added. Nixon said he understands letter volume has gone down in recent years, but he sees the consolidation affecting delivery times. Other Florence residents agree. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmbfnews.com\/story\/27988435\/politics-delaying-consolidation-of-florence-mail-processing-plant\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/WMBF.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=568157;hostDomain=www.wmbfnews.com;playerWidth=475;playerHeight=355;isShowIcon=true;clipId=11088232;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay;galleryType=wnstory;galleryId=27988435\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><a title=\"WMBFNews.com, Myrtle Beach\/Florence SC, Weather\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wmbfnews.com\">WMBFNews.com, Myrtle Beach\/Florence SC, Weather<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Florence-PDC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9952\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Florence-PDC-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"Florence P&amp;DC\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Florence-PDC-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Florence-PDC.jpg 417w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FLORENCE, SC (WMBF) &#8211; The Florence mail processing and distribution facility now has three more months before it&#8217;s scheduled to be completely relocated to Columbia. Political pressure from Congress has caused the United States Postal Service to delay the consolidation of a total of 82 processing facilities from January 15, to April 18, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9951","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=9951"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9955,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9951\/revisions\/9955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}