{"id":9212,"date":"2018-10-12T18:24:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T18:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=9212"},"modified":"2018-10-12T18:24:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T18:24:09","slug":"is-u-s-postal-service-too-popular-to-privatize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=9212","title":{"rendered":"Is U.S. Postal Service Too Popular to Privatize?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9213\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9213\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9213\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/gr-64200-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/gr-64200-1-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/gr-64200-1-1-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/gr-64200-1-1-405x263.jpg 405w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/gr-64200-1-1-60x40.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The U.S. Postal Service employs more than 500,000 Americans at 30,000 outlets across the country. Photo: USAF<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>by Eric Galatas<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>AUSTIN, Texas \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0President Donald Trump\u2019s announced intention in April to reform the U.S. Postal Service landed with a thud, and now \u2013 six months later \u2013 a White House-appointed committee report on the topic has been shelved.<\/p>\n<p>The Postal Service enjoys wide popularity, with a 90 percent favorable rating, and the reform package delivered to the president on Aug. 10 has not been released.<\/p>\n<p>Former U.S. Rep. John McHugh of New York is a spokesman for The Package Coalition, a group that formed to highlight the importance of the Postal Service\u2019s package delivery capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at, really, the thousands upon thousands of small businesses that have sprung up in virtually every part of this country, the Postal Service in that construct becomes an awfully important part of the current economic fabric of this country,\u201d McHugh points out.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration says the Postal Service needs to operate more efficiently, after reporting a net loss of $2.7 billion in fiscal 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The Postal Service receives no tax dollars. It has 157 billion required delivery points, six days a week, and McHugh says package delivery is one of the bright spots in its budget.<\/p>\n<p>McHugh maintains if the Postal Service were privatized, the cost of package delivery would increase for individuals, especially in rural areas, but business owners would bear the brunt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShould this construct be artificially changed, it will by necessity change the way the Postal Service operates and not in a good way,\u201d he stresses. \u201cMost people take the Postal Service for granted because it\u2019s always been there for them, six days a week, and that could be jeopardized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, introduced a bipartisan\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsgac.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/McCaskill%20Resolution%20re%20Postal%20Privatization.pdf\" target=\"parent\">resolution<\/a>\u00a0to ensure that the Postal Service \u201cremains an independent establishment of the federal government,\u201d and not subject to privatization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Eric Galatas AUSTIN, Texas \u2013\u00a0President Donald Trump\u2019s announced intention in April to reform the U.S. Postal Service landed with a thud, and now \u2013 six months later \u2013 a White House-appointed committee report on the topic has been shelved. The Postal Service enjoys wide popularity, with a 90 percent favorable rating, and the reform [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9214,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9212\/revisions\/9214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}